Pub Date : 2022-09-02DOI: 10.1080/13537903.2022.2090674
David Jasper
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Pub Date : 2022-09-02DOI: 10.1080/13537903.2022.2071858
Juraj Majo
{"title":"Marian Devotion among the Roma in Slovakia: A Post-Modern Religious Response to Marginality","authors":"Juraj Majo","doi":"10.1080/13537903.2022.2071858","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13537903.2022.2071858","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45932,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Contemporary Religion","volume":"37 1","pages":"572 - 573"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46790633","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}
Pub Date : 2022-09-02DOI: 10.1080/13537903.2022.2099084
Brandon J. Harwood
ABSTRACT The video game Ōkami encourages players to immerse themselves in a digital gamescape that incorporates Japanese aesthetics, stories, and religious philosophies. The designers have gamified Shintō holographic reasoning, Confucian virtues, and Buddhist metaphors of fighting demons of the mind to create a world modeled after a mythological retelling of medieval Japan. A significant portion of the player’s gameplay involves purifying pollutants from the environment, which improves the player character and the Japanesque world’s citizens. The game acts as a playable metaphor that teaches the player about Japanese religion and culture by allowing them to enact an interpretation of it interactively.
{"title":"The digital brush paints a flourishing world: enacting religion and aesthetic traditions in Ōkami","authors":"Brandon J. Harwood","doi":"10.1080/13537903.2022.2099084","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13537903.2022.2099084","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The video game Ōkami encourages players to immerse themselves in a digital gamescape that incorporates Japanese aesthetics, stories, and religious philosophies. The designers have gamified Shintō holographic reasoning, Confucian virtues, and Buddhist metaphors of fighting demons of the mind to create a world modeled after a mythological retelling of medieval Japan. A significant portion of the player’s gameplay involves purifying pollutants from the environment, which improves the player character and the Japanesque world’s citizens. The game acts as a playable metaphor that teaches the player about Japanese religion and culture by allowing them to enact an interpretation of it interactively.","PeriodicalId":45932,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Contemporary Religion","volume":"37 1","pages":"419 - 434"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46107246","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}
Pub Date : 2022-09-02DOI: 10.1080/13537903.2022.2066277
N. Fancourt
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Pub Date : 2022-09-02DOI: 10.1080/13537903.2022.2089417
M. Guest
{"title":"The Divine Institution: White Evangelicalism’s Politics of the Family","authors":"M. Guest","doi":"10.1080/13537903.2022.2089417","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13537903.2022.2089417","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45932,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Contemporary Religion","volume":"37 1","pages":"562 - 563"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46998100","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}
Pub Date : 2022-09-02DOI: 10.1080/13537903.2022.2061086
M. de Koning
{"title":"Young Muslims and Christians in a Secular Europe: Pursuing Religious Commitment in the Netherlands","authors":"M. de Koning","doi":"10.1080/13537903.2022.2061086","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13537903.2022.2061086","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45932,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Contemporary Religion","volume":"37 1","pages":"570 - 571"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41698378","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}
Pub Date : 2022-09-02DOI: 10.1080/13537903.2022.2090103
G. Davie
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Pub Date : 2022-09-02DOI: 10.1080/13537903.2022.2114180
Liang Jiang
ABSTRACT A substantial body of literature has found that religion is related to an individual’s political participation. However, rates of religious affiliation and religious attendance have dropped considerably over the last three decades in some countries. This article explores this development by investigating the following question: does religion still remain an important factor in influencing the rate of political participation in societies that have become more secular than ever? Using data based on the Australian Election Study of 2019, the findings reveal that the effect of religion on political participation is definitely not waning in Australian society which is gradually becoming more secular. Religious attendance continues to be significantly and positively associated with political participation while religious affiliation is not. The study further indicates that religious attendance moderates the association between religious affiliation and political participation. The findings suggest that religion, particularly religious attendance, remains a key driver for political participation among religious individuals in increasingly secular societies.
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Pub Date : 2022-09-02DOI: 10.1080/13537903.2022.2062863
M. Lindhardt
evangelicalism in the US. Bjork-James’s conversations with a range of evangelicals— leaders and followers, promoters, critics, loyalists, and dissenters—are set within their broader contexts in a way that means intersectional dimensions are illuminated in all their complexity. The emerging, careful disentangling of human relationships, their development and complex orientation to faith, morality, and social life makes for compelling reading and at numerous points its subtlety warns against the kneejerk, stereotypical claims often made about this controversial movement. At the same time, we do not lose sight of the power dynamics of White evangelicalism either. Here, Bjork-James’s study is especially revealing, covering familiar ground (e.g. the tendency to present God and government as mutually exclusive) while also pressing the analysis to expose more novel patterns revealed through thick descriptions of her fieldwork. A striking example is the chapter on same-sex attraction, which explores how evangelicals privilege certain forms of ‘sexual citizenship’ over others. While acknowledging a range of sins (and insisting they are not ranked in order of severity), in practice, same-sex relationships are subject to much more vitriol than any others, “as though sex is the fastest way out of God’s benign kingdom, and cultivating the correct—heterosexual and gendered—sexual identities and desires is a requirement for remaining in this ethical world” (92). Bjork-James exposes the power of this embedded configuration of sexual-social order, deployed as a basis for condemnation, social exclusion, and family breakdown. By contrast, a later chapter attends to cases of evangelicals who have developed a more critical perspective on the ‘familism’ that has become predominant in their movement, including younger generations whose experience has led to them embracing a “broadened ethical paradigm” (128). The examples here are especially inspiring. Some of the individuals Bjork-James encountered remained conservative in their beliefs and values about family and the Christian life, but their experiences meeting others who were different had fostered a different tone in their rhetoric, one based on mutual respect, courtesy, and an openness to new knowledge. It is in throwing light on these complex liminal spaces between hard categories of difference that Bjork-James’s book is especially impressive.
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Pub Date : 2022-09-02DOI: 10.1080/13537903.2022.2105517
D. Ballinger, A. Hardy
ABSTRACT Recent scholarship, notably that of Charlotte Ward and David Voas (2011), has developed the category of conspirituality to describe the contemporary melding online of New Age beliefs and conspiracy theories. This article seeks to interrogate the premise that conspirituality is primarily web-based through an examination of the media practices of leading UK-based conspiritualist David Icke. It argues that conspirituality operates through a synergistic model of media use, in which the web functions in a complementary fashion alongside other media such as books and lecture presentations. Drawing on frameworks from digital religion studies, the article further argues that this model serves to reinforce Icke’s authority as a conspiritualist, along with developing a sense of community among his audience.
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