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.

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简介：跨越宗教和人种学界限–比较反思的案例

对这一特刊的介绍追溯了基督教和伊斯兰人类学子学科的发展历史，表明这些“一元化”的趋势遮盖了宗教间共存的探索和理论化，也阻碍了人们的生活和社会发展。他们住。这些亚学科的界限进一步导致了地理空间和理论辩论的意外“省化”，并阻碍了理论上强大的宗教人类学的发展。本期专刊主张在特定背景下进行多种宗教相遇的比较工作的价值，以及在全球范围内进行比较思考的价值，以此为我们研究宗教的方式提出新的问题和思考。