This article focuses on religion and change in relation to music. Its starting point is the argument that music plays a central role as a driving force for religious change, as has recently been suggested by several researchers of religion. Music is seen to comprise elements that are central to contemporary religiosity in general: participation , embodiment, experience, emotions, and creativity. This article approaches the discussion from a Jewish point of view, connecting the theoretical perspective to an ethnographic case study conducted among progressive Jews in London with special focus on music, religious practice, and change. The article outlines the ongoing discussion on religion and change by focusing on features of individualism, personal choice, and processes of bricolage, critically assessing them from an inclusive point of view, focusing on individuals as simultaneously both personal and socially as well as culturally embedded agents. The analysis highlights a visible trend among the interviewees of wanting to combine a radically liberal theology with an increasingly traditional practice. In these accounts musical practices play a pivotal yet ambiguous role as instigators and insignia of religious change. As a conclusion, insights into more 'sonically aware religious studies' are suggested. We need a kind of … something that retains the tradition; that holds on to these precious traditions and rituals, the music and all the rest – but with an open mind and a much more questioning and open approach to Jewish law. In these words Rebecca 1 expresses what she strives to achieve in her work as an innovative yet historically perceptive and liturgically informed can-1 The names of the persons interviewed have been anonymised, and common Jewish names are used as aliases. See the reference list for or more detailed information about the ethnographic research material and research method.
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{"title":"Elizabeth Shakman Hurd: Beyond Religious Freedom: The New Global Politics of Religion","authors":"T. Taira","doi":"10.33356/temenos.68895","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33356/temenos.68895","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43012,"journal":{"name":"TEMENOS","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2017-12-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43944947","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
In this article the appropriation of the Anglican choral evensong in the Netherlands, outside the context of the Anglican church, and more specifically the dress in the choral evensong will be investigated in order to gain more insight into religiosity in the Netherlands. The authors will explore which kind of dress is worn in choral evensongs in the Netherlands and which meanings participants attribute to the dress. As an analytic tool the concepts of denotational and connotational meanings are used. Main conclusion of the research is that dress in choral evensong points to a transformation of religiosity. By wearing Anglican dress, choirs indicate to belong to the high-quality sound group of English cathedral choirs; through this position choir members criticize the traditional reformed emphasis on spoken words. At the same time, by changing the Anglican 'dress code', choirs emphasize their unicity and individuality, independent of church traditions. Lastly, choir members refer to unarticulated transcendental experiences by wearing ritual liturgical dress.
{"title":"Dress in Choral Evensongs in the Dutch Context: Appropriation and Transformation of Religiosity in the Netherlands","authors":"H. Rijken, M. Hoondert, M. Barnard","doi":"10.33356/temenos.54198","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33356/temenos.54198","url":null,"abstract":"In this article the appropriation of the Anglican choral evensong in the Netherlands, outside the context of the Anglican church, and more specifically the dress in the choral evensong will be investigated in order to gain more insight into religiosity in the Netherlands. The authors will explore which kind of dress is worn in choral evensongs in the Netherlands and which meanings participants attribute to the dress. As an analytic tool the concepts of denotational and connotational meanings are used. Main conclusion of the research is that dress in choral evensong points to a transformation of religiosity. By wearing Anglican dress, choirs indicate to belong to the high-quality sound group of English cathedral choirs; through this position choir members criticize the traditional reformed emphasis on spoken words. At the same time, by changing the Anglican 'dress code', choirs emphasize their unicity and individuality, independent of church traditions. Lastly, choir members refer to unarticulated transcendental experiences by wearing ritual liturgical dress.","PeriodicalId":43012,"journal":{"name":"TEMENOS","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2017-12-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46907081","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Marion Bowman and Ülo Valk (eds): Vernacular Religion in Everyday Life: Expressions of Belief","authors":"Terhi Utriainen","doi":"10.33356/TEMENOS.68896","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33356/TEMENOS.68896","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43012,"journal":{"name":"TEMENOS","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2017-12-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46028536","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Recent years have witnessed several examples of desecrations of copies of the Qur’an as a display of non-Muslim hostility against Muslims. The present article attempts to answer a fundamental quest ...
近年来发生了几起亵渎《古兰经》的例子，以显示非穆斯林对穆斯林的敌意。本文试图回答一个基本问题。
{"title":"Hurting the Qur’an : Suggestions Concerning the Psychological Infrastructure of Desecration","authors":"Jonas Svensson","doi":"10.33356/TEMENOS.60297","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33356/TEMENOS.60297","url":null,"abstract":"Recent years have witnessed several examples of desecrations of copies of the Qur’an as a display of non-Muslim hostility against Muslims. The present article attempts to answer a fundamental quest ...","PeriodicalId":43012,"journal":{"name":"TEMENOS","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2017-12-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44209458","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Peace Agreements Through Rituals in Areas of Confrontation in the Viking Age","authors":"S. Olsson","doi":"10.33356/TEMENOS.60686","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33356/TEMENOS.60686","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43012,"journal":{"name":"TEMENOS","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2017-12-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45476773","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
New Religiosity in Contemporary Sweden : The Dalarna Study in National and International Context
当代瑞典的新宗教：国家和国际背景下的达拉纳研究
{"title":"New Religiosity in Contemporary Sweden : The Dalarna Study in National and International Context","authors":"Ann af Burén","doi":"10.33356/TEMENOS.65158","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33356/TEMENOS.65158","url":null,"abstract":"New Religiosity in Contemporary Sweden : The Dalarna Study in National and International Context","PeriodicalId":43012,"journal":{"name":"TEMENOS","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2017-07-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42913926","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The article scrutinises the booklet Scientology and the Bible (1967), reconstructing the historical circumstances of its publication as well as analysing its potential for interreligious dialogue.
{"title":"On an Anomalous Piece of Scientology Ephemera: The Booklet Scientology and the Bible","authors":"S. Bigliardi","doi":"10.33356/TEMENOS.53388","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33356/TEMENOS.53388","url":null,"abstract":"The article scrutinises the booklet Scientology and the Bible (1967), reconstructing the historical circumstances of its publication as well as analysing its potential for interreligious dialogue.","PeriodicalId":43012,"journal":{"name":"TEMENOS","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2017-07-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43933510","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"James R. Lewis: Sects & Stats: Overturning the Conventional Wisdom about Cult Members","authors":"Ringo Ringvee","doi":"10.33356/TEMENOS.65159","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33356/TEMENOS.65159","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43012,"journal":{"name":"TEMENOS","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2017-07-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44987061","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The article, based on fieldwork conducted in rural Eastern Slovenian region, discusses specifics of various discourses – Christian, rational, New Age, and, in particular, witchcraft discourse – that the inhabitants of the region use in discussing witchcraft. It shows the occasions in everyday life in which the witchcraft discourse may be mobilised and strategically used by people for their own benefit. Later, it compares the discourse used by traditional magic specialists in the unwitching procedure, performed when misfortune is ascribed to bewitchment, with the discourse used by a contemporary New Age therapist in therapy performed for the same reason. The author argues that in basic elements they resemble each other, the main difference being that the key underlying premise of the traditional unwitcher, i.e. that the source of misfortune threatens from the outside, loses its importance in the New Age therapy. In this, the main arena of counteraction against the perpetrator is transferred from the outside to the inside, to one’s own body and mind.
{"title":"How and Why to Talk about Witchcraft? Discourses on Witchcraft and Uses of Bewitchment Narratives in 21st Century Rural Eastern Slovenia","authors":"M. Mencej","doi":"10.33356/TEMENOS.65139","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33356/TEMENOS.65139","url":null,"abstract":"The article, based on fieldwork conducted in rural Eastern Slovenian region, discusses specifics of various discourses – Christian, rational, New Age, and, in particular, witchcraft discourse – that the inhabitants of the region use in discussing witchcraft. It shows the occasions in everyday life in which the witchcraft discourse may be mobilised and strategically used by people for their own benefit. Later, it compares the discourse used by traditional magic specialists in the unwitching procedure, performed when misfortune is ascribed to bewitchment, with the discourse used by a contemporary New Age therapist in therapy performed for the same reason. The author argues that in basic elements they resemble each other, the main difference being that the key underlying premise of the traditional unwitcher, i.e. that the source of misfortune threatens from the outside, loses its importance in the New Age therapy. In this, the main arena of counteraction against the perpetrator is transferred from the outside to the inside, to one’s own body and mind.","PeriodicalId":43012,"journal":{"name":"TEMENOS","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2017-07-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43978921","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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