Global Religious History

Autor(en)

Julian Strube, Giovanni Maltese

Abstrakt

Understandings of religion have been fundamentally transformed since the nineteenth century. The respective contradictions, ambiguities, continuities, and ruptures can be most comprehensively grasped when viewed against the background of global entanglements. For this purpose, the approach of global religious history proposes a range of theoretical and methodological tools. Its theoretical repertoire is largely informed by a critical engagement with poststructuralist epistemology and postcolonial perspectives embedded in a consistent genealogical approach. At the outset, it aims at bridging divisions, including those between postcolonial and global history, between disciplines such as religious studies and history, as well as between different area studies. This implies a theoretically robust reflexion of the question of what global entanglements mean in global religious history, along with the question of how to distinguish global religious history from approaches usually qualified by the prefix trans as, for example, in "transregional." In this introduction, we offer an in-depth discussion of the theoretical foundations and methodological implications of global religious history.

Organisation(en)

Institut für Religionswissenschaft

Externe Organisation(en)

Universität Hamburg

Journal

Method and Theory in the Study of Religion

Band

33

Seiten

229-257

Anzahl der Seiten

29

ISSN

0943-3058

DOI

https://doi.org/10.1163/15700682-12341517

Publikationsdatum

09-2021

Peer-reviewed

Ja

ÖFOS 2012

603909 Religionswissenschaft, 601023 Globalgeschichte

Schlagwörter

ASJC Scopus Sachgebiete

Religious studies

Link zum Portal

https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/de/publications/global-religious-history(de2689c6-8afb-451d-8d52-3fb0a10e6d26).html