Dossier 1/2024: Dynamics of religion and politics: new players, new settings

The relations between the religious field and the political domain have known new patterns. This changing terrain is very diverse: the religious imaginaries of of the new right-wing parties, the sacralization of memory in the new nationalisms, the religious plasticity of distinct populisms, the cultural clashes in the sphere of biopolitics, the role of religion in gender politics, the place of religious discourses in ecopolitics, the connections between religious trends and new social movements, the persistence of the ethnic-religious factor in contexts of conflict, etc. The new intersections between religion and politics can be documented at all scales of modernity: in multiple geographies, mobilizing different religious traditions and groups, and in modalities of local, regional, national, transnational or global political agency. This transit between religion and politics is currently a place of social effervescence.