Joseph Winters: The Sacred Gone Astray: Eliade, Fanon, Wynter, and the Terror of Colonial Settlement

Описание: In this paper, Dr. Winters contributes to discussions around the intersection of religion, race, and coloniality. He shows how a particular conception of the sacred, exemplified in the work of Mircea Eliade, underwrites colonial imaginaries and projects of settlement. While Eliade alludes to the connection between the creation of sacred space and conquest, Wynter and Fanon show how constitutive this relationship is for Western Man and modernity. Winters concludes the paper by examining an alternative sense of the sacred—defined by excess and impurity—in the writing of Fanon.

JOSEPH WINTERS is assistant professor in the Department of Religious Studies, with a secondary appointment in the Department of African and African American Studies and English at Duke University.

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