WHAT IS CRITICAL RELIGION AND WHY DOES IT MATTER? Critical Religion's entry point is the understanding that religion is not a thing that is simply there 'in the world'.
While many people would claim that they know a religion 'when they see one', there are ongoing debates in Religious Studies on how to define the very subject of the discipline, or whether it should be defined, or whether in academic discourse we should even have a term 'religion' that is wrought with so many complexities.