{"title":"Customary Arbitration: Religion, Culture, and Law in Igboland","authors":"Johnson Ifeanyi Okeke","doi":"10.1177/20503032231174210","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/20503032231174210","url":null,"abstract":"The Igbo traditional religion provides institutions for the amicable, natural, and lasting resolutions of conflicts within Igboland. One of such institutions is the Igbo customary arbitration mechanism. This article aims at unavailing and bringing to the fore, the numerous positive aspects of customary arbitration which include the quick dispensation of justice, less financial implications, and purposeful and acceptable awards. It uses indigenous procedures and actors in arriving at an award. It focuses on the deployment of cultural, religious, and legal components in its procedures and findings. It therefore offers a better alternative as litigants could benefit from it. The practice also encourages cultural revival. This study makes use of documents, interviews, and observational methods while deploying a sociological (functionalist) methodology in its analysis.","PeriodicalId":43214,"journal":{"name":"Critical Research on Religion","volume":"11 1","pages":"205 - 221"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2023-05-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45194460","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 Cult of Greta Thunberg”: De-legitimating Climate Activism with “Religion”","authors":"Jere Kyyrö, Tuomas Äystö, T. Hjelm","doi":"10.1177/20503032231174208","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/20503032231174208","url":null,"abstract":"Contemporary climate activism has often been called a “religion” or a “cult.” We investigate what is done with climate religion discourse (CRD), by whom, and to what ends. Our case study concerns Finland, one country out of many where forms of climate activism are regularly dismissed by equating them with “irrational” religion. We find that political parties and newspaper columnists use terms and phrases such as “millenarianism,” “prophet,” “Messiah,” “cult,” “apocalypse,” “Virgin Mary of climate religion,” and “children’s crusade.” We argue that these are examples of strategic othering in the Finnish context. We observe that this religionizing stems from the activism’s incompatibility with prevalent economic rationality, and that gender is a significant theme in CRD use. An unintended consequence of CRD is that it constructs those forms of religion, which do not disturb modernity and the capitalist order as more legitimate than others.","PeriodicalId":43214,"journal":{"name":"Critical Research on Religion","volume":"11 1","pages":"133 - 149"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2023-05-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48628349","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":"Book Review: Religion and World Politics: Connecting Theory with Practice","authors":"Ernils Larsson","doi":"10.1177/20503032231174213","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/20503032231174213","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43214,"journal":{"name":"Critical Research on Religion","volume":"11 1","pages":"256 - 259"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2023-05-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"65456686","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":"Book Review: Narratives of Disenchantment and Secularization: Critiquing Max Weber’s Idea of Modernity","authors":"W. Goldstein","doi":"10.1177/20503032231174215","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/20503032231174215","url":null,"abstract":"aware of this (as was Ali Shariati later as an intellectual in exile who prepared the way for the 1979 revolution). Further research into this stereotyping Orientalist ideology could further illuminate how Western imperial powers have for generations been evoking revolutionary movements among supposedly “backward” peoples, particularly among Shi’ite and Sunni Muslims in Iran, Iraq, Egypt, etc. Are scholars of the “Middle East” investigating the ways in which the intensification of Orientalism, for example, in Samuel P. Huntington’s “Clash of Civilization” ideology, has been generating further ferment in majority Muslim countries? The revolutionary ideology and movements that came together in the Constitutional Revolution did not simply subside and disappear after the Pahlavi regime consolidated its power in Iran. Aslan’s book offers a lively sketch of the players in that coalition whose continuing operation or transformation could be traced toward their reemergence in the 1950s and early 1960s as a new elected parliament that, under the leadership of Mohammad Mosadegh, boldly nationalized oil reserves and oil–production in 1963. This led to the CIA overthrow of Mossadegh and the new parliamentary government and the consolidation of power by the Shah sponsored by the US government. This government replaced British imperial control of Iran with systematic suppression of a burgeoning civil society that had enabled the reemergence of a nascent democracy. An elementary knowledge of Shi’a Islam enables the recognition that the US stumbled right into the role of the oppressive Yazid and even became the embodiment of the “Great Satan.” Now that Iranians are again protesting tyrannical suppression of their rights, in this case by an oppressive Shi’ite hierocracy, it would be helpful to understand the various oppositional groups and forces in Iran, including strands of Shi’ite Islam other than the currently entrenched “Supreme Leadership.”","PeriodicalId":43214,"journal":{"name":"Critical Research on Religion","volume":"11 1","pages":"250 - 254"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2023-05-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"65456742","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":"Book Review: The Greater India Experiment: Hindutva and the Northeast","authors":"Deepika Kashyap","doi":"10.1177/20503032231174214","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/20503032231174214","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43214,"journal":{"name":"Critical Research on Religion","volume":"11 1","pages":"254 - 255"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2023-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48494931","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":"Book Review: Indigenous Religious Traditions in 5 Minutes","authors":"S. Beckmann","doi":"10.1177/20503032231174204","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/20503032231174204","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43214,"journal":{"name":"Critical Research on Religion","volume":"11 1","pages":"259 - 260"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2023-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41590308","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":"Book Review: The Liminal Papacy of Pope Francis: Moving toward Global Catholicity","authors":"Javier Recio Huetos","doi":"10.1177/20503032231174216","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/20503032231174216","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43214,"journal":{"name":"Critical Research on Religion","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2023-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45668464","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":"“On Northern Ireland: Critical Research on Religion in Belfast”","authors":"W. Goldstein","doi":"10.1177/20503032231166394","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/20503032231166394","url":null,"abstract":"Critical Research on Religion held its fi rst conference from June 10-13 at Queen ’ s University in Belfast (QUB), Northern Ireland. 1 It was co-sponsored by The School of Social Sciences, Education","PeriodicalId":43214,"journal":{"name":"Critical Research on Religion","volume":"11 1","pages":"3 - 12"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2023-03-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48324352","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":"Etic/Emic Considerations in Horii’s ‘Religion’ and ‘Secular’ Categories in Sociology","authors":"Suzanne Owen","doi":"10.1177/20503032221148463","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/20503032221148463","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43214,"journal":{"name":"Critical Research on Religion","volume":"11 1","pages":"113 - 115"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2023-01-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45634672","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":"Book Review: Professor of Apocalypse: The Many Lives of Jacob Taubes","authors":"Benjamin Fisher","doi":"10.1177/20503032221148473","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/20503032221148473","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43214,"journal":{"name":"Critical Research on Religion","volume":"11 1","pages":"126 - 128"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2023-01-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48662410","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}