This introduction elaborates how the relationship between religion and light can and should be addressed as a key theme for the critical study of religion. It synthesizes the principal arguments of the 6 articles collected in this special journal issue and locates them in a broader theoretical framework, focussing especially on the politics of knowledge production.

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启蒙宗教：宗教知识和宗教知识中的光明与黑暗

引言阐述了宗教与光之间的关系如何并且应该作为宗教批判性研究的关键主题加以解决。它综合了本期特刊中收集的6篇文章的主要论点，并将它们置于更广泛的理论框架中，尤其侧重于知识生产的政治。