Garbin, David and Anna Strhan (eds) 2017. Religion and the Global City. London: Bloomsbury Academic. 270 pp. ISBN: 978-14742-7242-1 £90.00 (hbk); 978-13500-9463-5 £28.99 (pbk); 978- 14742-7244-5 £31.30 (e-book).
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Mushrooms containing psilocybin have been used in Indigenous healing ceremonies in Mesoamerica since at least the sixteenth century. However, the sacramental use of mushrooms was only discovered by Westerners in the early to mid-twentieth century. Most notably, the meeting between amateur mycologist Robert Gordon Wasson and Mazatec curandera María Sabina in 1955 resulted in the widespread popularization of ingesting “magic mushrooms” in the West. To Sabina and the Mazatec people, psilocybin mushrooms were sacred and only to be used for healing. However, Western “hippies” viewed mushrooms as psychedelic drugs which they consumed with little regard for cultural sensitivities, rendering the mushrooms desacralized. This article argues that the desacralization of psilocybin mushrooms constitutes a form of spiritual abuse that has had far-reaching and long-lasting consequences at individual, local and global levels. Further, acknowledging and understanding the desacralization of psilocybin mushrooms as spiritual abuse has important implications for restorative justice and the understanding of psilocybin as a sacred medicine.
至少从16世纪开始，含有裸盖菇素的蘑菇就被用于中美洲的土著治疗仪式。然而，在20世纪早期到中期，西方人才发现蘑菇的圣礼用途。最值得注意的是，1955年业余真菌学家罗伯特·戈登·沃森(Robert Gordon Wasson)和马扎特克·库兰德拉María萨比娜(Mazatec curandera Sabina)的会面，导致了摄入“神奇蘑菇”在西方的广泛普及。对萨比娜和马萨特克人来说，裸盖菇素是神圣的，只能用于治疗。然而，西方“嬉皮士”将蘑菇视为迷幻药，他们几乎不考虑文化敏感性而食用蘑菇，使蘑菇失去了神圣化。本文认为，裸盖菇素蘑菇的去神圣化构成了一种精神虐待形式，在个人、地方和全球层面都产生了深远而持久的后果。此外，承认和理解裸盖菇素蘑菇作为精神虐待的去神圣化对恢复性司法和理解裸盖菇素是一种神圣的药物具有重要意义。
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Nita, Maria. 2016. Praying and Campaigning with Environmental Christians: Green Religion and the Environmental Movement. London: Palgrave Macmillan. xi + 261 pp. ISBN: 978-1-137-60034-9 £99.99 (hbk); 978-1-349-95608-1 £99.99 (pbk); 978-1-137-60035-6 £79.50 (e-book).
尼塔，玛丽亚。2016。祈祷与环保基督徒的运动:绿色宗教与环保运动。伦敦:Palgrave Macmillan出版社。xi + 261 pp. ISBN: 978-1-137-60034-9£99.99 (hbk);978-1-349-95608-1 99.99英镑(英镑);978-1-137-60035-6 79.50英镑(电子书)。
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The way that humanity both inhabits and views its surroundings directly influences individual and collective thoughts and emotions. Yet in a society that is constantly over-stimulated, taking in the surroundings becomes secondary to consumerism, and the distractions inherent within the spectacle. The spectacle, according to Guy Debord and the European revolutionary organization Situationist International (SI), diverted the populace from the reality that surrounds it, and the SI deemed themselves the correct ones to re-envision reality. Fifty years after the 1968 Paris riots, the Situationists no longer exist, but new groups have risen from their ashes to explore and view the world in new ways, groups such as those involved in Urban Exploration (UrbEx). UrbEx involves small, often self-guided groups that investigate the ghosts of modernity, and the detritus of capital that remains in the wake of the spectacle. Utilizing the Situationist International's concept of the dérive, the ideas that fuel urban exploration, and conspiracist ideologies, this article explores the urban world viewed through psychogeography: those who seek the new sacred in a gnostic quest to gain a greater insight into what lurks in the shadows of the myth of modernity.
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This article examines the life of Walter Day, a key figure in the history of competitive video gaming and whose involvement in this industry has been connected to his own spiritual beliefs and directions. Here, the influence of Day, the former owner of Twin Galaxies and creator of the first International Scoreboard, will be presented by examining the history of his life. A pivotal religious experience of Day, while under the influence of LSD in the 1960s, will be shown to have directly informed his decision to join the Eastern influenced new religious movement of Transcendental Meditation under the stewardship of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi which gave him the tools and direction that would be essential for his video gaming career. The training that the Maharishi would provide to Day will be explored and shown to have informed his understanding of religious experiences, or flow states, and how this could manifest with a player of a classic video game at an arcade. This understanding will be shown to have interested Day enough not only to endeavour to be the first video game pilgrim, but for him to continue a lifelong pilgrimage of recording and sharing oral history of players who reach their full potential.
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Anthony-Paul Cooper, Dr. Emmanuel Kolog Awuni, E. Sutinen
This article builds on previous research around the exploration of the content of church-related tweets. It does so by exploring whether the qualitative thematic coding of such tweets can, in part, be automated by the use of machine learning. It compares three supervised machine learning algorithms to understand how useful each algorithm is at a classification task, based on a dataset of human-coded church-related tweets. The study finds that one such algorithm, Naïve-Bayes, performs better than the other algorithms considered, returning Precision, Recall and F-measure values which each exceed an acceptable threshold of 70%. This has far-reaching consequences at a time where the high volume of social media data, in this case, Twitter data, means that the resource-intensity of manual coding approaches can act as a barrier to understanding how the online community interacts with, and talks about, church. The findings presented in this article offer a way forward for scholars of digital theology to better understand the content of online church discourse.
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{"title":"Navigating Through Space Butterflies: CoxCon 2017 and fieldwork presentation of contemporary movements","authors":"Vivian Asimos","doi":"10.1558/firn.39865","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1558/firn.39865","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41468,"journal":{"name":"Fieldwork in Religion","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2019-11-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67447302","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This article seeks to query the typical way research in novel fields are expressed in academic writing. The high structured presentation assumes a high structured field, which is often conceived of as necessary for new sites to assert their academic validity. However, many times, as is the situation for the case study presented here, what is considered new and novel is simply a new medium through which already properly understood concepts thrive. This misunderstanding often leaves scholars in new fields defending their field site more than analysing it, and a higher scrutiny is placed on these locations. This article hopes to demonstrate just one example of this, the fan convention, and demonstrate how this field site is not as new as typically considered, and arguing, therefore, for a more open representation of the improvised and fluid conception of research on contemporary religion.
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Schmidt, Bettina E. 2016. Spirits and Trance in Brazil. London: Bloomsbury. xi + 226 pp. ISBN: 978-1-4742-5567-7 £81.00 (hbk); 978-1-3500-5792-0 £26.09 (pbk); 978-1-4742-5569-1 £25.04 (e-book).
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Chryssides, George D. (ed.) 2019. Minority Religions in Europe and the Middle East: Mapping and Monitoring. Abingdon and New York: Routledge. xiii + 253 pp. ISBN: 978-1-4724-6360-9 £105 (hbk); 978-1-3155-9555-9 £35.99 (e-book).
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