This special issue invites readers to examine dynamic religious aspirations in the urban contexts of South Korea. Focusing on religious practices, adaptations, and material constructions in the making of Seoul, these articles contribute to the growing scholarly discussion on the relationship between the urban and the religious/sacred in the context of Asian cities and beyond (e.g., van der Veer 2015, Goh and van der Veer 2016). This special issue is the culmination of an interdisciplinary research team—the Seoul Lab—which contributed to the larger comparative urban research project of the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity undertaken in Mumbai, Shanghai, and Singapore. In these introductory remarks we share some key concerns of the project in order to invite further scholarly discussion.

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首尔城市愿景：客座编辑介绍

本期特刊邀请读者研究韩国城市环境中动态的宗教愿望。这些文章侧重于首尔建设过程中的宗教实践、改编和物质结构，有助于越来越多的学术讨论，即亚洲城市及其他地区背景下城市与宗教/神圣之间的关系（例如，van der Veer 2015 , Goh 和 van der Veer 2016)。本期特刊是一个跨学科研究团队——首尔实验室——的高潮，该团队为马克斯普朗克宗教和种族多样性研究所在孟买、上海和新加坡开展的更大的城市比较研究项目做出了贡献。在这些介绍性评论中，我们分享了该项目的一些关键问题，以邀请进一步的学术讨论。