Making Religion ― Theory and Practice in the Discursive Study of Religion

Scholars of religion contribute to the discourse research in the study of religion with theoretical reflections and contexts and cases. Among their topics are the current re-evaluation of religion and Luhmann's concept of risk, the search for equivalents of religion and the challenge of theorizing a global discourse of religion, towards a praxeology of religious life, exploring the spread of marketization discourse in the Nordic Folk Church context, discursive constructions of religion in the work of United Nations Special Rapporteurs on the freedom of religion or belief, and the complex discursivity of religion. Many of the 14 essays emerged from a 2014 conference in Groningen. Annotation ©2016 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)

Frans Wijsen, Ph.D. (Nijmegen, 1994) is professor of empirical and practical religious studies at Radboud University, Nijmegen. He has published on indigenous religions and Islam in Tanzania, Islam and Muslim – Christian relations in Indonesia, and immigrants in The Netherlands. Kocku von Stuckrad, Ph.D. (Bremen, 1999), is professor of religious studies at the University of Groningen. He has published extensively on the cultural history of religion in Europe, with a focus on genealogies of discourses and pluralities of knowledge systems. Contributors are: Helge Arsheim, Stephanie Garling, Adrian Hermann, Titus Hjelm, Mitsutoshi Horii, George Ioannides, Jay Johnston, Reiner Keller, Jens Kohrsen, Marcus Moberg, Heinrich Wilhelm Schafer, Leif-Hagen Seibert, Adrian Tovar Simoncic, Kocku von Stuckrad, Teemu Taira, and Frans Wijsen.