{"title":"Ventures of Women in Relation to Religion and Violence","authors":"Morny Joy","doi":"10.1558/JASR.42948","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1558/JASR.42948","url":null,"abstract":"This article is one of gratitude to three scholars—Grace Jantzen, Hannah Arendt and Judith Butler—who encouraged my feminist leanings. Jantzen’s reading of Arendt’s The Human Condition (1959) prompted her move from a literal to a figurative form of the term ‘natality’. Arendt’s emphasis on human suffering also attracted Jantzen. Instead of rejecting Arendt’s ‘natality’ as a literal mode of maternity, Jantzen affirmed Arendt’s position, where, together with constructive work, ‘natality’ can initiate dynamic change. Such a new beginning, inherent in birth, is recognized in the world only because newcomers possess a capacity of beginning, of something new, i.e., of action. ‘It initiates the dynamic element of action, and thus natality, which is inherent in all human activity’ (Arendt 1959: 10–11). Judith Butler’s publications have provided provocative challenges since Gender Trouble (1990). Recently, however, Butler has invoked ethical responsibility in an era of ‘senseless death’. She recommends a new bodily ontology which may initiate another dynamic change.","PeriodicalId":41609,"journal":{"name":"Journal for the Academic Study of Religion","volume":"33 1","pages":"221–243-221–243"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-04-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46299202","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}
{"title":"Margaret Arnold, The Magdalene in the Reformation.","authors":"Lauren Mcgrow","doi":"10.1558/JASR.42946","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1558/JASR.42946","url":null,"abstract":"Margaret Arnold, The Magdalene in the Reformation. Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2018, pp. 312, 9 photos, ISBN: 978-0-674-97999-4 (hbk). US$29.95.","PeriodicalId":41609,"journal":{"name":"Journal for the Academic Study of Religion","volume":"33 1","pages":"344–345-344–345"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-04-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41364952","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}
{"title":"Reconceptualising Law: ‘Pagan’ Violence and Augustinian Peace","authors":"Alex Deagon","doi":"10.1558/JASR.40936","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1558/JASR.40936","url":null,"abstract":"This article explores the idea of violence and peace in Christian theology. In particular, it considers the idea of violence as comprised of antagonism and alienation, and ultimately a ‘pagan’ celebration of war and death. Even the famed pax Romana is itself the violent suppression of violence. Drawing on Augustine, the article contrasts this ‘pagan’ violence with the Christian idea of ontological peace—the harmonious ordering and fellowship of difference between God and humanity, or what John Milbank calls ‘the reconciliation of virtue with difference’. Though this Christian critique is historically situated, it creates an opportunity to reconceptualise our modern legal system so that we may move from a liberal atomistic individualism to a more harmonious community of being, governed by ‘the law of love’.","PeriodicalId":41609,"journal":{"name":"Journal for the Academic Study of Religion","volume":"33 1","pages":"286-310"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-04-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45848797","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}
{"title":"Introduction to Special Issue on Religion and Violence","authors":"K. McPhillips","doi":"10.1558/JASR.20156","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1558/JASR.20156","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41609,"journal":{"name":"Journal for the Academic Study of Religion","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-04-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42906538","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}
{"title":"‘The kafir’s blood is halal for you’: The Doctrine of Jihād in Dabiq and Rumiyah","authors":"C. V. D. Krogt","doi":"10.1558/JASR.42945","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1558/JASR.42945","url":null,"abstract":"The Islamic State movement (IS, formerly ISIS) is widely denounced by both Muslims and non-Muslims as ‘un-Islamic’, for, among other deeds, attacking fellow Muslims, inciting international terrorism, and taking female captives as sex slaves—all in the name of jihad. IS’s propaganda magazines Dabiq (15 issues) and Rumiyah (13 issues), published between July 2014 and September 2017, sought to justify and explain the movement’s ideology and actions, presenting its credentials as an almost uniquely authentic expression of current Sunni Islam. Drawing on these magazines, this article constructs a systematic overview of IS’s jihad doctrine, showing its indebtedness to both traditional sources, the Qur'an, sunna and fiqh, and to more recent Salafi Jihadi thought. IS aims to revive the genuine Islam of the Prophet and the first generations of Muslims, rejecting the modernist view of military jihad as purely defensive. While clearly Islamic and heavily indebted to traditional sources, IS’s jihad doctrine is anachronistic, apocalyptic, selective and sectarian.","PeriodicalId":41609,"journal":{"name":"Journal for the Academic Study of Religion","volume":"33 1","pages":"311–336-311–336"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-04-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44181680","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}
{"title":"From Pacifism to Tyrannicide: Considering Bonhoeffer’s Ethics for the Anthropocene","authors":"D. Rayson","doi":"10.1558/JASR.42288","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1558/JASR.42288","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41609,"journal":{"name":"Journal for the Academic Study of Religion","volume":"33 1","pages":"244-264"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-04-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67525220","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}
{"title":"The Christchurch Mosque Massacre: Terror and Hope","authors":"D. Pratt","doi":"10.1558/JASR.42944","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1558/JASR.42944","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41609,"journal":{"name":"Journal for the Academic Study of Religion","volume":"33 1","pages":"265-285"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-04-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43255088","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}
{"title":"From Tradition to Modernity and Vice Versa: The Progressive Islam of Mahmoud Muhammad Taha","authors":"Vassilios Adrahtas","doi":"10.1558/jasr.42567","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1558/jasr.42567","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41609,"journal":{"name":"Journal for the Academic Study of Religion","volume":"33 1","pages":"155-165"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2020-11-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45930890","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}
{"title":"A Sufi Master without a Hospice: Abdolkarim Soroush between Sufism and Mysticism","authors":"A. Bahrani, Aydogan Kars","doi":"10.1558/jasr.42568","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1558/jasr.42568","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41609,"journal":{"name":"Journal for the Academic Study of Religion","volume":"33 1","pages":"166-184"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2020-11-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48150911","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}
{"title":"Shahab Ahmed and the Hermeneutics of Islam","authors":"M. Milani","doi":"10.1558/jasr.42442","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1558/jasr.42442","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41609,"journal":{"name":"Journal for the Academic Study of Religion","volume":"33 1","pages":"185-203"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2020-10-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46391317","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}