Mapping Religious Plurality and Producing "Truth": A Dispositive Analysis of Knowledge Production in the Study of Religions
Since the 1990s, mapping religious plurality has become a research staple in the study of religions. Drawing on a sample of some sixty projects from the DACH (Germany [D], Austria [A], and Switzerland [CH]) region, the article uses dispositive analysis to show these mappings as a response to shifts...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
| Check availability: | HBZ Gateway |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2025
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| In: |
Journal of religion in Europe
Year: 2025, Volume: 18, Issue: 4, Pages: 431-465 |
| Further subjects: | B
Geography of religion
B dispositive B Religious Diversity B Religious Plurality B study of religions B mapping religion |
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| Summary: | Since the 1990s, mapping religious plurality has become a research staple in the study of religions. Drawing on a sample of some sixty projects from the DACH (Germany [D], Austria [A], and Switzerland [CH]) region, the article uses dispositive analysis to show these mappings as a response to shifts in scholarly and public discourse as well as technological possibilities. The discursive practices, material forms, and institutional underpinnings that constitute the mapping dispositive show these projects as a discursive infrastructure that produces valid knowledge about religion in the contemporary world and the positionality of the study of religions in this discursive formation. |
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| ISSN: | 1874-8929 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of religion in Europe
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/18748929-bja10131 |
