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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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":"38 1","pages":"363 - 364"},"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: 10.1080/13537903.2023.2199578
Sofie Alexandra Juliane Husbye Hansen, M. Lindhardt
ABSTRACT A widely accepted view in the scholarship on religious conversion is that converting to a new religion involves a process of biographic reconstruction. However, conversion may also involve a reconstruction of other kinds of pasts. The article presents a study of Iranian immigrants in Denmark who, coming from an Islamic background, converted to Christianity. For these Iranians, conversion did not only entail a reinterpretation of their individual pasts, but also a narrative construction of Iranian history in which Islam plays the role of an alien and contaminating force. For these converts, leaving Islam and embracing Christianity was not seen as the rejection of an Iranian heritage or identity but rather as a way of reconnecting with a pre-Islamic golden age that harbored the essence of authentic Iranian culture. The article explores how conversion to Christianity can be a multifaceted project involving simultaneous and closely intertwined negotiations of both individual biographic and historical-national pasts.
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Pub Date : 2023-05-04DOI: 10.1080/13537903.2023.2221515
Sophie Bjork‐James
Frobenius, Leo. (1933) 1993. Kulturgeschichte Afrikas: Prolegomena zu einer historischen Gestaltlehre. Wuppertal: Hammer Verlag. Johnson, Samuel, and Obadiah Johnson. (1921) 1960. The History of the Yorubas: From the Earliest Times to the Beginning of the British Protectorate. Lagos: C.M.S. Nigeria bookshops. Landes, Ruth. 1947. The City of Women. New York: Macmillan. Ortiz, Fernando. (1906) 1973. Los negros brujos (apuntes para un estudio de etnologia criminal: con una carta prologo de Lombroso). Miami, FL: Ed. Universal. Oyĕwùmí, Oyèrónké. 1997. The Invention of Women: Making African Sense of Western Gender Discourses. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press.
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Pub Date : 2023-05-04DOI: 10.1080/13537903.2023.2211849
Myengkyo Seo
ABSTRACT South Korea has never had a substantial population of ethnic Korean Muslims. Nevertheless, it has experienced significant growth in anti-Muslim racism in recent years. Considering that the literature on Islamophobia has largely focused on its evolution in Western countries, this study examines the rise of Islamophobia in South Korea, particularly after the arrival of Yemeni refugees in South Korea’s Jeju Island in 2018. With the media’s strong influence in framing public discourse, the recent government policy regarding the entry of Yemeni refugees has sparked considerable debate on human rights, public policies, and religion. Analysing the results and the influence of public petitions to the South Korean government and opinion polls conducted in 2018 on the Yemeni refugee situation, this study claims that the rise of Islamophobia in South Korea has transformed the refugee issue from one concerning human rights into one concerning religion. Islamophobia is likely to strengthen over time by influencing discussions of, or even Islamising, non-religious issues within the socio-political landscape of South Korea.
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Pub Date : 2023-05-04DOI: 10.1080/13537903.2021.1986311
Wendy Cadge, N. Turgo, S. Gilliat‐Ray, Helen Sampson, Graeme Smith
ABSTRACT Seafarers have long interacted with religious figures in addition to the merchants, government officials, and members of the public they meet when ships come into port. Today these religious figures are primarily Christian chaplains who provide material and spiritual assistance in ports around the globe. This article extends research about the interactions between port chaplains and seafarers by asking—for the first time—how seafarers experience port chaplains. Drawing on lived religion approaches to the study of religion, it is clear that, while most seafarers rely on port chaplains for practical assistance, a significant minority experience them as religious figures who can be trusted, offer blessings, and quietly remind them of God. The lived religion lens reveals aspects of seafarers’ spiritual and religious agency which are frequently overlooked because they take place quietly in the interstices of their work.
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Pub Date : 2023-05-04DOI: 10.1080/13537903.2023.2208977
Bernice Martin
{"title":"The Gospel in Latin America: Historical Studies in Evangelicalism in the Global South","authors":"Bernice Martin","doi":"10.1080/13537903.2023.2208977","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13537903.2023.2208977","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45932,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Contemporary Religion","volume":"38 1","pages":"376 - 377"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41805485","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: 10.1080/13537903.2022.2153477
M. Porter
ABSTRACT This article surveys recent musical innovation at the intersection of Christianity and changing ecological relationships. Drawing on a series of extended interviews carried out in late 2019 and early 2020 with participants involved in the evangelical song-writing project Doxecology, musical aspects of Christian Climate Action protests, the creation of forest church songbooks, and requiems for lost species, the author describes the experiences and concerns of individuals who are currently active in or beginning to explore new forms of musical activity in this area. The article seeks to document the range of motivations, concerns, and issues surrounding recent musical innovation, drawing attention to the diverse nature of the current scene and highlighting the potential importance of musical and ritual activity in negotiating the current climate crisis. The author suggests that music participates in broader inter-religious tensions present in this area while providing an additional space for negotiation, experience, and activity.
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Pub Date : 2023-05-04DOI: 10.1080/13537903.2023.2213024
F. Gauthier
The Awakening of Islamic Pop Music, by Jonas Otterbeck, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, in association with the Aga Khan University Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations and the Aga Khan Music Programme, 2021 (hb), 2023 (pb), Music and Performance in Muslim Contexts, £75.00 (hb), £19.99 (pb), ISBN 978–1–4744–9042–9 (hb), ISBN 978–1–4744– 9043–6 (pb), ISBN 978–1–4744–9045–0 (ePub), ISBN 978–1–4744–9044–3 (hb)
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Pub Date : 2023-05-04DOI: 10.1080/13537903.2023.2169289
P. Almond
{"title":"The Holy in a Pluralistic World: Rudolf Otto’s Legacy in the 21st Century","authors":"P. Almond","doi":"10.1080/13537903.2023.2169289","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13537903.2023.2169289","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45932,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Contemporary Religion","volume":"38 1","pages":"382 - 383"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45161173","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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