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The critique and sometimes criticism of religion, like every subject, is essential in fostering a better understanding of it. The critical engagement of religion helps to broaden and shape perspectives

I am interested in G. H. West’s Ethnographic Sorcery[1], first, because of the author’s simple but powerful storytelling style of presenting the phenomenal culture of the Mueda people of Mozambique

This reflection focuses on the Introduction, Chapter 3, and Epilogue of Crisis of Global Modernity[1], in which Duara broadly discusses Asian social and cultural responses to the unsustainability of global

Religion plays different remarkable roles in society, at individual and collective levels. The powerful influence of religion manifests in various aspects of human endeavor to the extent that it is

In this chapter, Matory (2018)[1] counters the western view of African religions as ‘fetish’. He criticizes Hegel, whom he believes is not attentive “to his own projections…”—that it is people

In Peter L. Berger’s (1990) “Religion and World Construction”[1],  the author explains the ‘relationship between religion and world-building’, stating that “every human society is an enterprise of world-building” and “religion