Migrazioni, pensarsi in movimento attraverso la religione. Introduzione

With a monographic issue on the religion-migration pair, declined on international research experiences, we aimed to deepen the existence of other gazes that question this relationship from angles different and from a point of view of the transnational processes that run through them. Other gazes at both research locations, national groups considered, and local or transnational approaches. In addition, we tried to explore possible developments in this field of study, induced both by its inherent transformation and by new perspectives of researchers. In this sense, this dossier returns us a stimulating scenario, made up of confirmations and novelties. On the one hand, those approaches that represent religion as a safe harbor within complex social, symbolic and identity processes experienced by migrants in receiving societies are corroborated; on the other, looks emerge that read religion as a navigational tool used in perpetually uncertain waters. In these latter studies, the researcher's gaze is not so much fixed on specific places and horizons, but follows the movements, not always consistent, of migrants, trying to identify the participation of religion and its practice, in these movements