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IF 1 3区社会学 Q2 ANTHROPOLOGY

Social Analysis Pub Date : 2020-03-01 DOI:10.3167/sa.2020.640110

B. Meyer

引用次数: 1

Abstract

Highlighting common threads in the pieces by Beekers, Kasmani and Mattes, and Dilger, this concluding essay reflects on the potential of comparison as conceptual innovation in the anthropological study of religious plurality. Asking how to develop innovative practices of comparison for the sake of grasping the dynamics of plural societies in the light of the articles in this collection, I argue that it is necessary to transcend the bifurcation of the study of religions, which was accentuated with the rise of the anthropologies of Islam and Christianity, in favor of a focus on the secular configuration as a whole, paying attention to power dynamics that assign different spaces for action to different religions (notwithstanding their equality in legal terms). The point of comparison, understood as a critical project geared toward conceptual innovation, is not only to discern so far overlooked, unexpected differences and similarities, but also to understand how these differences and similarities, as well as the possibility to compare as such, are outcomes of long-standing entanglements.

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这篇结论性文章突出了Beekers、Kasmani和Mattes以及Dilger的作品中的共同线索，反映了比较作为宗教多元性人类学研究中概念创新的潜力。当被问及如何发展创新的比较实践，以便根据本文集中的文章掌握多元社会的动态时，我认为有必要超越宗教研究的分歧，这种分歧随着伊斯兰教和基督教人类学的兴起而加剧，有利于关注整体的世俗配置。注意为不同宗教分配不同行动空间的权力动态(尽管它们在法律上是平等的)。比较的要点，被理解为一个面向概念创新的关键项目，不仅要辨别迄今为止被忽视的，意想不到的差异和相似之处，而且要理解这些差异和相似之处，以及这样的比较的可能性，是长期纠缠的结果。

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来源期刊

Social Analysis ANTHROPOLOGY-

CiteScore

2.20

自引率

7.10%

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审稿时长

16 weeks

期刊介绍： Social Analysis is an international peer-reviewed journal devoted to exploring the analytical potentials of anthropological research. It encourages contributions grounded in original empirical research that critically probe established paradigms of social and cultural analysis. The journal expresses the best that anthropology has to offer by exploring in original ways the relationship between ethnographic materials and theoretical insight. By forging creative and critical engagements with cultural, political, and social processes, it also opens new avenues of communication between anthropology and the humanities as well as other social sciences. The journal publishes four issues per year, including regular Special Issues on particular themes. The Editors welcome individual articles that focus on diverse topics and regions, reflect varied theoretical approaches and methods, and aim to appeal widely within anthropology and beyond. Proposals for Special Issues are selected by the Editorial Board through an annual competitive call.