{"title":":Ethics Out of Law: Hermann Cohen and the “Neighbor","authors":"Michael Zank","doi":"10.1086/729855","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/729855","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":513119,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Religion","volume":"28 6","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141702344","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":"On the Fall of the Angels: Economic Theology after the Middle Passage","authors":"Sean Capener","doi":"10.1086/730367","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/730367","url":null,"abstract":"This article engages recent readings of Anselm of Canterbury’s Cur Deus homo that highlight the centrality of debt and indebtedness for his economy of salvation. In the rush to establish homologies between Anselm’s theological economy and neoliberal governance, readers have tended to focus on Anselm’s insistence that debt must be repaid. Highlighting the specifically involuntary character of the debt described by Anselm, as well as Anselm’s digression into the irredeemable status of damned angels, this article argues that Anselm’s continuing relevance is best understood not in light of the general predicaments faced by borrowers but in light of the racial calculus and moral economy that characterize the afterlife of Atlantic chattel slavery. The popularity and persistence of accounts of atonement modeled on Anselm’s, it claims, raise questions about both the Christianity of contemporary antiblackness and the antiblackness of contemporary Christianity.","PeriodicalId":513119,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Religion","volume":"6 3","pages":"257 - 281"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141694312","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":"Paul’s Remediation","authors":"Sean Desilets","doi":"10.1086/729851","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/729851","url":null,"abstract":"This article explores how Jacques Derrida’s claim that Christianity is an originally mediatized religion might inflect the concept of “messianic time” as derived from Paul’s letters by Giorgio Agamben. Agamben’s messianic time is the time it takes to conceive and represent time’s own end. I argue that the self-consciously medial nature of Paul’s letters allows us to see that this representation of telos is a collective experience. Three themes in Paul’s letters to the Corinthians—his references to his body, his concern about his followers’ visibility in cities, and his requests for money—demonstrate that Paul’s theology is fundamentally a theology of media.","PeriodicalId":513119,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Religion","volume":"64 3","pages":"308 - 332"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141693140","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 Global Politics of Jesus: A Christian Case for Church-State Separation","authors":"Jonathan Chaplin","doi":"10.1086/729850","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/729850","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":513119,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Religion","volume":"33 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141703912","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":"El Monte au jour d’hui","authors":"Stephan Palmié","doi":"10.1086/729847","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/729847","url":null,"abstract":"This review essay takes the publication of the first English translation of Lydia Cabrera’s magnum opus El Monte as an occasion to reflect on the perplexing nature of Cabrera’s text, both at the time of its original publication and in its English translation now. Without doubt, Cabrera was one of the most prolific ethnographers of the African-derived ritual traditions of Cuba that she observed between the 1930s and 1950s. Not unlike American salvage ethnography, El Monte thrives on the trope of vanishing traditional authenticity; the result was and still is a thoroughly undisciplined hybrid text, a multivoiced modernist literary experiment more akin to Joyce’s Finnegans Wake than Evans-Pritchard’s Witchcraft, Oracles and Magic among the Azande. As such, El Monte has been a permanent source of frustration for anthropologists fighting an uphill battle against Cabrera’s language and authorial strategies in aiming to extract ethnographic data from it. In contrast, the book has received rather more attention from literary scholars who, in often equally reductive fashion, have tended to focus on Cabrera’s gender and sexual orientation. My argument is that Font-Navarrete’s careful translation and annotation of El Monte—a reappropriation for twenty-first-century audiences of both scholars and practitioners—should give us reason to rethink our own ethnographic and authorial practices.","PeriodicalId":513119,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Religion","volume":"26 9","pages":"375 - 379"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141703732","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":":Birthing Revival: Women and Mission in Nineteenth-Century France","authors":"Marystella Ramirez Guerra","doi":"10.1086/730364","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/730364","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":513119,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Religion","volume":"36 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141706040","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 Oxford Handbook of Religious Space","authors":"Robin M. Jensen","doi":"10.1086/730380","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/730380","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":513119,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Religion","volume":"11 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141705704","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 Epidemic among My People: Religion, Politics, and COVID-19 in the United States","authors":"Caroline Anglim","doi":"10.1086/729849","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/729849","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":513119,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Religion","volume":"134 18","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141714192","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":"Racializing Islam through Humor","authors":"Samah Choudhury","doi":"10.1086/730366","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/730366","url":null,"abstract":"When is a comedian who happens to be Muslim thought of as a “Muslim comedian”? The rise of American Muslim comedy across US pop culture suggests an appetite for Muslim performers and stories in the name of diversity and inclusion. But why have those stories been concentrated and lauded specifically in the world of stand-up comedy? Considering global events like the Danish cartoon controversy and the Charlie Hebdo shooting, the public demonstration of humor and levity operates as a mode of secular communication among Euro-American state subjects. When the subject is Muslim, however, demonstrating such humor and the ability to “take a joke” has consequences for their broader social inclusion across secular systems. Scholarship on humor often anticipates its rarity among religious practitioners and Muslims in particular. While some scholars conceptualize Muslim comedy as a form of ethnic or racial performance, others affirm an authentic, original Islamic “archive” of humor. Still other studies write about humor as a dissident performance against autocratic Muslim strongmen. Taken together, Islam is depicted as severe and routinized in its practice, while humor is a natural corrective to the danger it poses within the secular modern. US comedians such as Aziz Ansari, Kumail Nanjiani, and Hasan Minhaj have cultivated legible Muslim identities through the language and hostile implications of racialization. These staged Muslims uphold secular ideals like “diversity” by taming comportments that otherwise affiliate them with Islam outside the boundaries of mere bodily difference. Thus, it is when Islam operates within the confines of a racial category that it finds social legibility in broader American cultural spaces.","PeriodicalId":513119,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Religion","volume":"3 7","pages":"282 - 307"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141694361","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":":Islamic Ethics: Fundamental Aspects of Human Conduct","authors":"Alla Alaghbri","doi":"10.1086/730362","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/730362","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":513119,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Religion","volume":"12 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141717065","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}