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{"title":"The saints of Santa Ana: faith and ethnicity in a Mexican majority city","authors":"M. Delgado","doi":"10.1080/21567689.2022.2120659","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21567689.2022.2120659","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44955,"journal":{"name":"Politics Religion & Ideology","volume":"21 1","pages":"385 - 387"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2022-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81897212","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Commodified Communion: Eucharist, Consumer Culture, and the Practice of Everyday Life","authors":"Russell Belk","doi":"10.1080/21567689.2022.2112711","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21567689.2022.2112711","url":null,"abstract":"regional focus on Abya Yala/Afro/Latino América, Escobar’s decolonial lens and focus on the (re)localization of action invite any reader to extrapolate his ideas to other contexts. Nevertheless, the book’s greatest strength is also its greatest weakness: it raises a plentitude of intriguing and extremely relevant questions that it does not intend to answer. This even evokes a slight sense of dissonance within Escobar’s main argument and his commitment to ‘the kinds of politics that defend a deeply relational understanding of life’ (xiii): On the one hand, the book aims to make radical claims by shifting towards radical relationality. On the other hand, it then compromises this radicality by continuing to accommodate political designs that may not sufficiently grasp the interconnectedness of life and the resulting necessity to see all forms of (in)justice as interdependent. If ‘pluriversal politics itself involves ... inhabiting a spectrum from the radically relational to the modernist liberal’ (xvii), one cannot help but wonder if this is a pluriverse that the planet wants and needs. Hence, a tension remains as to whether Pluriversal Politics is actually radical enough. Finally, returning to the main goal of the book and Escobar’s explicit request to evaluate it ‘by the extent to which it succeeds in opening up the... imagination to... an ontological politics towards the pluriverse’ (x), it certainly accomplishes its aim. Even more so, it invites the reader to re-imagine pluriversal politics not as the mere designs for pluriversal transitions (xvi) but as the strategies that foreground an acknowledgement of a multiplicity and hierarchy of worlds and, consequently, a redistribution of power. Such a step may require what Latour called a metaphysical ‘bomb’, referring to Viveiros de Castro’s work, rather than an exclusively relational lens. But, who knows; in the spirit of imagining possibility differently, perhaps there is indeed another ‘possible’ possible beyond the one(s) presented by Escobar?","PeriodicalId":44955,"journal":{"name":"Politics Religion & Ideology","volume":"19 1","pages":"366 - 368"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2022-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82522237","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"When Politics are Sacralised: Comparative Perspectives on Religious Claims and Nationalism","authors":"Halil İbrahim Ergül","doi":"10.1080/21567689.2022.2112722","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21567689.2022.2112722","url":null,"abstract":"became available in the late fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries. This marked a shift like that which Alonso discusses regarding the liturgy after the 2nd Vatican Council: from grace through the actions of the priest (ex opere operantis) to those that occur from the work performed (ex opere operato). Yet both changes also accompanied a marked increase in individualism, which Alonso attributes to the rise of free market capitalism. The second proof of marketing’s power offered by Alonso is Thomas Frank’s short chapter, ‘Why Johnny Can’t Dissent’ (Frank and Weiland 1997), expanded upon in Frank’s (1997) The Conquest of Cool and Heath and Potter’s (2004) Nation of Rebels. The thesis is that marketing turns our dissent into a commodity like the car for countercultural rebels or ‘indie’ music or hipster beer and sells it back to us. Such opportunistic commodification sounds the death knell for resistance in Alonso’s view. Americans have long said you can’t fight City Hall and Alonso concedes that today you can’t fight consumer culture. And so, Alonso concludes, we must get over it. His liturgic real politik involves an updating of liturgies without condoning excess. We can put a Christmas tree in the narthex, but Santa is perhaps a bridge too far. But there is more. A final parable offered by Alonso is arguably his most telling. It lies in the observations fromWalter Benjamin’s (1999) unfinished Arcades project. Writing in the 1930s, Benjamin wandered through the former flaneur’s paradise of the Paris arcades where strollers could once gaze at the shoppers who gazed at each other and the glittering attractions of French consumer culture in full swing just a decade or two earlier. But the shoppers and the goods had moved on to department stores and high-end boutiques.What was left were fragments and the debris of a commodity culture. Benjamin saw in these leftovers ‘traces of people’s deepest hopes and desires.’ In one of the chapters of the posthumously assembled translation of The Arcades Project, Benjamin muses on the dreams these fashions, advertising, and buildings must have evoked. He called it an awakening from sleep and compared it to Proust’s rich memories after the familiar taste of petite Madeleines and lime blossom tea. So, the awakening is also a reawakening and a remembering of dreams past. In these glimmers fromprior dreams of a consumer utopia, Alonso senses not only the refuse of a consumer culture; he also hears cries of hope. We are reminded of the cries to awake in the wake of George Floyd’s murder in 2021. The resulting cry for woke culture has reverberated round the world. If a single death can have this impact, just maybe there can be a similar reawakening in Christian culture.","PeriodicalId":44955,"journal":{"name":"Politics Religion & Ideology","volume":"478 1","pages":"368 - 371"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2022-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78119983","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Recasting Islamic Law: Religion and the Nation State in Egyptian Constitution Making","authors":"Hanan Merheb","doi":"10.1080/21567689.2022.2112749","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21567689.2022.2112749","url":null,"abstract":"European context, but also particularly within the North American one. Often, policy circles seem to suggest that multiculturalism is disdained for its increased emphasis on racial, ethnic, and religious diversity, yet that is not the full motivation according to Demir. She argues that an emphasis on diversity has made it possible for the diaspora to talk back against the metropole, which is seen as a path for minorities to weaken the White nationalist, hegemonic, and supremacist understanding of the power structure. In fact, this book relates to the notion of racializing White working class communities as the main groups that are being left behind, rather than utilizing class and the experiences with empire to identify socio-economic marginalization for many diverse groups.Diaspora as translation and decolonization is exceptionally thought-provoking, as Demir’s work encourages new productive pathways for scholars interested in rethinking decolonizing activities and translations among diasporas.","PeriodicalId":44955,"journal":{"name":"Politics Religion & Ideology","volume":"5 1","pages":"376 - 378"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2022-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87807649","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Diaspora as Translation and Decolonisation","authors":"Vera Eccarius-Kelly","doi":"10.1080/21567689.2022.2112741","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21567689.2022.2112741","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44955,"journal":{"name":"Politics Religion & Ideology","volume":"22 1","pages":"374 - 376"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2022-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73748624","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"‘The Day the Dragon Licks Its Flank, You’ll Find Us at Your Side’: Self-Heroization and Revolutionary Organization","authors":"E. van Ree","doi":"10.1080/21567689.2022.2098724","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21567689.2022.2098724","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article argues that people locked in extreme conditions involving life-and-death risks on a long-term basis, often undergo a process of ‘self-heroization’. Self-heroization includes the adoption of a heroic ethos and of an ‘epic consciousness’, i.e. people come to experience themselves as heroes living out an epic they themselves ‘write’ through their actions. The process will be explored at the hand of modern armed-struggle revolutionaries. Four closely entangled mechanisms will be explored. First, cognitively, the revolutionaries’ heroic self-understanding reflects their violent and high-risk (heroic) lifestyle. Second, the modern revolutionaries’ heroic ethos (a hybrid of courage and sacrifice; knowledge; and organization) emotionally endows them with a fighting spirit that allows them to perform their violent work. Third, self-heroization helps revolutionaries coping with their physically and existentially challenged, uprooted lives, by forging a sense of a higher, more glorious personality. And fourth, the adoption of an epic consciousness helps revolutionaries, who are mostly the weaker party in the conflict with the state, in boosting themselves for victory.","PeriodicalId":44955,"journal":{"name":"Politics Religion & Ideology","volume":"7 1","pages":"265 - 286"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2022-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81330321","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Greater India Experiment: Hindutva and the Northeast","authors":"M. Gergan","doi":"10.1080/21567689.2022.2112732","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21567689.2022.2112732","url":null,"abstract":"because even though Sells does a good job of delving into historical parameters of what constituted sacralised politics of the regime, his analysis seems insufficient regarding how nationalism’s flirt with the religion took place in that context. Partly due to analytical restrictions and shortage of literature on the specific geography being studied, Sells ends up giving a historical account of Wahhabism, pan-Islamism, and Saudi-Western relations. Lastly, analyses throughout the book could have been methodically more diverse so that the societal aspects of some presumptuous arguments like ‘for many contemporary Hindus nationalism has overtaken the function of faith’ (p. 20) would be backed by solid empirical evidence provided by representative surveys, interviews, and whatnot. Setting these details aside, this book’s sophisticated theoretical framework and its richness of cases discussed from various parts of the world are powerful enough to gain novel insights concerning the relations between state, society, communal attachments, and pervasive religious beliefs. Its interdisciplinary investigation of how and to what extent sacralization in the political domain takes place has the potential to open new research interests in the field.","PeriodicalId":44955,"journal":{"name":"Politics Religion & Ideology","volume":"47 1","pages":"371 - 374"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2022-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86072562","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Out of many faiths: religious diversity and the American promise","authors":"Sher Afgan Tareen","doi":"10.1080/21567689.2022.2091087","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21567689.2022.2091087","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44955,"journal":{"name":"Politics Religion & Ideology","volume":"9 1","pages":"260 - 262"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2022-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78644218","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Future of Immortality: Remaking Life and Death in Contemporary Russia","authors":"J. Quijada","doi":"10.1080/21567689.2022.2083783","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21567689.2022.2083783","url":null,"abstract":"populism and authoritarianism that have been resurgent in recent years. Kaminski’s conclusion is that Islam and liberalism have fundamental ontological incompatibilities. They are fundamentally divided on the conceptualization and hierarchy between the religious and the worldly (dīnī and dunyāwī). Secularism, a core condition of possibility for liberalism, is completely alien from Islam and even the Arabic language (except as a modern loan word). In the end, liberalism is inextricable from its Enlightenment origins, which will never be compatible with a religion that remains tied to its founding miraculous moment in the past. What is to be done in the face of these intractable, core disagreements about the nature of reality and the source of moral knowledge? Kaminski closes by calling for a more generalized ethos of tolerance. Without becoming liberals, Muslims would do well to recognize the historical fact of pluralism and not expect universal adherence to Islam to be the precondition for pursuing justice and cooperation in the world. Indeed, both Kaminski’s opening salvo and conclusion are more liberal than perhaps the general tenor of the book would suggest. He closes by calling for greater individual commitment to practices of toleration and pluralism based on the view that ‘moral progress is ultimately made at the individual level and this begins by recognizing everyone’s inherent moral worth,’ averring that this would be the position of both John Rawls and the Prophet Muh ammad. Indeed, his basic stance on the encounter between Islam and liberalism seems to be that since ‘generalized lower-order similarities between Islam and liberalism should be seen primarily as incidental to rather than indicative of any deeper discursive congruence’ we should avoid the search for a foundational metaphysical agreement between Islam and liberalism and instead search for tangible, concrete, and specific points of consensus and conciliation. This is, without a doubt, both reflective of common sense but also the most we can hope for if both liberals and Muslims are going to retain a coherent, integral, and defensible understanding of and commitment to their own traditions.","PeriodicalId":44955,"journal":{"name":"Politics Religion & Ideology","volume":"38 1","pages":"248 - 251"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2022-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82895645","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Faithful Participation: The ‘Ulama in Bangladeshi Politics","authors":"M. Islam","doi":"10.1080/21567689.2022.2082416","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21567689.2022.2082416","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The ‘ulama have an important position in Muslim society. They hold influence not only in the socio-religious domain but also in the political domain. This article aims to examine the religio-political roles of the ‘ulama in Bangladesh. The examination has been done through an exhaustive and critical content analysis of published secondary literature about the ‘ulama and politics. The article argues that the Bangladeshi ‘ulama are diverse and have shown their religio-political flexibility throughout recent history. The ‘ulama have also played effective religio-political roles in times of sociopolitical change. Their roles have also varied from time to time in accordance with the sociopolitical conditions. The article also shows that the ‘ulama have gained influence under center-right Governments and lost it under center-left Governments in post-independent Bangladesh.","PeriodicalId":44955,"journal":{"name":"Politics Religion & Ideology","volume":"26 1","pages":"177 - 203"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2022-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76815643","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}