An Yountae is an associate professor of religious studies at California State University, Northridge. He is the author of The Decolonial Abyss: Mysticism and Cosmopolitics from the Ruins (Fordham, 2016) and he co-edited with Eleanor Craig, Beyon Man: Race, Coloniality, and Philosophy of Religion (Duke 2021). His new book, The Coloniality of the Secular: Race, Religion, and Poetics of World Making is forthcoming from Duke University Press (2023).