{"title":"Hair, Roots, and Crystal Balls: Archival Viscerality, Black Conjuring Traditions, and the Study of American Religions","authors":"Ahmad Greene-Hayes","doi":"10.1093/jaarel/lfae029","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/jaarel/lfae029","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Black studies scholars have long argued that archives are violent and dismembering, especially as the universities which house them preserve the physical and immaterial remnants of slavery. Religious studies scholars, especially historians of religion, have begun attending to this quandary while sifting through archives of slavery and religion. This article enters this discourse by focusing on the afterlives of slavery and their relationship to the religious innovations of Black religious actors in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This article, then, centers the author’s visceral experience in an archival reading room of a university while consulting the material objects of religious practitioners Reverend John L. Reed and Sister Mamie Wade Avant. In the process, the article reconstructs a historical narrative about their lives and argues that religious studies must reckon with the archive of antiblackness and its capture of Black religions.","PeriodicalId":510470,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the American Academy of Religion","volume":"149 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141376213","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Religion and the Post-revolutionary Mind. Idéologues, Catholic Traditionalists, and Liberals, By Arthur McCalla","authors":"Gemma Betros","doi":"10.1093/jaarel/lfae055","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/jaarel/lfae055","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":510470,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the American Academy of Religion","volume":"86 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141385303","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Spirit of the Pluriverse: Africana Spirit-Based Epistemologies and Interepistemic Thinking","authors":"Jake Wumkes","doi":"10.1093/jaarel/lfae028","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/jaarel/lfae028","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 In this article, I argue that interepistemic thinking is characteristic of Africana spirit-based epistemologies and that such thinking is essential to the construction of the pluriverse. I demonstrate that the spiritual basis of many Africana epistemologies facilitates interepistemic thinking and the making of a more equitable, functional, and healthy “modernity.” This is despite narratives of modernity, such as that of Max Weber, that are embedded in a secular-rationalist ideology, which tend to mark spirituality as an invalid means of accessing, representing, or (re)producing truth, marking it as “primitive,” destined to disappear, and as incompatible with the so-called modern world. For this reason, decoloniality as it applies to an analysis of Africana spirit-based epistemologies must demonstrate the limited, Eurocentric nature of the secular-rationalist paradigm. I support these arguments through an analysis of the role of interepistemic thinking in the spirit-based epistemologies apparent in what are commonly referred to as African diasporic religions. In doing so, I will also offer a critical perspective on the application of religion as a conceptual category to the realities of the peoples of the African diaspora, following important recent scholarship in the study of religion. I will begin with a review of the nature of the pluriverse and a brief description of Nelson Maldonado-Torres’s (2008) critique of secularism, followed by an analysis of interepistemic thinking as it can be observed within Africana spirit-based epistemologies, and conclude with an explanation of how this may inform a critical reconsideration of the epistemic bases that undergird the modern/colonial world system.","PeriodicalId":510470,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the American Academy of Religion","volume":"227 12","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141387039","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"American Kairos: Washington National Cathedral and the New Civil Religion, By Richard Benjamin Crosby","authors":"David R. Bains","doi":"10.1093/jaarel/lfae043","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/jaarel/lfae043","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":510470,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the American Academy of Religion","volume":"100 22","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-05-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141116123","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Sound of Vultures’ Wings: The Tibetan Buddhist Chöd Ritual Practice of the Female Buddha Machik Labdrön, By Jeffrey W. Cupchik","authors":"Anna Morcom","doi":"10.1093/jaarel/lfae051","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/jaarel/lfae051","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":510470,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the American Academy of Religion","volume":"30 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-05-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141117531","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Critiques of Theology: German-Jewish Intellectuals and the Religious Sources of Secular Thought, By Yotam Hotam","authors":"Gilad Sharvit","doi":"10.1093/jaarel/lfae053","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/jaarel/lfae053","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":510470,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the American Academy of Religion","volume":"11 12","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-05-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141114430","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"An Embodied Reading of the Shepherd of Hermas: The Book of Visions and its Role in Moral Formation, By Angela Kim Harkins","authors":"A. Geertz, Melissa Sayyad Bach","doi":"10.1093/jaarel/lfae049","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/jaarel/lfae049","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":510470,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the American Academy of Religion","volume":"11 10","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-05-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141120941","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Sacred Foundations: The Religious and Medieval Roots of the European State, By Anna M. Grzymała-Busse","authors":"Robert A. Yelle","doi":"10.1093/jaarel/lfae013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/jaarel/lfae013","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":510470,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the American Academy of Religion","volume":"109 10","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139963788","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Republics of Difference: Religious and Racial Self-Governance in the Spanish Atlantic World, By Karen B. Graubart","authors":"B. Catlos","doi":"10.1093/jaarel/lfae015","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/jaarel/lfae015","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":510470,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the American Academy of Religion","volume":"2 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139963927","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Sera Monastery, By José Ignacio Cabezón and Penpa DorjeeSōjiji: Discipline, Compassion, and Enlightenment at a Japanese Zen Temple, By Joshua A. Irizarry","authors":"Diane Riggs","doi":"10.1093/jaarel/lfae012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/jaarel/lfae012","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":510470,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the American Academy of Religion","volume":"120 12","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139963609","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}