Pub Date : 2023-07-03DOI: 10.1080/0048721X.2023.2211398
K. Swancutt
ABSTRACT What does it mean to be ‘moved to distraction’ by ritual theatre? Each year the Nuosu, a Tibeto-Burman group of Southwest China, may be moved by their Fire Festival competitions, pageantries, and ‘extravaganzas’, but not necessarily by the Chinese nationalist elements within them. Simulating the pageants of Chinese megacities, Fire Festival extravaganzas meld Nuosu myth-history, animistic imagery, and ‘minority culture’ with the Chinese Dream of prosperity, the party-state’s efforts at generating cohesion, and the soft power of stadium rock concerts. Many Nuosu are abducted into the mood of performances that evoke what is archetypically human for them, including their myth-historical relationships to Tibetans and Han Chinese. But while some Nuosu may experience frisson and the giddy sense of being moved to distraction by spectacles that celebrate China as a socialist superpower, many turn away from ritual theatre that challenges their cosmopolitics and their sense of what it means to be human.
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Pub Date : 2023-07-03DOI: 10.1080/0048721X.2023.2211395
M. Teeuwen, Moumita Sen, Aike P. Rots
ABSTRACT This introductory article argues, on the basis of case studies in the thematic issue, that the interplay of patronage, play, and piety provides us with a productive framework for the study of Asian festivals. We focus on the frictions inherent in festivals that include multiple actors, agendas, and precedents, and that are subject to constant change. The three concepts of patronage, play, and piety serve as tools to make sense of these frictions and their manifestation in concrete performances. All articles in this issue look at a particular festival (or set of festivals) as sites where the interests of patronage, play, and piety are negotiated in dynamic ways. We use the findings from these articles to theorise on each of these aspects. Our aim is to propose a conceptual framework that, we argue, can be usefully employed to study festivals in and outside of this large and heterogeneous region.
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Pub Date : 2023-06-30DOI: 10.1080/0048721X.2023.2230421
Michael T. Miller
than Baal; that is another story. In 1882, Ernest Renan declared that, ‘if the growth of Christianity had been arrested by some mortal malady, the world would have beenMithraic’ (On peut dire que, si le christianisme eût été arrêté dans sa croissance par quelque maladie mortelle, le monde eût été mithriaste) (Renan 1882, 579). Is it possible that, in the same way, the world could have become Baal-ist? In various monographs, Smith has explored why this did not happen (see Smith 2001; 2002, and 2004) (cited 11), yet as one of this volume’s contributors asks, ‘What would Baal do without Mark Stratton Smith to preserve and respect his memory in a monotheistic world determined to exclude and excoriate him?’ (160). For although ‘the very name evokes idolatry, and an alternative to the true God aptly called pagan’, yet ‘Baal is “The Lord,” a perfectly serviceable monotheistic title when rendered by the Hebrew ʾādôn or the Greek kurios’ and ‘biblical writers managed to let Yahweh and El “converge” into one, with Elohim (God) the common expression, but Baal could not join the convergence [...]’ (160). Even if not necessarily his ‘favorite’ deity, Smith’s ‘deep familiarity’ with Baal has kept scholarship on this god alive and thriving: in this sense, this collection of essays is both a tribute to a prolific scholar and itself a contribution to our understanding of God’s ‘early history’ – a God whose ‘death’, as Nietzsche reminds us (and as Georg Heym also recognized), still casts a shadow over us even today.
比巴力;那是另一回事了。1882年，欧内斯特·雷南(Ernest Renan)宣称，“如果基督教的发展被某种致命的疾病所阻止，那么世界将是密特拉的”(On peut dire que, si le christianisme e t 疾病)。arrêté dans sa croissance par quelque maladie mortelle, le monde e t (mithriaste))。世界是否可能以同样的方式成为巴力主义者?在各种专著中，史密斯探讨了为什么这种情况没有发生(见Smith 2001;2002年和2004年)(引用11)，然而，正如本卷的一位贡献者所问的那样，“在一个一神论的世界里，如果没有马克·斯特拉顿·史密斯来保存和尊重他的记忆，巴尔会怎么做?””(160)。因为，虽然“巴力这个名字让人联想到偶像崇拜，是真神的替代品，被恰当地称为异教”，但“巴力是“主”，当希伯来语的“ādôn”或希腊语的“kurios”被翻译成“耶和华”时，这是一个非常有用的一神教头衔。圣经的作者们设法让耶和华和El“融合”为一，以耶洛因(上帝)为常见的表达，但巴力不能加入融合[…]](160)。即使不一定是他“最喜欢的”神，史密斯对巴尔的“深刻熟悉”也使这个神的学术研究得以活跃和繁荣:从这个意义上说，这本文集既是对一位多产学者的致敬，也是对我们对上帝“早期历史”的理解的贡献——正如尼采提醒我们的那样(正如Georg Heym也认识到的那样)，上帝的“死亡”即使在今天仍然笼罩着我们。
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Pub Date : 2023-06-22DOI: 10.1080/0048721x.2023.2222694
C. Starkey
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Pub Date : 2023-06-21DOI: 10.1080/0048721X.2023.2226498
P. Bishop
giously observant region of the country. Obviously, migration to the capital from outside the UK has been an important factor in this development, but other explanations are also significant, including the tendency of the metropolis to attract gifted and energetic religious leaders. Field’s evidence further indicates the need to recognize geographical diversity and specificity within the overall trend that he documents. For example, in 1881 the index of attendance – that is the total attendance at church services expressed as a percentage of population – ranged from 91.3 in Dysart (Fife) to 16.5 in Widnes (then Lancashire). These were the extreme figures, but Field’s tables show extensive variation within the 20 to 80 range, suggesting that the periodization of secularization looks significantly different in different communities. Moreover, such variation cannot be explained by simplistic generalizations about the size of towns or broad regional differences. A full understanding is likely to require close attention to the specifics of local economy and geography alongside human and spiritual factors, such as the positive or negative impact of particular religious leaders. Hence, despite Field’s herculean efforts, there remains much to be done. This book, however, is an important landmark in the study of secularization in Britain, bringing evidential rigour and balanced nuanced analysis to a scholarly inquiry in which such essential qualities have sometimes been lacking.
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Pub Date : 2023-06-15DOI: 10.1080/0048721X.2023.2211394
Florence Durney
ABSTRACT Lamalera, a small community on the island of Lembata in East Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia, is home to a rich tradition of marine hunting and an environmental cosmology that brings together its people, their ancestors, and the Savu Sea. Each year the community, its diaspora, and other island residents gather to celebrate, demonstrate symbolic patronage of, and observe the opening of the ocean hunting season, or Musim Lefa. Over time the ritual cycle has adapted, and taken on different layers of significance, as Lamalerans have worked to preserve their hunting-based way of life, in the face of changing economic, social, and legal contexts. Applying the overall conceptual framework of this thematic issue, this article examines the opening of the Lefa as an adaptive constellation of piety, performance, patronage, and protection through time. It argues that the festival represents a unique moment each year for contestation and renegotiation of symbolic and practical power.
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Pub Date : 2023-06-15DOI: 10.1080/0048721X.2023.2221937
J. Wolffe
development
发展
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Pub Date : 2023-06-12DOI: 10.1080/0048721X.2023.2223069
M. Freeman
development
发展
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Pub Date : 2023-06-09DOI: 10.1080/0048721x.2023.2222518
Michael Nichols
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Pub Date : 2023-05-26DOI: 10.1080/0048721X.2023.2217597
Mourad Laabdi
is a narrative with a carefully constructed frame that screens out many of the other strands of Christianity and cultural answers to the crisis of objective authority that could have also been explored. There are times that one wonders how the wider world of contemporary theological neighbors are dealing with these questions. Even so, the specificity of this delimitation allows for a helpful level of granular detail. It is a history of a theological understanding of an experience, which cannot hope to be comprehensive. It does, however, connect the dots between the past and present for this particular Christian line in a way that has explanatory power. On balance, Inward Baptism is rather Puritan-centric, but not in an unjustified way. Tipson has a wonderful ability to pull nuance out of theological positions in a precise manner and explain them with clarity. In the long history of Christian debates over the necessity of sacraments, infant baptism, predestination, and assurance of salvation, much of this theological ground has been burned over many, many times. Yet the particular questions Inward Baptism asks about how this flow of Christianity moved from a dependence on external baptism to an inward sense of salvation makes those sources and arguments come alive again. Inward Baptism is a worthwhile and well-supported work that adds to the conversations around the history of theology.
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