Vol. 6 No. 1 (2025): Analyzing the Discourse of Religious Phobia

The present volume is a special issue dedicated to the papers presented at the Religious Phobia Symposium: Analyzing the Discourse of Hinduphobia, Islamophobia, and Anti-Semitism in the Public Square, which took place at McGill's School of Religious Studies from October 25th to 27th, 2023.                                    

The symposium sought to engage with how misinformation, mass media misrepresentation, political prejudice and prevalent colonial stereotypes have created negative representations and assumptions about different religions. Our contributors seek, first, to discuss and analyze the origins of certain fears or “phobias” about different religions, and second, to explore the extent to which terms like Anti-Semitism, Islamophobia, and Hinduphobia are helpful, not only in understanding these fears, but for constructively addressing and dispelling them.