In light of the decolonial turn in scholarship, this essay maps the state of the field for Religious Studies in South Africa, 26 years after the first democratic elections. It suggests that between the genealogical critique of the discipline and the mapping of decoloniality in research and teaching, a description and assessment of the institutional presence and politics of Religious Studies and theology is necessary. This conceptual pause allows us to chart the practical possibilities and limitations for the discipline's future. By highlighting the contested Christonormativity that characterises contemporary South African public culture and illustrating the overrepresentation of theology in higher education, I argue that the flourishing of Christian privilege in higher education should be more critically considered within the decolonial project.

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南非宗教研究的瓦解：民主26年后的实地考察

鉴于学术界的非殖民化转变，本文描述了南非的宗教研究领域，该地区是在第一次民主选举后的26年。它表明，在该学科的家谱批评与研究和教学中的亵渎性绘图之间，有必要对宗教研究和神学的机构存在和政治进行描述和评估。这种概念上的停顿使我们能够绘制出该学科未来的实际可能性和局限性。通过突出体现当代南非公共文化特征的有争议的Christonormativity，并说明神学在高等教育中的过度代表，