This article, that is part of the panel The (im)possibility of decolonial pedagogy in the academy, aims to explore how the general erasure of Italy's colonial past from collective memory and its absence in the standard school curriculum, where it is often just mentioned, has shaped the view on non-European (and especially African) religious traditions, cultures, politics and views on gender. Starting from the analysis of the colonial continuities that still persist in Western feminist movements, this paper will also delve into the notion that many Italian feminist movements, even if they have started the discourse around intersectionality, and promote interfaith and intercultural dialogue, have not yet fully recognized the consequences of Italy's colonial past and still struggle to involve racialized voices, that are often exploited as witnesses but not as individuals with political and cultural demands. Furthermore, this article will unpack how the decolonizing approach towards religion and its teaching has encouraged some shifts and how they should be implemented, such as the recognition of underlying colonialist and Eurocentric views, a more diversified iconography, the value of embodied experiences in feminist practice and of decentralising Western and hierarchical point of views in order to listen to the voices from the margins, where the margin should be seen as a place of resistance and analysis.