Maldonado-Torres,13 echo one another. According to Maldonado-Torres, ‘the concept of religion most used in the West by scholars and laypeople alike is a specifically modern concept forged in the context of imperialism and colonial expansion’. He even goes a step further to criticise the postcolonial school for having reinforced this by according a special place to ‘secular’ authors from Europe and the Third World over the views of native practitioners of indigenous faith systems.
