About a month before Steven Collins’s untimely death in February 2018, he sent a message to many of his friends and colleagues inviting them to comment upon a manuscript that he had just finished. It was titled “Civilization, Wisdom, Practices of Self: Theravad̄a Buddhism Seen Anew.” I met with him for lunch just a few days later, and he explained that he intended the book to be his last; with his impending retirement he was looking forward to leaving academics and devoting his time to his grandchildren—for, as he put it, the relation of grandparent to grandchild was the sole unproblematic human relation he had found—and to reading more poetry. For the moment, he welcomedquestions and criticismon themanuscript, which, he imagined, would “shake a lot of people up, for good or for ill.” Although he had indeed completed a preliminary text, the work was as yet unannotated and beganwith the caveat, “this is a draft version.” With Steve’s passing, although he hadmade it clear to all that he intended the manuscript for publication, it was equally clear that he would not have wished to see it in print “as is.” Besides the unfinished business of the notes and whatever other apparatus he may have planned, his circulation of it in advance explicitly signaled a perceived need for critical feedback before it could be readied for press. It therefore required considerable courage, perhaps even some temerity, for Justin McDaniel, who knew Steve well, to undertake the difficult task of editing Wisdom as a Way of Life for publication. He was aided in this by the access to Steve’s books and papers accorded to him by Steve’s wife, Claude Grangier. Those familiar with Steve’s earlier work will be profoundly grateful to them both for realizing the appearance in print of this, his final contribution to Buddhist Studies.
在史蒂文·柯林斯于2018年2月英年早逝的大约一个月前，他给许多朋友和同事发了一条信息，邀请他们对他刚刚完成的一份手稿发表评论。这本书的标题是《文明、智慧、自我实践：上座部佛教》。几天后，我和他共进午餐，他解释说，他打算把这本书作为他的最后一本书；随着即将退休，他期待着离开学术界，把时间花在孙子孙女身上——正如他所说，祖父母和孙子孙女的关系是他发现的唯一没有问题的人际关系——并期待着读更多的诗。目前，他对问题表示欢迎，并批评了手稿，他认为这会“让很多人感到震惊，无论是好是坏。”尽管他确实完成了初步文本，但这部作品尚未被注释，并以“这是一个草稿版本”开始。随着史蒂夫的去世，尽管他已经向所有人明确表示，他打算出版手稿，同样明显的是，他不希望看到它“照原样”出版。除了笔记和他可能计划的任何其他设备的未完成任务外，他提前发行的笔记明确表明，在准备出版之前，人们认为需要批判性的反馈。因此，贾斯汀·麦克丹尼尔（Justin McDaniel）非常了解史蒂夫，他需要相当大的勇气，甚至是一些鲁莽，才能承担编辑《智慧是一种生活方式》（Wisdom as a Way of Life）出版的艰巨任务。在这方面，他得到了史蒂夫的妻子克劳德·格兰吉尔（Claude Grangier）给他的书和文件的帮助。那些熟悉史蒂夫早期作品的人将非常感谢他们两人意识到这本书的出现，这是他对佛教研究的最后贡献。
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{"title":"Taylor, Mark C. Intervolution: Smart Bodies, Smart Things. New York: Columbia University Press, 2021. xiv+201. $19.95 (paper).","authors":"M. Rubenstein","doi":"10.1086/721814","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/721814","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45199,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF RELIGION","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48274135","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Rabbi Menasseh ben Israel was one of leading voices in the seventeenth-century Jewish world. Living in Amsterdam, he educated and instructed Iberian exiles and their descendants as they returned to Judaism. Focusing on Menasseh’s exhaustive study of scripture, Conciliador, this article analyzes Menasseh’s religious ideas in the context of the spiritual challenges of Amsterdam’s “Portuguese Nation.” I argue that Menasseh generated culturally attuned arguments that stressed the authority of Mosaic law to overwhelmingly individualistic and religiously doubtful former conversos who were long separated from the practice of Rabbinic Judaism. From this vantage point, Menasseh reinterpreted Jewish exile in the context of world history and defended the importance of God’s precepts by discussing longevity and the duration of life. Responding to Christian polemics, he offered positive meaning to his community’s experience of dislocation by adjusting the terms of God’s election to his present-day diasporic condition. Menasseh additionally used natural knowledge, that is, Hippocratic-Galenic medicine and astrology, to persuade former conversos of the practical advantages of Torah. He thus presented a community of Sephardic exiles with what I call in this article a diasporic covenant according to which the practice of Mosaic law made Jews virtuous individuals and prolonged their life, and he stressed that their acceptance among the nations guaranteed good fortune to the tolerant state where they had settled.
{"title":"An Iberian Covenant: Mosaic Law and Theology of Exile in Menasseh ben Israel’s Thought","authors":"R. Segev","doi":"10.1086/721293","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/721293","url":null,"abstract":"Rabbi Menasseh ben Israel was one of leading voices in the seventeenth-century Jewish world. Living in Amsterdam, he educated and instructed Iberian exiles and their descendants as they returned to Judaism. Focusing on Menasseh’s exhaustive study of scripture, Conciliador, this article analyzes Menasseh’s religious ideas in the context of the spiritual challenges of Amsterdam’s “Portuguese Nation.” I argue that Menasseh generated culturally attuned arguments that stressed the authority of Mosaic law to overwhelmingly individualistic and religiously doubtful former conversos who were long separated from the practice of Rabbinic Judaism. From this vantage point, Menasseh reinterpreted Jewish exile in the context of world history and defended the importance of God’s precepts by discussing longevity and the duration of life. Responding to Christian polemics, he offered positive meaning to his community’s experience of dislocation by adjusting the terms of God’s election to his present-day diasporic condition. Menasseh additionally used natural knowledge, that is, Hippocratic-Galenic medicine and astrology, to persuade former conversos of the practical advantages of Torah. He thus presented a community of Sephardic exiles with what I call in this article a diasporic covenant according to which the practice of Mosaic law made Jews virtuous individuals and prolonged their life, and he stressed that their acceptance among the nations guaranteed good fortune to the tolerant state where they had settled.","PeriodicalId":45199,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF RELIGION","volume":"102 1","pages":"507 - 528"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46059875","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Matthes, Melissa M. When Sorrow Comes: The Power of Sermons from Pearl Harbor to Black Lives Matter. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2021. 428 pp. $45.00 (cloth).","authors":"Daniel K. Williams","doi":"10.1086/721357","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/721357","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45199,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF RELIGION","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45391902","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Wood, Phillip. The Imam of the Christians: The World of Dionysius of Tel-Mahre, c. 750–850. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2021. xii+286 pp. $39.95.","authors":"J. Tolan","doi":"10.1086/721247","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/721247","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45199,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF RELIGION","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43800396","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Elliott, Dyan. The Corrupter of Boys: Sodomy, Scandal, and the Medieval Clergy. The Middle Ages Series. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2020. viii+378 pp. $45.00 (cloth).","authors":"R. Mills","doi":"10.1086/719734","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/719734","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45199,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF RELIGION","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49232595","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Shoham-Steiner, Ephraim. Jews and Crime in Medieval Europe. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2021. xi+459 pp. $89.99 (cloth); $44.99 (paper).","authors":"Gerd Mentgen","doi":"10.1086/719827","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/719827","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45199,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF RELIGION","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46084369","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Salguero, C. Pierce, and Andrew Macomber, eds. Buddhist Healing in Medieval China and Japan. Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2020. viii+256 pp. $80.00 (cloth); $30.00 (paper).","authors":"Di Chen","doi":"10.1086/719820","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/719820","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45199,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF RELIGION","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45805624","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Johnson, Andre E. No Future in This Country: The Prophetic Pessimism of Bishop Henry McNeal Turner. Race, Rhetoric, and Media Series. Jackson: University of Mississippi Press, 2020. 214 pp. $99.00 (cloth); $30.00 (paper).","authors":"Heather D. Curtis","doi":"10.1086/719828","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/719828","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45199,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF RELIGION","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44736763","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
In this review article, I offer a critical reading of John D. Caputo’s polymorphic account of “radical theology.” Following Caputo’s lead, I remain cognizant of the ways in which critique “of” radical theology might always also be critique “as” radical theology, insofar as it performs the “inexhaustibility of recontextualizablility.” In exploring Caputo’s language of radicality, I play with this line between its rooting for and its rooting out of theology.
{"title":"Caputo and the Language of Radicality","authors":"L. Hedrick","doi":"10.1086/719795","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/719795","url":null,"abstract":"In this review article, I offer a critical reading of John D. Caputo’s polymorphic account of “radical theology.” Following Caputo’s lead, I remain cognizant of the ways in which critique “of” radical theology might always also be critique “as” radical theology, insofar as it performs the “inexhaustibility of recontextualizablility.” In exploring Caputo’s language of radicality, I play with this line between its rooting for and its rooting out of theology.","PeriodicalId":45199,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF RELIGION","volume":"102 1","pages":"410 - 416"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47202804","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"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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