À propos de cette revue
Established in 2019, the Journal of the Council for Research on Religion (JCREOR) was born out of the McGill Center for Research on Religion (CREOR), which was active from 2006 to 2019. The principal goal of CREOR was to study the world’s religions in their constantly changing historical manifestations, in their relations to one another, and in their contributions to past and present-day cultures, ethics, and politics.
This principal goal was transferred to JCREOR (e-ISSN 2563-0288), a bi-annual peer-reviewed open access journal that publishes innovative and original scholarly work in the fields of religious studies and theology. Subject matter ranges from the ancient to the contemporary and explores Western and non-Western perspectives and approaches.
Numéro courant
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.
