Vol. 10 No. 2 (2026)

The Christian perspective on other religions is complex.  Historically, the term “religion,” in its contemporary usage, emerged as a residual category of beliefs, practices, and institutions left over from the formation of the secular arena (as described by Talal Asad).  Religion has become an object in the secular gaze.  But to serious adherents of any religion, their faith proposes a unique ontology and praxis that encompasses all of life and society.  This issue addresses how Christianity encounters the religions, and what a Christian anthropology of religion might look like, along with the ways it might study members of other religions ethnographically while yet maintaining its own commitments theoretically.