Mobility, Relationality, and the Decolonizing of Religious Studies: A Response to the Special Issue. (1st January 2022)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Premawardhana, Devaka
• Is Part Of: Material religion. Volume 18:Number 1(2022)
• Page Start: 106
• Page End: 114
• Publication Date: 2022-01-01
• Subjects: Indigenous religions -- mobility -- relationality -- decolonization.; Art and religion -- Periodicals; Religion -- Periodicals; Religious articles -- Periodicals; 203.705
• DOI: 10.1080/17432200.2021.2015928
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1751-8342

Abstract

Abstract: This response to the special issue synthesizes its contributions into an argument for disaggregating mobility and modernity. Indigenous modes of physical and religious mobility put the lie to conventional constructions of indigenous peoples, including academic constructions of indigenous religions, as stuck in place and stuck in time. This special issue offers a profound critique of religious studies and of all hegemonic paradigms that associate civilization with sedentarization, movement with domination, reality with rationality, and truth with transcendence.