{"title":"Carole M. Cusack, Invented Religions: Imagination, Fiction and Faith","authors":"Caroline Tully","doi":"10.1558/jsrnc.26007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1558/jsrnc.26007","url":null,"abstract":"Carole M. Cusack, Invented Religions: Imagination, Fiction and Faith (Routledge: New York, 2010), 179 pp., $52.95 (pbk), ISBN 978-1-0320-9936-1.","PeriodicalId":43748,"journal":{"name":"Journal for the Study of Religion Nature and Culture","volume":"142 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135778418","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":"Pagan Survivals versus Surviving Paganism","authors":"Michael York","doi":"10.1558/jsrnc.26625","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1558/jsrnc.26625","url":null,"abstract":"Conner, Randy P. 2020. The Pagan Heart of the West: Embodying Ancient Beliefs and Practices from Antiquity to the Present (Oxford: Mandrake of Oxford). Frew, Donald H. 1998, ‘Methodological Flaws in Recent Studies of Historical and Modern Witchcraft’, Ethnologies 20.1: 33–66. Hutton, Ronald. 2022. Queens of the Wild: Pagan Goddesses in Christian Europe – An Investigation (New Haven and London: Yale University Press).","PeriodicalId":43748,"journal":{"name":"Journal for the Study of Religion Nature and Culture","volume":"42 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135778431","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":"Negotiating Ecological Relations Amongst Inclusive Heathens","authors":"Barbara Jane Davy","doi":"10.1558/jsrnc.24148","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1558/jsrnc.24148","url":null,"abstract":"An investigation of Winterfinding, a harvest feast, as conducted by Vindisir Kindred, a small group of contemporary Heathens in southwestern Ontario, shows how the development of ecological conscience is involved in ritual practices that negotiate meaning and environmental values. Ritual practices such as this that include animal sacrifice can embody an ecological conscience through physical practices that embed tacit learning of how to relate with others, human and otherwise. Ritual feasting and practices of making offerings in this community of contemporary Heathens is in the process of negotiating ecological relations. Participating in such practices can contribute to the formation a pro-environmental disposition and orientation, although what this means for participants continues to evolve.","PeriodicalId":43748,"journal":{"name":"Journal for the Study of Religion Nature and Culture","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135666916","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":"Trevor Schoonmaker, Spirit in the Land","authors":"Bron Taylor","doi":"10.1558/jsrnc.26584","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1558/jsrnc.26584","url":null,"abstract":"Trevor Schoonmaker, Spirit in the Land (Durham: Nasher Museum of Art, Duke University Press, 2023), 136 pp, $29.95 (pbk), ISBN: 9780938989455.","PeriodicalId":43748,"journal":{"name":"Journal for the Study of Religion Nature and Culture","volume":"30 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135729553","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":"Paradise on Earth","authors":"Caroline Tully","doi":"10.1558/jsrnc.24207","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1558/jsrnc.24207","url":null,"abstract":"Feraferia, ‘a love culture for wilderness’, is a contemporary Pagan religion that celebrates humans’ erotic union with Nature. It was the brainchild of artist, Frederick Adams (1928–2008), who in 1956 had a vision of a universal goddess and subsequently devoted himself to the divine feminine as a ‘Maiden Goddess of the Wilderness’ called Korê. Formally incorporated in 1967, Feraferia became the second Pagan church in US history, and it is still active today. Herein I examine Feraferia through an ecocritical lens, with a particular focus on the role of trees, the anthropomorphisation of nature envisioned as a young female body, ecosexuality, and the construction of henges; circular structures aligned with local topography, used as seasonal and astronomical calendars wherein ritual magic and ‘faerie enchantment’ are employed in order to heal and revitalise the natural world. I demonstrate that Feraferia’s enchanted approach to the world resonates with contemporary ecological activist thought, particularly ecofeminism and ecosexuality. I conclude that many of Feraferia’s ecospiritual concepts have value today because they can heighten conscious awareness of human situatedness within the real physical world, both on our own planet as well as within the wider surrounding space of our part of the universe.","PeriodicalId":43748,"journal":{"name":"Journal for the Study of Religion Nature and Culture","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135728604","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":"Fairies, Environmental Justice, and Re-Enchantment in Modern Pagan Narratives","authors":"Sabina Magliocco, Sadie Rittman","doi":"10.1558/jsrnc.24149","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1558/jsrnc.24149","url":null,"abstract":"This paper examines contemporary Pagan narratives about fairies, revealing themes of re-enchantment, environmental grief, and environmental justice. In these narratives, fairies are often portrayed as nature spirits and protectors of the environment who warn humans of impending disaster and suggest techniques for re-enchanting the physical environment through practices that create reciprocal relationships between humans and nature, change consciousness, and allow humans to experience an interconnected, ensouled universe. These narratives can be interpreted as belonging to a category of folk environmentalism in which expressive cultural forms provide resources for communities coping with environmental grief. They also reflect emergent vernacular ontologies which reflect contemporary Pagan efforts to re-enchant the world and shift perceptions from a naturalistic frame to one that is more animistic, in which other-than-human beings are thought to have consciousness and interiority.","PeriodicalId":43748,"journal":{"name":"Journal for the Study of Religion Nature and Culture","volume":"124 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135778422","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":"Christopher Carter, The Spirit of Soul Food: Race, Faith, and Food Justice","authors":"Sarah Robinson","doi":"10.1558/jsrnc.26172","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1558/jsrnc.26172","url":null,"abstract":"Christopher Carter, The Spirit of Soul Food: Race, Faith, and Food Justice (Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2021), 204 pp., $24.95 (pbk), ISBN: 9780252086175.","PeriodicalId":43748,"journal":{"name":"Journal for the Study of Religion Nature and Culture","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135995577","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":"Lloyd Daniel Barba, Sowing the Sacred: Mexican Pentecostal Farmworkers in California","authors":"Yara González-Justiniano","doi":"10.1558/jsrnc.26123","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1558/jsrnc.26123","url":null,"abstract":"Lloyd Daniel Barba, Sowing the Sacred: Mexican Pentecostal Farmworkers in California (New York: Oxford University Press, 2022), 349pp., $99.00 (hbk), ISBN: 9780197516560.","PeriodicalId":43748,"journal":{"name":"Journal for the Study of Religion Nature and Culture","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135995569","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":"Naveeda Khan, River Life and the Uprising of Nature","authors":"Pratap Kumar Penumala","doi":"10.1558/jsrnc.26135","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1558/jsrnc.26135","url":null,"abstract":"Naveeda Khan, River Life and the Uprising of Nature (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2023), 256pp., $26.95 (hbk), ISBN: 9781478019398.","PeriodicalId":43748,"journal":{"name":"Journal for the Study of Religion Nature and Culture","volume":"2015 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136295160","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":"Jens Koehrsen, Julia Blanc, and Fabian Huber (eds.), Religious Environmental Activism: Emerging Conflicts and Tensions in Earth Stewardship","authors":"Shawn Welch","doi":"10.1558/jsrnc.26141","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1558/jsrnc.26141","url":null,"abstract":"Jens Koehrsen, Julia Blanc, and Fabian Huber (eds.), Religious Environmental Activism: Emerging Conflicts and Tensions in Earth Stewardship (New York: Routledge, 2023), 340 pp., $128 (hbk), ISBN: 9780367862534.","PeriodicalId":43748,"journal":{"name":"Journal for the Study of Religion Nature and Culture","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136294697","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}