Author Meets Critic Session on An Yountae’s The Coloniality of the Secular: Race, Religion, and Poetics of World Making (Duke, 2024)

Secularism’s (or the secular’s) role in the constitution of coloniality has been underattended in the fields of religious studies and decolonial theory. In The Coloniality of the Secular, An Yountae investigates the collusive ties between the modern concepts of the secular, religion, race, and coloniality in the Americas, as well as decoloniality’s conception of the sacred. In this roundtable, scholars at the intersection of philosophy of religion, postcolonial and decolonial theories, black religious thought, Christian theology, feminist study of religion, and theories of secularization and postsecularity come together to celebrate the publication of and respond to the arguments of The Coloniality of the Secular.