“Professor Moyaert is one of the world’s best scholars of Comparative Theology. In this magisterial new work, she helps scholars of religion to better learn how religious images, whether drawn with pictures or words, are crucial to how we understand ourselves and each other.”—Amir Hussain, President, American Academy of Religion “Breathtaking in scope and detail, Moyaert offers an original history of the ways Christians have projected distorted images of their religious ‘others,’ with devastating material consequences. Her illuminating story of the past is a searchlight for our present.” —Jeannine Hill Fletcher - Professor of Theology, Fordham University A comprehensive account of the creation of Christian normativity and the categorization of religious “others” In Christian Imaginations of the Religious Other, Marianne Moyaert explores the genealogy of religionization, the ways Christians throughout history named, categorized, essentialized, and governed non-Christians in a broad range of socio-political contexts. With a longue durée approach, this innovative volume critically analyzes the complex intersections of patterns of religionization and offers original insights into changes in Christian normativity and attitudes toward non-Christian “otherness.” Incorporating contemporary research and the most recent issues in the field, the author surveys religionization in different eras, examines legal regulations and disciplinary practices, discusses the roles of racialization, sexualization, and ethnicization in the unequal treatment of Christianity’s others, and much more. Throughout the text, readers are encouraged to connect the lasting effects of religionization with their perception, interpretation, and discourse with the religious “other” in their everyday lives.