Special Issue of Religions: “Race–Religion Constellations: Antisemitism, Islamophobia, and Antiblackness”
Special Issue of Religions: “Race–Religion Constellations: Antisemitism, Islamophobia, and Antiblackness”
My colleagues Dr. Patricia Schor & Dr. Luis Manuel Hernandez Aguilar are the guest editors of a special issue for the journal Religions on “Race-Religion Constellations: Antisemitism, Islamophobia, and Antiblackness.
Deadline: September 15th, 2023
Deadline for abstract submissions: 15 February 2023 Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 September 2023. From the call for papers:
Building upon the growing literature exploring the historical, conceptual, and political entanglements between the categories of race and religion, this Special Issue explores the analytical relations and processes of the co-constitution of antisemitism, Islamophobia, and antiblackness in Europe and beyond. It does so by taking into full account the insights generated by the race–religion constellation (Topolski 2018), a novel theoretical approach concerned with the analysis of how the category of religion intersects with and co-constitutes race, as well as how race overlaps with and constitutes categorizations of religion, all these while paying particular attention to the role of Christianity and secularism in said processes. Pioneering scholars on race such as W.E.B. DuBois (1952) and Frantz Fanon (1967) were keenly aware of the relationality between antiblackness and antisemitism and yet, as Neil McMaster (2007) has pointed out, such relation has been scholarly understudied. The same holds true for the relationship between Islamophobia and antiblackness, despite fruitful avenues offered by research on Moors and Morishness. Against this background, this Special Issue aims to build analytical bridges and flesh out the entanglements between these three racial formations.
This Special Issue centers on the historical, conceptual, and political relations between antisemitism, Islamophobia, and antiblackness in Europe and other geographies. This issue aims to publish interdisciplinary, conceptual, and historical pieces, novel empirical research, and case studies unraveling the convoluted nexus among these three racial formations, as well as pieces analyzing the borrowing, exchange, and adaptations of racial tropes, metaphors, practices, and the power relations which inform such phenomena. Furthermore, we invite submissions which fully engage with the gendered and sexualized dynamics of antisemitism, Islamophobia and antiblackness, as well as research concerned with the colonial and postcolonial formations of these racisms. Decolonial analyses of such race–religion constellations are welcome.
For more information, see: Special Issue Information
Authors working under precarious conditions may request a fee waiver. In this case, please contact the co-editors ASAP.