Cotter, Christopher. 2020. The Critical Study of Non-Religion: Discourse, Identity and Locality. London: Bloomsbury. ix + 211 pp. ISBN: 978-1-3500-9524-3 £76.50 (hbk)
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Chryssides, George D. and Stephen E. Gregg (eds) 2019. The Insider/Outsider Debate: New Perspectives in the Study of Religion. Sheffield and Bristol: Equinox. xi + 421 pp. ISBN: 978-1-7817-9343-5 £85.00 (hbk); ISBN 978-1-7817-9344-2 £32.95 (pbk); ISBN: 978-1-7817-9852-2 £32.95 (e-book).
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Although Max Weber’s analysis of charisma has been highly influential, it is not altogether clear what it explains. Using four case studies—Charles Taze Russell, Sun Myung Moon, Kelsang Gyatso, and the anonymous founder of the Church of Almighty God—it is argued that these leaders do not share any common set of characteristics by virtue of which they could be described as “charismatic”. To account for their following, one must look to factors extraneous to the leader; Eileen Barker’s notion of “charismatization” is developed here, showing how followers learn to be deferential towards the leader, and how hagiographical accounts are used. In addition, the role of the ambient culture is highly relevant, and the growing lack of religious literacy encourages seekers to accept a leader’s teachings insufficiently critically. The leader also needs to “maintain charisma”, dealing with potential rivals, and asserting the exclusivity of their teachings. Finally, the roles of media publicity and finance are highly relevant to maintaining a new religious organization.
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Calhoun, Scott (ed.) 2018. U2 and the Religious Impulse. London: Bloomsbury.
卡尔霍恩，斯科特(编)2018。U2和宗教冲动乐队。伦敦:布卢姆斯伯里。
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This article considers how forms of technology and electronic communication—particularly email and online chats—both reflect and shape the selves of the field in relationship to the selves of home. It argues for recognizing and consciously cultivating the use of email and chat as a kind of “archive of the self” to draw on in the writing process in addition to, or sometimes in lieu of, fieldnotes. Attending to this archive helps to reflect more deeply on the complex selves that we inhabit during fieldwork and that we present in our academic work. The article concludes with reflections on how technologies, particularly WhatsApp, also bring the selves of the field into our lives “back home” and how the continued demand for presence in absence can be both uncomfortable and promising for continuing to compile the “archive of the self”.
{"title":"An Archive of the Self","authors":"Jennifer D. Ortegren","doi":"10.1558/FIRN.18356","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1558/FIRN.18356","url":null,"abstract":"This article considers how forms of technology and electronic communication—particularly email and online chats—both reflect and shape the selves of the field in relationship to the selves of home. It argues for recognizing and consciously cultivating the use of email and chat as a kind of “archive of the self” to draw on in the writing process in addition to, or sometimes in lieu of, fieldnotes. Attending to this archive helps to reflect more deeply on the complex selves that we inhabit during fieldwork and that we present in our academic work. The article concludes with reflections on how technologies, particularly WhatsApp, also bring the selves of the field into our lives “back home” and how the continued demand for presence in absence can be both uncomfortable and promising for continuing to compile the “archive of the self”.","PeriodicalId":41468,"journal":{"name":"Fieldwork in Religion","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2020-11-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46511563","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}
{"title":"Howell, Francesca Ciancimino. 2020. Food, Festival and Religion: Materiality and Place in Italy.","authors":"Taylor E. Hartson","doi":"10.1558/FIRN.18370","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1558/FIRN.18370","url":null,"abstract":"Howell, Francesca Ciancimino. 2020. Food, Festival and Religion: Materiality and Place in Italy. London: Bloomsbury Academic.","PeriodicalId":41468,"journal":{"name":"Fieldwork in Religion","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2020-11-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47325290","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 examines the materiality of death in the funerary rites of a Vaidiki brahmin family in Telugu-speaking South India. In this self-reflexive piece, I explore the concepts of madi (ritual purity) and maila (ritual impurity) in relation to my grandmother’s life and death, respectively. I also consider the materiality of my grandmother’s bones in the funerary rites, including the final cremation and post-cremation rituals conducted by my father and uncles in Hyderabad, Telangana in August 2013. The article concludes by reflecting on the resilience of my grandmother, a brahmin widow for more than thirty years of her life.
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Through telling the interconnected stories of three women (the author, her grandmother, and her interlocutor, a leader in a temple community), this article explores the complicated dynamics that can occur when one’s field is both one’s home and not one’s home. Specifically, it explores the ways in which being an American scholar of Indian descent who studies the Hindu diaspora can shed light on the gendered dynamics of belonging, authority, autonomy and authenticity in the field and at home. Ultimately, the article suggests that a scholarly approach of ambivalent belonging that eschews the normative boundaries between home and field, the personal and the scholarly, provides an ethical framework for research and writing.
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This personal narrative analyzes how the practice of intellectual humility can push the boundaries placed around the categories of home and field. I contend that scholars can conduct fieldwork in religion meaningfully by practicing intellectual humility with ourselves, with our interlocutors, and within the academy. Humility with ourselves consists of practicing self-reflexivity and understanding our positionality and its connection to the field. Humility with our interlocutors requires listening to their voices and accepting that fieldwork is dictated by things that happen on the ground and not our neatly conceived plans. Humility in the academy entails an open-mindedness to theorize about the field from within the field and not necessarily from within the confines of the academy. By practicing intellectual humility, one can begin to bridge the boundaries of home and field, self and other, and become attentive to new directions in academic research.
{"title":"“At Home Camping on Shifting Sands”","authors":"Bhakti Mamtora","doi":"10.1558/FIRN.18352","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1558/FIRN.18352","url":null,"abstract":"This personal narrative analyzes how the practice of intellectual humility can push the boundaries placed around the categories of home and field. I contend that scholars can conduct fieldwork in religion meaningfully by practicing intellectual humility with ourselves, with our interlocutors, and within the academy. Humility with ourselves consists of practicing self-reflexivity and understanding our positionality and its connection to the field. Humility with our interlocutors requires listening to their voices and accepting that fieldwork is dictated by things that happen on the ground and not our neatly conceived plans. Humility in the academy entails an open-mindedness to theorize about the field from within the field and not necessarily from within the confines of the academy. By practicing intellectual humility, one can begin to bridge the boundaries of home and field, self and other, and become attentive to new directions in academic research.","PeriodicalId":41468,"journal":{"name":"Fieldwork in Religion","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2020-11-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46526274","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}
To teach one’s students by drawing on information from one’s field site is to bring two “homes” into contact with one another: the home of one’s classroom with one’s students and the home of a field site filled with friends and “fictive family”. It means helping two different home communities translate and understand one another, bringing into sharper relief the challenges of translating that teaching—and fieldwork—perpetually entail. Creating an online pedagogical tool based on one’s field site brings all of these issues into focus, as one also manages the spatial and temporal variances inherent in many digital humanities projects.
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