Race and religion Contribution to symposium on critical approaches to the study of religion

Abstract

This article is a contribution to a forum on critical approaches to the study of religion.

Orientalism and/as Information:The Indifference That Makes a Difference

“…4 difference from an Islamicate 5 order that is not purely theological in the sense of doctrinal -identify and difference being "the same" in the sense of belonging-together [14] as mutually co-constitutive structures; on the other hand, both Mastnak (and Hodgson) are incorrect insofar as the IslamIslamdom distinction implies a partitioning of the religious as doctrinal from the political as sociallyand bodily-practiced that is an artefact of European secular modernity 6 . Such a partitioning arguably serves to conceal the operation of racializing logics that function along the "dogma-line", a position which draws support from Lloyd's [15] insistence that "religion and race both name social practices, and bodily practices" (p.80). In the contemporary Western cum global context, "the supremacy of postProtestant religiosity is maintained by the secularist strategy that marks other groups as having a religion -and so needing special study or accommodation.…”

Racializing the Religious during the COVID-19 Pandemic

“…In this article, we will focus on the US context. According to Lloyd (2013), this approach demonstrates how a racializing logic produced blacks as a race in the Americas that depended on Christian ideas. As Yukich and Edgell have recently argued, religion is raced; that is, the racialized nature of social life in the US shapes religious identity and religious beliefs, as well as religious interactions and structures (Yukich and Edgell 2020).…”

A brief introduction to decolonial computing

“…According to Lloyd (2013), "race and religion are thoroughly entangled, perhaps starting with a shared point of origin in modernity, or in the colonial encounter. If this is the case, religion and race is not just another token of the type 'religion and,' not just one approach to the study of religion among many.…”