Editorial

Račič, Manca (author), Uhrin, Michal (author)

Religion 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.

• Language: English
• Keywords: etnologija, religija, verovanje, uvodniki
• Work type: Article
• Typology: 1.20 - Preface, editorial, afterword
• Organization: FF - Faculty of Arts
• Publication status: Published
• Publication version: Version of Record
• Publication date: 01.02.2024
• Year: 2024
• Number of pages: 6 str.
• Numbering: Letn. 2, št. 1
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-187213
• UDC: 2
• ISSN on article: 2820-6088
• DOI: 10.4312/svetovi.2.1.8-13
• COBISS.SI-ID: 203931907
• Publication date in RUL: 09.09.2026

Record is a part of a journal

• Title: Svetovi
• Publisher: Založba Univerze v Ljubljani
• ISSN: 2820-6088
• COBISS.SI-ID: 148550403

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Secondary language

• Language: Slovenian
• Title: Uvodnik

Abstract

Religija je že desetletja v središču pozornosti antropologov, etnologov in verskih učenjakov. Teorije o religiji, obredih in magiji so med drugim zasnovali ugledni učenjaki, kot so Émile Durkheim, William James, Marcel Mauss, Bronislaw Kasper Malinowski, Clifford Geertz in Victor Witter Turner. Religija, magija in rituali skupaj s sorodstvenimi in družinskimi odnosi, odnosi med spoloma, političnimi sistemi, kmetijstvom in načini proizvodnje ter raznolikimi manifestacijami ljudske kulture sodijo med klasična raziskovalna področja etnologije in sociokulturne antropologije. Čeprav so minila desetletja od objave klasičnih del, religija ostaja ključno področje raziskovanja. Klasične teme, kot so obredi, magija in nadnaravno škodovanje, so še vedno privlačne za sodobne učenjake, tudi če jih gledamo z novih teoretičnih in metodoloških perspektiv. Zadnja desetletja pa so prinesla tudi nove raziskovalne teme v empiričnem smislu, kot sta religija v spletnem prostoru ali religija v postmodernem in globaliziranem svetu. Te spremembe odražajo tudi prispevki v dvojni številki Svetov 2024. Medtem ko prva številka prinaša prispevke, ki temeljijo na različnih vrstah empiričnih, etnografskih ali zgodovinskih podatkov, povezanih s srednjeevropskim kontekstom (Češka, Slovaška, Madžarska ) in Japonsko, je druga posvečena teoretskim, metodološkim in epistemološkim vidikom akademskega študija religije.