Race, Modernity, Decolonization, and Religion — some papers by Malory Nye

The analysis of race in the study of religion

Some thoughts on the Decolonization of Religious Studies

Decolonizing the Study of Religion: where to start?

Modernity and the disciplinary formation of religious studies

On how the category of religion is a part of settler colonial power

Race and the Study of Religion

Does Religious Studies have a problem with race?

Published papers in academic journals:

Decolonizing the Study of Religion, 2019, in Open Library of Humanities [open access]

Race and Religion: Postcolonial Formations of Power and Whiteness, 2018, in Method & Theory in the… [paywalled]

Response: On Deconstructing the Deconstruction of the Deconstruction of the Category of Religion, 2018, in Implicit Religion [paywalled]

Also related:

Religion is like chocolate

Burkini bans in France: it’s all about intersectionality

Questions to ask in the study of religion

Thinking about money and religion: power, belief, and cultural imagination

I don’t study religion: so what am I doing in the study of religion?

Intersections in the Cultural Study of Religion: an open-access syllabus

Call for papers: Decolonisation, Postcolonialism, and Religion/s

Religion Bites is edited by Malory Nye, an academic and writer who teaches at the University of Glasgow. He can be found on Twitter (@malorynye) and on his website, malorynye.com.

He produces two podcasts: Religion Bites and History’s Ink.

Malory Nye is also the author of the books Religion the Basics (2008) and There Shall be an Independent Scotland (2015).

He is the editor of the Routledge journal Culture and Religion.