Transformative and Emancipatory Potentials of Indigenous, Folk, and Other Religions at the Margins
A special issue of Religions (ISSN 2077-1444).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 July 2024 | Viewed by 139
Special Issue Editors
Interests: intercultural communication; social change communication; international development and health; visual communication; Indigenous and folk culture; environmental communication; information and communications technologies for development
Interests: spiritual communication; international communication; intercultural communication; communication and conflict; communication technology in transnational contexts; environmental communication; qualitative and humanistic research methods
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
While a large majority of the world’s population follows and practices dominant religions, Indigenous, folk, and other (including, near extinct) religions at the margins continue to exist and survive over generations (if not centuries). There are numerous instances of such religious groups (about 6% of the global population), of which the presence can be felt across the globe. However, representations of such non-major religions in extant scholarship on religions/religious studies are almost non-existent.
This Special Issue attempts to bridge the gap of knowledge and praxis of Indigenous, folk and other marginalized religions and spiritualities. Apart from discussing and foregrounding the core values and worldviews of these faith practices, authors can potentially analyze languages (and its nuanced usages), rituals (and their social and religious significance), survival strategies (as many of religions operate with limited resources) and communication processes (within and among religious groups), among other foci. In addition, the Special Issue will pay attention to the structural causes of marginality of non-dominant religions (particularly in the Global South), such as neoliberalism, extinction of languages, geographical isolation, dominant oppressions and strategic ignorance of alternative religious discourses. Hopefully, this stimulating academic exercise will help us legitimize the decolonial voices and teachings of the religions at the margins, as well as engage with the emancipatory and transformative potentials of such religious praxis and their embodied wisdom.
Dr. Uttaran Dutta
Prof. Dr. Lara Martin Lengel
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- indigenous religions
- folk religions
- non-dominant religions
- near-extinct religions
- religions at the margins
- emancipatory religious praxis
- alternative religious discourses
