Expanding the Menu or Seats at the Table? Grotesque Pluralism in the (post)Colonial Philosophy of Religion
IN this brief essay, I will try to demonstrate some of the limits of the “radical pluralism” of Burley’s approach by attending to the (post)colonial contexts of power underlying the “cross-cultural” encounters that provide much of the book’s substance. First, I examine some of the limits of the desc...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2021
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Journal of the American Academy of Religion
Year: 2021, Volume: 89, Issue: 2, Pages: 729-738 |
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| Summary: | IN this brief essay, I will try to demonstrate some of the limits of the “radical pluralism” of Burley’s approach by attending to the (post)colonial contexts of power underlying the “cross-cultural” encounters that provide much of the book’s substance. First, I examine some of the limits of the descriptive critique Burley describes in the book’s second chapter before highlighting differences in the ways certain theories and accounts are engaged with throughout the book. Next, borrowing from the language of the “grotesque” employed in chapter 6, I argue that the “pluralism” in Burley’s project is a step in the right direction but not quite radical enough, as it amounts to an expansion of the “menu” or objects of inquiry of the philosophy of religion, and not the subjects or “forms of life” from which the philosophy of religion is conducted. Finally, I turn to Burley’s discussion of Wọle Ṣoyinka’s Death and the King’s Horsemen to highlight some aspects of the ethical dimensions of this project. |
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| ISSN: | 1477-4585 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: American Academy of Religion, Journal of the American Academy of Religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jaarel/lfab049 |