What makes race, religion, and ethnicity work? This Special Issue of Religions is dedicated to studying, mapping, interpreting, analyzing, dis/entangling, and de/constructing the manifestations, productions, and intertwinements of the categories of race, religion, and ethnicity.

This is a collective blog of the Race-Religion Constellation Project. The blog offers critical analyses of racism in its different configurations, namely anti-Semitism, Islamophobia, anti-Black racism and antizyganism. As the project consists of scholars from various academic backgrounds, the blog is interdisciplinary. It examines the entanglement of race with religion from the Middle Ages, through early European modernity, to our current days, with the intention to better grasp this time, our time.

Building upon the growing literature exploring the historical, conceptual, and political entanglements between the categories of race and religion, this Special Issue explores the analytical relations and processes of the co-constitution of antisemitism, Islamophobia, and antiblackness in Europe and beyond.

Call for Papers to participate in open panel on race and religion in the academy at EASR in Cork, Ireland (June 27-July 1, 2022)

Discourses and conspiracies about national populations under threat of being overtaken or even wiped out by those considered as ‘alien’ to the nation body are on the rise, yet again. While we began investigating fears of ‘replacement’ in relation to Europe’s ‘Muslim Question’ today, we recognize replacement discourse as multiple and versatile, and unfolding in different contexts, and having different historical genealogies. We invite submissions that interrogate the different ways in which the discourse of replacement has been formulated and mobilized. Contributions might explore some of the following issues, but are not limited to them.

The Race, Religion and Secularism network is calling for papers for a mini-symposium consisting of 3 sessions around the shared theme of Race, Religion and Secularism at the 2020 International Conference of Europeanists for the Council For European Studies 27th International Conference of Europeanists on Europe’s Past, Present, And Future: Utopia’s and Dystopia’s in Reykjavik, Iceland, June 22-24, 2020

With the objective of understanding the intersection/co-constitution of race and religion in the formation of systematic political practices of exclusion in colonial and postcolonial African political communities, and to develop a critical African philosophy of race that focuses on the intersection of race and religion, the Race-Religion Constellation Research Project invites scholars to submit contributions for this special issue.