Calvyn Clarence du Toit drinking an espresso in blue sunglasses

Calvyn Clarence du Toit

Philosophy, theology, and spirituality
University of Pretoria · New York City

“Why, sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.” — the White Queen, Through the Looking-Glass

What happens to spirituality when human consciousness stops being the measure of everything? The work gathered here circles that question — a book reading the discipline of Spirituality through speculative realism, articles on cities, liturgy, and technics, a philosophy of religion course at the University of Pretoria. The doctorate behind it came from the University of South Africa. The desk is in New York City.

Book

Cover of Object Spirituality

Object Spirituality: Speculative Realism, Modernity, and the Reimagining of Spirituality
Palgrave Macmillan, 2025

Against the theo-centric and the anthropocentric models alike, the book argues for a spirituality of objects — one that no longer waits on human consciousness to happen.

A second book is in progress, on onto-consciousness: .

Articles & chapters

Links go to the publishers. Fetching the papers is part of the reading.

Teaching

Philosophy of Religion (post-secularism), honors course, University of Pretoria — co-taught online, from six time zones away.

Elsewhere