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Transition from the Opium of Religion to Religion as Opioids: Abuse of Religious Teachings in the New Prophetic Churches in South Africa 从宗教鸦片到宗教阿片类药物的过渡:南非新先知教会对宗教教义的滥用

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Journal for the Study of Religion Pub Date : 2023-07-18 DOI: 10.17159/2413-3027/2023/v36n1a4

M. S. Kgatle, J. S. Thinane

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Muslim Personal Law, Yes and No: Religious Leader's Views on its Legalization 穆斯林属人法，是与否：宗教领袖对其合法化的看法

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Journal for the Study of Religion Pub Date : 2023-07-18 DOI: 10.17159/2413-3027/2023/v36n1a2

M. Suleman

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The Politics of Post-Essential Islamic Liberation Theology: The Difference and Intersection between Farid Esack and Hamid Dabashi 后本质伊斯兰解放神学的政治:法里德·埃萨克与哈米德·达巴什的差异与交集

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Journal for the Study of Religion Pub Date : 2023-07-18 DOI: 10.17159/2413-3027/2023/v36n1a3

Ashraf Kunnummal

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White Izangoma: The Creation of New Significance or New Members of Traditional Healing-Divining Practice? White Izangoma：传统治疗潜水实践的新意义还是新成员的创造？

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Journal for the Study of Religion Pub Date : 2023-07-18 DOI: 10.17159/2413-3027/2023/v36n1a1

Agnieszka Podolecka

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Sharia Reforms, Hisbah, and the Economy of Moral Policing in Nigeria 伊斯兰教法改革、Hisbah与尼日利亚的道德警务经济

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Journal for the Study of Religion Pub Date : 2023-01-18 DOI: 10.17159/2413-3027/2022/v35n2a2

M. Ibrahim

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Book Review 书评

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Journal for the Study of Religion Pub Date : 2023-01-18 DOI: 10.17159/2413-3027/2022/v35n2ar1

M. Frahm-Arp

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Moral Economy: The Afterlife of a Nebulous Concept 道德经济:一个模糊概念的来世

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Journal for the Study of Religion Pub Date : 2023-01-18 DOI: 10.17159/2413-3027/2022/v35n2aintro

Asonzeh Ukah

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Tension in Religious Practices of Muslim Students when Studying Emergency Medical Care 穆斯林学生在急诊医学学习中的宗教实践张力

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Journal for the Study of Religion Pub Date : 2023-01-18 DOI: 10.17159/2413-3027/2022/v35n2a6

F. Esack, Raeesah Boomgaard, C. Vincent-Lambert

{"title":"Tension in Religious Practices of Muslim Students when Studying Emergency Medical Care","authors":"F. Esack, Raeesah Boomgaard, C. Vincent-Lambert","doi":"10.17159/2413-3027/2022/v35n2a6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17159/2413-3027/2022/v35n2a6","url":null,"abstract":"The Bachelor of Health Science degree in Emergency Medical Care (BHS EMC) in South Africa requires that students participate in clinical learning and medical rescue practicals. This study explores the views and experiences of a sample of Muslim students studying EMC at one university regarding potential areas of conflict between their religious obligations and the required academic activities. Second, in presenting the outcomes of these interviews, the article also reflects on the challenges facing secular universities when confronted with heterogeneity in understanding the religious requirements or obligations of the faithful - articulated or unarticulated - in the same religious community on the one hand, and the dilemma of maximum religious accommodation and embrace of religious pluralism versus pragmatism and the limitations of programmatic and budgetary constraints, on the other. Third, in discussing the challenges presented by the students, and their understanding of Islam and its requirements, we use the ideas of Shahab Ahmed (d. 2015) as articulated in his magnum opus, What is Islam? (Ahmed 2016). He argues that the term 'Islam' 'expresses a historical and human phenomenon in its plenitude and complexity of meaning' (Ahmed 2016:5). Finally, in locating the responses of our informants within their religio-theological and legal contexts, as well as in the broader world of Islam in social and cultural contexts, we draw attention to the nuanced realities of both textual and lived Islam.","PeriodicalId":42808,"journal":{"name":"Journal for the Study of Religion","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-01-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48571963","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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Moral Economy in the Nazareth Baptist Church, South Africa 南非拿撒勒浸信会的道德经济

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Journal for the Study of Religion Pub Date : 2023-01-18 DOI: 10.17159/2413-3027/2022/v35n2a1

Magnus Echtler

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Beyond Modernity: The Moral Economy of Ibn Khaldun 超越现代性:伊本·赫勒敦的道德经济

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Journal for the Study of Religion Pub Date : 2023-01-18 DOI: 10.17159/2413-3027/2022/v35n2a4

A. Tayob

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