Journal Article Religion Evolving: Cultural, Cognitive, and Ecological Dynamics. By Benjamin Grant Purzycki and Richard Sosis Get access Religion Evolving: Cultural, Cognitive, and Ecological Dynamics. By Benjamin Grant Purzycki and Richard Sosis. Equinox Publishing, 2022. 262 pages. $100.00 (hardcover), $32.00 (paperback or e-book). Jonathan Morgan Jonathan Morgan University of Colorado, Colorado Springs jrmorgan3@gmail.com Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Academy of Religion, lfad051, https://doi.org/10.1093/jaarel/lfad051 Published: 01 September 2023
宗教演变:文化、认知和生态动态。作者:本杰明·格兰特·珀齐奇和理查德·索西斯《宗教进化:文化、认知和生态动态》作者:Benjamin Grant Purzycki和Richard Sosis。Equinox Publishing, 2022。262页。100美元(精装)，32美元(平装或电子书)。乔纳森摩根乔纳森摩根科罗拉多大学，科罗拉多斯普林斯jrmorgan3@gmail.com搜索作者的其他作品:牛津学术谷歌学者杂志美国宗教学会，lfad051, https://doi.org/10.1093/jaarel/lfad051出版:2023年9月1日
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Journal Article In & Out of This World: Material and Extraterrestrial Bodies in the Nation of Islam. By Stephen C. Finley Get access In & Out of This World: Material and Extraterrestrial Bodies in the Nation of Islam. By Stephen C. Finley. Duke University Press, 2022. 264 pages. $99.95 (hardcover), $26.95 (paperback). Benjamin E Zeller Benjamin E Zeller Lake Forest College nova@nrms.net Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Academy of Religion, lfad054, https://doi.org/10.1093/jaarel/lfad054 Published: 01 September 2023
期刊文章进出这个世界:伊斯兰国家的物质和外星身体。斯蒂芬·c·芬利(Stephen C. Finley):《进出这个世界:伊斯兰国家的物质和外星身体》。斯蒂芬·c·芬利著。杜克大学出版社，2022年。264页。精装版99.95美元，平装版26.95美元。本杰明·E·泽勒本杰明·E·泽勒湖森林学院nova@nrms.net搜索作者的其他作品:牛津学术谷歌学者杂志美国宗教学会，lfad054, https://doi.org/10.1093/jaarel/lfad054出版日期:2023年9月1日
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Journal Article In the Midst of Civilized Europe: The Pogroms of 1918-1921 and the Onset of the Holocaust. By Jeffrey Veidlinger Get access In the Midst of Civilized Europe: The Pogroms of 1918-1921 and the Onset of the Holocaust. By Jeffrey Veidlinger. Metropolitan Books, 2021. 480 pages. $35.00 (hardcover). Martin Shuster Martin Shuster University of North Carolina at Charlotte martin.shuster@uncc.edu Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Academy of Religion, lfad053, https://doi.org/10.1093/jaarel/lfad053 Published: 31 August 2023
在文明的欧洲中间:1918-1921年的大屠杀和大屠杀的开始。《文明的欧洲:1918-1921年的大屠杀和大屠杀的开始》杰弗里·维德林格著。大都会出版社，2021年。480页。35.00美元(精装)。Martin Shuster Martin Shuster北卡罗来纳大学夏洛特分校martin.shuster@uncc.edu搜索作者的其他作品:牛津学术谷歌美国宗教学会学者期刊，lfad053, https://doi.org/10.1093/jaarel/lfad053出版日期:2023年8月31日
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Journal Article Modern Virtue: Mary Wollstonecraft and a Tradition of Dissent. By Emily Dumler-Winckler Get access Modern Virtue: Mary Wollstonecraft and a Tradition of Dissent. By Emily Dumler-Winckler. Oxford University Press, 2022. 392 pages. $74.00 (hardcover or e-book). Martina Reuter Martina Reuter University of Jyväskylä, Jyväskylä, Finland anna.m.reuter@jyu.fi Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Academy of Religion, lfad052, https://doi.org/10.1093/jaarel/lfad052 Published: 31 August 2023
期刊文章现代美德:玛丽·沃斯通克拉夫特和异议传统。《获得现代美德:玛丽·沃斯通克拉夫特与异议传统》作者:Emily Dumler-Winckler牛津大学出版社，2022年。392页。74.00美元(精装或电子书)。Martina Reuter Martina Reuter大学Jyväskylä， Jyväskylä，芬兰anna.m.reuter@jyu.fi搜索作者的其他作品:牛津学术谷歌学者杂志美国宗教学会，lfad052, https://doi.org/10.1093/jaarel/lfad052出版日期:2023年8月31日
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Journal Article Hermetic Spirituality and the Historical Imagination: Altered States of Knowledge in Late Antiquity. By Wouter J. Hanegraaff Get access Hermetic Spirituality and the Historical Imagination: Altered States of Knowledge in Late Antiquity. By Wouter J. Hanegraaff. Cambridge University Press, 2022. xvi + 400 pages. $135.00 (hardcover or e-book). Claire Fanger Claire Fanger Rice University clf5@rice.edu Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Academy of Religion, lfad046, https://doi.org/10.1093/jaarel/lfad046 Published: 31 August 2023
期刊文章赫尔墨斯灵性和历史想象:在古代晚期知识的改变状态。作者:Wouter J. Hanegraaff《赫尔墨斯精神与历史想象:古代晚期知识的改变状态》作者:Wouter J. Hanegraaff剑桥大学出版社，2022年。16 + 400页。$135.00(精装或电子书)。克莱尔·方格克莱尔·方格莱斯大学clf5@rice.edu搜索作者的其他作品:牛津学术谷歌美国宗教学会学者期刊，lfad046, https://doi.org/10.1093/jaarel/lfad046出版日期:2023年8月31日
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Journal Article Heathen: Religion and Race in American History, by Kathryn Gin Lum Get access Heathen: Religion and Race in American History. By Kathryn Gin Lum. Harvard University Press, 2022. 368 pages. $35.00 (hardcover). Katharine Gerbner Katharine Gerbner University of Minnesota kgerbner@umn.edu Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Academy of Religion, lfad047, https://doi.org/10.1093/jaarel/lfad047 Published: 31 August 2023
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Journal Article Searching for the Body: A Contemporary Perspective on Tibetan Buddhist Tantra. By Rae Erin Dachille Get access Searching for the Body: A Contemporary Perspective on Tibetan Buddhist Tantra. By Rae Erin Dachille. Columbia University Press, 2022. 320 pages. $120.00 (hardcover), $30.00 (paperback), $29.99 (e-book). David M DiValerio David M DiValerio University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee divaleri@uwm.edu Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Academy of Religion, lfad045, https://doi.org/10.1093/jaarel/lfad045 Published: 31 August 2023
期刊文章寻找身体:藏传佛教密宗的当代视角。寻找身体:藏传佛教密宗的当代视角。作者:Rae Erin Dachille。哥伦比亚大学出版社，2022。320页。120.00美元(精装)，30.00美元(平装)，29.99美元(电子书)。David M DiValerio威斯康星大学密尔沃基分校divaleri@uwm.edu搜索作者的其他作品:牛津学术谷歌美国宗教学会学者期刊，lfad045, https://doi.org/10.1093/jaarel/lfad045出版日期:2023年8月31日
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Abstract Producing and manipulating talismans is a part of many Daoist rituals, from discrete procedures to long and complex liturgical programs. Therefore, the success of a rite depends in part on the efficacious application of the talismans used within it. Ritual manuals describing the production of talismans contain detailed instructions for rendering those talismans efficacious, and the discourses used within those instructions thus serve to define the parameters of ritual efficacy for the Daoists who carry them out. These discourses can be broadly divided into discourses of objective efficacy, which posit that ritual efficacy derives from conditions external to the ritualist, and discourses of subjective efficacy, which focus instead on the practitioner’s internal dispositions. Here, I examine the different forms that these discourses can take and the ways in which they are employed within Daoist ritual texts, arguing that discourses of subjective efficacy emerged as a form of ritual criticism.
{"title":"Discourses of Efficacy in the Ritual Use of Daoist Talismans","authors":"Joshua Capitanio","doi":"10.1093/jaarel/lfad034","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/jaarel/lfad034","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Producing and manipulating talismans is a part of many Daoist rituals, from discrete procedures to long and complex liturgical programs. Therefore, the success of a rite depends in part on the efficacious application of the talismans used within it. Ritual manuals describing the production of talismans contain detailed instructions for rendering those talismans efficacious, and the discourses used within those instructions thus serve to define the parameters of ritual efficacy for the Daoists who carry them out. These discourses can be broadly divided into discourses of objective efficacy, which posit that ritual efficacy derives from conditions external to the ritualist, and discourses of subjective efficacy, which focus instead on the practitioner’s internal dispositions. Here, I examine the different forms that these discourses can take and the ways in which they are employed within Daoist ritual texts, arguing that discourses of subjective efficacy emerged as a form of ritual criticism.","PeriodicalId":51659,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF RELIGION","volume":"104 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-08-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135181312","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}
Abstract Horror operates as social history and social practice, regularly sacrificing symbolic threats to normalcy and proper socialization to the altar of hegemony. Possession/exorcism cinema, which likewise functions through iterative scapegoating, is typically studied according to its exploitation of young women/girls—with little consideration of possessed young men and those embedded within other social dynamics. This article analyzes A Nightmare on Elm Street 2 (1985) and Demon (2015), as the possession of Jesse in the former corresponds to his suggested homosexuality, while the possession of Piotrek in the latter dramatizes his expatriate resistance to a coercive family culture. Suffering in horror is typically justified through a dispossession of quality traits and a possession of discursive liabilities. Though one might expect such victim choices to undermine the conservative sensibilities of the genre, these films leverage and reinforce the very mechanisms upon which horror depends.
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Modern discussions of abortion in Jewish thought often invoke the Talmudic phrase “ubar yerekh imo,” the fetus is the thigh of its mother. This article examines the ten instances in which the phrase first appears in the Babylonian Talmud. I demonstrate that the rabbis of Late Antique Sasanian Babylonia deploy the phrase in two specific contexts: discussions of the sanctification, criminalization, or sale of non-human animal fetuses, and discussions of the sale and manumission of the fetuses of enslaved people. Drawing on insights from animal studies and studies of slavery, I argue that this phrase illuminates how the rabbis think with the fetus to value some lives over others in a world reliant on the exploitation of enslaved humans and animals, and compare this approach with that of the Roman jurist Ulpian. Ultimately, I shed light on ancient rabbinic anthropologies of the human body and the body politic.
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