ABSTRACT
A new protagonism of ‘religion’ is under way, both as an object of discourse and as a rallying point for highly diverse religious agents (individuals, groups, organisations and their various networked expressions). Religion is counted as a (contested) global factor and player and local-based articulations of religious identity are ‘made to travel’, as they follow migration flows of people across national and cultural frontiers, set out self-styled mission ventures, or participate in various forms of socio-political activism at a global scale. To be sure, ‘religion’ indicates here no single, homogeneous collective actor, however the disseminative nature of the qualifier ‘religious’ should not be underplayed either.
