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1 janvier 2018
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David Chidester frontier zone anthropology and religious studies plurality translation materiality surrealismSujets proches
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Birgit Meyer, « Frontier Zones and the Study of Religion », Journal for the Study of Religion, ID : 10670/1.j1szb9
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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.