Showcasing the art and ritual of the African and African-diaspora religions

Secular

The conventional dichotomy between the “religious” and the “secular” is not a cross-cultural universal. Rather, as Talal Asad points out in Genealogies of Religion (1993), this dichotomy and the definition of religions as “belief” systems are products of a specifically Protestant viewpoint and of recent Western efforts to exclude particular beliefs from the armature of […]