Multiple religious belonging and hybrid religiosity: moving beyond religious boundaries

Multiple religious belonging (MRB) has recently gained a lot of attention as a new way of approaching hybrid religiosity. This topic has been approached from a wide variety of different academic disciplines, including theology, sociology, anthropology and religious and cultural studies. These disciplines often treat multiple religious belonging in a variety of ways that are not always compatible with one another. This prompts a number of questions. How do different disciplines address the phenomenon? In what ways do they talk about MRB? What are the main differences in their approaches? How can we come to a way of speaking about multiple religious belonging that captures the many facets of the phenomenon? How does multiple religious belonging transform concepts like ‘religion’, ‘multiplicity’ and ‘belonging’? My paper will outline some hermeneutic explorations in the field to arrive at new ways of under-standing and speaking about MRB, that capture the richness of hybrid religiosity.