Author: dustinjbyrd

Praise for Ali S. Harfouch’s Against the World: Towards an Islamic Liberation Philosophy

“Taking seriously Islamic cosmology, Ali S. Harfouch’s book is a tour de force in decolonial thought. It is a major decolonial intervention critical of Eurocentrism, Liberalism, Coloniality, Secularism and Colonized Muslim perspectives. The book brings epistemic categories from Islamic perspective to produce not only a radical critique of modernity but utopian horizons for the future of humanity. Against the World is among the best theologies of liberation ever produced! The book is centered in Islam, while simultaneously open to conversations with decolonial thinkers from other traditions and geographies. The critique to fetishim or “shirk” as the critical method of the prophetic tradition,” is mastered here to unveil many systemic curtains that blind the eyes of the Ummah. If you want to know what is decolonial liberation away from modern eurocentric frameworks and idols, this is the book to read. A Must Read!”

~ Ramon Grosfoguel (University of California Berkeley)

Available on the Ekpyrosis Press Website, as well as Amazon (US) and Lulu:

Amazon (US): Against the World: Towards an Islamic Liberation Philosophy

Lulu (US & International): Against the World: Towards an Islamic Liberation Philosophy

On September 9th, 2023, Dr. Dustin J. Byrd sat down with Ekpyrosis Press author, Rudolf J. Siebert, to discuss his long academic collaboration and friendship with the critical theologian, Gregory Baum. They discusses Gregory’s conversion to Catholicism, his work as a “peritus” (theological advisor) to the Second Vatican Council, as well as his relationship to the critical theory of religion, as developed by Rudolf J. Siebert and the Frankfurt School. The full video of the discourse can be found on Ekpyrosis Press’ YouTube channel.

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In this video, Ekpyrosis Press author, Dr. Rudolf J. Siebert, discusses the history and development of Liberation Theology, both in Latin America and Europe. In dialogue with the Editor-in-Chief of Ekpyrosis Press, Dr. Dustin J. Byrd, Siebert discusses the influence of Marx and Marxism on Liberation Theology, as well as the influence of the Frankfurt School. The opposition Liberation Theology experience from the institutional Catholic Church is also a major theme of discussion. This event was also sponsored by the Institute for Critical Social Theory.

In this video, the Ekpyrosis Press author, Dr. Rudolf J. Siebert, discusses the history and possible end of the Constantinian Church, which was instituted when Emperor Constantine legalized Christianity in the Roman Empire during the 4th century. Since then, the Church and the State have often found themselves wedded within Western civilization, which has been detrimental for millions. This discourse was sponsored by Ekpyrosis Press and the Institute for Critical Social Theory.