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The first sustained treatment of religion and religions in the scholarship of a prominent Caribbean thinker
Sylvia Wynter is a profoundly transdisciplinary scholar whose works span an impressive array of theory, literature, science, anthropology, philosophy, and religious studies as well as different forms, including essays, plays, a novel, and a 935-page unpublished manuscript entitled "Black Metamorphosis: New Natives in a New World." Whatever the medium, Wynter frequently engages religion as a relevant category of analysis, from reflections on Christianity, Islam, and Rastafarianism to the category and role of religion as a universal aspect of human social production.
Wynter's writings have received enthusiastic attention by scholars in Black studies, Caribbean theory, critical race theory, literature, and philosophy. But until recently little scholarly writing exists that directly engages the topic of religion in her corpus. Words Made Flesh seeks to fill this gap by focusing exclusively on religion, religions, and religiosity in her work.
Bringing together scholars that provide a wide variety of theoretical perspectives on religion, political theology, social theory, and science studies, this book offers an in-depth engagement with one of the most innovative and important thinkers of the last forty years and illustrates how Wynter's writing has significant implications for the study of religion and religion's relationship to colonialism, race, humanism, science, and political theology.
Contents
Introduction: Sylvia Wynter and Religion
Justine M. Bakker and David Kline 1
PART ONE: The Religiosity of Being Human
1 On Self-Creation: Autopoiesis and Autoreligion
David Kline 21
2 Symbolic Rebirth and Ceremonies Never Lost:
African Religions and the Paradoxical Progressivism of Sylvia Wynter's Work
Oludamini Ogunnaike 44
3 (Para)religious Traces in Sylvia Wynter's "Demonic Ground"
Justine M. Bakker 97
PART TWO: Science, Secularism, and Man's Political Theology of Race
4 The Wynterian Turn: Human Hybridity in the Natural and Human Sciences
Niki Kasumi Clements 129
5 The Ceremony beyond the Secular:
Postreligious Autopoetics in Wynter's The Hills of Hebron
Rafael Vizcaíno 153
6 Sociogeny, Race, and the Theological Genealogy of Economy
Tapji Garba 171
PART THREE: Counter-religiosities beyond Man
7 Interrupting the Sanctity of Man: Wynter, Imperial Piety, and the Unruly Sacred
Joseph Winters 193
8 Moving to a Realm beyond Reason:
Mapping Ontological Sovereignty in Counter-worlds of Liminality
Shamara Wyllie Alhassan 211
Coda: Nuiscientia
Anthony Bayani Rodriguez 235
Acknowledgments 243
Bibliography 245
Contributors 263
Index 267
