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Under the overall topic Religions 360°, scholars of religions working in each and every field or subfield of the discipline, irrespective of their thematic, chronological, methodological, or institutional affiliation, are encouraged to participate in projecting their newest research results into the canvas of persistent, decisive questions. What, how and why are we studying when we assume we study religions? Is the academic study of religions still a relatively homogenous knowledge project or, beyond the entropy or inertias of specific collective agents, already and unequivocally became fully fragmentised and thus dissolved beyond recognition? Are the scholars of religions still paying sufficient attention to the advancement of knowledge in connected or related disciplines? How may scholars of religion still describe and defend their ongoing research within the whole gamut of the humanities? What would scholars of religion recommend as a community to their colleagues in neighbouring or distant knowledge fields? How would such a dialogue function under the eruptive tension of unprecedented macro-challenges, from posthumanism to ‘post-truth’ to the acceleration of LLM and/or AI? If indeed irreplaceable, how should the academic study of religions be represented?
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