ABSTRACT

This special issue is meant to begin to address the lacuna in research on the entanglements of race and religion by focusing on one specific geographical region – Africa. The reality of political communities in Africa cannot be understood properly independently of colonial racialisation. The formation of colonial political communities on the African continent was based on racial exclusion in terms of the colour line. While most research focuses on the latter, slowly more research is being done on the race-religion constellation which takes account of the impact and force of religion in the processes of racialisation, and political exclusion as religion is at the centre of the colonial and racial project. Nonetheless, much less scholarly and philosophical attention has been given to understanding and unravelling the role of religion in conceptions and practices of colonial and postcolonial political practices of racial exclusion in Africa.

摘要

本期特刊旨在通过关注一个特定的地理区域——非洲，开始解决种族和宗教纠缠研究中的空白。独立于殖民种族化，无法正确理解非洲政治共同体的现实。非洲大陆殖民地政治共同体的形成是基于种族排斥的种族排斥。虽然大多数研究都集中在后者，但越来越多的研究正在对种族-宗教星座进行研究，该星座考虑了宗教在种族化过程中的影响和力量，以及政治排斥，因为宗教处于殖民和种族的中心项目。尽管如此，