Editors’ introduction

IF 1.3 0 RELIGION
Marat S. Shterin, Daniel Nilsson Dehanas
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This special issue of Religion, State & Society is distinctive for our journal both for its topical novelty and for its elaboration of themes long important to our readership. This is our first special issue focusing on Japan – a country with an immensely rich religious landscape, both historically and contemporarily, with complex intersections between religion and the country’s social fabric and political structures. In exploring religion in Japanese contexts, it engages with the broader themes of minority religions and their relationship with wider society and the state. These minority-related themes have always been central to our journal, as is evident in the sample of articles celebrating our fiftieth volume and in recent special issues on the European Court of Human Rights and Minority Religions (45/3– 4), Conflict, Politics, and the Christian East (48/5), and The Governance of Religious Diversity: Global Comparative Perspectives (50/4), among others. These publications have provided a wealth of data and theoretical ideas for understanding the situation of different types of religious minorities, from ethno-religious groups to new religions, and in relation to different forms of governance, political regimes, and legal institutions. In this collection, our guest editors Erica Baffelli, Professor of Japanese Studies at the University of Manchester, and Norihito Takahashi, Professor at the Department of Global Diversity Studies, Toyo University, Japan, and other contributors, take an incisive look at a variety of groups and further elaborate the very concept of minority religion. The five case studies they present show that far from being fixed, minority status is fluid and varies across historical and social contexts, with majority traditions potentially becoming marginalised minorities and minority subgroups emerging within minorities, based on gender, geographical location, ethnicity, or variations in practices. This status tends to be a matter of contention, as ways in which it is constructed by various stakeholders – from religious minorities themselves through academics to the state – have far-reaching implications, ranging from empowerment to exclusion, for those associated with various religious groups and movements. Given the pervasiveness and variety of religious minorities as well as the increasing complexity of the politics around them in our fast-changing globalised world, the findings and insights presented in this issue will be of great interest for readers well beyond Japan.
编辑的介绍
这期《宗教、国家与社会》特刊对我们的杂志来说是与众不同的,因为它的主题新颖,对我们的读者来说,它的主题阐述很重要。这是我们第一期以日本为主题的特刊,这个国家在历史上和当代都有着极其丰富的宗教景观,宗教与国家的社会结构和政治结构之间有着复杂的交集。在探索日本背景下的宗教时,它涉及了更广泛的主题,即少数民族宗教及其与更广泛的社会和国家的关系。这些与少数群体相关的主题一直是本刊的核心,这一点在庆祝本刊第五十卷的文章样本和最近的特刊《欧洲人权法院和少数民族宗教》(45/3 - 4)、《冲突、政治和基督教东方》(48/5)、《宗教多样性的治理:全球比较视角》(50/4)等中显而易见。这些出版物为了解不同类型的宗教少数群体(从民族宗教群体到新兴宗教)的状况以及与不同形式的治理、政治制度和法律制度的关系提供了丰富的数据和理论思想。在这个合集里,我们的特约编辑Erica Baffelli(曼彻斯特大学日本研究教授)和Norihito Takahashi(日本东洋大学全球多样性研究系教授)以及其他撰稿人对各种各样的群体进行了深入的研究,并进一步阐述了少数民族宗教的概念。他们提出的五个案例研究表明,少数群体的地位远非固定不变,而是流动的,在不同的历史和社会背景下有所不同,多数传统可能会因性别、地理位置、种族或实践变化而成为边缘化的少数群体,少数群体内部也会出现少数群体。这种地位往往是一个有争议的问题,因为各种利益相关者(从宗教少数群体本身到学术界到国家)构建这种地位的方式,对与各种宗教团体和运动有关的人具有深远的影响,从赋予权力到排斥。鉴于宗教少数群体的普遍性和多样性,以及在快速变化的全球化世界中,他们周围的政治日益复杂,本期所呈现的发现和见解将引起日本以外读者的极大兴趣。
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CiteScore
1.90
自引率
10.00%
发文量
28
期刊介绍: Religion, State & Society has a long-established reputation as the leading English-language academic publication focusing on communist and formerly communist countries throughout the world, and the legacy of the encounter between religion and communism. To augment this brief Religion, State & Society has now expanded its coverage to include religious developments in countries which have not experienced communist rule, and to treat wider themes in a more systematic way. The journal encourages a comparative approach where appropriate, with the aim of revealing similarities and differences in the historical and current experience of countries, regions and religions, in stability or in transition.
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