Beyond Religion and Belief

Forthcoming, 2027

For the scholarly discipline of religious studies, this is finally an optimistic book demonstrating how to fulfil the initial intentions of its founders without recourse to the hegemonic, colonising and theoretically misleading concept of religion. The book achieves this goal by translating intuitions of the functionalist tradition originated by Malinowski and Evans-Pritchard into the project of following actors throughout their struggles with uncertainty. It shows how this decolonial approach transforms the marginal discipline of the exotic into a fundamental scholarly endeavour for tackling the challenges of the Anthropocene.