Recent critiques of the category religion discuss the category as socially constructed, but the nature of this social construction remains underdeveloped. The work of Sally Haslanger can supplement existing discussions of “religion” while also offering a new perspective on the connection between social construction and social critique. Her analysis of race provides resources for developing a philosophical account of the social construction of religion and can help scholars of religion conceptualize racialized religious identities. I offer an example of this approach by using Haslanger’s work on race to consider historical and contemporary intersections of race and Muslim identity. I conclude that the ongoing ideological work of “religion” means that the concept remains an analytically useful term, but that scholars should aim at the gradual abolition of “religion.”

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社会建设和社会批判：Haslanger，种族和宗教的研究

类别宗教近期，批评讨论的范畴作为社会建构的，但这种社会结构的性质仍然不发达。莎莉·哈斯兰杰的工作能补充“宗教”的现有的讨论，同时也提供社会建设和社会批判之间的连接上一个新的视角。她的种族的分析提供了资源开发的哲学宗教账户的社会建设，可以帮助宗教概念化的学者种族化的宗教身份。我通过使用哈斯兰格关于种族的工作来考虑种族和穆斯林身份的历史和当代交叉点，提供了这种方法的一个例子。我的结论是“宗教”的意思正在进行的思想工作，这个概念仍然是一个有用的分析来看，