Pub Date : 2023-10-27DOI: 10.1080/0048721x.2024.2274722
Zhengjin He
{"title":"In the Land of Tigers and Snakes: Living with Animals in Medieval Chinese Religions <b>In the Land of Tigers and Snakes: Living with Animals in Medieval Chinese Religions</b> , by Huaiyu Chen, Columbia University Press, New York, 2023, 288 pp., US$35.00 (paperback), ISBN 978-023-120261-9","authors":"Zhengjin He","doi":"10.1080/0048721x.2024.2274722","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0048721x.2024.2274722","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46717,"journal":{"name":"RELIGION","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136263414","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 : 2023-10-27DOI: 10.1080/0048721x.2024.2275498
Kaiwen Jin
{"title":"Daoism in Modern China: Clerics and Temples in Urban Transformations, 1860-Present <b>Daoism in Modern China: Clerics and Temples in Urban Transformations, 1860-Present</b> , edited by Vincent Goossaert and Xun Liu, London, Routledge, 2021, 278 pp., £36.99 (ebook), ISBN 978 131 571289 5","authors":"Kaiwen Jin","doi":"10.1080/0048721x.2024.2275498","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0048721x.2024.2275498","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46717,"journal":{"name":"RELIGION","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136235404","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 : 2023-10-26DOI: 10.1080/0048721x.2024.2269775
Brian Collins
{"title":"The ‘early medieval’ origins of India <b>The ‘early medieval’ origins of India</b> , by Manu V. Devadevan, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2020, xi + 516 pp., US$39.99 (paperback), ISBN 978 110 874851 3","authors":"Brian Collins","doi":"10.1080/0048721x.2024.2269775","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0048721x.2024.2269775","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46717,"journal":{"name":"RELIGION","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136381472","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 : 2023-10-25DOI: 10.1080/0048721x.2024.2273163
Stephanie N. Brehm
{"title":"Creating the Creation Museum: How Fundamentalist Beliefs Come to Life <b>Creating the Creation Museum: How Fundamentalist Beliefs Come to Life</b> , by Kathleen C. Oberlin, New York, New YorkUniversity Press, 2020, 280 pp., $89.00 (hardcover), ISBN 978 147 988164 2","authors":"Stephanie N. Brehm","doi":"10.1080/0048721x.2024.2273163","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0048721x.2024.2273163","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46717,"journal":{"name":"RELIGION","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135217361","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 : 2023-10-25DOI: 10.1080/0048721x.2024.2270860
Rosalind I. J. Hackett
{"title":"God Rock, Inc.: The Business of Niche Music <b>God Rock, Inc.: The Business of Niche Music</b> , by Andrew Mall, Oakland, University of California Press, 2021, xv + 295 pp. hardback $85,paper $29.95, ISBN 978 052 034342 9","authors":"Rosalind I. J. Hackett","doi":"10.1080/0048721x.2024.2270860","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0048721x.2024.2270860","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46717,"journal":{"name":"RELIGION","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135216001","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 : 2023-10-20DOI: 10.1080/0048721x.2024.2272512
Sayed Hassan Akhlaq
{"title":"Defending Muhammad in Modernity <b>Defending Muhammad in Modernity</b> , by SherAli Tareen, Notre Dame, University of Notre Dame Press, 2020, xxii + 482 pp., $35.00 (paperback), ISBN 978 026 810670 6","authors":"Sayed Hassan Akhlaq","doi":"10.1080/0048721x.2024.2272512","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0048721x.2024.2272512","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46717,"journal":{"name":"RELIGION","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135569997","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 : 2023-10-19DOI: 10.1080/0048721x.2024.2272422
Fariz Alnizar
{"title":"Neo-Traditionalism in Islam in the West: Orthodoxy, Spirituality and Politics <b>Neo-Traditionalism in Islam in the West: Orthodoxy, Spirituality and Politics</b> , by Walaa Quisay, Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, 2023, v + 332 pp., $44.95 (paperback), ISBN 978 139 950279 5","authors":"Fariz Alnizar","doi":"10.1080/0048721x.2024.2272422","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0048721x.2024.2272422","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46717,"journal":{"name":"RELIGION","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135730039","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 : 2023-10-17DOI: 10.1080/0048721x.2024.2270312
Vineet Gairola
{"title":"Religious Reading and Everyday Lives in Devotional Hinduism <b>Religious Reading and Everyday Lives in Devotional Hinduism</b> , by Emilia Bachrach, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2022, xv + 190 pp., US$74.00 (hardback), ISBN 978 019 764859 9","authors":"Vineet Gairola","doi":"10.1080/0048721x.2024.2270312","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0048721x.2024.2270312","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46717,"journal":{"name":"RELIGION","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136032918","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 : 2023-10-13DOI: 10.1080/0048721x.2023.2269387
Elazar Ben-Lulu
ABSTRACTRussia's invasion of Ukraine in March 2022 stunned the world and recalled levels of aggression unseen since World War II. Along with political, military and diplomatic discussions, this anthropological study contributes a sociological-cultural perspective through the examination of Israeli Reform Jewish congregation responses, which include Russian-speaking immigrants, to the Russo-Ukrainian conflict. I analyze how the crisis pushed congregants into an internal dialog with their Jewish identity and Reform communal affiliation. Furthermore, this exceptional situation is reshaping rabbinical positions and creative liturgical responses. As such, Reform Jewish congregations are sites to identify tendencies and changes in the perception of Jewish identity, values and sense of belonging among Russian-speaking immigrants in Israeli society. Therefore, this research sheds light on the intersection between a time of crisis, such as war, and the intensification of religious views, liturgical flexibility and reflexive inquiry of religious leaders.KEYWORDS: Russo-Ukrainian WarReform Jewish communityIsraelidentityliturgyimmigrants Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Notes1 For Reform Jewish remote rituals during the COVID-19 pandemic, see Ben-Lulu (Citation2021a).2 A commandment according to Jewish law.3 For more reading about the Reform movement's stance on officiating interfaith marriage ceremonies, see: D.E. Kaplan (Citation2017).4 Shechinah is the English transliteration of a Hebrew word meaning ‘dwelling’ and describes the presence of God in a place. It refers to the divine feminine, or to the feminine aspect of God.Additional informationNotes on contributorsElazar Ben-LuluElazar Ben-Lulu, is an Israeli socio-cultural anthropologist specializing in the Anthropology of Religion, Gender and Sexuality, Israeli/American Reform Jewry, Queer Jewish liturgy/theology, and LGBTQ Studies. He currently serves as an assistant professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Ariel University in Israel.
{"title":"‘May our hearts rise up in prayer’: responses of Russian-speaking immigrant Israeli reform congregations to the Russo-Ukrainian war","authors":"Elazar Ben-Lulu","doi":"10.1080/0048721x.2023.2269387","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0048721x.2023.2269387","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACTRussia's invasion of Ukraine in March 2022 stunned the world and recalled levels of aggression unseen since World War II. Along with political, military and diplomatic discussions, this anthropological study contributes a sociological-cultural perspective through the examination of Israeli Reform Jewish congregation responses, which include Russian-speaking immigrants, to the Russo-Ukrainian conflict. I analyze how the crisis pushed congregants into an internal dialog with their Jewish identity and Reform communal affiliation. Furthermore, this exceptional situation is reshaping rabbinical positions and creative liturgical responses. As such, Reform Jewish congregations are sites to identify tendencies and changes in the perception of Jewish identity, values and sense of belonging among Russian-speaking immigrants in Israeli society. Therefore, this research sheds light on the intersection between a time of crisis, such as war, and the intensification of religious views, liturgical flexibility and reflexive inquiry of religious leaders.KEYWORDS: Russo-Ukrainian WarReform Jewish communityIsraelidentityliturgyimmigrants Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Notes1 For Reform Jewish remote rituals during the COVID-19 pandemic, see Ben-Lulu (Citation2021a).2 A commandment according to Jewish law.3 For more reading about the Reform movement's stance on officiating interfaith marriage ceremonies, see: D.E. Kaplan (Citation2017).4 Shechinah is the English transliteration of a Hebrew word meaning ‘dwelling’ and describes the presence of God in a place. It refers to the divine feminine, or to the feminine aspect of God.Additional informationNotes on contributorsElazar Ben-LuluElazar Ben-Lulu, is an Israeli socio-cultural anthropologist specializing in the Anthropology of Religion, Gender and Sexuality, Israeli/American Reform Jewry, Queer Jewish liturgy/theology, and LGBTQ Studies. He currently serves as an assistant professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Ariel University in Israel.","PeriodicalId":46717,"journal":{"name":"RELIGION","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135858533","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}