This introductory essay discusses how the trope of “religious violence” is operative in contemporary discussions concerning the so-called “return of religion” and the “post-secular constellation.” The author argues that the development of a genuine phenomenology of “religious violence” calls on us to critically reconsider the modern discourses that all too unambiguously tie religion and violence together. In a first part, the paper fleshes out the fault lines of a secularist modernity spinning out of control. In a second part, it demonstrates how the “liberal imaginary” revolves around individualist conceptions of freedom and sovereignty that, on their part, become parasitic upon imaginations of disorder, otherness and (especially religious) violence. In a third part, the author demonstrates how these insights call for developing a transformed phenomenological framework in order to give a more sensible account of “religious violence.” Finally, in presenting the articles gathered in this “special issue” of Continental Philosophy Review , some pathways into such a sensibilized phenomenology of “religious violence” are outlined.

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“宗教暴力”现象学的前言：介绍性论述

这篇介绍性文章讨论了“宗教暴力”的比喻如何在当代关于所谓“宗教回归”和“后世俗星座”的讨论中发挥作用。作者认为，真正的“宗教暴力”现象学的发展要求我们批判性地重新考虑将宗教与暴力毫无歧义地联系在一起的现代话语。在第一部分，这篇论文充实了失控的世俗主义现代性的断层线。在第二部分，它展示了“自由想象”如何围绕着个人主义的自由和主权概念，而这些概念则寄生在对无序、异类和（尤其是宗教）暴力的想象中。在第三部分，作者展示了这些见解如何要求开发一种转变的现象学框架，以便对“宗教暴力”进行更合理的解释。最后，在介绍本期《大陆哲学评论》的“特刊”中收集的文章时，概述了进入这种敏感化的“宗教暴力”现象学的一些途径。