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The Decolonial Abyss probes the ethico-political possibility harbored in Western philosophical and theological thought for addressing the collective experience of suffering, socio-political trauma, and colonial violence. In order to do so, it builds a constructive and coherent thematization of the somewhat obscurely defined and underexplored mystical figure of the abyss as it occurs in Neoplatonic mysticism, German Idealism, and Afro-Caribbean philosophy.The central question An Yountae raises is, How do we mediate the mystical abyss of theology/philosophy and the abyss of socio-political trauma engulfing the colonial subject? What would theopoetics look like in the context where poetics is the means of resistance and survival? This book seeks to answer these questions by examining the abyss as the dialectical process in which the self’s dispossession before the encounter with its own finitude is followed by the rediscovery or reconstruction of the self.

Meaninglessness (Philosophy) --- Postcolonialism. --- Decolonization. --- Creolization. --- Edouard Glissant. --- Hegel. --- Middle Passage. --- coloniality. --- cosmopolitics. --- dialectic. --- negative theology. --- poetics.

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Ist Assimilation eine reaktionäre Forderung? Der Band unterstreicht die analytische Fruchtbarkeit des Assimilationskonzepts und legt bisher vernachlässigte normative Gehalte frei.Anhand der jüdischen Assimilation und (post-)kolonialen Konstellationen werden Prozesse und Repräsentationen der Verähnlichung und Inkorporierung in ihrer Komplexität, Ambivalenz und Widerspenstigkeit untersucht. Assimilation erscheint dabei als politisches Geschehen, das nicht nur mit polemischen Äußerungsformen verbunden ist, sondern das Sprache selbst zum Gegenstand hat. Statt Eingliederung in eine Monokultur, so wird gezeigt, kann Assimilation auch reziprokes, nicht-hierarchisches Lernen bedeuten und besitzt damit ein interkulturelles Potenzial, das starre Grenzziehungen und Essentialisierungen aufbricht.

Jüdische Assimilation --- Kolonialismus --- Postkolonialismus --- Hybridität --- Kreolisierung --- Kosmopolitismus --- Akkulturation --- Integration --- Diversität --- Multikulturalismus --- Jewish assimilation --- colonialism --- postcolonialism --- hybridity --- creolization --- cosmopolitanism --- culturation --- integration --- diversity --- multiculturalism --- Political science.

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Antiblack racism avows reason is white while emotion, and thus supposedly unreason, is black. Challenging academic adherence to this notion, Lewis R. Gordon offers a portrait of Martinican-turned-Algerian revolutionary psychiatrist and philosopher Frantz Fanon as an exemplar of “living thought” against forms of reason marked by colonialism and racism. Working from his own translations of the original French texts, Gordon critically engages everything in Fanon from dialectics, ethics, existentialism, and humanism to philosophical anthropology, phenomenology, and political theory as well as psychiatry and psychoanalysis.Gordon takes into account scholars from across the Global South to address controversies around Fanon’s writings on gender and sexuality as well as political violence and the social underclass. In doing so, he confronts the replication of a colonial and racist geography of reason, allowing theorists from the Global South to emerge as interlocutors alongside northern ones in a move that exemplifies what, Gordon argues, Fanon represented in his plea to establish newer and healthier human relationships beyond colonial paradigms.

Psychiatrists --- Revolutionaries --- Intellectuals --- Fanon, Frantz, --- Philosophy. --- Algeria --- Africana phenomenology. --- Africana philosophy. --- Black political thought. --- Existentialism. --- Frantz Fanon. --- Negritude. --- creolization. --- decolonial thought. --- dialectics. --- humanism. --- postcolonial thought. --- revolutionary thought.

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Yoruba culture has been a part of the Americas for centuries, brought from Africa during the transatlantic slave trade and maintained in various forms ever since. In Oduduwa's Chain, Andrew Apter explores a wide range of fascinating historical and ethnographic examples and offers a provocative rethinking of African heritage in Black Atlantic Studies. Focusing on Yoruba history and culture in Nigeria, Apter applies a generative model of cultural revision that allows him to identify formative Yoruba influences without resorting to the idea that culture and tradition are fixed. For example, Apter shows how the association of African gods with Catholic saints can be seen as a strategy of empowerment, explores historical locations of Yoruba gender ideologies and their variations in the Atlantic world, and much more. He concludes with a rousing call for a return to Africa in studies of the Black Atlantic, resurrecting a critical notion of culture that allows us to transcend Western inventions of African while taking them into account.

Yoruba (African people) --- African diaspora. --- Cults --- Orisha religion --- Religion. --- Atlantic Ocean Region --- Nigeria, Southwest --- Religion. --- Religion. --- Black Atlantic. --- Brazilian Candomblé. --- Cuban Santería. --- Haitian Vodou. --- Yoruba-Atlantic. --- creolization. --- orisha worship.

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This book examines some of the more important new analyses and discoveries about religious movements in Latin America.

Latin America --- Religion. --- 27 <8=6> --- 284 <8=6> --- 299.8 --- 299.8 Godsdiensten van de Inca's, Caraïben, Peruvianen --- 299.8 Godsdiensten van de precolombiaanse Zuidamerikaanse volkeren --- Godsdiensten van de Inca's, Caraïben, Peruvianen --- Godsdiensten van de precolombiaanse Zuidamerikaanse volkeren --- Kerkgeschiedenis--Latijns Amerika --- Protestantisme. Protestantse sekten--Latijns Amerika --- religion --- Latin American religion --- sociology --- Latin American studies --- pluralization of faith --- anthropology --- religious studies --- political science --- creolization --- esoterica --- Afro-Brazilian religion