Pub Date : 2023-05-24DOI: 10.1080/0048721X.2023.2211396
Niangwujia, H. Havnevik
ABSTRACT Festivals in honor of mountain deities were revived across the Tibetan plateau in the 1980s, some years after the end of the Cultural Revolution (1966–1976) in the People's Republic of China. This article, primarily analyzes the development of one mountain festival in Amdo, Qinghai, focusing on the decades from its revival until today. During mountain deity festivals, primarily men from multiple villages, a range of religious specialists, and representatives of local authorities gather at a stone cairn on a mountain top, where a variety of rites, ceremonies, and games takes place. In the ‘old society’ the chieftain of a congregation of villages had an important role as patron, mediating between the deity, the deity's medium, religious specialists and villagers, while his function has diminished in the revived festival. Faced with major social-economic-political changes, while retaining and recreating many elements of tradition, striking transformations in the festival's structures of patronage, piety, and play have transformed its human network, its format, and its significance.
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Pub Date : 2023-05-23DOI: 10.1080/0048721X.2023.2211397
Moumita Sen
ABSTRACT This article shows how the burgeoning Hindu festivals in small town West Bengal – in Hooghly and Nadia – can be understood as a dynamic interplay of political patronage, play as rivalry and revelry, and finally piety. The article argues that in a strategic implementation of competitive Hindutva (Hindu nationalism), the concept of utsab instead of puja is employed by the political leadership to appease the Hindu majority while ostensibly signalling towards Hindu-Muslim harmony and inclusivity. In addition, it argues that the need for decentralisation and fair distribution of resources between the metropolis and the rest of the state is expressed through festival rivalries. Furthermore, the article demonstrates the place of popular culture and aspirations towards a global urban lifestyle in the spaces of libidinal pleasures and pageantry in the festival. Finally, despite the increasingly transgressive revelry, there is a continuing, shrinking yet inviolable presence of devotion and Brahminical or priestly caste doctrine in the festival.
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Pub Date : 2023-05-19DOI: 10.1080/0048721x.2023.2215616
Grant Adamson
This brief but substantial book is many things: a memoire and autobiographical meditation; a historical intro to the origins, fi gures, literature, practices, and geography of early Christian monasticism; a highly comparative and interdisciplinary digital-humanities art piece; and a re fl ection on environmentalism. Alongside urban sprawl, the consequences of the colonial enterprise are also considered, to an extent.
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Pub Date : 2023-05-15DOI: 10.1080/0048721X.2023.2211393
Aike P. Rots, E. Haugan
ABSTRACT Conservative Japanese politicians, academics, and journalists regularly state that whaling is an essential part of their national heritage, expressed in material culture, folk songs, ritual practices, and festivals. Japan has several whale festivals (kujira matsuri): playful events at which participants re-enact Edo-period (1600–1868) coastal whaling practices and perform whaling-related songs and dances. This article compares the festivals of Taiji (Wakayama), Kayoi (Yamaguchi), Shinkami-gotō (Nagasaki), and Ayukawa (Miyagi). It argues that these festivals not only have economic and social significance for the communities in question; they also support the notion of Japan as a traditional whaling nation. By organising and participating in these festivals, local priests, volunteers, and audiences enact this imagined whaling heritage, thus supporting the agenda of the present-day whaling industry. However, local actors have their own motivations and interests, and in fact the celebration of whaling heritage is not contingent upon the continuation of whaling today.
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Pub Date : 2023-05-15DOI: 10.1080/0048721X.2023.2211399
M. Teeuwen
ABSTRACT The Gion festival of Kyoto has a relatively well-documented history of more than a millennium. This article uses historical sources to investigate the dynamic between patronage, piety, and play diachronically, from a longue durée perspective. Political and economic patronage took radically different forms in subsequent stages of the festival's development. Surviving sources offer more insight into structures of patronage than into piety and are even more terse when it comes to play, but even with these limitations, it is clear that shifts in patronage have had a defining impact on both. Vice versa, both piety and play have generated renewed patronage, at times inspiring concerted action to revive the festival or prevent it from collapsing. Kyoto's Gion festival offers a unique archive that allows us to study how historical circumstances have shifted the dynamic between political and economic patronage, piety, and play in one of Japan's most influential festivals.
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Pub Date : 2023-05-05DOI: 10.1080/0048721X.2023.2209461
Vineet Gairola, S. Ranganathan
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Pub Date : 2023-04-24DOI: 10.1080/0048721X.2023.2204456
D. Levine
{"title":"The Political Theology of International Order","authors":"D. Levine","doi":"10.1080/0048721X.2023.2204456","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0048721X.2023.2204456","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46717,"journal":{"name":"RELIGION","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48367392","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}
Pub Date : 2023-04-17DOI: 10.1080/0048721X.2023.2202550
A. Day
its authority over local religious life’? (35). Fourth, are modern communication methods more effective in shaping individual religious views than traditional ones? Is there a more effective approach to depicting the religious world of ‘non-elite’ individuals and their response to modernity? Or is it still much simpler to locate them in a macro narrative (as presented in Chapters 1 and 2)? In sum, readers will only discover more fascinating ideas and find inspiration from the book when they open it for themselves, as our summary and comments here are by no means comprehensive. In addition to being an excellent study of regional religion and its theoretical paradigm, which takes into account religious changes and reconfigurations within the framework of community, knowledge, and religiosity, this volume is unquestionably a milestone in the field, as it serves both as a research overview of Chinese religions in modern transformation and a point of departure for further regional and comparative studies. This work is not to be missed by any scholars of modern Chinese religion, no matter which subfield they are devoted to.
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Pub Date : 2023-04-10DOI: 10.1080/0048721X.2023.2200086
Anne Koch
{"title":"Young Muslims and Christians in a Secular Europe: Pursuing Religious Commitment in the Netherlands","authors":"Anne Koch","doi":"10.1080/0048721X.2023.2200086","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0048721X.2023.2200086","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46717,"journal":{"name":"RELIGION","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47254784","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}
Pub Date : 2023-03-31DOI: 10.1080/0048721X.2023.2194135
Samuel M. Horsley
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