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{"title":"The Digital Evangelicals: Contesting Authority and Authenticity after the New Media Turn","authors":"Susan L. Trollinger","doi":"10.1080/13537903.2023.2168893","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13537903.2023.2168893","url":null,"abstract":"suspicion emerges in chapter 5 where she makes much of David Foster Wallace’s novel The Pale King. It, too, deals with responses to boredom in the improbable context of lectures on tax regulations as found in an accountancy class. Its teacher is a Jesuit priest, which enables the main character of this unfinished work to find a “Jamesian divinity in the fundamental elements of his data-based bureaucratic world” (97). This broadly relates to what Mosurinjohn is perhaps seeking for the study: the right relationship between “psychic interiority and affective collectivity” (98). A depressive, Wallace left a two-page suicide note inside the manuscript. Somewhat of a celebrity writer working on the frontiers of the counterculture and postmodernity, he made two definite efforts to become a Catholic through the Rite of Christian Initiation for Adults (RCIA), although, in the end, did not convert. A similar sense of taking matters to a theological frontier seems to haunt this rich, condensed, and thoughtful work which opens out many vistas for further advance. The author works well across many disciplinary areas to produce a work of originality and creativity. In a sense the study is perverse for she has managed to open out a theology of the mundane, more usually treated as its graveyard.","PeriodicalId":45932,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Contemporary Religion","volume":"38 1","pages":"385 - 387"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41790896","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":"Healing, faith and fear: church opening in the United States during COVID-19 restrictions","authors":"Naomi Smith, A. Snider","doi":"10.1080/13537903.2023.2206206","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13537903.2023.2206206","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article examines how resistance to stay-at-home orders was framed to congregants through sermons and in statements to media outlets. Using an approach informed by grounded theory, we analysed news articles of church behaviour and the YouTube videos of sermons from pastors that protested against COVID-19 guidelines from March 2020 to November 2020. We also draw on legal filings to identify churches that most actively resisted closures. In analysing these publicly available data, a relationship between church openings in the United States and an evangelical theology of resistance particular to non-denominational churches to public health efforts emerged. Our analysis found that ‘largely evangelical’ churches that are not considered part of a mainline evangelical denomination were more likely to seek ways to remain open in defiance of public health orders. We use the terms ‘largely evangelical’ and ‘mainline evangelical’ to distinguish these two very different denominational families. Evidence from this article suggests that evangelical Christian churches in the US that are not considered ‘mainline evangelical’ denominations (e.g. non-denominational, Pentecostal) were more likely to resist stay-at-home orders and more prepared to be legally active in resisting such policies and gather indoors (as opposed to Catholic churches and ‘mainline evangelical’ denominations).","PeriodicalId":45932,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Contemporary Religion","volume":"38 1","pages":"283 - 304"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42702812","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":"Catholics in Contemporary Britain: Faith, Society, Politics","authors":"R. Gill","doi":"10.1080/13537903.2023.2211847","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13537903.2023.2211847","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45932,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Contemporary Religion","volume":"38 1","pages":"374 - 376"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47259357","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":"Civil Religion Today: Religion and the American Nation in the Twenty-First Century","authors":"Matteo Bortolini","doi":"10.1080/13537903.2023.2211840","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13537903.2023.2211840","url":null,"abstract":"The concept of civil religion is, perhaps unbeknownst to some, of enduring interest for scholars of law and religion. Major constitutional debates over the separation of church and state derive from practices of civil religion, such as invoking God in the national motto (“In God we trust”) or Pledge of Allegiance (“one Nation, under God”), the practice of beginning public meetings with prayer, and displayingmonuments of the Ten Commandments outside public courthouses, among others. Of course, these issues have all led to landmark Establishment Clause cases that have variously attempted to articulate the appropriate relationship between religion and government. Despite the clear implications, the concept of civil religion is often relegated to academic sociology discussions. It is fitting, then, that the contributions in Civil Religion Today: Religion and the American Nation in the Twenty-First Century, edited by Rhys H. Williams, Raymond Haberski Jr., and Philip Goff, should recapitulate this important concept and discuss its application—and critiques—in the present day. As Haberski, Williams, and Goff acknowledge in the introduction, civil religion is a term with many definitions: “it can often appear to mean almost anything to anyone at any time” (3). In fact, Arthur Remillard makes a compelling case that we should not talk of a singular American civil religion and instead study “America’s civil religions” (77). Academics have used the term variously to refer to the sacred beliefs that Americans have about the state, the use of religious practices in public settings, the adoption of quasi-religious expressions of patriotism, a commonbelief in the utility of religion, and a sense of shared religious values among the American people. Other definitions and usages abound. However, nearly all discussions about civil religion in the American context point back to Robert Bellah, whose 1967 essay “Civil Religion in America” popularized the term.1 The contributions in this edited volume are, rightfully, no exception, as the authors make extensive use of Bellah’s original and later conceptualizations of civil religion and revisit its place in society fifty years later.","PeriodicalId":45932,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Contemporary Religion","volume":"38 1","pages":"361 - 362"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44994887","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 Bloomsbury Handbook of Religion and Migration","authors":"M. Baumann","doi":"10.1080/13537903.2023.2169450","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13537903.2023.2169450","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45932,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Contemporary Religion","volume":"38 1","pages":"365 - 367"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41864601","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":"Pilgrims Until We Die: Unending Pilgrimage in Shikoku","authors":"James G. Lochtefeld","doi":"10.1080/13537903.2022.2092970","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13537903.2022.2092970","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45932,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Contemporary Religion","volume":"38 1","pages":"163 - 164"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45832732","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":"Deceptive Majority: Dalits, Hinduism, and Underground Religion","authors":"Li Jingwei","doi":"10.1080/13537903.2022.2110710","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13537903.2022.2110710","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45932,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Contemporary Religion","volume":"38 1","pages":"185 - 187"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43468096","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 Thing about Religion: An Introduction to the Material Study of Religions","authors":"Anna B. Bigelow","doi":"10.1080/13537903.2022.2091205","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13537903.2022.2091205","url":null,"abstract":"fact that religious experiences and institutions can also broaden our horizons and deepen our understanding of rights and dignity. This role of religions does not really shine within the book. Admittedly, the book’s approach replicates the general narrative that promotes the reconciliation between rights and religions; therefore, Salama and Wiener should not be blamed too much for replicating it. The imbalance between rights and religions makes the volume only partially useful, however; it can serve environments where religions could learn from human rights, but it is probably of little use where a certain understanding of human dignity and rights obliterates or is even hostile to religions and to religious freedom. The latter scenario is nowadays all but hypothetical.","PeriodicalId":45932,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Contemporary Religion","volume":"38 1","pages":"191 - 193"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47724513","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":"Agrarian Spirit: Cultivating Faith, Community, and the Land","authors":"Dan McKanan","doi":"10.1080/13537903.2022.2138028","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13537903.2022.2138028","url":null,"abstract":"dramaturgical production. His elaboration of embodied spiritualities related to outdoor recreation bears additional scholarly analysis (as he suggests). He focuses specifically on surfing, but there are resources that highlight (although not in the depth that LeVasseur does here) the religious cultural production stemming from other activities such as skiing, rock climbing, kayaking, and hiking. There are few ethnographies, unfortunately, about these embodied modes of spirituality. Two case studies of post-Anthropocene dramaturgies which combine environmentalism, sex, and gender include the advocacy group “FuckForForest” (FFF) and the emergence of people who self-identify as EcoSexuals. For some scholars of religions these are described as new modes of performance and identification. LeVasseur suggests that these are instantiations of dark green religious production at the cultural margins. Yet will they stay marginal as the impact of climate disruption persists and worsens? “The challenge to the academy, and especially religious studies”, LeVasseur argues, “is to see how studies such as these can possibly, or will actually contribute to resilient transformations, if at all” (136). Towards the end of his introduction, LeVasseur asks his reader to consider the following questions: “How do we bring beauty to the academy? How do we ask questions appropriate to the Anthropocene, so we can better understand how human animals are trying to protect such beauty, or are seeking to rediscover it? How can we help create institutions where knowledge of and ceremony with beauty are their reason for being?” (xxx). Indeed, as he artfully articulates, we have not yet developed an academic culture that can even reflect on how something like beauty, imagined as a harmonious embodied interbeing of material and non-material agents, might be codified, sought after, and studied. Climate Change, Religion, and Our Bodily Future provides the first steps towards an academy that might be able to ask and answer such poignant questions.","PeriodicalId":45932,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Contemporary Religion","volume":"38 1","pages":"167 - 169"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47290315","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":"Reconciling Religion and Human Rights: Faith in Multilateralism","authors":"A. Pin","doi":"10.1080/13537903.2022.2127993","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13537903.2022.2127993","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45932,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Contemporary Religion","volume":"38 1","pages":"189 - 191"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42754820","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}