Introduction to the Review Symposium - Decolonizations
Cleaving Gestures that Refuse the Alien Call for Identity Politics
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1558/rosa.v4i2.135Keywords:
Arvind-Pal S. Mandair, identity politics, language, monotheolingualism, postcolonialism, religion, SikhismAbstract
Here follows a general introduction to this special issue of RoSA, which takes the form of a Review Forum discussing Arvind-Pal S. Mandair’s Religion and the Specter of the West: Sikhism, India, Postcoloniality, and the Politics of Translation (hereafter RSW), published in 2009 by Columbia University Press.
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Mandair, Arvind. 2011. ‘ “Uneasy Repetitions: A Response” from the Symposium on Arvind-Pal Mandair’s Religion and the Specter of the West.’ In Method and Theory in the Study of Religion 23(2): 175–89.
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Mandair, Navdeep. 2003. ‘Virtual Corpus: Solicitous Mutilation and the Body of Tradition.’ In Philip Goodchild (ed.), Difference in the Philosophy of Religion: 101–13. Aldershot, UK: Ashgate.
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Murphy, Anne, Mark Elmore and Greg Johnson. 2011. ‘Review Forum.’ Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies 13(1): 138-68. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1369801X.2011.545584
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Pannikar, Raimundo. 1992. ‘A Nonary of Priorities.’ In James Ogilvy (ed.), Revisioning Philosophy: 235–46. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press.
Paranjape, Makarand. ‘The Third Eye and Two Ways of (Un)knowing: Gnosis, Alternative Modernities, and Postcolonial Futures.’ In Bilimoria and Irvine 2009: 55–67.
Pennington, Brian. ‘Review of RSW.’ SOPHIA: International Journal for Philosophy of Religion, Metaphysical Theology and Ethics. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11841-011-0250-8.
Rennie, Bryan (ed.). 2006. Mircea Eliade: A Critical Reader. Critical Categories in the Study of Religion; London: Equinox.
— 2007. The International Eliade. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press.
Sakai, Naoki. 1997. Translation and Subjectivity. On ‘Japan’ and Cultural Nationalism. Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesota Press.
Shani, Giorgio. 2008. Sikh Nationalism and Identity in a Global Age. Routledge Advances in South Asian Studies; London and New York: Routledge.
Wallerstein, Immanuel, Calestous Juma, Evelyn Fox Keller, Jürgen Kocka, Dominique Lecourt, V. Y. Mudimbe, Kinhide Mushakoji, Ilya Prigogine, Peter J. Taylor and Michel-Rolph Trouillot. 1996. Open up the Social Sciences: Report of the Gulbenkian Commission on the Restructuring of the Social Sciences. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.
Wallerstein, Immanuel. 2001. The End of the World as We Know It: Social Sciences for the Twenty-First Century. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press.
Bhogal, Balbinder S. 2010. Review of RSW. Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 73(3): 554–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0041977X10000571
Bilimoria, Purushottama, and Andrew B. Irvine (eds). 2009. Postcolonial Philosophy of Religion. Springer Science+Business Media B.V.
Butler, Judith, Ernesto Laclau and Slavoj Žižek (eds). 2000. Contingency, Hegemony, Universality: Contemporary Dialogues on the Left. London: Verso.
Chakrabarty, Dipesh. 2000. Provincializing Europe: Postcolonial Thought and Historical Difference. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
Droit, Roger-Pol. 2003. The Cult of Nothingness: The Philosophers and the Buddha. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press.
Dubuisson, Daniel. 2003. The Western Construction of Religion: Myths, Knowledge, and Ideology. Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press.
Dussel, Enrique. 1985. Filosofia de la liberacion. Buenos Aires, Argentina: Ediciones La Aurora, 3rd edn.
— 1996. ‘Modernity, Eurocentrism, and Transmodernity: In Dialogue with Charles Taylor.’ In Eduardo Mendieta (ed. and trans.), The Underside of Modernity: Apel, Ricoeur, Rorty, Taylor and the Philosophy of Liberation: 129–59. Atlantic Highlands, NJ: Humanities Press.
— 2007. Política de la liberación: Historia mundial y crítica. Madrid: Trota.
Fabian, Johannes. 1983. Time and the Other: How Anthropology Makes its Object. New York: Columbia University Press.
Fanon, Franz. 1967. Black Skin White Masks. New York: Grove Press.
— 2004 [1963]. The Wretched of the Earth. Trans. Richard Philcox. New York: Grove Press.
Fitzgerald, Timothy. 2000. The Ideology of Religious Studies. New York: Oxford University Press.
Fitzgerald, Timothy (ed.). 2007. Discourse on Civility and Barbarity: a critical history of religion and related categories. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press.
Flood, Gavin. 2011. Review of RSW. Method and Theory in the Study of Religion 23: 79–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/157006811X549698
Friedman, John. 1981. The Monstrous Races in Medieval Art and Thought. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
Heisig, J. W. 2001. Philosophers of Nothingness: An Essay on the Kyoto School. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press.
King, Richard. 1999. Orientalism and Religion: Postcolonial Theory, India and the ‘Mystic East’. London: Routledge.
— 2009. ‘Philosophy of Religion as Border Control: Globalization and the Decolonization of the “Love of Wisdom” (philosophia).’ In Bilimoria and Irvine 2009: 35–53
Loy, David. 2003. The Great Awakening: A Buddhist Social Theory. Somerville, MA: Wisdom Publications.
Maldonado-Torres, Nelson. 2009. ‘The Meaning and Function of Religion in an Imperial World.’ In Bilimoria and Irvine 2009: 193–211.
Mandair, Arvind. 2011. ‘ “Uneasy Repetitions: A Response” from the Symposium on Arvind-Pal Mandair’s Religion and the Specter of the West.’ In Method and Theory in the Study of Religion 23(2): 175–89.
Mandair, Arvind, and Cosimo Zene. 2006. ‘Refusals: Opening the Difference in Dialogue.’ Social Identities: Journal for the Study of Race, Nation and Culture 12(1): 1–3.
Mandair, Navdeep. 2003. ‘Virtual Corpus: Solicitous Mutilation and the Body of Tradition.’ In Philip Goodchild (ed.), Difference in the Philosophy of Religion: 101–13. Aldershot, UK: Ashgate.
Mendieta, Eduardo. 2001. ‘Society’s Religion: The Rise of Social Theory, Globalization, and the Invention of Religion.’ In Dwight N. Hopkins, Lois Ann Lorentzen, Eduardo Mendieta and David Batstone (eds), Religions/Globalizations. Theories and Cases: 46–65. Durham, NC/London: Duke University Press.
— 2009. ‘Imperial Somatics and Genealogies of Religion: How We Never Become Secular.’ In Bilimoria and Irvine 2009: 235–50.
Mignolo, Walter D. 2000. Local Histories/Global Designs: Coloniality, Subaltern Knowledges, and Border Thinking. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
— 2006 [1995]. The Darker Side of the Renaissance: Literacy, Territoriality, and Colonization. Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 2nd edn.
— 2009. ‘Enduring Enchantment: Secularism and the Epistemic Privileges of Modernity.’ In Bilimoria and Irvine 2009: 273–92.
Mitter, Partha. 1992 (1977). Much Maligned Monsters: A History of European Reactions to Indian Art. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press.
Murphy, Anne, Mark Elmore and Greg Johnson. 2011. ‘Review Forum.’ Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies 13(1): 138-68. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1369801X.2011.545584
Oberoi, Harjot. 1994. The Construction of Religious Boundaries: Culture, Identity, and Diversity in the Sikh Tradition. Chicago, University of Chicago Press.
— 2011. ‘Review of RSW.’ Journal of Asian Studies 70: 280–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0021911810003621
Pannikar, Raimundo. 1992. ‘A Nonary of Priorities.’ In James Ogilvy (ed.), Revisioning Philosophy: 235–46. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press.
Paranjape, Makarand. ‘The Third Eye and Two Ways of (Un)knowing: Gnosis, Alternative Modernities, and Postcolonial Futures.’ In Bilimoria and Irvine 2009: 55–67.
Pennington, Brian. ‘Review of RSW.’ SOPHIA: International Journal for Philosophy of Religion, Metaphysical Theology and Ethics. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11841-011-0250-8.
Rennie, Bryan (ed.). 2006. Mircea Eliade: A Critical Reader. Critical Categories in the Study of Religion; London: Equinox.
— 2007. The International Eliade. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press.
Sakai, Naoki. 1997. Translation and Subjectivity. On ‘Japan’ and Cultural Nationalism. Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesota Press.
Shani, Giorgio. 2008. Sikh Nationalism and Identity in a Global Age. Routledge Advances in South Asian Studies; London and New York: Routledge.
Wallerstein, Immanuel, Calestous Juma, Evelyn Fox Keller, Jürgen Kocka, Dominique Lecourt, V. Y. Mudimbe, Kinhide Mushakoji, Ilya Prigogine, Peter J. Taylor and Michel-Rolph Trouillot. 1996. Open up the Social Sciences: Report of the Gulbenkian Commission on the Restructuring of the Social Sciences. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.
Wallerstein, Immanuel. 2001. The End of the World as We Know It: Social Sciences for the Twenty-First Century. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press.
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Bhogal, B. (2012). Introduction to the Review Symposium - Decolonizations: Cleaving Gestures that Refuse the Alien Call for Identity Politics. Religions of South Asia, 4(2), 135-164. https://doi.org/10.1558/rosa.v4i2.135
