This article extends research on how dominant groups use the rhetoric of marginality to defend and reinforce their control of the public sphere. We conducted interviews with evangelical churchgoers in Mississippi to understand the evangelical support for religious accommodations that privilege conservative Christian beliefs about sex, gender, and marriage. We found that rather than cite scripture about homosexuality or Godly marriage, churchgoers instead told stories about Christian maltreatment and censorship to defend the idea that LGBTQ+ individuals should stay in the closet or find alternatives to the people and places that will refuse service to them. Our findings shed critical light on how evangelical churchgoers accommodate Christian nationalism—or the ideological movement to put Christians back in charge of America—in a context where conservative Christians already enjoy unmatched social and political advantages.
{"title":"“The Tables Are Turning”: The Evangelical Defense of Anti-LGBTQ+ Religious Liberty","authors":"Amy D. McDowell, P. Ward","doi":"10.1093/socrel/srad007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/socrel/srad007","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 This article extends research on how dominant groups use the rhetoric of marginality to defend and reinforce their control of the public sphere. We conducted interviews with evangelical churchgoers in Mississippi to understand the evangelical support for religious accommodations that privilege conservative Christian beliefs about sex, gender, and marriage. We found that rather than cite scripture about homosexuality or Godly marriage, churchgoers instead told stories about Christian maltreatment and censorship to defend the idea that LGBTQ+ individuals should stay in the closet or find alternatives to the people and places that will refuse service to them. Our findings shed critical light on how evangelical churchgoers accommodate Christian nationalism—or the ideological movement to put Christians back in charge of America—in a context where conservative Christians already enjoy unmatched social and political advantages.","PeriodicalId":47440,"journal":{"name":"Sociology of Religion","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2023-04-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49114516","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Stealing My Religion: Not Just Any Cultural Appropriation, by LIZ BUCAR","authors":"A. Piela","doi":"10.1093/socrel/srad012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/socrel/srad012","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47440,"journal":{"name":"Sociology of Religion","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2023-04-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45179778","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Journal Article Claiming Belonging: Muslim American Advocacy in an Era of Islamophobia, by EMILY CURY Get access Claiming Belonging: Muslim American Advocacy in an Era of Islamophobia, by EMILY CURY. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2021, 222 234 pp.; $22.95 (paperback), $14.99 (ebook). Nadia Marzouki Nadia Marzouki CNRS/CERI-Sciences Po, Paris, France Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 84, Issue 2, Summer 2023, Pages 237–239, https://doi.org/10.1093/socrel/srac040 Published: 21 April 2023
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Theories in the sociology of religion do more than identify the patterns that shape religious life. They also systematically hide other patterns from easy view. This often stems from the unexamined assumptions that each theory inherits from its cultural and historical context. This address presents three examples from the sociology of religion’s recent past. The first is an “underlying forces” theory that traces religious developments to long-term social trends. The second is an “individual-based modeling” theory that bases social outcomes on individual actions. The third is a “response-to-loss” theory, which connects religious innovation to unwanted social change. Each sees, and fails to see, different things. The address then examines some approaches to globalization, showing their presumption of the centrality of the developed West. Recent work on religions in the Global South, however, paints a different picture. The post-colonial patterns found there may well shape religion worldwide in ways that our current theories fail to see.
{"title":"Sensitizing Blinders: Theorizing Theory in a Post-Colonial Era","authors":"J. Spickard","doi":"10.1093/socrel/srac038","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/socrel/srac038","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Theories in the sociology of religion do more than identify the patterns that shape religious life. They also systematically hide other patterns from easy view. This often stems from the unexamined assumptions that each theory inherits from its cultural and historical context. This address presents three examples from the sociology of religion’s recent past. The first is an “underlying forces” theory that traces religious developments to long-term social trends. The second is an “individual-based modeling” theory that bases social outcomes on individual actions. The third is a “response-to-loss” theory, which connects religious innovation to unwanted social change. Each sees, and fails to see, different things. The address then examines some approaches to globalization, showing their presumption of the centrality of the developed West. Recent work on religions in the Global South, however, paints a different picture. The post-colonial patterns found there may well shape religion worldwide in ways that our current theories fail to see.","PeriodicalId":47440,"journal":{"name":"Sociology of Religion","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2023-04-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47978758","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Correction to: Modest Dress at Work as Lived Religion: Women’s Dress in Religious Work Contexts in Saudi Arabia and the UK","authors":"","doi":"10.1093/socrel/srad009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/socrel/srad009","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47440,"journal":{"name":"Sociology of Religion","volume":"65 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135647909","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The article explores aspects of the Soviet atheistic regime that contributed to the formation of the religious imaginary of believing Ukrainian and Lithuanian scientists born in 1930–1960s. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, most of them did not accept Orthodox, Catholic, or other institutional religions, but instead created their own privatized religious patterns, using science-related elements in their imaginary. This distinguished them from the other national groups participating in the study. In the article, I propose an interpretation for this phenomenon. I analyze 29 in-depth interviews of a larger sample and focus on the biographies of the older cohort of natural scientists from Lithuania and Ukraine to show how the Soviet political and normative context supported their science-based imaginary. This allows us to draw some parallels concerning secularization—gradual in the West but forced in the Soviet case—and the role of science in this process.
{"title":"The Religious Imaginary and the Repressive State: Science-based Beliefs of Ukrainian and Lithuanian Scientists Born in the USSR","authors":"Maria Rogińska","doi":"10.1093/socrel/srad005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/socrel/srad005","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 The article explores aspects of the Soviet atheistic regime that contributed to the formation of the religious imaginary of believing Ukrainian and Lithuanian scientists born in 1930–1960s. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, most of them did not accept Orthodox, Catholic, or other institutional religions, but instead created their own privatized religious patterns, using science-related elements in their imaginary. This distinguished them from the other national groups participating in the study. In the article, I propose an interpretation for this phenomenon. I analyze 29 in-depth interviews of a larger sample and focus on the biographies of the older cohort of natural scientists from Lithuania and Ukraine to show how the Soviet political and normative context supported their science-based imaginary. This allows us to draw some parallels concerning secularization—gradual in the West but forced in the Soviet case—and the role of science in this process.","PeriodicalId":47440,"journal":{"name":"Sociology of Religion","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2023-03-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43337434","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Journal Article ASR News & Announcements Get access Rachel Kraus, Executive Officer Rachel Kraus, Executive Officer rmkraus@bsu.edu Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 84, Issue 2, Summer 2023, Pages 240–241, https://doi.org/10.1093/socrel/srad006 Published: 22 February 2023
{"title":"ASR <i>News & Announcements</i>","authors":"Rachel Kraus","doi":"10.1093/socrel/srad006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/socrel/srad006","url":null,"abstract":"Journal Article ASR News & Announcements Get access Rachel Kraus, Executive Officer Rachel Kraus, Executive Officer rmkraus@bsu.edu Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 84, Issue 2, Summer 2023, Pages 240–241, https://doi.org/10.1093/socrel/srad006 Published: 22 February 2023","PeriodicalId":47440,"journal":{"name":"Sociology of Religion","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-02-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136275287","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Under the Banner of Islam: Turks, Kurds, and the Limits of Religious Unity, by GÜLAY TÜRKMEN","authors":"Kerem Morgül","doi":"10.1093/socrel/srad001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/socrel/srad001","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47440,"journal":{"name":"Sociology of Religion","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2023-02-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47431430","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Clergy have regular opportunities to take a prophetic stance on social issues in their weekly sermons, but they are also responsible for maintaining organizational stability. How do they respond to controversial denominational decisions? We collected sermons from United Methodist Church (UMC) clergy following the 2019 UMC decision to maintain their prohibition against same sex marriage and lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) ordination. Our qualitative analysis of a sample of 447 sermons reveals three strategies clergy use to respond to the UMC decision: prophetic engagement, unifying discussion, and detached acknowledgment. Further, we show that different strategies are likely tied to the pastor’s perception of the attitudes of their attendees. Some clergy are willing to use a constrained prophetic voice in support of LGBTQ people, but most balance their comments with pragmatic efforts to minimize conflict. As a result, a more inclusive religious voice is present, but it may be muted by congregational concerns.
{"title":"“You Know, the Church Has Never Agreed on Everything”: Analyzing the Prophetic and Pragmatic Voice in Clergy Sermons","authors":"Laura M. Krull, C. Gilliland","doi":"10.1093/socrel/srad003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/socrel/srad003","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Clergy have regular opportunities to take a prophetic stance on social issues in their weekly sermons, but they are also responsible for maintaining organizational stability. How do they respond to controversial denominational decisions? We collected sermons from United Methodist Church (UMC) clergy following the 2019 UMC decision to maintain their prohibition against same sex marriage and lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) ordination. Our qualitative analysis of a sample of 447 sermons reveals three strategies clergy use to respond to the UMC decision: prophetic engagement, unifying discussion, and detached acknowledgment. Further, we show that different strategies are likely tied to the pastor’s perception of the attitudes of their attendees. Some clergy are willing to use a constrained prophetic voice in support of LGBTQ people, but most balance their comments with pragmatic efforts to minimize conflict. As a result, a more inclusive religious voice is present, but it may be muted by congregational concerns.","PeriodicalId":47440,"journal":{"name":"Sociology of Religion","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2023-02-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45183646","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Laura Upenieks, Terrence D. Hill, Gabriel A. Acevedo, H. Koenig
Over the past four decades, studies have consistently shown that regular attendance at religious services is associated with better mental and physical health. At the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, many congregations paused in-person religious services and moved their worship rituals online. The ways that churches have responded to the threat of infectious disease require new conceptualizations and operationalizations of religious attendance and novel comparisons of the causes and consequences of virtual and in-person attendance. Analyses of data collected from a national probability sample of Americans (n = 1,717) show that while in-person religious attendance is associated with better mental and physical health, virtual attendance is unrelated to both outcomes in fully adjusted models. Taken together, these findings suggest that the association between religious attendance and health during a global pandemic may be contingent on physical proximity and the nature of the social and experiential aspects of religious worship.
{"title":"“Electronic Church” 2.0: Are Virtual and In-Person Attendance Associated with Mental and Physical Health During the COVID-19 Pandemic?","authors":"Laura Upenieks, Terrence D. Hill, Gabriel A. Acevedo, H. Koenig","doi":"10.1093/socrel/srac043","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/socrel/srac043","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Over the past four decades, studies have consistently shown that regular attendance at religious services is associated with better mental and physical health. At the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, many congregations paused in-person religious services and moved their worship rituals online. The ways that churches have responded to the threat of infectious disease require new conceptualizations and operationalizations of religious attendance and novel comparisons of the causes and consequences of virtual and in-person attendance. Analyses of data collected from a national probability sample of Americans (n = 1,717) show that while in-person religious attendance is associated with better mental and physical health, virtual attendance is unrelated to both outcomes in fully adjusted models. Taken together, these findings suggest that the association between religious attendance and health during a global pandemic may be contingent on physical proximity and the nature of the social and experiential aspects of religious worship.","PeriodicalId":47440,"journal":{"name":"Sociology of Religion","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2023-02-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44186666","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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