Pub Date : 2023-09-02DOI: 10.1080/13537903.2023.2204641
Sandra Brower
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Pub Date : 2023-09-02DOI: 10.1080/13537903.2023.2236410
Katherine Bullock
{"title":"The Women’s Mosque of America: Authority and Community in US Islam","authors":"Katherine Bullock","doi":"10.1080/13537903.2023.2236410","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13537903.2023.2236410","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45932,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Contemporary Religion","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139343307","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 : 2023-09-02DOI: 10.1080/13537903.2023.2203589
Rhys H. Williams
{"title":"Neoliberal Religion: Faith and Power in the Twenty-First Century","authors":"Rhys H. Williams","doi":"10.1080/13537903.2023.2203589","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13537903.2023.2203589","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45932,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Contemporary Religion","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139343173","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 : 2023-09-02DOI: 10.1080/13537903.2023.2236415
Warren S. Goldstein
{"title":"Key Categories in the Study of Religion: Contexts and Critiques","authors":"Warren S. Goldstein","doi":"10.1080/13537903.2023.2236415","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13537903.2023.2236415","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45932,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Contemporary Religion","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139343233","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 : 2023-05-04DOI: 10.1080/13537903.2023.2211843
Myengkyo Seo
{"title":"Islamic Law in Malaysia: The Challenges of Implementation","authors":"Myengkyo Seo","doi":"10.1080/13537903.2023.2211843","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13537903.2023.2211843","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45932,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Contemporary Religion","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41285888","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 : 2023-05-04DOI: 10.1080/13537903.2023.2168863
R. Andrés
more theology than social science and lacks analytic rigour and Peterson’s essay prematurely dismisses much prior thinking on her topic. The editors’ overall framing, however, is worthwhile. They ground the volume in the critical theory of religion—a position that “recognizes that the study of religion is not value-free and that religion... is not apolitical” (1–2). It is to their credit that they have collected a fine set of very detailed studies that show some of the multiple ways that the politicality of religions works.
{"title":"Religious Landscapes in Contemporary Spain: The Impact of Secularization on Religious Pluralism","authors":"R. Andrés","doi":"10.1080/13537903.2023.2168863","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13537903.2023.2168863","url":null,"abstract":"more theology than social science and lacks analytic rigour and Peterson’s essay prematurely dismisses much prior thinking on her topic. The editors’ overall framing, however, is worthwhile. They ground the volume in the critical theory of religion—a position that “recognizes that the study of religion is not value-free and that religion... is not apolitical” (1–2). It is to their credit that they have collected a fine set of very detailed studies that show some of the multiple ways that the politicality of religions works.","PeriodicalId":45932,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Contemporary Religion","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49203212","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 : 2023-05-04DOI: 10.1080/13537903.2023.2213025
Natasha L. Mikles
{"title":"The Forbidden Body: Sex, Horror, and the Religious Imagination","authors":"Natasha L. Mikles","doi":"10.1080/13537903.2023.2213025","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13537903.2023.2213025","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45932,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Contemporary Religion","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48278336","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 : 2023-05-04DOI: 10.1080/13537903.2023.2167628
M. Bratton
{"title":"Ritual and Democracy: Protests, Publics and Performances","authors":"M. Bratton","doi":"10.1080/13537903.2023.2167628","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13537903.2023.2167628","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45932,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Contemporary Religion","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44219232","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 : 2023-05-04DOI: 10.1080/13537903.2023.2193502
Hannah Gould
ABSTRACT This article explores how vendors of Buddhist goods, which are traditionally associated with death and funerary rites in Japan, have responded to religious decline by venturing into alternative spirituality, wellness, and home décor markets. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork within Buddhist goods stores, I examine how retailers and artisans have begun re-orientating their business models and product lines from caring for the dead at acute moments of spiritual transition to caring for the living in their everyday conditions of loneliness and stress. By pushing products that generate affects of healing (iyashi) and a calm heart (kokoro), these actors forge a new corporate–spiritual philosophy and religious consumer subjectivity and, in so doing, seek to defend their market share and social relevance in an age of secularism, disconnection, and precarity. However, for commercial actors, the space between religion and spirituality can be surprisingly treacherous and this transition challenges their skills of ‘affective retailing’.
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