RT Article
T1 Embracing Complexity: Preliminaries to a Posthumanist Approach to Non/Religious Diversity and Identities Beyond Binaries
JF Implicit religion
VO 25
IS 3/4
SP 377
OP 398
A1 Biano, Ilaria W.
LA English
YR 2022
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1908121483
AB The aim of the article is to propose a posthumanist approach to the issue of (non/religious) identity. Reflections at the intersection between post-humanism, study of religion, and identities help to better understand and clarify how core elements of posthumanism such as the decentring and relativization of the Human and the Anthropos do not mean that human beings don't matter at all, but they point out a specific, supposedly universal concept of Man. In this sense, central is an intersectional approach to identity and difference. While identity has always been constructed on dichotomies, Posthumanism, following previous forms of deconstruction, emphasizes the multiplicity of identities, their constructedness, and their constant multiple recombinations in innovative forms. An integrated posthumanist approach to the intersection of different aspects and components of identity, including non/religious ones, has the potential for highlighting both the idea that identity is not a monolithic concept, and the risks linked to a reification of something ultimately constructed - as it happens with identity politics, but also with its critics.
K1 Identity
K1 Posthumanism
K1 Religion
K1 Religious Diversity
DO 10.1558/imre.23958