Pub Date : 2022-05-27DOI: 10.1080/09637494.2022.2099217
Olga Breskaya, G. Giordan, S. Trophimov
ABSTRACT Do social perceptions of religious freedom (SPRF) represent individual a priori experiences, or are they the results of a process of socialisation into a normative political and religious culture? The contribution responds to this inquiry with data from comparative research on the multidimensional construct of SPRF among youth in Italy and Russia (N = 1,810). The study conducted between 2018 and 2019 investigates the patterns of constructed meanings of religious freedom and their correlates in the contexts of Christian-majority cultures, a significant ratio of non-affiliated youth, and contrasting records on societal religious discrimination. The findings suggest, first, that Italian participants endorse the socio-legal and human rights aspects of religious freedom more strongly than their Russian peers, who favoured the issues of individual autonomy linked to this freedom more. Second, attitudes towards normative concepts of religious pluralism, passive secularism, and democracy are robust predictors of the SPRF dimensions in both samples. Third, we found that the main difference in perceptions of religious freedom between the samples is in regard to the predisposition of young people towards a model of the dominant church endorsed by the state. Its predictive power varies across four models of analysis of the SPRF and has the opposite effect in Italian and Russian samples.
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Pub Date : 2022-05-27DOI: 10.1080/09637494.2022.2104092
Fateme Ejaredar, A. Kazemipur, S. Etemadifard
ABSTRACT Modern religious schools have been one of the most significant tools used for carrying out an ‘Islamisation project’ in the aftermath of the 1979 Revolution. Immediately after the Revolution, such schools were mandated with the goal of training a religious elite capable of taking on the leadership positions of the post-revolutionary state. Drawing on 32 face-to-face interviews with the graduates of those schools, this study explores the evolution of the religious lives of the participants during and after the school years. The findings indicate that, despite the very strictly religious environments of the modern religious schools, many of their graduates experience either a shift away from religion altogether or from the version of Islam that is sanctioned by school and the state. The way these dynamics work is a classic example of what Robert Merton has called the distinction between the ‘manifest’ and ‘latent’ functions of a social act. The key factor that has contributed to the failure of this state project seems to have been the efforts to restrict the freedom of students. This finding shows the centrality of freedom for a meaningful spiritual life.
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Pub Date : 2022-05-27DOI: 10.1017/S0021853722000482
Marat S. Shterin, Daniel Nilsson Dehanas
This issue of The Journal of African History contains six research articles and fifteen book reviews. Primarily focused on the twentieth century, though one article studies a one-hundred-year period in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, these articles remind us that how historians parcel out time and give it meaning is entangled with sources and historiographies. Reading these works recalls the insights of synthetic, state of the field articles in the JAH, like Stephen Ellis’s 2002 ‘Writing histories of contemporary Africa’ and Richard Reid’s 2011 ‘Past and presentism: the “precolonial” and the foreshortening of African history’. Writing about different ends of the historical spectrum, the contemporary and the deep past, Ellis and Reid both argue that connecting these periods is crucial to overturning European-oriented chronologies, concepts, and touchstones that have dominated professional history writing. The articles in this issue underscore the point that periodization is a working hypothesis not an inflexible structure. Read together, they raise questions about how we frame chronologies and how posing them differently can offer new ways of understanding the past and the actions of people in it. For example, Etana Dinka contends that Ethiopian imperial history ought to be read in conversation with European imperialism and Tim Livsey suggests that decolonization looks different from the vantage point of Nigerians and imperial migrants attempts to live in the Ikoyi reservation designated for white colonial administrators. Kwasi Konadu’s article opens the issue. Konadu does a close reading of two of the three cases before the Portuguese Inquisition related to the Mina (Gold) Coast in the sixteenth century. Konadu takes an approach to reading Inquisition sources similar to the one described by historian Keletso Atkins for reading colonial archival sources from Natal as like ‘interrogating a hostile witness’. Cross-examining the Inquisition cases through close reading, Konadu deconstructs their religious and political positions, exposes the everyday violence of enslavement, and surfaces modes of African women’s advocacy, resistance, and maintaining cultural and spiritual practices. To the extent possible, he reconstructs the lives and trajectories of two women (one enslaved and one formerly enslaved but freed at the time of the Inquisition trial). Graça and Mónica Fernandes lived near the Portuguese base at São Jorge da Mina and were sent to Lisbon, Portugal to stand trial for crimes against the church and crown. Both died in Portugal, Graça imprisoned in a monastery and Mónica released but prohibited from returning home. Framed by a reading of the third Inquisition case in which women are silenced, marginalized victims, Konadu’s piece offers insights about sexual violence, enslavement, religious practice, and power in early modern Atlantic Africa. Empire as a space and context also animates Etana Dinka’s article, though he concentrates on the
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Pub Date : 2022-05-27DOI: 10.1080/09637494.2022.2109850
E. Brown Dewhurst
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Pub Date : 2022-05-27DOI: 10.1080/09637494.2022.2088991
J. Guth
ABSTRACT One frontier of public deliberation on religious freedom involves the clash of religious conscience with government rules against discrimination. As American courts consider issues pitting religious believers against other groups, especially LGBTQ citizens, the public is deeply divided. A paradigmatic case has been the Masterpiece Cakeshop litigation, testing whether a Christian baker could refuse to produce a wedding cake for a same-sex couple given his religious objections. As that case continues and similar confrontations proliferate, the First Amendment’s ‘free exercise’ clause produces new dilemmas. Although public attitudes seldom influence judicial decisions directly, in the long run American courts may well ‘follow the election returns’. This contribution considers public assessments of the importance of religious liberty and then examines attitudes on the Masterpiece controversy, using data from the Democracy Fund’s Voter Survey and the 2016 and 2020 American National Election Studies (ANES). We find that religious factors play a major role in determining citizen opinion, as the public reacts very much along ‘culture wars’ lines. But personal attitudes toward LGBTQ citizens also have a major direct impact on views about ‘conscience exemptions’.
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Pub Date : 2022-05-27DOI: 10.1080/09637494.2022.2096996
Kin Cheung, Minjung Noh
ABSTRACT International headlines present the Shincheonji Church of Jesus the Temple of the Tabernacle of the Testimony on the one hand as a ‘dangerous sect’ or ‘cult’ and on the other hand as a marginalised Christian group in need of defence by human rights advocates fighting for religious freedom. Our contribution examines the Church’s internal text messages and recorded meetings of executives leaked to the press, court orders, arrest orders and charges against its founder Lee Man-hee, and Korean and Anglophone popular media coverage in order to provide a discourse analysis on the political nature of constructing Shincheonji as ‘bad’ or ‘good’ religion. We argue that understanding the contemporary situation requires a look at the political history of Protestant Christian – specifically American Protestant – influence on the secularism of South Korea. The state’s attempt to enforce public health measures during the COVID-19 pandemic continues to clash with Shincheonji’s secret proselytisation process. Protestant influence on the South Korean state is also present in public health values, which are now presented as secular values but have roots in religious traditions. What is at stake here is how state power to immunise and quarantine rationalises and legitimates itself by claiming to protect the majority, at the expense of (religious) minorities.
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Pub Date : 2022-03-15DOI: 10.1080/09637494.2022.2052541
Graham Harvey
ABSTRACT Interest in material culture has already enriched the study of pilgrimage. It has encouraged attention to more than beliefs, intentions, and meaning-making. More recently, especially with the popularisation of walking for health and wellbeing, scholars have widened their view to consider interactions with the larger-than-human world. This afterword proposes that new animism and related scholarly ‘turns’ might provide new perspectives on the relations between humans and other existences which together define pilgrimage.
{"title":"Afterword: what staffs and paths do – a new animist contribution to studying pilgrimage","authors":"Graham Harvey","doi":"10.1080/09637494.2022.2052541","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09637494.2022.2052541","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Interest in material culture has already enriched the study of pilgrimage. It has encouraged attention to more than beliefs, intentions, and meaning-making. More recently, especially with the popularisation of walking for health and wellbeing, scholars have widened their view to consider interactions with the larger-than-human world. This afterword proposes that new animism and related scholarly ‘turns’ might provide new perspectives on the relations between humans and other existences which together define pilgrimage.","PeriodicalId":45069,"journal":{"name":"Religion State & Society","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2022-03-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91347784","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}
Pub Date : 2022-03-15DOI: 10.1080/09637494.2022.2054264
Gabriele Shenar
ABSTRACT Taking cognisance of the recent theoretical concern with relational ontologies, this contribution explores the dynamic interplay between conceptions of religion, animism, and pilgrimage by focusing on the agency of pilgrim passports and stamps as an affective force to enhance our understanding of the idea of pilgrimage as materially grounded within wider relations of human and non-human agents. Drawing on an emergent body of literature that subscribes to the new material turn, I analyse pilgrimage walks, pilgrimage events, and pilgrimage entrepreneurship in Kent, England, as complex assemblages of people, things, places, and immaterial thought. The contribution thus foregrounds the interweaving of materials, potentials, and processes in which human and non-human agency, including pilgrim passports and stamps, may all be implicated in generating ‘enchantments’ that act as an affective or animating force in the revitalisation of pilgrimage routes, and the narratives, experiential, ethical, and conceptual formations they elicit in Kent and beyond.
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Pub Date : 2022-03-15DOI: 10.1080/09637494.2022.2048489
David Jeffery-Schwikkard
Stacey Gutkowski, secularism, religion, and conflict studies, closely investigates the perceptions of Israel’s non-religious Jews. She studies Israel’s particular secular identity group, ‘ hiloni ’ Israelis (plural: hilonim ), through in-depth interviews largely with those in the millennial generation, born between 1980 and 1995 inclusive (51). In a society increasingly saturated with nationalist discourse and ethnic imperatives, Gutkowski argues that hiloni millennials are influenced by that discourse but also by a strong sense of pragmatism, personal experience, and a preference for socioeconomic success even at the expense of avoiding the elephant in the room, the Israeli occupation of Palestinians and their land. The book is an engaging extension to the non-religious realm of the many studies that evaluate religious people in the context of violent, nationalist struggles. Furthermore, in prior scholarship the usual understanding of the secular – as in both the general concept and the people who consider themselves as such – is grounded in western and Protestant settings. Gutkowski, however, asks a related but different question: What might the secular (or secular-ism) not rooted in Protestantism look like? Thus, the case selection is focused on Jewish people in Israel. She the right-wing, nationalist, militaristic, and/or religious on Israeli the air national is pervasive’
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