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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Published inJournal of the American Academy of Religion Vol. 89; no. 2; pp. 729 - 738
Main Author Ogunnaike, Oludamini
Format Journal Article Web Resource
LanguageEnglish
Published US Oxford University Press 01.06.2021
Oxford Publishing Limited (England)
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Philosophy of religion
Postcolonialism
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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.
ISSN:0002-7189
1477-4585
DOI:10.1093/jaarel/lfab049