Pub Date : 2019-04-03DOI: 10.1080/14755610.2019.1624268
Andrew Crome
ABSTRACT This article examines the way in which Christian fans of popular media franchises have incorporated their fan identity into a lived religious experience, producing religious fan works such as fan fiction, art, and fan-themed church services. Based around a series of interviews with fans in the United States and the UK, both lay and clergy, it suggests the powerful affective connections forged through fandom, and examines the way in which fandom operates as a shared language to engage the wider fan community with theological ideas. Fans viewed their fandom as an arena through which God communicated and developed personal faith, working through fan texts and fan works to encourage and develop their connection to the divine. This article, therefore, challenges academic positions that see fandom as a secular replacement for religion, or as a form of blasphemous excess.
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Pub Date : 2019-01-02DOI: 10.1080/14755610.2019.1571520
V. Kalra, U. Ibad
ABSTRACT The syncretic traditions and practices at a shrine can defy the prevalence of rationalistic bureaucratisation and authorised tradition along a number of vectors. One can find such activities at one of the most thriving shrines of Lahore, Pakistan, that of Bibi Pak Daman. Not only is this site unusual because of the veneration of women spiritual figures, additionally the contesting claims and practices found at this site map onto sectarian (Sunni-Shia) boundaries and challenge the very origin, found in modern historiographical narratives, of the shrine. Cleavages around gender and sect increase with the administrative taking over of the shrine by the postcolonial state of Pakistan, which is ideologically determined to wipe out pluralistic practices in the name of modernisation. Interestingly, this study shows that, contrary to disenchantment arising from bureaucratic modernisation, rationalising claims perversely add a few more localised practices giving depth to the shrines sacred geography and make no difference to devotee numbers.
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Pub Date : 2019-01-02DOI: 10.1080/14755610.2019.1572293
Anna Perdibon
their product, and the ways the role of these suppliers has been affected by shifts in social attitudes. The methodological focus on the view of the individual yields useful insights into trends relating to the religious lives of those who use their product. The theory of change developed by the authors works best with respect to Christianity and at a societal level, especially with respect to the social and structural situations of the various religious suppliers. However, in terms of the diversity and complexity of individual subjective religious experience, the book perhaps throws up as many questions as it answers.
{"title":"Food, festival and religion. materiality and place in Italy","authors":"Anna Perdibon","doi":"10.1080/14755610.2019.1572293","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14755610.2019.1572293","url":null,"abstract":"their product, and the ways the role of these suppliers has been affected by shifts in social attitudes. The methodological focus on the view of the individual yields useful insights into trends relating to the religious lives of those who use their product. The theory of change developed by the authors works best with respect to Christianity and at a societal level, especially with respect to the social and structural situations of the various religious suppliers. However, in terms of the diversity and complexity of individual subjective religious experience, the book perhaps throws up as many questions as it answers.","PeriodicalId":45190,"journal":{"name":"Culture and Religion","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/14755610.2019.1572293","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46975942","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 : 2019-01-02DOI: 10.1080/14755610.2019.1571523
John Zavos
ABSTRACT Street kitchens organised by religious groups in response to food poverty and homelessness have become a ubiquitous feature of British cities. Although a good deal of literature has explored this genre of social action, relatively little has analysed it as a feature of religious practice associated with post-migrant communities. This paper uses data drawn from ethnographic research on Sikh and Muslim street kitchens in two British cities to consider the significance of such initiatives amongst Britain’s South Asian communities. The paper focuses on the role of narrative in this context, deploying Ingold’s notion of ‘storied knowledge’ to analyse fluid, emergent ethical practices expressed through religion-related stories. These practices, envisaged here as ‘religioning’, draw on South Asian religious traditions creatively reconfigured in the postcolonial city. I argue that such developments constitute a significant diasporic intervention into settled accounts of ‘faith’ as a vehicle for ethical citizenship in British urban environments.
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Pub Date : 2019-01-02DOI: 10.1080/14755610.2019.1571521
S. Bhat
ABSTRACT In the context of colonialism, religion and culture, the theory of cultural hybridity has assumed paramount importance due to its ineluctable nature. However, as most critics and theorists have suggested, the concept gestures at the precedence and prior existence of purity and this perception is exceedingly contentious. This article examines the various layers of hybridisation, Khoja Community (specifically Ismaili faith) and the complexities that it inherently contains and focuses on the argument that while Hybridity is contestable due to its ever-shifting connotations and inherent ambiguity, the so-called ‘differences’ in textual representation, culture and religion, actually move forward towards a homogenous state. To study the subject, the study focuses on the narrative, The Magic of Saida, by M. G. Vassanji. Like his trajectory through continents, his characters too traverse the oceans, and explore in new lands through the forces of acculturation and hybridisation. Despite, the seemingly forces of admixture, what is palpable is the ability of readers to discern the ‘differences’ in the intermixed format. If the differences are ostensible in hybridised version, can the resulting creation be called hybridised? This paper investigates this idea and is premised on how the theory is self-contradicting.
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Pub Date : 2019-01-02DOI: 10.1080/14755610.2019.1571522
Paula Nissilä
ABSTRACT 19th century Protestant revivalist movements have played an important role in Nordic societies at large. In this article, I explore young people’s socio-spatial construction of the Awakening movement, one of the largest traditional yet vibrant revivalist movements under the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland. In doing so, I aim to reveal how youths define their collective religious identity in a time when non-institutional and private emphasis on religion prevails. In addition, vague membership, ritual-centred participation, and the significance of the annual gathering raise topical questions regarding belonging. I build my analysis on Henri Lefebvre’s theory of the production of social space. The research data consist of interviews with young people (aged 14–18) and the narratives the young people wrote themselves. These data are complemented with my observations from the movement’s summer gathering. The findings reveal the agency of the young people as ‘inhabitants’ (Lefebvre) of tradition-based religious space.
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Pub Date : 2019-01-02DOI: 10.1080/14755610.2018.1562482
Joseph N. Goh
ABSTRACT Although Malaysian trans men experience discrimination and stigmatisation, their vicissitudes are under-documented. This article uncovers the negotiations and innovations of Malaysian Christian trans men in relation to their Christian faith. By using Constructivist Grounded Theory Methodology to analyse and interpret selected narratives of four Christian trans men, and building on Jason Cromwell’s theoretical insistence on meaningful self-representation of trans people by trans people, this article discloses how trans men reconfigure these beliefs to affirm their gender nonconformity through three major strategies. First, trans men engage in the meaning-making of faith through an intimate relationship with God/Christ or ascribe some fortuitous event to divine intervention. Second, those who experience the love of God/Christ embark on a self-appointed mission to educate and radiate love, namely to those who are antagonistic towards gender nonconformity. Third, some trans men deem it necessary to challenge official Christian approaches and attitudes that pertain to gender variance and sexual diversity.
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Pub Date : 2019-01-02DOI: 10.1080/14755610.2019.1572099
Claire Wanless
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Pub Date : 2018-12-11DOI: 10.1080/14755610.2018.1532919
Ali Akbar
ABSTRACT Historically, Muslim orthodoxy has regarded the Quran as God’s Word dictated to Muhammad through the mediation of the Angel Gabriel, and has thus maintained the corresponding argument that the Prophet played no role in shaping the content of the Quranic revelations. This paper discusses a project of what I shall refer to as ‘reforming theology’ within contemporary Islamic scholarship which stands in contrast to the dominant orthodox view of revelation and the nature of the Quran. In particular, the paper examines how several contemporary Muslim scholars, namely Fazlur Rahman (from Pakistan), Abdolkarim Soroush and Muhammad Mujtahed Shabestari (from Iran) and Nasr Hamid Abu Zayd (from Egypt), challenge the widely accepted idea about the Quran being the literal Word of God. The paper argues that the project of these scholars represents a radically new direction in Islamic theology because of its strong emphasis on the human side of the Quran. It also shows that the implications of these scholars’ re-examination of traditional theories of revelation are not only limited to theological matters, or specifically the communicative relationship between God and His Prophet, but also have a number of consequences for the practice of exegesis.
历史上，穆斯林正统认为《古兰经》是真主通过天使加百列向穆罕默德口授的话语，并因此坚持相应的论点，即先知在塑造《古兰经》启示的内容方面没有发挥作用。这篇论文讨论了一个项目，我将称之为“改革神学”在当代伊斯兰学术中，它与占主导地位的正统观点的启示和古兰经的本质形成对比。特别是，本文考察了几位当代穆斯林学者，即Fazlur Rahman(来自巴基斯坦)，Abdolkarim Soroush和Muhammad Mujtahed Shabestari(来自伊朗)和Nasr Hamid Abu Zayd(来自埃及)，如何挑战被广泛接受的关于《古兰经》是真主的文字的观点。本文认为，这些学者的项目代表了伊斯兰神学的一个全新方向，因为它强烈强调古兰经的人性方面。这也表明，这些学者对传统启示理论的重新审视的影响不仅局限于神学问题，或者具体地说，上帝与他的先知之间的交流关系，而且对训诂学的实践产生了一些影响。
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Pub Date : 2018-10-02DOI: 10.1080/14755610.2018.1534749
Rafael Cazarín, Mar Griera
ABSTRACT Women’s presence in Pentecostal leadership positions has slowly increased over the past decades, which raises new questions on the reconfiguration of gender roles and its relationship with religious doctrines. Based on empirical research, this article examines the construction of female leadership and religious authority within Pentecostal churches in a diasporic context. We draw upon biographical narratives of six female Pentecostal pastors—three African and three Latin American—who are leaders in Pentecostal churches in Spain. Our aim is to understand which conditions allowed these women to obtain positions of leadership in a mainly male dominated Pentecostal milieu and analyse the discursive articulation of Pentecostal conservative views on gender issues with local dynamics in the construction of female religious authority. The article shows that the authority of these women within the church realm is forged and legitimated through a religious narrative, one that empowers them as religious leaders without challenging their (and other women’s) subaltern role in the domains of social and family life.
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