Pub Date : 2023-08-28DOI: 10.1080/0048721x.2023.2250328
E. Asprem
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Pub Date : 2023-08-18DOI: 10.1080/0048721X.2023.2247926
Thomas Calobrisi
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Pub Date : 2023-08-03DOI: 10.1080/0048721X.2023.2237345
Lucien van Liere
a simile from Thomas Tweed, these Buddhist artifacts which have been loosed from their traditional contexts are like found objects for new collages (2013). Black Americans are now taking up the work of creating new Buddhist forms, ones suited to their own needs and interests as a distinct cultural group. As I mentioned above, it seems that Vesely-Flad’s intended audience is not scholars of Buddhism in America such as myself but activists in the Movement for Black Lives who she believes could benefit from the model her interviewees provide. Nevertheless, her book stands to become a classic ethnographic study for the field of Buddhist studies and should be consulted by those looking to do further research on Black Buddhists in America and elsewhere. I believe Vesely-Flad’s book would be best suited to the graduate seminar or on the reading list of doctoral students looking to study American religion more broadly. While I recommend the book highly for these purposes, I must also give a strong proviso to readers unfamiliar with Buddhism to consult other sources for a more robust and lessslanted presentation of the tradition.
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Pub Date : 2023-07-26DOI: 10.1080/0048721X.2023.2241287
Karl-Stéphan Bouthillette
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Pub Date : 2023-07-13DOI: 10.1080/0048721X.2023.2235826
Kipp Gilmore-Clough
canyon and monastery in 2014. The QR code at the end of the chapter allows the reader to sample the author’s trip, including sounds of chanting by Greek Orthodox monks. Next to the QR code is a written summary of what the reader can expect and should listen for in the audio file. Thus, the summary does double duty. It functions as a listening prompt – and provides some accessibility for readers who may be deaf. On the one hand, there is much to appreciate here. The book is methodologically sophisticated without being jargon-heavy. Indeed, it is written in an approachable style and format (endnotes are minimal), as a trade book. Furthermore, it complements and even challenges early Christian studies’ longstanding pre-occupation with visual and tactile data, namely texts and material culture; this academic contribution of the book could be adapted and transferred to other specializations within the broader discipline of religious studies. And the author’s work should have relevance for most anyone, most anywhere, not only the American city-dwelling audience that she seems to address, although the job of comparison with monastic movements from other religions besides Christianity is left up to the reader, except for a nod or two in the direction of Buddhism. At the same time, critiques could be made. Deep listening is not necessarily the most important aspect of early Christian monasticism available for use in defense of the environment: ancient ascetic minimalism versus modern materialism and consumerism comes to mind. But that would be to fault the book for missing a secondary target. The author has set out to write on desert silence and sound, first and foremost; her aim was not to pen a Christian manifesto for protecting the planet, per se. So, more germane issues might include how far the limits of comparison can be stretched across time and space, and the question of whether religious experience, in this case aural, can be extracted and studied from literature. Haines-Eitzen is hardly unaware of these issues, and such are the risks that accompany any project as bold as hers.
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Pub Date : 2023-07-12DOI: 10.1080/0048721x.2023.2234364
David Thurfjell, Atko Remmel
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Pub Date : 2023-07-07DOI: 10.1080/0048721X.2023.2233345
Zachariah S. Motts
the contributions to scholarly debates, which the arguments of these chapters provide, have already been made in another form. The benefit of this volume is that it provides a series of introductions to a variety of different topics in early Christianity and, as such, presents the student of early Christianity with a number of tools, by which they can understand their subject in a way that places human action at the forefront. However, it must still be said that this volume does suffer from a lack of cohesion. There is a notable gap between the subjects seperated by the two parts of the book, and it can be difficult to see how they are relevant to each other. The first part of this book is intended to present a general way of understanding religions, which the second part compliments by applying this general method to the particular case study of early Christianity. However, the latter chapters of the book do not particularly concern themselves with the category of religion or Christianity’s status as a religion. It could be said that this is in keeping with the methodology of part one, in that the datum which might be considered religious, is treated in the same way as any other social phenomenon. Nevertheless, it should still be noted that in spite of deeply problematising the category of religion in the first part of the work, Braun uses the term religion without critical reflection at several points in the later chapters (e.g., 67–69, 98–100, 128). Also, there is a notable difference in tone between the first and second parts of the work. The chapters that compose the first part of the work have a strongly polemical tone. This tone is fair and understandable within the context of the academic debate in which these pieces were originally published. However, when taken out of context, as they necessarily are within this volume, they can read as unnecessarily aggressive and confrontational even by a sympathetic reader. What does unite this text is its anthropocentric methodological core, which underscores its analysis of the range of topics the work covers. Through combining these chapters into a single volume, this book aims to champion the anthropocentric method as a distinct and foundational approach to the academic study of religion, and in particular to the study of early Christianity. For those who seek to teach how to study early Christianity from a secular, historically grounded perspective, or those who seek an introduction to an array of topics on early Christianity, this book may serve as a useful introductory teaching aid or personal guide.
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Pub Date : 2023-07-05DOI: 10.1080/0048721X.2023.2231745
K. Peters
tage: one can be a Jewish atheist, but cannot be a Jewish believer in Christ. This is to say that one can be a lapsed Jew who has abandoned religion, but one cannot be a Jew while practising or aligning oneself with another religion, and certainly not with Christianity. The South African Lemba challenge this by claiming Jewish identity and heritage because of their DNA while largely being Christians. More broadly, of course, Tamarkin’s text also problematises genetics and what they can actually tell us; he rejects the idea that they can tell us about origins while also rejecting the idea that origins can tell us about essence. The point is thatDNA is not the end of the discussion but the beginning, andwemust seek to understand theways inwhichDNAevidence is (andwill be) used to polemicise different ideas, including by the subjects of study themselves. Serious questions arise from this discussion of DNA as evidence– how does DNA relate to indigeneity, that is to say, can DNA establish one’s right to state citizenship? And, if it can, then could it be used to remove citizenship? Specifically, if the Lemba claim to be Israelites, then should they return to Israel? Do they still retain the right to live in South Africa? These questions of belonging and indigeneity are critical to human social life. Tamarkin’s study shows how careful we all must be in making and assessing claims based on DNA. This highly nuanced and important book contributes to many debates: as well as Black Jewish Studies, it challenges our understanding of identity more generally, showing that ingrained western notions of religion are more supple in other places. Tamarkin’s book also contributes to the study of African religions, apartheid studies, and to South African history. Perhaps most importantly, however, it contributes to contemporary debates on the nature of Judaism and Jewishness by arguing that such cannot be defined simply according to any single criteria. The Hebrew umbrella model that is suggested herein is one that I expect to grow in popularity in the years to come.
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Pub Date : 2023-07-05DOI: 10.1080/0048721x.2023.2232645
Mark Q. Gardiner
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Pub Date : 2023-07-03DOI: 10.1080/0048721X.2023.2228111
U. Hüsken
ABSTRACT As public performances, festivals celebrate what people believe, who people are, and project what people want to be. Festivals are an important medium by which cultural, social, and religious identities are represented and negotiated. This is especially pronounced in exceptional festival events which require much more improvisational skills than ‘routine’ festival occasions. This contribution discusses one such event: In 2019, the Varadarāja temple in Kanchipuram celebrated a rare and long-awaited festival, called Āti Atti Varatar Vaipavam, which takes place only once in 40 years. When the number of visitors increased in unanticipated ways soon after the festival started, time-tested ritual rules were suspended, and new stakeholders started to determine the performance of the festival. This contribution traces the multiple ways in which the festival’s mythological background and its performance were contested, and how the sheer number of attending pilgrims effected long-lasting changes in the social dynamics among the temple’s stakeholders.
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