Critical Research on Religion最新文献

{"title":"Book Review: The Optimist: A Social Biography of Tawfiz Zayyad","authors":"W. Goldstein","doi":"10.1177/20503032221102445","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/20503032221102445","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43214,"journal":{"name":"Critical Research on Religion","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2022-05-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41470469","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: Facing Apocalypse: Climate, Democracy and Other Last Chances","authors":"Tarique Niazi","doi":"10.1177/20503032221102442","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/20503032221102442","url":null,"abstract":"bases of traditional Islam. This book could be interesting for all those enthusiastic about the study of human rights and democracy in Islam, Islamic reformist movements, women and religious minorities rights in Islam, studies of traditional and modern Islamic jurisprudence, the place and application of philosophy and theology in modern jurisprudence, and especially Shiite jurisprudence studies. The method of analysis in this book, which combines epistemological, theological, philosophical, and jurisprudential topics and offers a new understanding of the human-centered principles of religion, opens a new horizon for the readers of the work to reach a deeper understanding of the neglected layers of spiritual Islam considered by Kadivar.","PeriodicalId":43214,"journal":{"name":"Critical Research on Religion","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2022-05-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45178222","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: Toward a Positive Psychology of Islam and Muslims: Spirituality, Struggle, and Social justice","authors":"Mohamad Saripudin, Amirul Hazmi Hamdan","doi":"10.1177/20503032221102439","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/20503032221102439","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43214,"journal":{"name":"Critical Research on Religion","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2022-05-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43254757","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":"Religious nationalism, racism, and raza hispánica (“Hispanic race”) in Constantino Bayle’s, S.J. (1882–1953) missiology (A publication history approach)","authors":"Rady Roldán-Figueroa","doi":"10.1177/20503032221075378","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/20503032221075378","url":null,"abstract":"This article focuses on the career of the Jesuit priest, Constantino Bayle, as a historian of Spanish Catholic missions and promoter of state-sponsored arrangements that institutionalized nationalist religious historiography. He encoded religious nationalism and racist categories in academic discourse and terminology, elevating in this way racist assumptions and renewed imperialist aspirations to the level of official historiography. The article traces Bayle’s early career as an Americanista at the Spanish Catholic periodical, Razón y Fe. Bayle was an ardent supporter of Francisco Franco’s military uprising of 1936. He was an apologist for Falange Española who defended its Catholic character. Alongside other Jesuits, he was responsible for forging a Spanish school of missiology that was predicated upon the tenets of Spanish national Catholicism and that was meant to rival analogous Protestant and Roman Catholic historiographic projects. Central to this culturalist endeavor were the notions of Hispanidad and Raza Hispanica.","PeriodicalId":43214,"journal":{"name":"Critical Research on Religion","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2022-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46085256","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 the religious state, the secular state, and the religion-neutral state","authors":"W. Goldstein","doi":"10.1177/20503032221081837","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/20503032221081837","url":null,"abstract":"One of the most pressing questions of our age is the relationship between established and disestablished religions and the state. It underlies many of the conflicts across the globe including the treatment of the Rohingya by the Buddhist majority in Myanmar, Muslims under Modi’s Hindu nationalism in India, and Palestinians under the Jewish State of Israel. Many of the world’s conflicts are often driven by conflict between ethnic/religious groups over state control: Protestants and Catholics in Northern Ireland; Christians and Muslims in Nigeria; and Shiites and Sunnis in Yemen, Syria, and Iraq. The many wars of religion have been driven by states controlled by ethnic/religious majorities. The English Civil War (1640–1660), for instance, was triggered by the attempt to impose the Anglican Church of England over the Presbyterian Church in Scotland. Conflicts between states are often exacerbated by those states being aligned with a religious majority which is at odds with an opposing state-religion alliance (e.g., Iran and Saudi Arabia; India and Pakistan). The state is the vehicle through which an ethno/religious majority can impose its religious values over a society as a whole including minorities. Ethno-religious groups fight over control of the state and if not, over influence on state policy. German-Jewish political philosopher Hannah Arendt ([1943] 2007, 336), who herself was a refugee from Nazi Germany and found a home at the New School’s university in exile in New York, identified this as the problem of the nation-state, which assumes a homogenous ethnic/religious population when there is not. Nation-states, as understood by Arendt ([1944] 2007, 371), cannot exist when there are mixed populations. No country is able to achieve this type of purity and attempts to obtain it have resulted in ethnic cleansing and proven to be catastrophic. The alignment between what we now conventionally categorize as the state on the one hand and religion on the other has existed since the very origins of the state (that is, of monarchies): in the ancient river valley civilizations of Egypt, Mesopotamia, India (Hinduism), and China (Confucianism). In the Judeo-Christian tradition, the paradigmatic alignment of state and religion is the Davidic kingdom. With Constantine, Christianity became the religion of the Roman state. In Islam, the alignment between state and religion has its origins with the prophet Mohammad, who was both a religious and political leader. The Great Schism between Eastern (Byzantine) and Western Empires was a split between the Roman Catholic Church and the Orthodox Church in","PeriodicalId":43214,"journal":{"name":"Critical Research on Religion","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2022-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43591637","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: Jörg Rüpke, Religion and its History: A Critical Inquiry","authors":"Kevin Schilbrack","doi":"10.1177/20503032221075377","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/20503032221075377","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43214,"journal":{"name":"Critical Research on Religion","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2022-03-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44967210","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":"Nature and the native","authors":"T. Vasko","doi":"10.1177/20503032221075386","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/20503032221075386","url":null,"abstract":"Critics of climate collapse and colonization in the Americas rightly identify the origin of these twin crises in early modern political theologies. They seek to combat these crises with new political theologies of nature that pay greater reverence to “native” peoples’ ecological knowledge. But in doing so, these critics subtly, perhaps unwittingly, recall elements of the colonial power they criticize. I explain why this is the case, examining Bartolomé de Las Casas’s use of naturales in his critiques of Spanish Conquest, and Thomas Harriot’s use of naturall inhabitants in his writing on English colonization to describe “native” Americans. Both authors aimed to promote politico-theological reverence for “native” peoples and their relationships with “nature.” This set into motion a productive form of power operating in modern political theologies. This power works by legitimizing the European-Christian presence in the Americas through their ability to recognize, respect, and protect “native” relationships with “nature.”","PeriodicalId":43214,"journal":{"name":"Critical Research on Religion","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2022-03-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43211440","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: Ali Shariati Expanding the Sociological Canon","authors":"A. Nour","doi":"10.1177/20503032221075381","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/20503032221075381","url":null,"abstract":"antagonistic dichotomies such as legal/illegal. Can aims to reveal that the conventional and Eurocentric understandings cannot map the Ottoman experience’s entangled dynamics. That leads to another well-accomplished aim of this book, which broadens one’s categories of understanding about “the genealogy of Ottoman subjecthood” (179) by adding the local experiences, circumstances, and stories of hajjis, which could be one of the representatives of the whole entangled picture of Ottoman sovereignty. Finally, it would not be an exaggeration to claim that Can makes neat and thought-provoking contributions to both the literature of Ottoman history and religion, which also puts her theoretical discussions beyond the field of Ottoman studies. Considering all the discussions mentioned above and thanks to the book’s firm and comprehensive language, I highly recommend it for academic circles and non-academics interested in Ottoman history and the sociology of religion.","PeriodicalId":43214,"journal":{"name":"Critical Research on Religion","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2022-03-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42092508","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: Ali Shariati Expanding the Sociological Canon","authors":"Mehdi S Shariati","doi":"10.1177/20503032221075385","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/20503032221075385","url":null,"abstract":"what Rüpke means by the term “critical” in his subtitle. He does not explain how he understands the term, but it is clear that Rüpke holds that the modernist sense of the term “religion,”widely taken for granted today, distorts our understanding of behavior in the past and obscures how present societies became the way they are. One should therefore reflect on the concept, identify its limits, and think alternatively. If “genealogy” names a method of tracing something’s current state back through a series of formative stages in a way that motivates a novel evaluative judgment, then this book is not a genealogy of religion, but it is genealogy-adjacent. If deconstruction names a method of destabilizing a system of concepts so that one comes to see that the meaning previously taken as secured by a transcendental signified is actually the product of the differential relations within the system itself, then this book is not a deconstruction of “religion,” but it is also deconstruction–adjacent. Given Rüpke’s critique of the term, “religion” names cultural repertoires that have existed in many cultures throughout history, and “a religion” names a social structure built from with those elements. Given this critical approach, “religion” here names something that can exist in a society, even when its members do not have a concept for it. This is a realist approach to religion in history. It follows that “critical” research on religion can lead to a debunking project, that is, a critical nonrealism, or it can lead, as it does here, to a constructive revisioning of the concept, that is, a critical realism.","PeriodicalId":43214,"journal":{"name":"Critical Research on Religion","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2022-03-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41929252","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":"Bringing back the social into the sociology of religion: A response to Jean-Pierre Reed","authors":"V. Altglas","doi":"10.1177/20503032221075383","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/20503032221075383","url":null,"abstract":"This piece is a response to Jean-Pierre Reed’s review of Bringing Back the Social into the Sociology of Religion published in Critical Research on Religion. Aside from his appreciation for the contributions of this volume, Jean-Pierre Reed’s critique concentrates on three fundamental issues in relation to the agenda for a critical sociology of religion we advance: scientificism, interdisciplinarity, and politics. This response focuses on scientificism and politics in particular, since they are intimately related and at the core of this book’s evaluation of the subfield.","PeriodicalId":43214,"journal":{"name":"Critical Research on Religion","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2022-03-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41789159","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}