Global Religious History

Abstract Understandings of religion have been fundamentally transformed since the nineteenth century. The respective contradictions, ambiguities, continuities, and ruptures can be most comprehensively grasped when viewed against background global entanglements. For this purpose, approach religious history proposes a range theoretical methodological tools. Its repertoire is largely informed by critical engagement with poststructuralist epistemology postcolonial perspectives embedded in consistent genealogical approach. At outset, it aims at bridging divisions, including those between history, disciplines such as studies well different area studies. This implies theoretically robust reflexion question what entanglements mean along how to distinguish from approaches usually qualified prefix trans as, for example, “transregional.” In introduction, we offer an in-depth discussion foundations implications history.