RT Article
T1 Frontier Zones and the Study of Religion
JF Journal for the study of religion
VO 31
IS 2
SP 57
OP 78
A1 Meyer, Birgit 1960-
LA English
YR 2018
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1663237743
AB This article focuses on the concept of the frontier zone as a central critical term in Chidester's oeuvre. Understood as a site where difference is articulated, encountered, and governed, the frontier zone is a productive, insight-generating notion. Its usefulness pertains not only to the study of colonial settings in which scholarly knowledge about religion in Africa took shape via the introduction of religion as a category, but also to the study of religious plurality in contemporary European cities, which is here proposed to approach as new postcolonial frontier zones.
K1 David Chidester
K1 anthropology and religious studies
K1 frontier zone
K1 Materiality
K1 Plurality
K1 Surrealism
K1 Translation
DO 10.17159/2413-3027/2018/v31n2a3