Abstract
An earlier version of this article was presented as keynote lecture at the annual conference of the Dutch Society for the Study of Religion (NGG, November 2021). The Alumni Fund of the University of Zürich (FAN) has kindly sponsored my time to revise this lecture as part of the project “Bringing it Home: The Domestication of Religion in Comparative Perspective.” I thank Schirin Ghazivakili, Ab de Jong, Christoph Uehlinger, the anonymous reviewers, and the members of the Leiden Working Group for the Study of Fundamental Methods and Problems in the Study of Religion for their constructive feedback, and Diana Haibucher and Marieke Krijnen for their editorial work.