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Words Made Flesh : Sylvia Wynter and Religion.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bakker, Justine.
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (279 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Fordham University Press, 2025.
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Introduction: Sylvia Wynter and Religion
- Part One: The Religiosity of Being Human
- 1. On Self-Creation: Autopoiesis and Autoreligion
- 2. Symbolic Rebirth and Ceremonies Never Lost: African Religions and the Paradoxical Progressivism of Sylvia Wynter's Work
- 3. (Para)religious Traces in Sylvia Wynter's "Demonic Ground"
- Part Two: Science, Secularism, and Man's Political Theology of Race
- 4. The Wynterian Turn: Human Hybridity in the Natural and Human Sciences
- 5. The Ceremony beyond the Secular: Postreligious Autopoetics in Wynter's The Hills of Hebron
- 6. Sociogeny, Race, and the Theological Genealogy of Economy
- Part Three: Counter-religiosities beyond Man
- 7. Interrupting the Sanctity of Man: Wynter, Imperial Piety, and the Unruly Sacred
- 8. Moving to a Realm beyond Reason: Mapping Ontological Sovereignty in Counter-worlds of Liminality
- Coda: Nuiscientia
- Acknowledgments
- Bibliography
- Contributors
- Index.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-5315-1026-4
- OCLC:
- 1516751673
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