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{"title":"Osun Osogbo grove: the divinisation of water and the contestation of its history","authors":"O. O. Afolabi","doi":"10.1080/14755610.2023.2281369","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14755610.2023.2281369","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45190,"journal":{"name":"Culture and Religion","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138600685","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":"Catholicism, cultural nationalism and traditional dance in the Irish and Croatian communities in Australia","authors":"Jeanette Mollenhauer","doi":"10.1080/14755610.2023.2281383","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14755610.2023.2281383","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACTThis article describes the tripartite relationship between the Catholic Church, nationalism and traditional dance in the Irish and Croatian communities in Australia. Within both homeland and diasporic milieux, dance embodies culturally specific knowledge that binds communities and transmits that knowledge to subsequent generations. In Ireland, the Catholic Church not only exerted political power; it directly influenced many aspects of dance praxis. In Australia, the Church and its ancillary organisations took an active role in fostering dance activities including competitions for several decades, until specific bodies for dance administration were established. Likewise in Croatia, the Catholic Church promoted specific Croatian cultural activities such as dance through several iterations of colonisation. In Australia, the Church provided requisite infrastructure for dance activities to be replicated in the new environment. These two community case studies exemplify the vital role of the Catholic Church in supporting traditional customs to maintain cultural identity in the homeland and to support immigrants as they recontextualise that identity and reconfigure their lives in a novel environment.KEYWORDS: Catholiccultural nationalismdanceimmigrantAustralia Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Notes1. This genre is also the most publicly recognised, since it is from step dancing that Riverdance and other stage shows developed.2. There are other associations for Irish step dance, but the IDC is the one formulated by the Gaelic League, and it remains the largest and most globally dominant, including in Australia.3. The Trove database may be found at https://trove.nla.gov.au/.4. Freeman’s Journal, 1 April 1863, 5.5. The Australian, 7 January 1882, 19.6. Freeman’s Journal, 24 March 1883, 16.7. Freeman’s Journal, 10 March 1910, 17.8. National Advocate, 23 March 1915, 2.9. Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative, 31 March 1924, 16.10. Catholic Weekly, 18 March 1954, 23.11. Freeman’s Journal, 21 February 1880, 11.12. The Australian Star, 23 May 1893, 6.13. Freeman’s Journal, 8 January 1925, 11.14. The Catholic Press, 3 February, 1916, 37.15. Catholic Weekly, 10 February 1944, 7.16. LADO: National Folk Dance Ensemble of Croatia. http://www.lado.hr/en/.17. Pronounced koom-pa-nee-ah. The spelling of this word can vary; in Blato, it is usually spelled kumpanjija and because the Sydney troupe performs the dance from Blato, kumpanjija is the spelling that is used in this article.18. Vukovar is an adults’ group operating in Sydney. However, there are numerous children’s groups and the administrators of the group that I visited for fieldwork requested that I apply a pseudonym (Cvijet) to the group itself as well as to individuals associated with the group.","PeriodicalId":45190,"journal":{"name":"Culture and Religion","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136352227","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":"Markets of protection: religious rivalry, insecurity, and illegality in Cape Town’s urban fringes","authors":"Marian Burchardt","doi":"10.1080/14755610.2023.2277441","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14755610.2023.2277441","url":null,"abstract":"This article explores the multiple links between Pentecostalism and the production of security in Cape Town’s isiXhosa-speaking townships and traces the ways in which Pentecostal churches have become embroiled with Cape Town’s criminal economies, illegality and violence. In these marginalised urban spaces, which are also territories of relegation, Pentecostal pastors compete with other spiritual specialists who lay claims to spiritual protection just like the state’s law-enforcement agencies over the meanings of crime and violence and legitimate ways to counter them. This competition thrives on the fact that physical harm and the associated states of victimhood are seen as resulting not only from criminal assaults but also from the congeries of spiritual forces that enable them. Simultaneously, there is mounting competition within the religious field and increasingly strenuous assertions of religious sovereignty vis-à-vis the secular state. I argue that all of these developments have contributed to Pentecostalism’s links with illegality. Importantly, capacities to wield spiritual power are as central for understanding the dynamics of the market of spiritual protection against risks as are accusations that those wielding them do so with malign intent. The ambivalent perceptions of Pentecostalism with regard to crime and protection against harm therefore echo those of witchcraft.","PeriodicalId":45190,"journal":{"name":"Culture and Religion","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135343371","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":"Declining of Chinese popular religion in the totalitarian era: the case of <i>nuo</i>","authors":"Lan Li","doi":"10.1080/14755610.2023.2260016","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14755610.2023.2260016","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT In the early reform era, various forms of popular religion regained their role in maintaining moral order and low-level social control in rural communities. It was one of the main reasons that the Chinese Communist Party, a political party espousing state atheism, allowed and even endorsed the revival and flourishing of popular religion. Following on from that, though, the profound socio-economic transformation of the Economic Reform era began to reshape the landscape of Chinese rural society. As a consequence, the divine sanctioning power and communal function inherent in popular religion weakened, and thereby the undermining of the socio-religious function of enforcing moral and social norms derived from it. This then contributed to the decline of rural grassroots autonomous organisations which in turn allowed the authoritarian party-state to strengthen its autocratic power and exercise direct and uncompromising political control over Chinese rural populations. This article addresses the phenomenon from a socio-anthropological perspective, using the example of nuo, a form of popular religion commonly practiced in south-west China. This work is based on the author’s continuous decades-long fieldwork and research on Chinese popular religion.","PeriodicalId":45190,"journal":{"name":"Culture and Religion","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134907643","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":"Exploring spaces of contact: intercultural encounters at Jewish and Buddhist religious centres in Groningen, Europe","authors":"Sharal T. Correa","doi":"10.1080/14755610.2023.2269270","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14755610.2023.2269270","url":null,"abstract":"Societies and communities are destined and determined to change when they are open to crossing cultures. The phenomenon acknowledges diverse cultural adaptations, leading to new global goals for global interaction. Similarly, several studies demonstrate the existence of contact and engagement among diverse communities across Europe, fostering intercultural dialogue. As a result, the study seeks to investigate those spaces, specifically religious centres in Europe, that may serve as potential places of contact for diverse communities using the theories of ‘contact zones’, ‘hybrid identity’, particularly ‘organic hybridity’, ‘interfaith and interreligious encounters’ and ‘interculturalism’. The empirical study examines the intercultural interactions and exchanges occurring in the Jewish and Buddhist religious centres in Groningen to recognise how public spaces, particularly religious centres demonstrate the emergence of interculturality in Europe. Through interviews with officials, the study investigates cultural contacts and exchanges among disparate communities in the Buddhist and Jewish religious spaces of Groningen, The Netherlands. These interviews are further analysed using Arthur W Frank’s ‘Dialogical Narrative Analysis’ approach. Therefore, the paper examines the emergence of interculturality through experiences of contact among diverse European cultural or religious communities, using the framework of contact zones, hybrid identity, interfaith and interreligious studies, and interculturalism.","PeriodicalId":45190,"journal":{"name":"Culture and Religion","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135888663","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 ideology of idoneousness: Mary Anne Hilton and Mercedes Gutierrez as symbols of women’s exclusion from spaces of power in Chilean Pentecostalism","authors":"Miguel Ángel Mansilla, Luis Orellana Urtubia","doi":"10.1080/14755610.2023.2255310","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14755610.2023.2255310","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACTThis article describes the ideology of idoneousness as one of the Pentecostal principles that explain the forms taken by the integration of women in structures of religious power. Their access to and exclusions from power in Chilean Pentecostalism is concealed through the sexualisation of roles based on the stronger masculine/weaker feminine (virile/mulieris) duality, underpinned by the head/hand organic frame. This conceptual proposal was complemented with Pierre Bourdieu’s constructivist structuralism, and focuses on two women who formed part of the foundational myth of Pentecostalism: Mary Anne Hilton and Mercedes Gutierrez. In our methodology we included the analysis of the two institutional journals from the early history of the Pentecostal church history in Chile, namely: Chile Pentecostal (1910–1927 and from (1933–1979), and Fuego de Pentecostés (1928–2019).KEYWORDS: PentecostalismChilewomenidoneousnesschurch leadership Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Notes1. Hereinafter Mary Hilton.2. We will not resort to the sociological tradition to define the concept of ideology, so widely developed and discussed, but which, at the same time, has lost relevance over other concepts such as Vattino’s weak thought or Derrida’s deconstruction. But for our case, the concept of ideology seems more appropriate, although anachronistic, to strengthen the concept of idoneousness.3. Laura Ester Contreras. ‘A los jóvenes evangélicos’. Chile Evangélico, 1909, nº 12, pp. 3–4; Laura Ester Contreras. ‘La anchura del amor del Padre’. Chile Evangélico. Concepción, 1909, nº 18, p. 1; Laura Ester Contreras. “¿Por qué buscáis entre los muertos al que vive? Chile Evangélico. 1910, nº 22, pp. 1–2; Laura Ester Contreras. ‘Ecos de la Conferencia Metodista’. Chile Evangélico, 1910, nº 24, pp. 1–2; Laura Ester Contreras. ‘Alfa y Omega’. Chile Evangélico. 1910, nº 30, p. 2; Laura Ester Contreras. ‘La pesca milagrosa’. Chile Evangélico. 1910, nº 33, pp. 1–2; Laura Ester Contreras. ‘Hojas de sanidad para las naciones’. Chile Evangélico. 1910, nº 35, p. 2; Laura Ester Contreras. ‘No temáis’. Chile Evangélico. 1910, nº 45, p. 19.4. Chile Evangélico. 1909, nº 9, p. 1; Chile Evangélico. 1909, nº 10, p. 3; Chile Evangélico. 1909, nº 10, p. 3.5. Chile Evangélico, 1909, nº 12, p. 4; Chile Evangélico. 1909 nº. 13; Chile Evangélico.1909, nº, 14, p. 3; Chile Evangélico, 1910, nº. 3; Chile Evangélico. 1909, nº. 16, p. 3.6. See trip of Mary Hilton to the United States of North America in: Chile Pentecostal, 1913, 40: 7.7. ‘Teachers and volunteers of the Civic Literacy Corps were yesterday awarded with honourable distinctions for their labours’. (La Mañana, June 14, 1948, 2).8. This was an independent newspaper published in the city of Concepción by a Presbyterian pastor (prone to the Pentecostal movement) between September 1909 and November 1910. During its short existence, this newspaper covered the details of the nascent Chilean Pe","PeriodicalId":45190,"journal":{"name":"Culture and Religion","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135477632","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":"Colin Kaepernick, Tim Tebow, and the magic of comparison: muscular Christianity as white racial frame","authors":"Zachary T. Smith, Samuel Winemiller, Natalie Welch","doi":"10.1080/14755610.2023.2255702","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14755610.2023.2255702","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACTThis article explores how muscular Christianity operates as a media frame for athlete religiosity and how the muscular Christian frame contributes to essentialist and racialised stereotypes about Black and white athletes, which in turn reinforce ‘common-sense’ assumptions around black and white religion that perpetuate and transmit white supremacist values. We present these findings starting from a critical comparative media analysis of athlete religiosity, articulated with respect to Colin Kaepernick and Tim Tebow. Our analysis produced two primary findings. First, while both Kaepernick and Tebow were framed as ‘muscular Christians’ by news media, this framing was racialised, constituting both athletes within what Feagin termed a ‘White racial frame’ (2013, 14). Second, the comparative media sub-discourse of a Kaepernick/Tebow comparison itself functioned to extend the white racial frame by essentializing Kaepernick’s protest as ‘Black Christian progressive’ action and dichotomising this as necessary and compatible with conservative white evangelicalism. The underlying ideas about muscular Christianity in these media representations are not neutral. Presupposing whiteness, they obscure the active construction of a white, masculine, (evangelical) Protestant religiosity against which other representations are measured, sometimes explicitly, but more often implicitly. The article concludes with implications for understanding the cultural politics of Kaepernick and Tebow, adding to extant ‘cultural backlash’ explanations.KEYWORDS: Colin KaepernickTim Tebowsport and religionmuscular Christianitymedia framing AcknowledgementThis article benefited greatly from discussions with Mark Hulsether, Rosalind Hackett, Steven Waller, and many former students at the University of Tennessee and Penn State Harrisburg. We also drew theoretical inspiration from the American Examples program at the University of Alabama. Any definciencies are our own.Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Notes1. We don’t intend this to be read as an indictment of Kaepernick’s protest, or the counter-hegemonic civil formations stoked by it. Rather, we are highlighting the fundamentally contested nature of these sorts of public visions and discourses and the ways that these are sometimes re-articulated.2. Some exceptions include Hawzen and Newman (Citation2017), Kusz (Citation2007), Newman and Giardina (Citation2011), and Thangaraj (2019) in sport studies. In religious studies, see Martin (Citation2018), Scholes (Citation2018, Scholes Citation2019a, Scholes Citation2019b), Smith (Citation2015), and Woodbine (Citation2015).3. See Appendix A for a list of media references cited in this article.4. We have intentionally chosen the more relational language of mentorship over the forensic language of ‘auditor’ as it better reflects the process of intellectual discussion and formation that took place.5. The Root does feature an article on ","PeriodicalId":45190,"journal":{"name":"Culture and Religion","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135864505","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":"Contesting empire religion: coloniality and sticky media discourses","authors":"Enqi Weng","doi":"10.1080/14755610.2023.2255305","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14755610.2023.2255305","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACTThe concept of religion in settler-colonial Australia is intricately intertwined with whiteness and Christianity and introduced during colonisation. Its influence is evident not only in its integration into Australian society but also in the exclusionary measures within religious communities. Due to Australia’s colonial history, ‘religion’ is often narrowly interpreted, with a conservative, moralistic lens influenced by Eurocentric perspectives. This interpretation tends to have an affective ‘sticky’ dimension that generates significant media discussion. This paper examines the prevalence of ‘empire religion’ in media discourses, and aims to uncover and critique the presence of coloniality in discussions about religion. By adopting a decolonial lens to explore Australian religions and spirituality, this paper argues that sticky media discourses on religion can be seen as reverbs of Australia’s ‘colonial wound’. These reverbs collectively serve as an active resistance and deconstruction of coloniality, urging for greater truth-telling, healing, and a more comprehensive understanding of Australian religions and spirituality.KEYWORDS: Media discoursesaffective discoursesdecolonisingrace and religion AcknowledgementsAn earlier draft of this manuscript was first presented at the Australian Association for the Study of Religion Conference in December 2021. I wish to thank the two reviewers for their comments to improve on this paper. I am also grateful to Dr Steven Tomlins and Andrew Stapleton for their support in proofreading and editing earlier drafts of this manuscript.Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).","PeriodicalId":45190,"journal":{"name":"Culture and Religion","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136236819","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":"‘We’re all gonna die anyway’: the eschatological tranquillity of Russian Baptists during the pandemic","authors":"Igor Mikeshin","doi":"10.1080/14755610.2023.2253332","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14755610.2023.2253332","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The article discusses how the Russian Baptist community reacted to the COVID-19 pandemic and state-imposed restrictions. After initial fears of the unknown and unprecedented threat, most believers normalised the situation and positioned it in the context of their faith, Gospel message, and eschatological expectations. I analyse their eschatological tranquillity in the context of the Russian Baptist interpretative tradition of applying the Bible to everyday life, and moral potentialities that the pandemic and restrictions created for believers.","PeriodicalId":45190,"journal":{"name":"Culture and Religion","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43554825","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":"Ontological fusion of reality and fiction: implicitly religious communication through comic strips","authors":"I. Jirásek","doi":"10.1080/14755610.2023.2249139","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14755610.2023.2249139","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Religious content may be communicated by means of a comic strip combining image- and text-based narration. The article focuses on the implicitly religious presentation of a completely profane image series through an analysis of a Czech comic strip about a club of five boys. As opposed to the interpretation of a comic strip as a fictive world with an ontological status of unrealised possibilities, this article prefers the category of a possible world realised through the reader’s experience. In this way, the distinctive world of comics provides a platform similar to the Platonic ideas or Jungian archetypes, linking the profane and sacred spheres. A completely non-religious comic strip created by an author indifferent to religion may thus be understood as a communication of the values and ideas of implicit religion.","PeriodicalId":45190,"journal":{"name":"Culture and Religion","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-08-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44195897","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}