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Author : Darcie Fontaine
Release : 2016-06-20
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 174/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Decolonizing Christianity by : Darcie Fontaine
Download or read book Decolonizing Christianity written by Darcie Fontaine. This book was released on 2016-06-20. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book traces Christianity's change from European imperialism's moral foundation to a voice of political and social change during decolonization.
Author : Jørn Borup
Release : 2023-12-18
Genre : Social Science
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Book Rating : 629/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Decolonising the Study of Religion by : Jørn Borup
Download or read book Decolonising the Study of Religion written by Jørn Borup. This book was released on 2023-12-18. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Decolonising the Study of Religion analyses historical and contemporary discussions in the study of religion and Buddhism and critically investigates representations, possibilities, and challenges of a decolonial approach, addressing the important question: who owns Buddhism? The monograph offers a case-based perspective with which to examine the general study of religion, where new challenges require reflection and prospects for new directions. It focuses on Buddhism, one religion which has been studied in the West for centuries. Building on postcolonial theories and supplemented with a critical analysis of identity and postsecular engagement, the book offers new possibilities and challenges to the study of religion. It critically investigates decolonisation in the study of religion, subscribing to a third way between ‘objectivist’ and ‘subjectivist’ positions. Analysing the postcolonial and decolonial critique of the study of religion, with a particular focus on Buddhist studies in the West and in Japan, this book will be of interest to researchers in the field of Religious Studies, Buddhism, Japanese religions, anthropology, Asian Studies and those interested in religion and decolonisation.
Author : Jørn Borup
Release : 2023
Genre : Buddhism
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Book Rating : 449/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Decolonising the Study of Religion by : Jørn Borup
Download or read book Decolonising the Study of Religion written by Jørn Borup. This book was released on 2023. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Decolonising the Study of Religion analyses historical and contemporary discussions in the study of religion and Buddhism and critically investigates representations, possibilities, and challenges of a decolonial approach, addressing the important question: who owns Buddhism? The monograph offers a case-based perspective with which to examine the general study of religion, where new challenges require reflection and prospects for new directions. It focuses on Buddhism, one religion which has been studied in the West for centuries. Building on postcolonial theories and supplemented with a critical analysis of identity and postsecular engagement, the book offers new possibilities and challenges to the study of religion. It critically investigates decolonisation in the study of religion, subscribing to a third way between 'objectivist' and 'subjectivist' positions. Analysing the postcolonial and decolonial critique of the study of religion, with a particular focus on Buddhist studies in the West and in Japan, this book will be of interest to researchers in the field of Religious Studies, Buddhism, Japanese religions, anthropology, Asian Studies and those interested in religion and decolonisation"--
Author : Malory Nye
Release : 2008-05-12
Genre : Religion
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Book Rating : 477/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Religion: The Basics by : Malory Nye
Download or read book Religion: The Basics written by Malory Nye. This book was released on 2008-05-12. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The new edition has been fully revised and updated, and includes new discussions of: the study of religion and culture in the 21st century texts, films and rituals cognitive approaches to religion globalisation and multiculturalism spirituality in the West popular religion.
Author : Nhemachena, Artwell
Release : 2020-03-02
Genre : Political Science
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Book Rating : 864/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Decolonising Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) in an Age of Technocolonialism by : Nhemachena, Artwell
Download or read book Decolonising Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) in an Age of Technocolonialism written by Nhemachena, Artwell. This book was released on 2020-03-02. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Positing the notions of coloniality of ignorance and geopolitics of ignorance as central to coloniality and colonisation, this book examines how colonialists socially produced ignorance among colonised indigenous peoples so as to render them docile and manageable. Dismissing colonial descriptions of indigenous people as savages, illiterate, irrational, prelogical, mystical, primitive, barbaric and backward, the book argues that imperialists/colonialists contrived geopolitics of ignorance wherein indigenous regions were forced to become ignorant, hence containable and manageable in the imperial world. Questioning the provenance of modernist epistemologies, the book asks why Eurocentric scholars only contest the provenance of indigenous knowledges, artefacts and scientific collections. Interrogating why empire sponsors the decolonisation of universities/epistemologies in indigenous territories while resisting the repatriation/restitution of indigenous artefacts, the book also wonders why Westerners who still retain indigenous artefacts, skulls and skeletons in their museums, universities and private collections do not consider such artefacts and skulls to be colonising them as well. The book is valuable to scholars and activists in the fields of anthropology, museums and heritage studies, science and technology studies, decoloniality, policymaking, education, politics, sociology and development studies.
