Pub Date : 2020-07-02DOI: 10.1080/14755610.2022.2117218
A. Possamai, Joshua R. Battin, V. Counted, T. Jinks
ABSTRACT Drawing on the bounded affinity theory – a theory emphasising the shared commonality of religious and paranormal experiences, data from a cross-section of Australian Facebook users were tested. Results reveal that religious Christian individuals who express a strong level of Christian religious practice display less paranormal belief and engage in less paranormal practice than Christian non-practitioners. Since the instrument used in a previous study by Joseph O. Baker, Christopher Bader and F. Carson Mencken may not have accurately measured the multi-dimensional content of paranormal belief (or separately, the physical and meta-physical constructs of paranormal experience) we reassessed the bounded affinity theory using an alternative instrument, with findings generally supporting the previous assumptions of the theory. Study results suggest that strong levels of religious practice significantly diminished belief in a variety of paranormal belief dimensions, and entities, but not all of them. This article addresses this issue applying a Durkheimian approach and provides a more detailed and nuanced support for the bounded affinity theory. It differentiates the beliefs gained from current church attendance (ongoing religious rituals) and past church attendance (formative rituals), which would have socialised Christian believers who are not currently churchgoers through their formative rituals.
基于有限亲和理论(一种强调宗教和超自然体验的共同共性的理论)，我们对来自澳大利亚Facebook用户的横截面数据进行了测试。结果显示，表现出强烈的基督教宗教实践水平的宗教基督徒个体比非基督徒表现出更少的超自然信仰和参与更少的超自然实践。由于Joseph O. Baker、Christopher Bader和F. Carson menken在之前的研究中使用的工具可能无法准确测量超自然信仰的多维内容(或者单独测量超自然体验的物理和元物理结构)，我们使用另一种工具重新评估了有限亲和理论，结果总体上支持该理论的先前假设。研究结果表明，强烈的宗教实践水平显著降低了对各种超自然信仰维度和实体的信仰，但不是全部。本文运用涂尔干的方法解决了这个问题，并为有界亲和理论提供了更详细和细致的支持。它区分了从当前的教会出席(持续的宗教仪式)和过去的教会出席(形成性仪式)中获得的信仰，后者将那些目前不去教堂的基督教信徒社会化，通过他们的形成性仪式。
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Pub Date : 2020-07-02DOI: 10.1080/14755610.2022.2093234
P. Clements
ABSTRACT This speculative and interdisciplinary article about Western and UK astrology recognises a fluid craft steeped in pre-modern ‘magical’ symbolism accommodating to differing degrees the modern, linear and literal. It embraces an open framework and employs personal experience that highlights the problems with self-understanding. Astrology may appear detached from its traditional religious foundation and has struggled for cultural legitimacy, but it offers a spiritual understanding, self-knowledge and self-determination. It divines a range of symbolic possibilities that encourages elective biography and instructs the project of self-identity. This in part assuages the existential need to find meaning, questioning established thinking and ‘rational’ cultural practices. Astrology embeds a spiritual outlook that co-exists with profane individualism and materiality highlighting dissonant modernity.
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Pub Date : 2020-07-02DOI: 10.1080/14755610.2022.2089186
Ana Lourdes Suárez, Juan Martín López Fidanza
ABSTRACT The article addresses Latin American poor people's religious beliefs and practices, analysing particularly three of them: devotion, promise, and miracle. We argue that these three religious features are related to people’s agency and can have impact on personal and community wellbeing. The data that support the analysis come from a case study in Buenos Aires based on two sources: 1. A questionnaire applied to a representative sample of Buenos Aires slum inhabitants. 2. In-depth interviews of women living in poor settlements. The theoretical discussions link the concept of popular religiosity as it is being addressed in Latin America, with approaches that emphasises agency. The main argument is that the bodily, emotonal, and relational aspects of religion, framed within a cosmological and holistic cultural matrix, shape poor people’s agency with positive outcomes.
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Pub Date : 2020-07-02DOI: 10.1080/14755610.2020.2153436
Federico Settler, Anupama M Ranawana
the focus of Culture and Religion is on work that is largely qualitative and discursive, that explores issues of gender, sexuality, and racialisation from intersecting perspectives (i.e. ‘intersectionality’), and thus also engages with methodologies and approaches that seek to challenge the balance of power and intellectual (and material) capital within the academy. For me, that involves a ‘decolonising’ approach, one that historicises and socialises both academic theories and the structures of knowledge and society they come from and are applied to. But of course there are many ways in which this work can be done.
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Pub Date : 2020-07-02DOI: 10.1080/14755610.2022.2093235
Qudsiya Contractor
ABSTRACT This article looks at how the objectification of religious imagination influences Muslim poor’s coping of their changing worldly realities in a Mumbai slum. It looks at the role of new religious intellectuals in addressing the shrinking Muslim presence in the public sphere in urban India through newer styles of religious leadership embedded in a broader understanding of the religious imagination itself. These new religious intellectuals among the Muslim poor I argue see the role of secular education coupled with a religious imagination as essential in order to protect one’s self interests as a Muslim yet be integral to a larger and diverse public. Islamic knowledge and behavioural conduct combined with secular education is hence seen as a way of fashioning the lives of the modern Muslim subject. By describing and analysing how universalistic principles of Islam have been realised in the local context of a Mumbai slum, this article illustrates how, embracing modernity emanating from Islamic values is seen as a way of refashioning the Muslim self.
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Pub Date : 2020-07-02DOI: 10.1080/14755610.2022.2115524
T. Lynch
ABSTRACT Academic work on the “veil”, while important in challenging commonly held ideas about Islam and gender, often falls into a familiar series of observations: veiled women are frequently excluded from these debates; women’s bodies and sexuality have become (or rather, taken on new significance as) battle grounds in arguments about national identity, religion, and culture; and the veil not only marks religious identity, but plays a role in the racialisation of religious minorities. Despite this important work, ideas about Muslims in general and Muslim women in particular seem particularly resistant to counter evidence. The essay employs work on epistemic injustice to develop an account of the persistence of negative attitudes towards Muslims. Connecting research on testimonial injustice and epistemologies of ignorance, I argue that epistemic injustice can help explain the epistemic significance of visible manifestations of Islam for white, European forms of knowing.
{"title":"Epistemic injustice and the veil: Islam, vulnerability, and the task of historical revisionism","authors":"T. Lynch","doi":"10.1080/14755610.2022.2115524","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14755610.2022.2115524","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Academic work on the “veil”, while important in challenging commonly held ideas about Islam and gender, often falls into a familiar series of observations: veiled women are frequently excluded from these debates; women’s bodies and sexuality have become (or rather, taken on new significance as) battle grounds in arguments about national identity, religion, and culture; and the veil not only marks religious identity, but plays a role in the racialisation of religious minorities. Despite this important work, ideas about Muslims in general and Muslim women in particular seem particularly resistant to counter evidence. The essay employs work on epistemic injustice to develop an account of the persistence of negative attitudes towards Muslims. Connecting research on testimonial injustice and epistemologies of ignorance, I argue that epistemic injustice can help explain the epistemic significance of visible manifestations of Islam for white, European forms of knowing.","PeriodicalId":45190,"journal":{"name":"Culture and Religion","volume":"21 1","pages":"280 - 297"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42370711","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 : 2020-04-02DOI: 10.1080/14755610.2021.1923539
M. Amini, Anwar Ouassini
ABSTRACT The concept of Islamic legal custom, or ‘urf occupies an important place within the Islamic legal system. Legal custom has been key in shaping localised Islamic interpretations towards cultural practices and activities. The indispensable role of custom is evident in the modern context where it has played a significant role in modern Islamic jurisprudence in the process of formulating law in response to new practices and norms. In an attempt to map the significance of custom in the Islamic legal framework, we will present a discussion on the divergent Islamic legal perspectives on yoga. In using yoga as a case study, this paper will first discuss the debates surrounding the status of yoga in the contemporary Islamic world. We will then look at how the legal framework around the role of custom shapes the discourse regarding yoga and its permissibility for Muslims. We argue these religious verdicts are shaped by socio-political and economic factors including whether Muslims have been introduced to yoga by Hindu citizens or through its commercialised form. Finally, we end the article by discussing the emergence of an ‘Islamic Yoga’, which is a product of utilising custom as a mediated legal tool.
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Pub Date : 2020-04-02DOI: 10.1080/14755610.2021.1906726
Pei-Ru Liao
ABSTRACT Taiwan became the first Asian country to legalise same-sex marriage in 2019. The call of legalising same-sex marriage began in 2013, along with the emergence of the Christian-led pro-family movement. Religious backlash came to its peak in 2013 and successfully gained politicians’ and public’s support to fight against same-sex marriages and LGBT-inclusive gender equity education. The rhetoric device of the pro-family movement in Taiwan can be connected to rhetoric devices of pro-family and anti-gender movements across the globe. By analysing the narrative of two Christian newspapers, Chinese Christian Tribune and Christian Daily, this article points out three perspectives that made up the picture of Confucian apocalypse. In this article, the concept of ‘Confucian apocalypse’ is used to illustrate the process of indigenisation of global pro-family and anti-gender movements in Taiwan where the Christian population is around 5.5%.
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Pub Date : 2020-04-02DOI: 10.1080/14755610.2020.1862887
D. Herbert, Josh Bullock
ABSTRACT This article draws on interviews with 67 nonreligious millennials across 25 European towns and cities, part of a research programme (Understanding Unbelief) which aims to map the global diversity of nonreligion. We contribute by examining the presence of paranormal, superstitious, magical, and supernatural (PSMS) beliefs and a sense of immanent moral structure to the world among a substantial minority (34%) of our interviewees. Beliefs relating to luck, fate and a sense of cosmic interconnection are widely distributed and often use a shared New Age-influenced vocabulary. Others vary by national context, for example relating to folklore in Romania and superstition in Poland. The prevalence is higher in Eastern than in Western Europe, and we discuss possible reasons for this. Many interviewees express discomfort or tension around a sense of inconsistency in holding these beliefs alongside a rationalist-materialist cognitive framework. We investigate how they articulate this tension, and consider explanations for the persistence of these beliefs, particularly in terms of their ongoing social and psychological role in the lives of many young nonreligious Europeans.
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Pub Date : 2020-04-02DOI: 10.1080/14755610.2021.1903956
David A B Murray
ABSTRACT At an historical juncture where HIV/AIDS is rapidly disappearing as a public health issue throughout the Caribbean region, alongside stagnant or reduced funding for HIV-related support services, spirituality and membership in Christian communities of faith occupy a central role for older, working-class women from Barbados living with HIV. However, many of these Christian religious organisations are historically responsible for discriminatory discourses about people living with HIV, creating practical and moral challenges for HIV positive members. Through interviews and ethnographic fieldwork, this paper explores how and why a group of Barbadian women living with HIV develop a strong personal commitment to a spiritual life, and why membership in communities of faith, where HIV infection is often associated with sin and immorality, continues to be important for many of them. I argue that these women’s HIV status transforms and/or intensifies their personal spiritual commitments but also contributes to a critical reflexivity of the wider institutionalised religious communities to which they belong.
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