Introduction to Special Issue: Ethnographies of Religious Education

The study of religion has long been central to scholarly efforts to understand diverse cultures, human practice, and meaning making. This issue highlights recent anthropological research on religious education in a multitude of spaces and within a range of faith experiences. Through rich ethnographic explorations, authors illuminate the engagement of a diverse subset of actors in religious education paying particular attention to pedagogical methods and practices, with important contributions to theories about teaching, learning, and subjectivity.