Introduction: crossing religious and ethnographic boundaries - the case for comparative reflection
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Authors
Colleges, School and Institutes
External organisations
- Univ Edinburgh
- University College London
Abstract
This Introduction to the Special Issue traces the history of the development of the sub-disciplines of the Anthropology of Christianity and of Islam to suggest that these ‘monistic’ tendencies have obscured exploration and theorisation of inter-religious coexistence and encounters for people’s lives and the societies in which they live. These sub-disciplinary boundaries have further led to an unintended ‘provincialization’ of both geographical spaces and theoretical debates, and stalled the development of a theoretically robust anthropology of religion. This Special Issue argues for the value of comparative work on multi-religious encounters within particular contexts, as well as by thinking comparatively on a global scale, as a way to generate new questions and considerations in how we study religion. The final section offers a short overview of the contributions to the Special Issue.
Details
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 386-401 |
Number of pages | 16 |
Journal | Social Anthropology / Anthropologie Sociale |
Volume | 28 |
Issue number | 2 |
Publication status | Published - 7 Aug 2020 |
Keywords
- anthropology of Christianity, anthropology of Islam, anthropology of religion, inter‐religious coexistence, encounters, comparison, Anthropologie du Christianisme, anthropologie de l’Islam, anthropologie religieuse, coexistence interreligieuse, rencontres, comparaison