Pub Date : 2023-05-04DOI: 10.1080/13537903.2023.2170100
Daniel Joslyn-Siemiatkoski
This collected volume is big in more ways than one. Physically, it is a door-stop; its page count surpasses 475 before appendices. Its backmatter includes a forty-page “Annotated Timeline” of Jewish-Christian relations by co-editor Cary Nelson that begins with the crucifixion of Jesus and ends with the Tree of Life synagogue massacre in Pittsburgh in 2018. The fourteen contributors feature a broad range of Christian and Jewish scholars (e.g., Daniel Friedman, Edward Kess-ler, Amy-Jill Levine, Robert Cathey, Giovanni Matteo Quer, John Kampen, and Jonathan Rynhold), clergy (e.g., Susan Andrews and C.K. Robertson), and organi-zational leaders (e.g., John Wimberly, William Harter, and David Fox Sandmel). The introduction, written by Nelson, clocks in at 85 pages.
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Pub Date : 2023-05-04DOI: 10.1080/13537903.2023.2206206
Naomi Smith, A. Snider
ABSTRACT This article examines how resistance to stay-at-home orders was framed to congregants through sermons and in statements to media outlets. Using an approach informed by grounded theory, we analysed news articles of church behaviour and the YouTube videos of sermons from pastors that protested against COVID-19 guidelines from March 2020 to November 2020. We also draw on legal filings to identify churches that most actively resisted closures. In analysing these publicly available data, a relationship between church openings in the United States and an evangelical theology of resistance particular to non-denominational churches to public health efforts emerged. Our analysis found that ‘largely evangelical’ churches that are not considered part of a mainline evangelical denomination were more likely to seek ways to remain open in defiance of public health orders. We use the terms ‘largely evangelical’ and ‘mainline evangelical’ to distinguish these two very different denominational families. Evidence from this article suggests that evangelical Christian churches in the US that are not considered ‘mainline evangelical’ denominations (e.g. non-denominational, Pentecostal) were more likely to resist stay-at-home orders and more prepared to be legally active in resisting such policies and gather indoors (as opposed to Catholic churches and ‘mainline evangelical’ denominations).
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Pub Date : 2023-05-04DOI: 10.1080/13537903.2023.2211840
Matteo Bortolini
The concept of civil religion is, perhaps unbeknownst to some, of enduring interest for scholars of law and religion. Major constitutional debates over the separation of church and state derive from practices of civil religion, such as invoking God in the national motto (“In God we trust”) or Pledge of Allegiance (“one Nation, under God”), the practice of beginning public meetings with prayer, and displayingmonuments of the Ten Commandments outside public courthouses, among others. Of course, these issues have all led to landmark Establishment Clause cases that have variously attempted to articulate the appropriate relationship between religion and government. Despite the clear implications, the concept of civil religion is often relegated to academic sociology discussions. It is fitting, then, that the contributions in Civil Religion Today: Religion and the American Nation in the Twenty-First Century, edited by Rhys H. Williams, Raymond Haberski Jr., and Philip Goff, should recapitulate this important concept and discuss its application—and critiques—in the present day. As Haberski, Williams, and Goff acknowledge in the introduction, civil religion is a term with many definitions: “it can often appear to mean almost anything to anyone at any time” (3). In fact, Arthur Remillard makes a compelling case that we should not talk of a singular American civil religion and instead study “America’s civil religions” (77). Academics have used the term variously to refer to the sacred beliefs that Americans have about the state, the use of religious practices in public settings, the adoption of quasi-religious expressions of patriotism, a commonbelief in the utility of religion, and a sense of shared religious values among the American people. Other definitions and usages abound. However, nearly all discussions about civil religion in the American context point back to Robert Bellah, whose 1967 essay “Civil Religion in America” popularized the term.1 The contributions in this edited volume are, rightfully, no exception, as the authors make extensive use of Bellah’s original and later conceptualizations of civil religion and revisit its place in society fifty years later.
公民宗教的概念可能在一些人不知道的情况下，对法律和宗教学者来说具有持久的兴趣。关于政教分离的主要宪法辩论源于民间宗教的实践，如在国家格言中援引上帝（“我们相信上帝”）或效忠誓言（“一个国家，在上帝之下”），以祈祷开始公开会议的实践，以及在公共法院外展示十诫纪念碑等。当然，这些问题都导致了具有里程碑意义的确立条款案件，这些案件试图阐明宗教和政府之间的适当关系。尽管有明显的含义，但民间宗教的概念经常被放在学术社会学的讨论中。因此，里斯·H·威廉姆斯（Rhys H.Williams）、小雷蒙德·哈伯斯基（Raymond Haberski Jr.）和菲利普·戈夫（Philip Goff）编辑的《今日公民宗教：二十一世纪的宗教与美国民族》（Civil Religion Today：Religion and the American Nation in the Twenty-First Century）中的贡献应该重述这一重要概念，并讨论其在当今的应用和批评。正如Haberski、Williams和Goff在引言中所承认的那样，公民宗教是一个有很多定义的术语：“它在任何时候对任何人来说都可能意味着几乎任何东西”（3）。事实上，Arthur Remillard提出了一个令人信服的理由，即我们不应该谈论单一的美国公民宗教，而应该研究“美国的公民宗教”（77）。学者们用这个词来指代美国人对国家的神圣信仰、在公共场合使用宗教实践、采用准宗教的爱国主义表达、对宗教效用的普遍信仰以及美国人民共同的宗教价值观。其他的定义和用法比比皆是。然而，在美国背景下，几乎所有关于公民宗教的讨论都指向罗伯特·贝拉，他1967年的文章《美国的公民宗教》推广了这个词，作者广泛使用了贝拉最初和后来对民间宗教的概念，并在50年后重新审视了其在社会中的地位。
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Pub Date : 2023-05-04DOI: 10.1080/13537903.2023.2169450
M. Baumann
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Pub Date : 2023-01-02DOI: 10.1080/13537903.2022.2092970
James G. Lochtefeld
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Pub Date : 2023-01-02DOI: 10.1080/13537903.2022.2091205
Anna B. Bigelow
fact that religious experiences and institutions can also broaden our horizons and deepen our understanding of rights and dignity. This role of religions does not really shine within the book. Admittedly, the book’s approach replicates the general narrative that promotes the reconciliation between rights and religions; therefore, Salama and Wiener should not be blamed too much for replicating it. The imbalance between rights and religions makes the volume only partially useful, however; it can serve environments where religions could learn from human rights, but it is probably of little use where a certain understanding of human dignity and rights obliterates or is even hostile to religions and to religious freedom. The latter scenario is nowadays all but hypothetical.
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Pub Date : 2023-01-02DOI: 10.1080/13537903.2022.2127993
A. Pin
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