Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Introduction: Sylvia Wynter and Religion 1
4. PART ONE: The Religiosity of Being Human
5. 1 On Self-Creation: Autopoiesis and Autoreligion 21
6. 2 Symbolic Rebirth and Ceremonies Never Lost: African Religions and the Paradoxical Progressivism of Sylvia Wynter’s Work 44
7. 3 (Para)religious Traces in Sylvia Wynter’s “Demonic Ground” 97
8. PART TWO: Science, Secularism, and Man’s Political Theology of Race
9. 4 The Wynterian Turn: Human Hybridity in the Natural and Human Sciences 129
10. 5 The Ceremony beyond the Secular: Postreligious Autopoetics in Wynter’s The Hills of Hebron 153
11. 6 Sociogeny, Race, and the Theological Genealogy of Economy 171
12. PART THREE: Counter-religiosities beyond Man
13. 7 Interrupting the Sanctity of Man: Wynter, Imperial Piety, and the Unruly Sacred 193
14. 8 Moving to a Realm beyond Reason: Mapping Ontological Sovereignty in Counter-worlds of Liminality 211
15. Coda: Nuiscientia 235
16. Acknowledgments 243
17. Bibliography 245
18. Contributors 263
19. Index 267