{"title":"Mobilizing Krishna’s World: The Writings of Prince Sāvant Singh of Kishangarh. Global South Asia. By Heidi R. M. Pauwels. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2017. Pp. xv+262, 27 black-and-white illustrations. $90.00 (cloth); $30.00 (paper).","authors":"A. Seastrand","doi":"10.1086/709170","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/709170","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45784,"journal":{"name":"HISTORY OF RELIGIONS","volume":"185 ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2020-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1086/709170","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72424038","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Snake and the Mongoose: The Emergence of Identity in Early Indian Religion. By Nathan McGovern. New York: Oxford University Press, 2018. Pp. xiv+313. $99.00 (cloth); $31.27 (ebook).","authors":"D. Knipe","doi":"10.1086/709171","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/709171","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45784,"journal":{"name":"HISTORY OF RELIGIONS","volume":"9 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2020-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89517003","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Practical Canons from Buddhist Pasts: What Pāli Anthologies Can Tell Us about Buddhist History","authors":"Jonathan A. Young","doi":"10.1086/709167","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/709167","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45784,"journal":{"name":"HISTORY OF RELIGIONS","volume":"14 1","pages":"37 - 64"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2020-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89529560","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This is a story of the possibilities created by connection but also of the inherent fragility of movement within a network. It uses a case study of roads in ancient Japan (defined as late seventh through early ninth centuries) to show how networks amplify not only interaction but also isolation. Throughout the premodern world, massive highway construction allowed individuals to reach faraway places and fostered the spread of ideas, including religious ones. But in setting out, a potential wayfarer risked never returning, forever separating from his or her homeland. This was particularly true in premodern contexts, in which many travelers were reduced to rotting by the roadside. The fates of these individuals, who died distanced from their communities, spawned ritual problems. Who would perform mortuary services for the forsaken dead, especially if no one back home was even aware that they had passed on? This article explores the religious implications of road construction, both how a newly connected society enabled the rapid diffusion of a religious tradition and how increased mobility necessitated new practices. In short, I will take up “connectivity and its discontents,” a phrase borrowed from Sherry Turkle, a psychologist and scholar of technology. In doing
{"title":"Roads, State, and Religion in Japanese Antiquity","authors":"Bryan D. Lowe","doi":"10.1086/707813","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/707813","url":null,"abstract":"This is a story of the possibilities created by connection but also of the inherent fragility of movement within a network. It uses a case study of roads in ancient Japan (defined as late seventh through early ninth centuries) to show how networks amplify not only interaction but also isolation. Throughout the premodern world, massive highway construction allowed individuals to reach faraway places and fostered the spread of ideas, including religious ones. But in setting out, a potential wayfarer risked never returning, forever separating from his or her homeland. This was particularly true in premodern contexts, in which many travelers were reduced to rotting by the roadside. The fates of these individuals, who died distanced from their communities, spawned ritual problems. Who would perform mortuary services for the forsaken dead, especially if no one back home was even aware that they had passed on? This article explores the religious implications of road construction, both how a newly connected society enabled the rapid diffusion of a religious tradition and how increased mobility necessitated new practices. In short, I will take up “connectivity and its discontents,” a phrase borrowed from Sherry Turkle, a psychologist and scholar of technology. In doing","PeriodicalId":45784,"journal":{"name":"HISTORY OF RELIGIONS","volume":"19 1","pages":"272 - 303"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2020-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84910265","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Empire of Apostles: Religion, Accommodatio, and the Imagination of Empire in Early Modern Brazil and India. By Ananya Chakravarti. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2018. Pp. xiv+355, black-and-white illustrations, maps. $45.95 (cloth).","authors":"Francis X. Clooney","doi":"10.1086/707812","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/707812","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45784,"journal":{"name":"HISTORY OF RELIGIONS","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2020-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78187319","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Secret Body: Erotic and Esoteric Currents in the History of Religions. By Jeffrey J. Kripal. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2017. Pp. ix+478, color illustrations. $45.00 (cloth); $35.00 (paper); $10.00–$35.00 (e-book).","authors":"G. Spinner","doi":"10.1086/707815","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/707815","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45784,"journal":{"name":"HISTORY OF RELIGIONS","volume":"86 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2020-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76347460","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Embodying the Sacred: Women Mystics in Seventeenth-Century Lima. By Nancy E. van Deusen. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2018. Pp. viii+272, 1 illustration. $99.95 (cloth); $26.95 (paper).","authors":"Celia Cussen Langdeau","doi":"10.1086/707814","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/707814","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45784,"journal":{"name":"HISTORY OF RELIGIONS","volume":"3 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2020-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78225667","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The Qur’an asserts that God creates perfected forms and prohibits humans from altering them. Despite the divine mandate, the sunnah and other authoritative sources permit some alterations of the body but prohibit others. What might account for the discrepancies between law and practice? The following argument proposes that the rules governing the use of prosthetics, wigs, tattoos, epilation, orthodontia, silk, or hair dye reflected deep-seated fears about illness and the spread of disease, more so than concerns about humans modifying what God has made perfect. As a result, divine notions of bodily perfection became more closely aligned with efforts to secure public health and well-being,with humans definingwhat selves could be cosmetically (a)mended, and in what ways. Scientific evidence has proven that humans tend to shun those who display signs of illness. In fact, human faces made to look sick are found to generate more innate revulsion than healthy ones. Recent works in biology, psychology,
{"title":"Fashioning Health as Beauty: Cosmetic Rulings in Early Islam","authors":"Kathryn M. Kueny","doi":"10.1086/707816","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/707816","url":null,"abstract":"The Qur’an asserts that God creates perfected forms and prohibits humans from altering them. Despite the divine mandate, the sunnah and other authoritative sources permit some alterations of the body but prohibit others. What might account for the discrepancies between law and practice? The following argument proposes that the rules governing the use of prosthetics, wigs, tattoos, epilation, orthodontia, silk, or hair dye reflected deep-seated fears about illness and the spread of disease, more so than concerns about humans modifying what God has made perfect. As a result, divine notions of bodily perfection became more closely aligned with efforts to secure public health and well-being,with humans definingwhat selves could be cosmetically (a)mended, and in what ways. Scientific evidence has proven that humans tend to shun those who display signs of illness. In fact, human faces made to look sick are found to generate more innate revulsion than healthy ones. Recent works in biology, psychology,","PeriodicalId":45784,"journal":{"name":"HISTORY OF RELIGIONS","volume":"3 1","pages":"245 - 271"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2020-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82506669","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"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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