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{"title":"The ritual incorporation and cross-cultural communication in Camau, Vietnam: a case study of the Tianhou cult","authors":"Ngoc Tho Nguyen","doi":"10.1080/14755610.2022.2140686","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14755610.2022.2140686","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Tianhou (天后) is a popular religious figure rooted in Fujian, China. Historically, she was continuously ‘standardised’ by late imperial China, making this character a standard symbol. In the late 17th century, Chinese immigrants propagated the Tianhou cult in Southern Vietnam, further developed, and made Tianhou the identity marker of their community. However, in Camau and other places of Southern Vietnam, this symbol became partially changed due to the process of localisation and cross-cultural exchange. The Chinese successfully incorporate Chinese Tianhou rituals with Vietnamese family rites (especially the worships of Kitchen God and ancestors) to gain both community consolidation and cross-ethnic integration. The illusionary incorporation effectively consolidates the ties between peoples and improves the position of the ethnic Chinese in the local society. This paper mainly applies the concept of ‘inventing tradition’ and Seligman’s and Weller’s (2012) viewpoint of the cultural interaction of notation, ritual and shared experience to generalise the nature and significance of liturgical transformation in the Tianhou cult among the ethnic Chinese in Camau. The study shows that cultural adaptation, as a means for survival and evolution, has been the goal of an endless struggle among the Chinese in contemporary Vietnam.","PeriodicalId":45190,"journal":{"name":"Culture and Religion","volume":"22 1","pages":"6 - 24"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48972099","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 influence of religion on beliefs of stewardship, dominionship and controlling god towards pro-environmental support","authors":"Sophayo Khamrang Varah, Eknee Khongrei, Mirinchonme Mahongnao, Franky Varah","doi":"10.1080/14755610.2023.2177317","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14755610.2023.2177317","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Studies on the relationship between religious activity and environmental issues are becoming increasingly significant in view of the enormous environmental difficulties confronting modern civilisation. The study of the relationship between religion and nature has produced contradictory results. Some studies found that religion had a significant influence on people’s attitude toward nature, whereas others found the opposite. The goal of this study is to see how the predictor (stewardship, dominion, and belief in a controlling God) mediated the link between religiosity and pro-environmental support. We conducted an online experiment (N = 280) on the Tangkhul Naga in Northeast India. The findings show that stewardship has a direct and substantial association with religiosity, but dominionship and belief in a controlling God do not. Tangkhul Nagas indicate that people or communities with stewardship tendencies are more inclined to support environmental causes. This paper contends that a strong inclination of stewardship and pro-environmental activism stems from their ancestor’s belief system and their way of life in which they embraced animism and worshipped nature prior to accepting Christianity, as evident from literature and folklores. This paper aims to ascertain that such a belief system is critical at a time when global societies are attempting to minimise the present environmental crisis.","PeriodicalId":45190,"journal":{"name":"Culture and Religion","volume":"22 1","pages":"84 - 101"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45896204","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":"God says ‘gay rights’: queering Christian theology in the Good Omens fandom","authors":"Valentina Romanzi","doi":"10.1080/14755610.2023.2177316","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14755610.2023.2177316","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT In this essay I investigate how fandom discourse comments on, adapts, and reinvents existing theology. Using a selection of Good Omens fan works and ‘meta’ online posts as a case study, I argue that they welcome instances of queer theology while moving forward issues pertaining to the LGBTQ+ liberation movement. In expanding and altering the source material, fan fiction authors retrieve Biblical myths to legitimise the inclusion of queer individuals in Christian theology – the stated intent of the LGBTQ+ liberation movement. Additionally, they often offer a revisited, inclusive depiction of God as the ‘ur-ally’, framing them/her/him as an ‘ineffable’ figure made of encompassing and all-accepting love. Moreover, Good Omens fan fiction situates the binary forces of Heaven and Hell as the antagonists to the much more nuanced and queer-coded protagonists, who embrace humanity and reject notions of hard-set dichotomies. This celebration of queerness as opposed to strict dualisms fits into the purported goals of queer theology, which has no direct interest in finding a place for queer people within the existing Christian tradition, but rather works towards the dismantling of harmful dualities.","PeriodicalId":45190,"journal":{"name":"Culture and Religion","volume":"22 1","pages":"64 - 83"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41362967","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":"Building movements through active refusal","authors":"Anupama M Ranawana, Federico Settler","doi":"10.1080/14755610.2021.2227308","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14755610.2021.2227308","url":null,"abstract":"In this latest issue of Culture and Religion, we have a series of articles that raise questions on how communities are formed and how they look to survive. Through different emphases, the articles provide interesting reflections on how religious communities define their collective identity, as well as how they pursue their freedom from institutional rules, historical structures and even the disciplining of gendered language. Sophayo Kamrang Varah et al.’s essay ‘The influence of religion on beliefs of stewardship, dominionship and controlling god towards pro-environmental support’, for example, shows how spirituality and spiritual identity are linked critically to the relationship of the community with the land, as well as the centrality of ancestral belief systems. This rejects or refuses an all-controlling God and centres the spirituality of nature and is this predicated on stewardship rather than dominion. It also highlights the importance of literature and folklore, that is, forms of storytelling, in building this collective identity, and particularly in how it affects the Christian identity of the Tangkhul Naga community that was studied for this project. In two of the articles featured, we also have a continued focus on how narratives are developed, particularly in how communities are breaking apart and then rewriting stories and building identities that are closer to their lived experience. One of these articles is Gabriel Apata’s ‘How Pentecostalism Emerged as a form of Resistance to Racial Oppression in the US’, which argues for Pentecostalism as the first organised black Protestant movements of the postbellum years, finding roots for this in African culture and black cultural expressionism, and particularly centring Lewison’s argument that Classic American Pentecostalism developed out of the religious expression of slave communities. Apata notes five cultural influences: oral, theology and witness, maximum participation and inclusion of dreams and visions, and the link between body and mind that make up this grassrooted and spontaneous theology. In making this argument, Apata’s work also links back to previous editorial arguments we have made regarding transformation and transgression, and asks us to consider what occurs when we centre an ontology of spirit. Valentina Romanzi’s ‘God says “gay rights”: queering Christian theology in the Good Omens fandom’ continues this theme of the breaking up of a narrative and how religious communities express narratives in grassroots or ‘crowd’ based forms. Romanzi’s focus is fanfiction as a site of collective CULTURE AND RELIGION 2021, VOL. 22, NO. 1, 1–5 https://doi.org/10.1080/14755610.2021.2227308","PeriodicalId":45190,"journal":{"name":"Culture and Religion","volume":"22 1","pages":"1 - 5"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44752279","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":"‘Skirting heaven, skirting hell’: the maternal perspective of Catholic women on abortion and the recent restrictions in abortion law in Poland","authors":"J. Krotofil, Dominika Motak, Dorota Wójciak, Dagmara Mętel","doi":"10.1080/14755610.2022.2119266","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14755610.2022.2119266","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT In this paper we explore how young Polish Catholic mothers navigate the dominant discourses on abortion in light of the recent tightening of legislation in Poland. We draw on theoretical considerations about the relationships between norms, subjectivity, agency and resistance and propose ‘maternal knowledge’ as a central concept for our analysis. Our data consists of twenty-eight in-depth interviews conducted with mothers who self-identify as Catholics. We demonstrate how individual women engage with the three authoritative knowledges on abortion, namely the legal framework, the teaching of the Catholic Church and the medical knowledge, and accept, reject or revise their main premises by mobilising the lived maternal knowledge. The results of our analysis challenge the widely shared identification of the Catholic faith with the ‘pro-life’ orientation and reveal the complexities and contradictions of individual stances, which are often inconsistent with the official teaching of the Church.","PeriodicalId":45190,"journal":{"name":"Culture and Religion","volume":"21 1","pages":"320 - 338"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45075937","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 Muslim: Islamophobia as disembodiment","authors":"Ipsita Chatterjee","doi":"10.1080/14755610.2022.2125545","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14755610.2022.2125545","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Islamophobia is not just a fear of people ascribing to the religion of Islam, if that was the case simple religious conversions would erase hatred. In the world of surging Alt-Right movements, Islamophobia embodies racism, anti-migrant xenophobia, and orientalism. This article explores Alt-Right groups in the US and Europe, traces their ideological gurus, deconstructs political speeches, reports of rightwing think tanks to understand how Islamophobia is a process of disembodiment. Inspired by Bourdieu’s habitus, and feminist work on embodiment/disembodiment, this article argues that the Muslim narrative thoroughly disembodies the Muslim body. Disembodiment is annihilation before corporeal death ensues, the Muslim does not get to mark her corporeal and intellectual existence. Disembodiment nullifies the Muslim’s life, she is only valuable in death, because disembodiment reclaims her death as a vanquished terrorist, as a murdered jihadi, or a bombed city where weapons of mass destruction or uranium may have existed.","PeriodicalId":45190,"journal":{"name":"Culture and Religion","volume":"21 1","pages":"339 - 358"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48098387","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":"From nearly white to brown: nation, identity, and the racialization of Muslim Americans","authors":"A. A. Barreto, Omar K. Sindi","doi":"10.1080/14755610.2022.2136225","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14755610.2022.2136225","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Scholars debate elites’ capacity to shape the parameters of national belonging. Hard constructivists believe elites have tremendous leverage, while soft constructivists caution that elites face severe constraints in this process. We address this debate in our study of Muslim Americans. Recently political elites tried to integrate Muslim Americans by expanding an ascriptive interpretation of American identity: from WASP, to white Christian, to pan-Abrahamic. This attempted incorporation was met by a potent wave of Islamophobia after 11 September 2001. One consequence of this rejection was an increasing number of Muslim Americans identifying themselves as, and being perceived by others as, people of colour. Elites underestimated deeply-entrenched beliefs that resist expanding American-ness beyond white Christians. They face fewer constraints integrating new groups into the non-white category. We contend the debate over hard and soft construction must be circumscribed by the particular aspects or features elites are attempting to objectify.","PeriodicalId":45190,"journal":{"name":"Culture and Religion","volume":"21 1","pages":"409 - 427"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47088769","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":"Transitions in culture and religion II: body, agency and “telling our stories”","authors":"Federico Settler, Anupama M Ranawana","doi":"10.1080/14755610.2023.2176732","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14755610.2023.2176732","url":null,"abstract":"of","PeriodicalId":45190,"journal":{"name":"Culture and Religion","volume":"21 1","pages":"313 - 319"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42332998","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 Last Women Oracles: From the Land of Bharanipattu","authors":"B. Justin, Meenakshi Ms","doi":"10.1080/14755610.2022.2130949","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14755610.2022.2130949","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT In Kerala, a three-thousand-year history of the cult of Mother Goddess worship and women priesthood in Kodungallur, the former historical port of Muziris, points directly to the last women oracles of Kerala. Kodungallur has the unique tradition of Bharanipattu (singing profanities and dancing, on the day of Meena Bharani) every year and once a year, the female oracles from all over Kerala travel to the Kodungallur temple to worship Kodungallur Bhagavati, or Kurumba Devi, the manifestation of the furious Lord Kali, the central deity of all Mother Goddesses in Kerala temples. This paper attempts to listen to the narratives of the last of the oracles to retrieve their muffled, mysterious, and almost erased voices from folktales, anecdotes, folksongs and other forms of oral and written literature.","PeriodicalId":45190,"journal":{"name":"Culture and Religion","volume":"21 1","pages":"359 - 386"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47425477","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":"‘Me I no go suffer’: Christian songs and prosperity gospel among Yoruba Pentecostals in Southwest Nigeria","authors":"Toyin Samuel Ajose","doi":"10.1080/14755610.2022.2140173","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14755610.2022.2140173","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Songs are used to enshrine social and religious ideologies among members of any society whether traditional or modern. In the Christian domain, there exist varieties of theologies and doctrines through which Christian values and virtues are taught and propagated. The prosperity gospel is one of such doctrines and it has received growing interest among scholars in African Pentecostalism, especially in Nigeria. While extant literature has focused largely on the religious, social and economic contributions to the growth and spread of prosperity gospel, the role of music, particularly songs, in the discourse of prosperity theology is yet to be explored. Hence, this paper discusses how Christian prayer songs are used to circulate the prosperity gospel among Yoruba Pentecostals in Nigeria. Data for this study were collected from selected popular Christian prayer songs in southwestern Nigeria which were then analysed. This article submits that Yoruba Pentecostals, in addition to diverse biblical engagements on prosperity themes, have always creatively employed Christian prayer songs in their hermeneutics of prosperity gospel within their cultural praxis.","PeriodicalId":45190,"journal":{"name":"Culture and Religion","volume":"21 1","pages":"387 - 408"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48813790","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}