EditorialRačič, Manca (Avtor) Uhrin, Michal (Avtor) etnologijareligijaverovanjeuvodnikiReligion has been the focus of anthropologists, ethnologists and religious scholars for decades. Theories of religion, ritual and magic have been conceived by eminent scholars such as Émile Durkheim, William James, Marcel Mauss, Bronislaw Kasper Malinowski, Clifford Geertz, and Victor Witter Turner, among others. Religion, magic and ritual, along with kinship and family, gender relations, political systems, agriculture and modes of production, and the diverse manifestations of folk culture, belong to the classical research fields of ethnology and sociocultural anthropology. Although it has been decades since the publication of the classic works, religion remains a crucial area of research. Classic themes such as ritual, magic, and supernatural harm still appeal to contemporary scholars studying religion, even when viewed from new theoretical and methodological perspectives. However, recent decades have also brought new research topics in an empirical sense, such as religion in the online space or religion in a postmodern and globalised world. These changes are also reflected by the papers in the 2024 double issue of Svetovi / Worlds. While the first issue includes papers based on various types of empirical data, ethnographic or historical, etc., related to the Central European context (Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary) and Japan, the second is devoted to the theoretical, methodological and epistemological aspects of the academic study of religion.20242026-09-09 11:50:47Članek v reviji187213UDK: 2ISSN pri članku: 2820-6088DOI: 10.4312/svetovi.2.1.8-13COBISS_ID: 203931907sl