Joseph Winters: The Sacred Gone Astray: Eliade, Fanon, Wynter, and the Terror of Colonial Settlement

'In this paper, Professor Joseph Winters contributes to discussions around the intersection of religion, race, and coloniality. He shows how a particular conception of the sacred, exemplified in the work of Mircea Eliade, underwrites colonial imaginaries and projects of settlement. While Eliade alludes to the connection between the creation of sacred space and conquest, Sylvia Wynter and Franz Fanon show how constitutive this relationship is for Western Man and modernity. Winters concludes the paper by examining an alternative sense of the sacred—defined by excess and impurity—in the writing of Fanon.' -- Duke Franklin Humanities Institute