The contributors to Beyond Man reckon with the colonial and racial implications of the philosophy of religion's history by staging a conversation between it and Black, Indigenous, and decolonial studies.

Acknowledgments  vii
Introduction: Challenging Modernity/Coloniality in Philosophy of Religion / Eleanor Craig and An Yountae  1
1. Decolonial Options for a Fragile Secular / Devin Singh  32
2. Embodied Counterpoetics: Syliva Wynter on Religion and Race / Mayra Rivera  57
3. We Have Never Been Human/e: The Laws of Burgos and the Philosophy of Coloniality in the Americas / Eleanor Craig  86
4. The Puritan Atheism of C.L.R. James / Vincent Lloyd  108
5. Decolonizing Spectatorship: Photography, Theology, and New Media / Ellen Armour  127
6. The Excremental Sacred: A Paraliturgy / J. Kameron Carter  151
7. On Violence and Redemption: Fanon and Colonial Theodicy / An Yountae  204
8. Alter-Carnation: Notes on Cannibalism and Coloniality in the Brazilian Context / Filipe Maia  226
9. The Sacred Gone Astray: Eliade, Fanon, Wynter, and the Terror of Colonial Settlement /Joseph R. Winters  245
10. Response—On Impassioned Claims: The Possibility of Doing Philosophy of Religion Otherwise / Amy Hollywood  269
Contributors  287
Index  291
 

An Yountae is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at California State University, Northridge, and author of The Decolonial Abyss: Mysticism and Cosmopolitics from the Ruins.

Eleanor Craig is Program Director and Lecturer, Committee on Ethnicity, Migration, and Rights, Harvard University.