Critical Research on Religion最新文献

{"title":"Response","authors":"M. Horii","doi":"10.1177/20503032221148466","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/20503032221148466","url":null,"abstract":"I am very grateful to Professor Naomi Goldenberg, Dr. Suzanne Owen, and Dr. Alex Henley for their insightful comments and for the time and effort they kindly extended to my book. We four share the understanding that “religion” is a problematic category, and use the so-called “critical religion” approach in our own academic work. At the same time, there are some differences between us. These are expressed in their comments. These differences provide me with valuable insights. Their critical reflections on my book are helpful for the further development of my own study. In the following paragraphs, I would like to give my constructive responses to the comments made by these three scholars.","PeriodicalId":43214,"journal":{"name":"Critical Research on Religion","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2022-12-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48564710","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 ‘Religion’ and ‘Secular’ Categories in Sociology: Decolonizing the Modern Myth","authors":"M. Horii","doi":"10.1177/20503032221148462","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/20503032221148462","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43214,"journal":{"name":"Critical Research on Religion","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2022-12-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41770334","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":"Catholic-Maya Sacrificial Commitments","authors":"Andrés Dapuez","doi":"10.1177/20503032221102449","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/20503032221102449","url":null,"abstract":"In their annual festival in an eastern village of the Yucatan state, participants verbalized, discussed, and disputed two main understandings of Catholic commitment after a Catholic priest asked his parishioners to reconsider the effects of their ritual offerings. His teachings about compromiso signaled other ritualized practices, which compose the concept: promises and sacrifices. In direct contrast to the priest’s teachings, local ritualists understand that solemn promises and sacrificial exchange work, however, as encompassments of the notion of commitment. On the other hand, the priest’s notion of engagement with the sacred takes its main force from the representation of the work of dying of sacrificial victims. Overcoming an apparently insurmountable pair of opposites, ritual and sacrificial, he defines commitment as vicarious sacrifice, inaugurating for his audience a new representational dimension.","PeriodicalId":43214,"journal":{"name":"Critical Research on Religion","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46524589","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":"Hope in Turbulent Times: Derrida on Messianism and Rupture","authors":"David Newheiser","doi":"10.1177/20503032221124550","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/20503032221124550","url":null,"abstract":"For many of us, I suspect, the last two years have called hope into question. Millions have died from COVID-19, millions have lost someone they cared about, and millions more have fallen ill themselves. In addition to these direct effects, the virus has disrupted normal patterns of life. Some of us have endured exhausting lockdowns, while others were exposed to infection by virtue of their employment. In typical fashion, the neoliberal systems that govern our lives have placed the heaviest burdens on those who were already vulnerable, but even those of us who are insulated from the worst effects of the pandemic have had moments in which our hope was challenged by suffering and uncertainty. In a strange coincidence, my first book—Hope in a Secular Age—appeared at exactly the moment that COVID began to spread around the world. I had no idea what was coming, of course, but the book sought to address a situation like the one we are experiencing. Even before the challenges of pandemic life, I was convinced that the only hope worth keeping has to be honest rather than easy. As we have found, hope has a certain fragility, but I believe that this is the source of its power. In my view, hope is premised upon the possibility of disappointment, pressing forward without guarantees. At some level, although we invent a thousand ways to forget it, we all know that we are vulnerable. We cannot be sure that our loves will endure, that our projects will succeed, or that we stand on the side of justice and truth. It does no good to pretend that things are more certain than they are; as we have repeatedly seen over the last two years, such bluster is prone to shatter upon the complexity of lived experience. This is the context in which I hear the question that frames this symposium: “Is hope reasonable or necessary?” My answer on both counts will be “no,” but that does not mean hope must be abandoned. Instead, I aim to suggest that hope is an extra-rational discipline that is contingent but indispensable.","PeriodicalId":43214,"journal":{"name":"Critical Research on Religion","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2022-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48248906","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":"Islamic Fundamentalism and Gender: The Portrayal of Women in Iranian Movies","authors":"Ehsan Aqababaee, M. Razaghi","doi":"10.1177/20503032221124551","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/20503032221124551","url":null,"abstract":"Various political groups were involved in the 1979 Islamic Revolution of Iran, which led to the downfall of the Pahlavi regime. However, Islamic Fundamentalists gradually seized power and eliminated rival ideologies in the 1980s. In the late 1990s, Iranian Reformers won the elections and oversaw the management of the film industry for two four-year administrations until 2005. As liberals and religious democrats, the Reformers supported a modern portrayal of Iranian women in movies. The findings of this research challenge the previous studies that voiced optimism about the new individualistic portrayal of women in Iranian movies. The research methodology is based on Theresa de Lauretis's technologies of gender involving a narrative analysis of sixty-eight Iranian movies produced from 2001 to 2005. Given the political defeat of the Reformers in 2005, the main research question is to what extent has the portrayal of Iranian women gone beyond (or remained under) the ideological domination of Islamic Fundamentalism.","PeriodicalId":43214,"journal":{"name":"Critical Research on Religion","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2022-09-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48211537","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: Lived Religion in Latin America. An Enchanted Modernity","authors":"Matteo Di Placido","doi":"10.1177/20503032221124547","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/20503032221124547","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43214,"journal":{"name":"Critical Research on Religion","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2022-09-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43352860","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":"Intersectional Stratification: Race, Religion, and Status Attainment","authors":"H. Evans, Jerry Z. Park","doi":"10.1177/20503032221124544","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/20503032221124544","url":null,"abstract":"Research repeatedly shows that stratification occurs through racial classification and systemic racism. Scholars have also shown that stratification in wealth, education, and occupational attainment for Americans varies by religious affiliation. In this article, we incorporate theories of intersectionality and complex religion to study the ways that religion stratifies status attainment within racial groups in the United States. We hypothesize that relational proximity to predominantly white denominations increases status attainment for racial minorities in the United States. Using data from the 2000-2016 waves of the General Social Survey, we find that Black Evangelicals have higher levels of occupational prestige than Black non-Evangelicals. We argue that this is because of networks of social capital via multiracial churches that allow Black Evangelicals access to increasing levels of occupational prestige.","PeriodicalId":43214,"journal":{"name":"Critical Research on Religion","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2022-09-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42245533","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":"Child Adoption among Igbo Christians in Nigeria: A “Paradox”?","authors":"Fabian U Nnadi, K. I. Uwaegbute","doi":"10.1177/20503032221124542","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/20503032221124542","url":null,"abstract":"This article argues that the practice of child adoption among Igbo Christians of Nigeria is some kind of “paradox.” This is because, Igbo Christians reject and practice child adoption at the same time. This applies to Igbo Christians irrespective of denominations. Igbo cultural practices like the quest for children to partake in inheritance, the denial of participation in some traditional roles, the individualized nature of Igbo contemporary society, and Christian teaching on love contribute to this. The findings in this article challenge previous scholarship which claims that Igbo Christians do not practice Child adoption although they are sympathetic to it.","PeriodicalId":43214,"journal":{"name":"Critical Research on Religion","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2022-09-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42503745","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":"Bloch’s Münzer and the Horizons of History","authors":"Christina Petterson","doi":"10.1177/20503032221124554","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/20503032221124554","url":null,"abstract":"This essay springs from my current project, namely an introduction to and translation of Ernst Bloch ’ s Thomas Münzer: Theologian of the Revolution funded by CenSAMM, the Centre for the Critical Study of Apocalyptic and Millenarian Movements. The essay here will focus mainly on history and community, after a bit of background. Importantly, the issues raised here are only addressed within a small Western context. Christianity in its various forms plays very different roles in non-Anglo/European countries, and class struggle as it is thought of in this essay is also very limited to small centers of former empires and is not meant in its global anti-imperialist context. This is primarily due to the material itself. My own overarching interest in various texts from different periods of the past, is the sense of history and what governs our understanding of it. This is something I have been working with in different ways over the past years, looking at both Francis Fukuyama ’ s essay on 1989 as the end of history, New Testament understandings of class struggle as history, and also the meaning of history and the questions we are urged to ask, and which ones we are urged to avoid.","PeriodicalId":43214,"journal":{"name":"Critical Research on Religion","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2022-09-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41929644","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":"Politics, Religion, Hope: Contemporary Theoretical Perspectives","authors":"M. Sharpe, M. King","doi":"10.1177/20503032221124548","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/20503032221124548","url":null,"abstract":"In this period of pandemics, the environmental crisis, and fraying of political consensus, the question of hope is especially pressing. Is hope reasonable or is it necessary, and for what and for whom? Is it only the property now of right-wing populists, using the rolling economic, immigration, and pandemic crises, and the new affordances of social media, in the cause of reactionary revolt against the social and cultural gains of the last centuries, such as the inclusion of women and other minorities, as well as awareness of ecological depredation? Dowe find ourselves in a Yeatsian time, wherein proverbially, “The best lack all conviction, while the worst / are full of passionate intensity” (Yeats 2016, 33), or does the stretching and failing of contemporary paradigms announce new, more affirmative possibilities? What resources for hope can we find in the great religious and political traditions, whether Islamic, Jewish, Christian, or other? Does the instrumental and ideological use of these traditions disqualify them as sources of renewal and reorientation? Likewise, are there existing resources within the political paradigms of liberalism, democracy, republicanism, or socialism which can be looked to resolve the present symptoms of despair, alienation, and incivility, or must entirely new political models be imagined or looked to? Are more two-sided theoretical assessments of these traditions, as sources of both corruption and catharsis, dominion and liberation, needed if we are to build new coalitions capable of addressing the crises, or is hope necessarily open or blind, committed to holding open the possibility that something absolutely Other must occur? Critical theorising in the last decades has been engaged in a significant process or processes of rethinking, as Marxist-Leninism’s credibility as the alternative to regnant capitalism declined, and then failed after 1989. At the same time, the absence of any serious systematic opposition has enabled parties of business globally to prosecute their neoliberal ambitions, of universal commodification and marketisation, with unprecedented success. Societies have become increasingly economically unequal, wealth has become more concentrated, organisational structures have become more corporatized, and as the pandemic has shown in countries like the US, the state has been divested of its democratic capacities to better the lives of citizens. The resulting alienation has produced pools of discontent from which right-wing populists draw, promising a simple solution to these widespread problems by scapegoating minorities, targeting the remnants of the social democratic “elites” in the educational, governmental, and community sectors, conducting vitriolic","PeriodicalId":43214,"journal":{"name":"Critical Research on Religion","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2022-09-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49618933","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}