Pub Date : 2023-03-28DOI: 10.1080/0048721X.2023.2194192
Marissa Clarke
establishing ‘creative networks’ and seeking to use community ‘tools to build collective solutions to social ills’ following the liberating experience of festival attendance (211). However, these noble aims are restricted by the racial homogeneity of the spaces in which they crystalise, and Lucia warns that any communities that arise from these spaces risk becoming ‘a gated commons, reifying rather than dissolving social boundaries’, with access by nonwhites implicitly restricted (212). Lucia succeeds in answering her central question of why SBNR communities are overwhelmingly white butWhite Utopias does far more than that. It is a thorough investigation of the intersection of neoliberalism, capitalist consumerism, exoticism and spirituality at the nexus of yoga practice. It gives a powerful picture of the potency of yoga practice, and of the transformational festivals that foster it. The book is important as an exploration of racialised power dynamics in the transformational festival scene but it also convincingly advocates for taking seriously practices and belief systems identified, and sometimes dismissed, as SBNR or ‘New Age,’ because of the importance they play in the lives of practitioners. The implications for further research are extensive: particularly, are these same dynamics borne out in yoga practised beyond the restrictive and literally ‘extra-ordinary’ context of the transformational festival? Most yoga is, after all, not practised in that saturnalian context, and such festivals are arguably unrepresentative of the experience of most practitioners. It is possible that it is the focus on the melting pot context of transformational festivals that fosters a unified impression of the category SBNR, as discussed above. In any case, Lucia’s work brings an important and timely perspective on the racialised power dynamics of SBNR communities to the study of contemporary yoga. Future research must take it into account.
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Pub Date : 2023-03-16DOI: 10.1080/0048721x.2023.2190237
Michael Stausberg
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Pub Date : 2023-03-10DOI: 10.1080/0048721X.2023.2186960
Joanna Malone
ABSTRACT Rising numbers of ‘religious nones’ across many former Christian liberal democracies have brought about increasing academic research to understand this growing population. Questions remain, however, about the mechanisms involved in processes of secularisationr and the growth of non-religion. This article draws on a qualitative study of non-believing older adults in England, reflecting on their practices of child-rearing and socialisation in the second half of the twentieth century, a period identified as crucial to secularisation processes in the UK and elsewhere. Discussions around the importance of ‘choice’ for children in relation to religion are central to participants’ narratives, yet it is shown how freedom of choice is more complex in reality. It also reveals how notions of ‘choice’ and ‘freedom’ in relation to religion can reflect certain social structures, such as gender, and could sit in tension with respondents’ own wishes and desires.
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Pub Date : 2023-03-01DOI: 10.1080/0048721X.2023.2201805
Kaiwen Jin
discharged from striving for salvation. Beekers convincingly shows how doubt, like imperfection, functions as a trope that can vitalize and invigorate an individual’s commitment and lead to the search for reaffirmation in pedagogical contexts. One would be remiss in overlooking the in-depth remarks on interview and focus-group evaluation methods. The book proceeds by illustrating, differentiating, and opposing the findings to present research positions with citations from the interviews, a focus group meeting, and field notes of sceneries and performances. The decision to take this approach and the comparison between the two devotee groups that runs through every chapter not only make a very readable book, but also a book that gives a solid insight of emic discourses as well as an excellent overview of connecting discourses within the field of religion and youth research. At the same time, this methodological decision to embed the research into a prefigured research discourse of late modernity theories instead of a more grounded approach potentially obscures developments within that generation. Acceleration processes, search for authenticity, expressive individualism, and so on are presupposed as anchors of interpretation. There are remarkable passages where more ambiguous or ambivalent conclusions are drawn from the empirical material. For example, Beekers opposes the ‘heretical imperative’ of religious choice, as put forth by both Peter Berger and Charles Taylor—who are leading references—because his informants are brought up in religious families. Thus, he concludes, other ‘spiritualities’ are not a real choice for his informants. More than religiously plural options, it is the distractions of media, consumer culture, the workplace, and the routine of everyday life that challenge their religious commitment. A traditional lifestyle is the outcome of that struggle yet, this time, not in a prior form, but rather the result of a ‘free’ submission to God’s will. It in those passages where Beekers delves into these religious discourses of his informants that this work is at its most revealing and instructive.
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Pub Date : 2023-02-17DOI: 10.1080/0048721X.2023.2174325
Shreya Maini
This latter element highlights the possible benefits of a digital text. Larios and DeGruyter offer the book as “Open Access” in .pdf format, which is to be lauded, and this version was used for this review. In brief, Larios’s Embodying the Vedas is a work of great erudition, providing a unique insight into the world of the contemporary Vedic-tradition school, and, more broadly, into the state of the Veda as a living tradition in modern India.
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Pub Date : 2023-02-14DOI: 10.1080/0048721X.2023.2174913
J. Rüpke, E. Urciuoli
ABSTRACT The concept of urban religion demands us to start operationally with analyzing characteristics of urban environments and their impact on religious forms of communication. Yet this notion was not necessarily designed to apply only to the city and related phenomena exclusively observed in city spaces. Practices, beliefs, even institutions developing as urban religion spread out beyond the city. Thus, the geography of lived urban religion and of agents of urbanity is different from what the same people imagine and geographically locate as city space. This article intends to develop the conceptual tools for analyzing this blurring of boundaries produced by religious semantics, discourses and practices interacting with implicit and explicit border-constructions linked to practices of ‘urbanity’. The highly debated ‘urban’ or ‘anti-urban’ character of ancient Christianities serves as our point of departure for developing comparative tools.
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Pub Date : 2023-02-13DOI: 10.1080/0048721X.2023.2176604
Christopher Anzalone
latter is a transliteration from Russian, not Ukrainian. The same goes for Odesa and Odessa, a Ukrainian city, not a Russian (84). Although Odesa had been a part of the Russian Empire, the author wrote about the 1950s when it was a part of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic. One can say that such small mistakes that are not strictly related to the book’s central argument may be ignored, but I would reply that the ignorance of such minor errors caused the war in Ukraine. For some, these mistakes are small and insignificant, but for others, they can be a deliberate ideological narrative that Russia uses to justify its military invasion of Ukraine today. I am sure that Valerio Severino has unintentionally made these misspellings, but they result from a careless attitude to details.
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Pub Date : 2023-02-08DOI: 10.1080/0048721X.2023.2176035
Oleg S. Kyselov
Lindeman, Marjaana, Michiel van Elk, Jari Lipsanen, Pinja Marin, and Uffe Schjødt. 2019. “Religious Unbelief in Three Western European Countries: Identifying and Characterizing Unbeliever Types Using Latent Class Analysis.” The International Journal for the Psychology of Religion 29 (3): 184–203. doi:10.1080/ 10508619.2019.1591140. Nanda, Meera. 2004. Prophets Facing Backward, Postmodernism, Science, and Hindu Nationalism. Delhi: Permanent Black.
Lindeman, Marjaana, michael van Elk, Jari Lipsanen, Pinja Marin和Uffe Schjødt。2019. “三个西欧国家的宗教不信仰者:用潜在阶级分析识别和表征不信仰者类型”。国际宗教心理学杂志29(3):184-203。doi: 10.1080 / 10508619.2019.1591140。南达，米拉，2004。面对落后的先知，后现代主义，科学和印度民族主义。德里:永远的黑色。
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