Enlightening Religion: Light and Darkness in Religious Knowledge and Knowledge About Religion

Jeremy Stolow; Birgit Meyer

doi:10.1177/20503032211015276

Enlightening Religion: Light and Darkness in Religious Knowledge and Knowledge About Religion

Jeremy Stolow, Birgit Meyer

Concordia University

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Abstract

This introduction elaborates how the relationship between religion and light can and should be addressed as a key theme for the critical study of religion. It synthesizes the principal arguments of the six articles collected in this special journal issue and locates them in a broader theoretical framework, focussing especially on the politics of knowledge production.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	119-125
Journal	Critical Research on Religion
Volume	9
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1177/20503032211015276
Publication status	Published - 1 Aug 2021

Keywords

Religion
light
enlightenment
epistemology

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