{"title":"From Chinese Chan to Japanese Zen: A Remarkable Century of Transmission and Transformation. By Steven Heine. New York: Oxford University Press, 2018. Pp. 304. $99.00 (cloth).","authors":"Jiang Wu","doi":"10.1086/706497","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/706497","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45784,"journal":{"name":"HISTORY OF RELIGIONS","volume":"9 1","pages":"240-243"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2020-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86311455","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 Living Dead of Tabriz: Explorations in Chronotopic Imagination","authors":"S. Bashir","doi":"10.1086/706500","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/706500","url":null,"abstract":"The following pages are the venue of numerous struggles. The most immediate struggle is mine, aimed at making sense of works composed centuries ago. Then there is the labor of the works’ authors, to relate matters assimilated from texts and personal encounters with the living and the dead. In this instance, the act of writing was part of the effort to lead a religious life sometimes at odds with a purely worldly outlook. And there are general existential paradoxes about life and death that have driven human beings to speak since times immemorial. By bringing the notion of struggle to the forefront, I want to emphasize the plenitude of ideas and experiences found in Islamic texts. As scholars of religious worlds, we are compelled to reduce complex sources into systemic phenomena. We have to present the material in distilled form, but doing so glosses over the fact that we usually thematize a small proportion of theworks and have no straightforward access to authors’ intentions. Although tied to conventions of genre, a complex textual work is also always the final product of a creative exercise in which ideas and experiences from a lived human context have been sublimated into verbal form. Registering the labors that go into writing and reading such works helps us see them as elements of scenes in motion rather than static representations of an unchanging world.","PeriodicalId":45784,"journal":{"name":"HISTORY OF RELIGIONS","volume":"91 1","pages":"169 - 192"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2020-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76059337","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":"Raw Power and the Occult: A Review","authors":"J. Modern","doi":"10.1086/706501","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/706501","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45784,"journal":{"name":"HISTORY OF RELIGIONS","volume":"20 1","pages":"222 - 233"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2020-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82538995","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":"Satanic Feminism: Lucifer as the Liberator of Woman in Nineteenth-Century Culture. By Per Faxneld. New York: Oxford University Press, 2017. Pp. x+566. $39.95 (cloth).","authors":"Dawn M. Coleman","doi":"10.1086/706499","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/706499","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45784,"journal":{"name":"HISTORY OF RELIGIONS","volume":"755 1","pages":"234-237"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2020-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78800238","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":"A Storied Sage: Canon and Creation in the Making of a Japanese Buddha. By Micah Auerback. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2016. Pp. xii+358, 12 halftones. $40.00 (cloth); $10.00–$40.00 (e-book).","authors":"Hans Martin Krämer","doi":"10.1086/706498","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/706498","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45784,"journal":{"name":"HISTORY OF RELIGIONS","volume":"94 1","pages":"237-240"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2020-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84303965","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":"Strange Tales of an Oriental Idol: An Anthology of Early European Portrayals of the Buddha. By Donald S. Lopez Jr. Buddhism and Modernity Series. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2016. Pp. xi+259. $27.50 (paper); $90.00 (cloth).","authors":"Trent Pomplun","doi":"10.1086/704932","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/704932","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45784,"journal":{"name":"HISTORY OF RELIGIONS","volume":"18 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2019-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83728555","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":"On Roman Religion: Lived Religion and the Individual in Ancient Rome. Townsend Lecture Series/Cornell Studies in Classical Philology. By Jörg Rüpke. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2016. Pp. 208. $49.95 (cloth).","authors":"Heidi Wendt","doi":"10.1086/704933","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/704933","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45784,"journal":{"name":"HISTORY OF RELIGIONS","volume":"30 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2019-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83366394","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 Dancing Lares and the Serpent in the Garden: Religion at the Roman Street Corner. By Harriet I. Flower. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2017. Pp. 416. $45.00 (cloth).","authors":"L. Petersen","doi":"10.1086/704931","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/704931","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45784,"journal":{"name":"HISTORY OF RELIGIONS","volume":"71 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2019-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77256130","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":"Recent Scholarship about Engaged Buddhism in Modern Japan","authors":"Micah L. Auerback","doi":"10.1086/704930","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/704930","url":null,"abstract":"0018-2710/2019/5902-0003$10.00 1 To date, the scholarly literature about “Eng of the mainstream, denominational Buddhist e taken here in opposition to New Religious Mov dhist groups that operate in Japan but are not h extent that the establishment has long been mo order than in remaking it, this may not simply critics, like [the Thai activist] Sulak Sivaraksa, of Engaged Buddhists (INEB), feel that Japan dhist movement,” we are told. “At a public sym REVIEW ARTICLE","PeriodicalId":45784,"journal":{"name":"HISTORY OF RELIGIONS","volume":"101 1","pages":"146 - 159"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2019-10-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78022229","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":"Genres of Desire: The Erotic in Deobandī Islam","authors":"Ali Altaf Mian","doi":"10.1086/704928","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/704928","url":null,"abstract":"0018-2710/2019/5902-0002$10.00 I am grateful to the two anonymous reviewe critical suggestions, as well as to the followin various earlier drafts: Sadia Abbas, Kadji Amin Omnia El Shakry, Carl Ernst, Kathy Ewing, M Khan, Ranjana Khanna, Sam Kigar, Jeffrey K Longo, Barbara Metcalf, Ebrahim Moosa, Geet Lucinda Ramberg, Johannes Rosenbaum, Usha Wiegman, and Muhammad Qasim Zaman. I Kalman P. Bland, whose gentle ways and sage 1 See Arnold I. Davidson, The Emergence of mation of Concepts (Cambridge, MA: Harvard GENRES OF DES IRE : THE EROTIC IN DEOBAND Ī I SLAM Ali Altaf Mian","PeriodicalId":45784,"journal":{"name":"HISTORY OF RELIGIONS","volume":"13 1","pages":"108 - 145"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2019-10-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74799335","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}