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Call for Publications Theme: Decolonizing Theories of Religion and Religious Studies Publication: Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory Date: Special Issue Deadline: 4.1.2013 __________________________________________________ The study of religion has since its inception been inextricably bound to European expansion, colonization, and to discourses predicated on the Doctrine of Discovery (i.e., the doctrine of Christian discovery). This doctrine has been used theologically and especially legally to justify Christian invasion, conquest, and domination of non-Christian peoples and their lands. Recognizing the ways in which Christian discoveries shaped and informed narratives of religious others, i.e. orientialism, the Journal of Religion and Cultural Theory invites submissions for essays unpacking, critiquing, and analyzing the relationship between religious and post-colonial studies. We invite you to submit essays of any length, but preferably between ten and twenty pages. Please consider the following questions in your essay: - When was the post-colonial? - How is the discourse of religion, or the category religion, derivative of colonial discourse? - How has, and does, the category of “religion” function as a legitimating category for dominating “others?” - Can religion play a role in decolonizing discourses? If so, why and how, if not, why not. - Following Gayatri Spivak’s classic question, can the “religious” subaltern speak? Deadline: January 4, 2013 Contact: Luis Leon and Tink Tinker Email: [email protected] and [email protected] Web: http://ww.jcrt.org __________________________________________________ InterPhil List Administration: http://interphil.polylog.org Intercultural Philosophy Calendar: http://cal.polylog.org __________________________________________________
