Religion and the Individual: Belief Practice and Identity

This Special Issue is both experimental and comparative. It appropriates diverse disciplinary idioms from the distinctive fields our authors inhabit to focus on the ever-recurrent theme of the individual and the study of religion. Here the familiar topics of belief practice and identity come into conversation with each other from scholars in anthropology sociology African-American history Asian religions philosophy religious studies critical theory and ancient history. This unashamedly eclectic venture demonstrates both the remarkable diversity enacted by the signifier religious and the dynamic potential of conversation between interesting scholars working on remarkably interesting topics.