{"title":"Hall, David D. The Puritans: A Transatlantic History. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2019. v+517 pp. $35.00 (cloth).","authors":"J. Coffey","doi":"10.1086/718394","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/718394","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45199,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF RELIGION","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41354819","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Laude, Patrick. Keys to the Beyond: Frithjof Schuon’s Cross-Traditional Language of Transcendence. SUNY series in Western Esoteric Traditions. Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 2020. x+394 pp. $95.00 (cloth); $34.95 (paper).","authors":"Dave Vliegenthart","doi":"10.1086/718407","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/718407","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45199,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF RELIGION","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49175888","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Von Wussow, Philipp. Leo Strauss and the Theopolitics of Culture. Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 2020. 402 pp. $95.00 (cloth); $33.95 (paper).","authors":"Yiftach Ofek","doi":"10.1086/718397","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/718397","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45199,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF RELIGION","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42760762","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"McIvor, Méadhbh. Representing God: Christian Legal Activism in Contemporary England. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2020. 200 pp. $26.95 (cloth).","authors":"C. G. Brown","doi":"10.1086/718392","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/718392","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45199,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF RELIGION","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47302562","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Patton, Laurie L. Who Owns Religion? Scholars and Their Publics in the Late Twentieth Century. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2019. 332 pp. $97.50 (cloth).","authors":"Constance M. Furey","doi":"10.1086/718389","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/718389","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45199,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF RELIGION","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45794687","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Reid, Jennifer, and David Carrasco, eds. With This Root about My Person: Charles H. Long and New Directions in the Study of Religion. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2020. $75.00 (cloth).","authors":"Alexander Rocklin","doi":"10.1086/718405","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/718405","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45199,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF RELIGION","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46603493","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Wheeler, Demian. Religion within the Limits of History Alone: Pragmatic Historicism and the Future of Theology. Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 2020. xiii+511 pp. $35.00 (cloth).","authors":"Evan F. Kuehn","doi":"10.1086/718402","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/718402","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45199,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF RELIGION","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42598344","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Heim, Maria. Voice of the Buddha: Buddhaghosa on the Immeasurable Words. New York: Oxford University Press, 2018. xii+274 pp. $105.00 (cloth).","authors":"Natalie Gummer","doi":"10.1086/718393","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/718393","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45199,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF RELIGION","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42040219","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Sacrifice in Environmental Ethics and Theology","authors":"Sarah Stewart‐Kroeker","doi":"10.1086/718395","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/718395","url":null,"abstract":"Sacrifice is a controversial topic in contemporary environmental ethics. The vocabulary of sacrifice is rife with difficulties, and theological voices such as Rachel Muers and Willis Jenkins evince a justified wariness about sacrifice as an ethical norm in light of feminist and liberationist critiques of how appeals to sacrifice have functioned as tools of oppression. There are two challenges that this account of sacrifice seeks to address: the first is discursive and the second is practical. Both the discursive and the practical challenges have important ethical implications. In relation to the first challenge, I argue that the way in which sacrifice language is deployed is morally significant—for it may justify abuses and it may obscure injustices. I argue against certain uses of the term “sacrifice,” and at the same time, I claim that Christian environmental theologians and ethicists cannot bypass the normative significance of sacrifice embedded in their sacred texts and theological tradition—though they must grapple with its dangers. Most importantly, sacrifice should not be valorized in ways that spiritualize passivity in the face of injustice. I argue that invoking sacrifice as a kind of plea for modesty by the privileged is inadequate insofar as it fails to acknowledge the grievous and devastating sacrifices being made by those who have contributed least to climate change, such as indigenous land defenders in Central and South America. In relation to the second (practical) challenge, I offer a sketch of a theology of sacrifice and the ways in which such a theology may be enacted liturgically and ethically in response to ecological concerns.","PeriodicalId":45199,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF RELIGION","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43969879","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Joseph Ibn Kaspi on Contradictions in the Bible","authors":"Alexander Green","doi":"10.1086/718396","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/718396","url":null,"abstract":"The Provençal philosopher, biblical commentator, and grammarian Joseph Ibn Kaspi interprets some of the internal contradictions in the biblical text by using a methodology based on Maimonides’s Guide of the Perplexed. By drawing on Maimonides’s seven categories of contradictions, he argues that the first, third, fourth, and seventh type of contradictions explain inconsistencies within the Bible. He recognizes the first contradiction in the subjective influence of different biblical authors; the third contradiction in the differing parables of the resurrection of the dead; the fourth contradiction in whether or not children are punished for the sins of their parents and also in the contradictory decrees by King Ahasuerus in the Book of Esther; and the seventh contradiction in the relationship between God’s determinism and human freedom. At the same time, this article illustrates that Ibn Kaspi considers the first, third, and fourth contradictions to be only apparent contradictions, asserting that they merely appear as such to the reader. It is only the seventh type that is a true contradiction since, in Ibn Kaspi’s estimation, this was created by the biblical author with intent, in which one notion is intentionally false and the other intentionally true—thus revealing a dialectic of both freedom and determinism embedded in the biblical text.","PeriodicalId":45199,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF RELIGION","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42207533","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}