Journal of the British Association for the Study of Religion (JBASR)最新文献

Take a picture of religion: Engaging students in the multisensory study of lived religion 拍一张宗教的照片:让学生参与对生活宗教的多感官研究

Journal of the British Association for the Study of Religion (JBASR) Pub Date : 2020-12-26 DOI: 10.18792/JBASR.V22I0.51

S. Sinclair, J. Maiden

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Greek-Orthodox Diasporic Glocality and Translocality in Germany and Great Britain 德国和英国希腊东正教散居的地方与跨地方

Journal of the British Association for the Study of Religion (JBASR) Pub Date : 2020-12-15 DOI: 10.18792/JBASR.V22I0.48

G. Trantas

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“It’s a fraught subject”: Listening to Evangelical Doctors Talk about Abortion “这是一个令人担忧的话题”:听福音派医生谈论堕胎

Journal of the British Association for the Study of Religion (JBASR) Pub Date : 2020-12-15 DOI: 10.18792/JBASR.V22I0.49

Jennifer Riley

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Everything is True Here, Even if it Isn’t: the performance of belief online 在这里一切都是真的，即使不是:信念在网上的表现

Journal of the British Association for the Study of Religion (JBASR) Pub Date : 2020-12-15 DOI: 10.18792/JBASR.V22I0.46

Vivian Asimos

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Performing Clandestinity: The Religious Underground, the Secret Police and the Media in Communist Eastern Europe 秘密表演:共产主义东欧的地下宗教、秘密警察和媒体

Journal of the British Association for the Study of Religion (JBASR) Pub Date : 2020-12-15 DOI: 10.18792/JBASR.V22I0.45

J. Kapaló

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The Impact of Social Media on Italian Shamanism and Folk Magic 社交媒体对意大利萨满教和民间巫术的影响

Journal of the British Association for the Study of Religion (JBASR) Pub Date : 2020-12-15 DOI: 10.18792/JBASR.V22I0.47

A. Puca

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Marginalized centre: Wana people and the geography of power 边缘中心:Wana人民与权力地理

Journal of the British Association for the Study of Religion (JBASR) Pub Date : 2020-05-27 DOI: 10.18792/jbasr.v21i0.43

Giorgio Scalici

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The Marginality of ‘Irish Mormonism’ “爱尔兰摩门教”的边缘化

Journal of the British Association for the Study of Religion (JBASR) Pub Date : 2020-01-08 DOI: 10.18792/jbasr.v21i0.40

Hazel O'Brien

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Power from the Periphery? 来自外围的力量?

Journal of the British Association for the Study of Religion (JBASR) Pub Date : 2019-12-18 DOI: 10.18792/jbasr.v21i0.38

Gladys Ganiel

{"title":"Power from the Periphery?","authors":"Gladys Ganiel","doi":"10.18792/jbasr.v21i0.38","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18792/jbasr.v21i0.38","url":null,"abstract":"This article develops the concept of ‘extra-institutional religion,’ which was first introduced in the 2016 book Transforming Post-Catholic Ireland. It describes how the author’s research for a biography of Fr Gerry Reynolds, a Redemptorist based in Belfast’s Clonard Monastery during the Troubles, helped advance the concept by fostering insight into the importance of links between faith-inspired activists and institutional religion. It also develops the concept’s theoretical potential, arguing that it may be well-placed to contribute to wider change by balancing two paradoxical structural strengths: its position on the peripheries of religious, social, and political life; and its continued links with institutional religion. It relates these structural strengths to theoretical literature on religion and civil society (which alerts us to how change can emerge from the peripheries); and Grace Davie and Abby Day’s work on European religion (which alerts us to the continued importance of historically dominant religious institutions). It then describes how Reynolds’s activism was enhanced by the legitimacy and connections that came with his embeddedness in the Catholic Church. Examples include his work with Fr Alec Reid facilitating secret political negotiations during the Troubles; and public ecumenical initiatives like the Cornerstone Community, the Unity Pilgrims, and In Joyful Hope. While Reynolds was not practising extra-institutional religion, his example advances this concept by demonstrating that for faith-inspired activists, maintaining solid links with institutional religion may be more important for sparking change than was originally argued in Transforming Post-Catholic Ireland.","PeriodicalId":299843,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the British Association for the Study of Religion (JBASR)","volume":"82 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123338443","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Unity in Diversity 多样性中的统一

Journal of the British Association for the Study of Religion (JBASR) Pub Date : 2018-09-21 DOI: 10.18792/JBASR.V20I0.34

Liam T. Sutherland

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