Manufacturing Religion in the Anthropocene

Abstract The article sets the essays that constitute the two-part theme issue, Manufacturing Religion: From Christian Origins to Classical Islam, in a broader theoretical framework. The framework employed here is the work of Russell T. McCutcheon and Willi Braun that emphasise the human manufacturedness of both the concept “religion” and the practices and discourses that go by the descriptor “religion.” The essays collected here in this theme issue collectively perform the double act of historicising the concept “religion” as well as the constituent operations of religion-making.