Dear all,

The guest editors of the Special Issue "Race, Religion, and Ethnicity: Critical Junctures" with Religions now welcome submissions. The Special Issue is dedicated to mapping, interpreting, dis/entangling, and de/constructing the manifestations, productions, and intertwinements of the categories of race, religion, and ethnicity. 

Scholars working on either race, ethnicity, or religion tend to overlook the manifold interactions between these categories, leaving the conceptual and empirical intersections between them unclear. This hinders a critical assessment of the logics of their entanglement or separation, the work these categories do, and the ways in which they manifest. We suggest that the interactions between race/religion/ethnicity matter for how they operate as governmental technologies of states, for how they figure in people’s hopes and aspirations, and for how they allow for certain ascriptions and assertions of identities, as well as for resisting these. This Special Issue, therefore, aims to excavate the analytical space to consider the mutual interactions within and between configurations of race, religion, and ethnicity, in history and contemporary times, across different areas of the globe.

Questions to be explored in a contribution to this special issue may include, but are not limited to, the following:

• How are relations between race, religion, and ethnicity expressed and manifested within racial–religious–ethnic configurations (or religio-racial, ethno-racial, or ethno-religious configurations)?
• How have specific racial–religious–ethnic configurations come into being and how do these configurations interrelate? What are the effects of drawing or erasing boundaries between race/religion/ethnicity and they ways that these boundaries are drawn or erased?
• How do these configurations engage with society at large, on a regional, national, or transnational level?
• To what extent have racial–religious–ethnic configurations become governmental technologies to assign, articulate, and manage human “difference” and by whom? How do those seen as belonging to a racial–religious–ethnic configuration respond to these technologies?
• To what extent are race/religion/ethnicity dis/entangled with other configurations such as caste and indigeneity?
• How have racial–religious–ethnic minorities dis/engaged with the entanglement of race, religion, and ethnicity?
• What role do religionization, racialization, and ethnicization play in the entanglement of race, religion, and ethnicity? And how do we distinguish these concepts and processes in scholarly analysis?
• How do racial–religious–ethnic configurations instantiate norms of humanness? How are racial–religious–ethnic configurations put to work to construct, differentiate, and subsequently manage discourses on humanity and animality? 

We particularly encourage early career scholars, scholars in precarious institutional positions, and scholars from the global South to submit their work.

We wish to complete the Special Issue by September 2024. Please submit an abstract and title of your proposed contribution by 15 January 2024 to the guest editors Mariska Jung ([log in to unmask]) and Martijn de Koning ([log in to unmask]). Abstracts are reviewed by the guest editors to ensure a proper fit within the scope of the Special Issue. Full manuscripts of 6.000–10.000 words should subsequently be submitted by 15 May 2024, and will undergo rigorous double-blind peer-review.

For further details, read the full CfP here. Should you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact the guest editors.

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Mariska Jung (she/her)

PhD candidate in the Department of Political Sciences and at RHEA (research center on gender, diversity and intersectionality), Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Belgium)

Affiliated researcher with the Race-Religion Constellation project, Radboud Universiteit (the Netherlands)

Recent publication: Jung, M. 2022. "Religion, Animals, and Racialization: Articulating Islamophobia through Animal Ethics in The Netherlands" Religions 13, no. 10: 955. Part of Special Issue: “Religion, Animals, and X” edited by Aaron Gross and Katharine Mershon. https://doi.org/10.3390/rel13100955