{"title":"Schermerhorn, Seth. Walking to Magdalena: Personhood and Place in Tohono O’odham Songs, Sticks, and Stories. New Visions in Native American Studies. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2019. xix+231 pp. $60.00 (cloth).","authors":"Kathleen Holscher","doi":"10.1086/721249","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/721249","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45199,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF RELIGION","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47084680","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":"Faust, Avraham. The Neo-Assyrian Empire in the Southwest: Imperial Domination and Its Consequences. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021. xi+362 pp. $115.00 (cloth).","authors":"J. DeGrado","doi":"10.1086/721359","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/721359","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45199,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF RELIGION","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49337356","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":"Ogunnaike, Oludamini. Poetry in Praise of Prophetic Perfection: A Study of West African Arabic Madīḥ Poetry and Its Precedents. Cambridge: Islamic Texts Society, 2020. x+166 pp. £19.99.","authors":"Amir Syed","doi":"10.1086/721296","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/721296","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45199,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF RELIGION","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47901965","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":"The Application of the “Pragmatic Maxim” in Jewish Tradition: The Case of Rabbi Ḥayyim Hirschensohn","authors":"Nadav S. Berman","doi":"10.1086/721294","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/721294","url":null,"abstract":"This article suggests that certain interpretive trajectories within Jewish tradition—both halakhic (nomos) and aggadic (narrative)—can be illuminated vis-à-vis classical American pragmatism (CAP). Contrary to a prevalent belief, Peirce, James, and Dewey were neither antimetaphysical nor antitraditional. They contended, in different ways, that the “Pragmatic Maxim” (PM)—“truth is what works” in James’s phrasing—is not a narrowly instrumentalist truth test. The PM rather implies that ideas and beliefs (philosophical and religious alike) should be examined against their worldly consequences. After a clarification of this relational maxim in its pragmatist philosophical context, and an introductory sketch of the appearances of the PM in Jewish tradition, the article examines the PM within the thought of Rabbi Ḥayyim Hirschensohn (RḤH; 1857–1935). The article runs as follows: Section I presents CAP and clarifies what the PM is. Section II offers a bird’s-eye mapping of the application of the PM within Jewish tradition. Section III briefs RḤH’s intellectual biography and elaborates on his pragmatist premises and his application of the PM. Rather than conceiving divine commandments as an arbitrary dictate, RḤH viewed them as covenantal, namely, as purposive, relational, and constituted and reaffirmed by individual and collective human agreements. Finally, the article reflects on the theological-intellectual prerequisites for the application of the PM.","PeriodicalId":45199,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF RELIGION","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41305649","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":"Stewart, Dustin D. Futures of Enlightenment Poetry. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020. xvi+300 pp. £75.00.","authors":"E. Mason","doi":"10.1086/721248","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/721248","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45199,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF RELIGION","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43946162","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":"Brown, Amanda. The Fellowship Church: Howard Thurman and the Twentieth-Century Religious Left. New York: Oxford University Press, 2021. i+236 pp. $74.38 (cloth).","authors":"Christopher Evans","doi":"10.1086/721355","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/721355","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45199,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF RELIGION","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44799325","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":"Khalifah and the Modern Sovereign: Revisiting a Qur’anic Ideal from within the Palestinian Condition","authors":"Khaled Furani","doi":"10.1086/721354","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/721354","url":null,"abstract":"The Palestinian political condition raises questions of the nation-state and, by extension, the sovereignty paradigm underpinning it. Propelled by these quandaries, this article revisits revelatory language to interrogate the conceptual grammar of modern politics. Mining the land’s religious patrimony, I evoke the Qur’anic notion of khalifah to join recent efforts at illuminating sovereignty’s delirium and deleterious consequences. Largely ignored in critiques of sovereignty, yet pivotal in the sovereignty paradigm as famously formulated by Hobbes and Rousseau, is the undergirding principle of indivisibility. Qur’anic articulations of khalifah help us see the ways this principle impedes an ethics of fragility attentive to life’s existential vulnerabilities. Aiming to recover these ethics, I explore khalifah’s implications for a renewed political imagination, one that untethers political (and personal) fulfillment from claims of sovereignty and safeguards human plurality. Perhaps, just such a sensibility may demarcate an exit from Israeli and Palestinian struggles for sovereignty, among other quagmires facing polities and the planet.","PeriodicalId":45199,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF RELIGION","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46941303","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":"Milstein, Sara. Making a Case: The Practical Roots of Biblical Law. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021. xix+195 pp. $99.00 (cloth).","authors":"S. E. Holtz","doi":"10.1086/721246","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/721246","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45199,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF RELIGION","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48416448","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":"Review of Steven Collins’s Wisdom as a Way of Life: Theravāda Buddhism Reimagined","authors":"M. Kapstein","doi":"10.1086/721812","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/721812","url":null,"abstract":"About a month before Steven Collins’s untimely death in February 2018, he sent a message to many of his friends and colleagues inviting them to comment upon a manuscript that he had just finished. It was titled “Civilization, Wisdom, Practices of Self: Theravad̄a Buddhism Seen Anew.” I met with him for lunch just a few days later, and he explained that he intended the book to be his last; with his impending retirement he was looking forward to leaving academics and devoting his time to his grandchildren—for, as he put it, the relation of grandparent to grandchild was the sole unproblematic human relation he had found—and to reading more poetry. For the moment, he welcomedquestions and criticismon themanuscript, which, he imagined, would “shake a lot of people up, for good or for ill.” Although he had indeed completed a preliminary text, the work was as yet unannotated and beganwith the caveat, “this is a draft version.” With Steve’s passing, although he hadmade it clear to all that he intended the manuscript for publication, it was equally clear that he would not have wished to see it in print “as is.” Besides the unfinished business of the notes and whatever other apparatus he may have planned, his circulation of it in advance explicitly signaled a perceived need for critical feedback before it could be readied for press. It therefore required considerable courage, perhaps even some temerity, for Justin McDaniel, who knew Steve well, to undertake the difficult task of editing Wisdom as a Way of Life for publication. He was aided in this by the access to Steve’s books and papers accorded to him by Steve’s wife, Claude Grangier. Those familiar with Steve’s earlier work will be profoundly grateful to them both for realizing the appearance in print of this, his final contribution to Buddhist Studies.","PeriodicalId":45199,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF RELIGION","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47394857","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":"Taylor, Mark C. Intervolution: Smart Bodies, Smart Things. New York: Columbia University Press, 2021. xiv+201. $19.95 (paper).","authors":"M. Rubenstein","doi":"10.1086/721814","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/721814","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45199,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF RELIGION","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48274135","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}