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{"title":"Inward Baptism: The Theological Origins of Evangelicalism","authors":"Zachariah S. Motts","doi":"10.1080/0048721X.2023.2233345","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0048721X.2023.2233345","url":null,"abstract":"the contributions to scholarly debates, which the arguments of these chapters provide, have already been made in another form. The benefit of this volume is that it provides a series of introductions to a variety of different topics in early Christianity and, as such, presents the student of early Christianity with a number of tools, by which they can understand their subject in a way that places human action at the forefront. However, it must still be said that this volume does suffer from a lack of cohesion. There is a notable gap between the subjects seperated by the two parts of the book, and it can be difficult to see how they are relevant to each other. The first part of this book is intended to present a general way of understanding religions, which the second part compliments by applying this general method to the particular case study of early Christianity. However, the latter chapters of the book do not particularly concern themselves with the category of religion or Christianity’s status as a religion. It could be said that this is in keeping with the methodology of part one, in that the datum which might be considered religious, is treated in the same way as any other social phenomenon. Nevertheless, it should still be noted that in spite of deeply problematising the category of religion in the first part of the work, Braun uses the term religion without critical reflection at several points in the later chapters (e.g., 67–69, 98–100, 128). Also, there is a notable difference in tone between the first and second parts of the work. The chapters that compose the first part of the work have a strongly polemical tone. This tone is fair and understandable within the context of the academic debate in which these pieces were originally published. However, when taken out of context, as they necessarily are within this volume, they can read as unnecessarily aggressive and confrontational even by a sympathetic reader. What does unite this text is its anthropocentric methodological core, which underscores its analysis of the range of topics the work covers. Through combining these chapters into a single volume, this book aims to champion the anthropocentric method as a distinct and foundational approach to the academic study of religion, and in particular to the study of early Christianity. For those who seek to teach how to study early Christianity from a secular, historically grounded perspective, or those who seek an introduction to an array of topics on early Christianity, this book may serve as a useful introductory teaching aid or personal guide.","PeriodicalId":46717,"journal":{"name":"RELIGION","volume":"53 1","pages":"738 - 741"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43868321","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":"Jesus and Addiction to Origins: Towards an Anthropocentric Study of Religion","authors":"K. Peters","doi":"10.1080/0048721X.2023.2231745","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0048721X.2023.2231745","url":null,"abstract":"tage: one can be a Jewish atheist, but cannot be a Jewish believer in Christ. This is to say that one can be a lapsed Jew who has abandoned religion, but one cannot be a Jew while practising or aligning oneself with another religion, and certainly not with Christianity. The South African Lemba challenge this by claiming Jewish identity and heritage because of their DNA while largely being Christians. More broadly, of course, Tamarkin’s text also problematises genetics and what they can actually tell us; he rejects the idea that they can tell us about origins while also rejecting the idea that origins can tell us about essence. The point is thatDNA is not the end of the discussion but the beginning, andwemust seek to understand theways inwhichDNAevidence is (andwill be) used to polemicise different ideas, including by the subjects of study themselves. Serious questions arise from this discussion of DNA as evidence– how does DNA relate to indigeneity, that is to say, can DNA establish one’s right to state citizenship? And, if it can, then could it be used to remove citizenship? Specifically, if the Lemba claim to be Israelites, then should they return to Israel? Do they still retain the right to live in South Africa? These questions of belonging and indigeneity are critical to human social life. Tamarkin’s study shows how careful we all must be in making and assessing claims based on DNA. This highly nuanced and important book contributes to many debates: as well as Black Jewish Studies, it challenges our understanding of identity more generally, showing that ingrained western notions of religion are more supple in other places. Tamarkin’s book also contributes to the study of African religions, apartheid studies, and to South African history. Perhaps most importantly, however, it contributes to contemporary debates on the nature of Judaism and Jewishness by arguing that such cannot be defined simply according to any single criteria. The Hebrew umbrella model that is suggested herein is one that I expect to grow in popularity in the years to come.","PeriodicalId":46717,"journal":{"name":"RELIGION","volume":"53 1","pages":"735 - 738"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44955218","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":"Beyond Heaven and Earth: A Cognitive Theory of Religion","authors":"Mark Q. Gardiner","doi":"10.1080/0048721x.2023.2232645","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0048721x.2023.2232645","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46717,"journal":{"name":"RELIGION","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47673754","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":"Accommodating a mega-festival: the Āti Atti Varatar Vaipavam festival in Kanchipuram","authors":"U. Hüsken","doi":"10.1080/0048721X.2023.2228111","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0048721X.2023.2228111","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT As public performances, festivals celebrate what people believe, who people are, and project what people want to be. Festivals are an important medium by which cultural, social, and religious identities are represented and negotiated. This is especially pronounced in exceptional festival events which require much more improvisational skills than ‘routine’ festival occasions. This contribution discusses one such event: In 2019, the Varadarāja temple in Kanchipuram celebrated a rare and long-awaited festival, called Āti Atti Varatar Vaipavam, which takes place only once in 40 years. When the number of visitors increased in unanticipated ways soon after the festival started, time-tested ritual rules were suspended, and new stakeholders started to determine the performance of the festival. This contribution traces the multiple ways in which the festival’s mythological background and its performance were contested, and how the sheer number of attending pilgrims effected long-lasting changes in the social dynamics among the temple’s stakeholders.","PeriodicalId":46717,"journal":{"name":"RELIGION","volume":"53 1","pages":"488 - 507"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42193041","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":"Festivals in Asia: patronage, play, and piety","authors":"M. Teeuwen, Moumita Sen, Aike P. Rots","doi":"10.1080/0048721X.2023.2211395","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0048721X.2023.2211395","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This introductory article argues, on the basis of case studies in the thematic issue, that the interplay of patronage, play, and piety provides us with a productive framework for the study of Asian festivals. We focus on the frictions inherent in festivals that include multiple actors, agendas, and precedents, and that are subject to constant change. The three concepts of patronage, play, and piety serve as tools to make sense of these frictions and their manifestation in concrete performances. All articles in this issue look at a particular festival (or set of festivals) as sites where the interests of patronage, play, and piety are negotiated in dynamic ways. We use the findings from these articles to theorise on each of these aspects. Our aim is to propose a conceptual framework that, we argue, can be usefully employed to study festivals in and outside of this large and heterogeneous region.","PeriodicalId":46717,"journal":{"name":"RELIGION","volume":"53 1","pages":"387 - 405"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41916404","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":"Genetic Afterlives: Black Jewish Indigeneity in South Africa","authors":"Michael T. Miller","doi":"10.1080/0048721X.2023.2230421","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0048721X.2023.2230421","url":null,"abstract":"than Baal; that is another story. In 1882, Ernest Renan declared that, ‘if the growth of Christianity had been arrested by some mortal malady, the world would have beenMithraic’ (On peut dire que, si le christianisme eût été arrêté dans sa croissance par quelque maladie mortelle, le monde eût été mithriaste) (Renan 1882, 579). Is it possible that, in the same way, the world could have become Baal-ist? In various monographs, Smith has explored why this did not happen (see Smith 2001; 2002, and 2004) (cited 11), yet as one of this volume’s contributors asks, ‘What would Baal do without Mark Stratton Smith to preserve and respect his memory in a monotheistic world determined to exclude and excoriate him?’ (160). For although ‘the very name evokes idolatry, and an alternative to the true God aptly called pagan’, yet ‘Baal is “The Lord,” a perfectly serviceable monotheistic title when rendered by the Hebrew ʾādôn or the Greek kurios’ and ‘biblical writers managed to let Yahweh and El “converge” into one, with Elohim (God) the common expression, but Baal could not join the convergence [...]’ (160). Even if not necessarily his ‘favorite’ deity, Smith’s ‘deep familiarity’ with Baal has kept scholarship on this god alive and thriving: in this sense, this collection of essays is both a tribute to a prolific scholar and itself a contribution to our understanding of God’s ‘early history’ – a God whose ‘death’, as Nietzsche reminds us (and as Georg Heym also recognized), still casts a shadow over us even today.","PeriodicalId":46717,"journal":{"name":"RELIGION","volume":"53 1","pages":"732 - 735"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47785995","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":"British Buddhism, secular mindfulness, and the politics of sustainability","authors":"C. Starkey","doi":"10.1080/0048721x.2023.2222694","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0048721x.2023.2222694","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46717,"journal":{"name":"RELIGION","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43404786","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":"Misa, Lefa, Puang: ritual, piety, and performance in opening the ocean season in a Southeast Asian marine hunting community","authors":"Florence Durney","doi":"10.1080/0048721X.2023.2211394","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0048721X.2023.2211394","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Lamalera, a small community on the island of Lembata in East Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia, is home to a rich tradition of marine hunting and an environmental cosmology that brings together its people, their ancestors, and the Savu Sea. Each year the community, its diaspora, and other island residents gather to celebrate, demonstrate symbolic patronage of, and observe the opening of the ocean hunting season, or Musim Lefa. Over time the ritual cycle has adapted, and taken on different layers of significance, as Lamalerans have worked to preserve their hunting-based way of life, in the face of changing economic, social, and legal contexts. Applying the overall conceptual framework of this thematic issue, this article examines the opening of the Lefa as an adaptive constellation of piety, performance, patronage, and protection through time. It argues that the festival represents a unique moment each year for contestation and renegotiation of symbolic and practical power.","PeriodicalId":46717,"journal":{"name":"RELIGION","volume":"53 1","pages":"508 - 527"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48597922","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":"Periodizing Secularization: Religious Allegiance and Attendance in Britain, 1880-1945","authors":"J. Wolffe","doi":"10.1080/0048721X.2023.2221937","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0048721X.2023.2221937","url":null,"abstract":"development","PeriodicalId":46717,"journal":{"name":"RELIGION","volume":"53 1","pages":"727 - 729"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47094554","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":"Invitation to Syriac Christianity: An Anthology","authors":"M. Freeman","doi":"10.1080/0048721X.2023.2223069","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0048721X.2023.2223069","url":null,"abstract":"development","PeriodicalId":46717,"journal":{"name":"RELIGION","volume":"53 1","pages":"724 - 727"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46417116","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}