@article{discovery10087981,
            note = {This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher's terms and conditions.},
           pages = {386--401},
          number = {2},
         journal = {Social Anthropology},
           title = {Introduction for special section Crossing religious and ethnographic boundaries:the case for comparative reflection},
            year = {2020},
          editor = {A Maqsood and G Liberatore and L Fesenmyer},
       publisher = {Wiley-Blackwell},
           month = {May},
          volume = {28},
            issn = {1469-8676},
          author = {Maqsood, A and Fesenmyer, L and Liberatore, G},
             url = {https://doi.org/10.1111/1469-8676.12779},
        abstract = {This introduction to the special issue traces the development history of the sub-disciplines of the anthropologies of Christianity and Islam to suggest that these 'monistic' tendencies have obscured exploration and theorisation of inter-religious coexistence and encounters for people's lives and the societies in which they live. These sub-disciplinary boundaries have further led to an unintended 'provincialisation' of both geographical spaces and theoretical debates, and stalled the development of a theoretically robust anthropology of religion. This special issue argues for the value of comparative work on multi-religious encounters within particular contexts, as well as of thinking comparatively on a global scale, as a way to generate new questions and considerations in how we study religion. The final section offers a short overview of the contributions to the special issue.}
}