Editorial Introduction: Religion and Postcolonialism

After the beginning there appeared some stranger texts<br />West’s Orientalism objectified the corpus’s otherness<br />And Modernity’s philology rendered their syntax as his own;<br />Thence followed the postmodern disruption of the aporia<br />Re-citing the alterity and the ousia of the Other’s face;<br />But it awaited the hybrid-angst of postcolonialism’s site<br />Whence the interrupted texts begun miming an-other meaning.<br />