Pub Date : 2022-09-08DOI: 10.1177/20503032221124560
M. King
Every philosophy ’ s content and method are determined by the class struggles of its age. Although philosophers — like scholars, artists and other ideologists — may more or less fail to recognize it and sometimes remain totally unaware of it, this conditioning of their attitude to so-called “ ultimate questions ” takes effect notwithstanding. ― Gy¨orgy Luk´acs (2021, 313), The Destruction of Reason
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Pub Date : 2022-09-08DOI: 10.1177/20503032221124559
M. Sharpe
the truth of these doctrines] we must avoid the pitfalls of both dogmatism and relativism … The truth of a doctrine does not depend solely upon its utility. Many propositions of Natural Law are progressive, though they may appear futile in certain historical sit-uations. Others may serve in one historical stage and may be worthless in another one. The truth of a doctrine will depend upon the extent to which it embodies concrete liberty and human dignity, upon its ability to provide for the fullest development of all human potentialities . (Neumann 1942, 72; my italics)
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Pub Date : 2022-09-08DOI: 10.1177/20503032221124557
A. Bielik-Robson
In my essay, I want to ponder on the psychotheology of hope: the messianic affects which attach themselves to the promise of Exodus—of yetziat, a liberating getting-out from the world imagined as a “house of bondage” or an “iron cage” without exits. In my juxtaposition of Bloch’s philosophy of Exodus with Adorno’s and Horkheimer’s critique of Western modernity as an Exodus gone wrong, I would like to focus on the intricate relation between hope (represented at its purest by the former) and despair (represented at its purest by the latter). I would like to prove that, contrary to appearances, the one cannot be thought without the other: hope can only come to the fore at the background of the darkest despair and vice versa—the despair can only be understood as a loss of hope. By correcting Bloch’s metaphysical optimism with the Frankfurt duo’s plunge into the abyss of hopelessness (recall Lukacs’s malicious joke about Adorno as an inhabitant of the “Grand Hotel Abyss”), I wish to reclaim the idea of despair for the messianic idiom which too often feels uneasy about it, wrongly convinced that it cannot let in a sense of the loss of hope.
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Pub Date : 2022-09-08DOI: 10.1177/20503032221124555
P. Brown
worldly form of Christian love is therefore able to take the form of a person fi ghting for self-assertion, power, success, and security. It is here that the limits, or, rather, the ultimate foundations of the law of self-assertion in political action become evident.
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Pub Date : 2022-09-07DOI: 10.1177/20503032221124563
Md. Didarul Islam
and Society at the University of California Riverside (UCR); and an Academic Associate at the Cardiff School of Sport and Health Sciences at the Metropolitan University of Cardiff, Wales. His current research interests include the pedagogies of modern forms of yoga, the discursive study and the politics of scholarly knowledge production, social theory, sociocultural theorizing, and qualitative methodologies.
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Pub Date : 2022-07-12DOI: 10.1177/20503032221102443
Josias Tembo
In this article, I argue that a trans-Atlantic account of the constellations of race and religion demands that we understand racist thinking to be constituted by complex conceptual formations and relations. The failure to identify the conceptual complexity and interactive relations in racist thinking has led to universalist and exclusionary definitions of racist thinking and limited conceptions of the constellations of race and religion. Because the supposed universal definitions of racist thinking are formulated from particular regions of the trans-Atlantic, it has led to the masking and rejection of other formations of racist thinking from other regions of the trans-Atlantic. To avoid this, this article proposes a Trans-Atlantic Interactive and Relational Approach (TAIRA) that can help us to continue unmasking and understanding the trans-Atlantic connections between race and religion.
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Pub Date : 2022-07-01DOI: 10.1177/20503032221075382
S. Hansson
Climate science denial has a perhaps surprisingly strong standing in anthroposophy. Anthroposophical deniers of climate science usually do not contest the existence of global warming, but they ascribe it to “cosmic” processes that are largely described in astrological terms. Thoroughly refuted claims that ongoing global warming depends on variations in solar activity have been adopted by anthroposophists. This article proposes three major explanations for the persistence of climate science denial in the anthroposophical movement: Anthroposophists constantly look for guidance on scientific issues in the writings of their founder Rudolf Steiner (1861–1925), who made claims far off from the mainstream science of his time. They consider the material world to be constantly influenced by “spiritual” factors, including astrological constellations and a host of supernatural beings. Finally, they cherish ideas on a predetermined, largely cyclic, cosmic plan, of which humanity is a part.
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Pub Date : 2022-06-30DOI: 10.1177/20503032221102447
Mehek Muftee, Per-Erik Nilsson
In November the Multidisciplinary Racism arranged an international conference on the theme of Racism and Religion. It was the fi rst of its kind to be held in Sweden, drawing together the disciplines of Racism Studies and Religious Studies in order to highlight some of today ’ s most urgent and compelling issues and questions. For three days scholars, from around the world, came together to explore and discuss how racism and religion, historically and in the present, intermingle in different and complex ways. The aim was to understand how religion in its different constellations continues to produce and uphold, as well as counter, colonial structures, nationalism, and state racism. The aim was also to invite scholars to think about the role of religion, religious practices, and spiritualties within counter movements, such as indigenous rights movements. The goal of the conference was to create a platform for scholars interested in the intersections between racism and religion from which new interdisciplinary collaborations and projects could emanate to establish and further develop this research area, in both Sweden and internationally. The conference included twenty-three panel sessions offering a wide range of presentations re fl ecting a great diversity in topics. Some of the central themes presented dealt with experiences of racism and discrimination among religious minorities, the intersections of gender and religion, which in turn opened up important discussions on the meaning of secularism, nationalism, and feminist struggles. Other themes included the development of state racism and fascism in different parts of the world as well as expressions of particular kinds of racism, such as antisemitism and mentioned above that were included in the conference give us an indication of current research areas where the intersections on racism and religion are being explored. As such, the conference was informed by the deconstructive scholarship of the category of religion brought the Muftee is a sociologist and researcher Multidisciplinary Studies on Racism (Cemfor) at Uppsala University. Her research area revolves around migration studies, diaspora, postcolonial feminism, and issues of racism and discrimination. Her postdoc project at Cemfor focuses on Muslim women ’ s experiences of Islamophobia and strategies of expressing their subjectivities through art and activism within a Swedish context.
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Pub Date : 2022-06-22DOI: 10.1177/20503032221102450
Masoumeh Rad Goudarzi
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Pub Date : 2022-06-01DOI: 10.1177/20503032221075380
M. Sharapan
This article looks into how Tibetan Buddhism is framed in terms of East-West dichotomy in six popular books on Buddhism and spirituality. Discourse Historical Approach is employed to uncover the rhetorical representation of Tibetan Buddhism to the readers. A critical post-colonial perspective offers an insight into various power dynamics, arising from these representations, structured according to Yoshikawa's model of intercultural communication between East and West. The various power outcomes of rhetorical styles range from Ethnocentric to Dialogical, with their ethical consequences and problematics discussed.
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