{"title":"Religion Evolving: Cultural, Cognitive, and Ecological Dynamics. By Benjamin Grant Purzycki and Richard Sosis","authors":"Jonathan Morgan","doi":"10.1093/jaarel/lfad051","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/jaarel/lfad051","url":null,"abstract":"Journal Article Religion Evolving: Cultural, Cognitive, and Ecological Dynamics. By Benjamin Grant Purzycki and Richard Sosis Get access Religion Evolving: Cultural, Cognitive, and Ecological Dynamics. By Benjamin Grant Purzycki and Richard Sosis. Equinox Publishing, 2022. 262 pages. $100.00 (hardcover), $32.00 (paperback or e-book). Jonathan Morgan Jonathan Morgan University of Colorado, Colorado Springs jrmorgan3@gmail.com Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Academy of Religion, lfad051, https://doi.org/10.1093/jaarel/lfad051 Published: 01 September 2023","PeriodicalId":51659,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF RELIGION","volume":"220 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136355141","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":"In & Out of This World: Material and Extraterrestrial Bodies in the Nation of Islam. By Stephen C. Finley","authors":"Benjamin E Zeller","doi":"10.1093/jaarel/lfad054","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/jaarel/lfad054","url":null,"abstract":"Journal Article In & Out of This World: Material and Extraterrestrial Bodies in the Nation of Islam. By Stephen C. Finley Get access In & Out of This World: Material and Extraterrestrial Bodies in the Nation of Islam. By Stephen C. Finley. Duke University Press, 2022. 264 pages. $99.95 (hardcover), $26.95 (paperback). Benjamin E Zeller Benjamin E Zeller Lake Forest College nova@nrms.net Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Academy of Religion, lfad054, https://doi.org/10.1093/jaarel/lfad054 Published: 01 September 2023","PeriodicalId":51659,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF RELIGION","volume":"99 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136353628","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":"In the Midst of Civilized Europe: The Pogroms of 1918-1921 and the Onset of the Holocaust. By Jeffrey Veidlinger","authors":"Martin Shuster","doi":"10.1093/jaarel/lfad053","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/jaarel/lfad053","url":null,"abstract":"Journal Article In the Midst of Civilized Europe: The Pogroms of 1918-1921 and the Onset of the Holocaust. By Jeffrey Veidlinger Get access In the Midst of Civilized Europe: The Pogroms of 1918-1921 and the Onset of the Holocaust. By Jeffrey Veidlinger. Metropolitan Books, 2021. 480 pages. $35.00 (hardcover). Martin Shuster Martin Shuster University of North Carolina at Charlotte martin.shuster@uncc.edu Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Academy of Religion, lfad053, https://doi.org/10.1093/jaarel/lfad053 Published: 31 August 2023","PeriodicalId":51659,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF RELIGION","volume":"43 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-08-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135830588","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":"Modern Virtue: Mary Wollstonecraft and a Tradition of Dissent. By Emily Dumler-Winckler","authors":"Martina Reuter","doi":"10.1093/jaarel/lfad052","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/jaarel/lfad052","url":null,"abstract":"Journal Article Modern Virtue: Mary Wollstonecraft and a Tradition of Dissent. By Emily Dumler-Winckler Get access Modern Virtue: Mary Wollstonecraft and a Tradition of Dissent. By Emily Dumler-Winckler. Oxford University Press, 2022. 392 pages. $74.00 (hardcover or e-book). Martina Reuter Martina Reuter University of Jyväskylä, Jyväskylä, Finland anna.m.reuter@jyu.fi Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Academy of Religion, lfad052, https://doi.org/10.1093/jaarel/lfad052 Published: 31 August 2023","PeriodicalId":51659,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF RELIGION","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-08-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135830446","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":"Hermetic Spirituality and the Historical Imagination: Altered States of Knowledge in Late Antiquity. By Wouter J. Hanegraaff","authors":"Claire Fanger","doi":"10.1093/jaarel/lfad046","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/jaarel/lfad046","url":null,"abstract":"Journal Article Hermetic Spirituality and the Historical Imagination: Altered States of Knowledge in Late Antiquity. By Wouter J. Hanegraaff Get access Hermetic Spirituality and the Historical Imagination: Altered States of Knowledge in Late Antiquity. By Wouter J. Hanegraaff. Cambridge University Press, 2022. xvi + 400 pages. $135.00 (hardcover or e-book). Claire Fanger Claire Fanger Rice University clf5@rice.edu Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Academy of Religion, lfad046, https://doi.org/10.1093/jaarel/lfad046 Published: 31 August 2023","PeriodicalId":51659,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF RELIGION","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-08-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135830803","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":"Heathen: Religion and Race in American History, by Kathryn Gin Lum","authors":"Katharine Gerbner","doi":"10.1093/jaarel/lfad047","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/jaarel/lfad047","url":null,"abstract":"Journal Article Heathen: Religion and Race in American History, by Kathryn Gin Lum Get access Heathen: Religion and Race in American History. By Kathryn Gin Lum. Harvard University Press, 2022. 368 pages. $35.00 (hardcover). Katharine Gerbner Katharine Gerbner University of Minnesota kgerbner@umn.edu Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Academy of Religion, lfad047, https://doi.org/10.1093/jaarel/lfad047 Published: 31 August 2023","PeriodicalId":51659,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF RELIGION","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-08-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135830596","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":"Searching for the Body: A Contemporary Perspective on Tibetan Buddhist Tantra. By Rae Erin Dachille","authors":"David M DiValerio","doi":"10.1093/jaarel/lfad045","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/jaarel/lfad045","url":null,"abstract":"Journal Article Searching for the Body: A Contemporary Perspective on Tibetan Buddhist Tantra. By Rae Erin Dachille Get access Searching for the Body: A Contemporary Perspective on Tibetan Buddhist Tantra. By Rae Erin Dachille. Columbia University Press, 2022. 320 pages. $120.00 (hardcover), $30.00 (paperback), $29.99 (e-book). David M DiValerio David M DiValerio University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee divaleri@uwm.edu Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Academy of Religion, lfad045, https://doi.org/10.1093/jaarel/lfad045 Published: 31 August 2023","PeriodicalId":51659,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF RELIGION","volume":"131 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-08-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135831010","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":"Discourses of Efficacy in the Ritual Use of Daoist Talismans","authors":"Joshua Capitanio","doi":"10.1093/jaarel/lfad034","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/jaarel/lfad034","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Producing and manipulating talismans is a part of many Daoist rituals, from discrete procedures to long and complex liturgical programs. Therefore, the success of a rite depends in part on the efficacious application of the talismans used within it. Ritual manuals describing the production of talismans contain detailed instructions for rendering those talismans efficacious, and the discourses used within those instructions thus serve to define the parameters of ritual efficacy for the Daoists who carry them out. These discourses can be broadly divided into discourses of objective efficacy, which posit that ritual efficacy derives from conditions external to the ritualist, and discourses of subjective efficacy, which focus instead on the practitioner’s internal dispositions. Here, I examine the different forms that these discourses can take and the ways in which they are employed within Daoist ritual texts, arguing that discourses of subjective efficacy emerged as a form of ritual criticism.","PeriodicalId":51659,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF RELIGION","volume":"104 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-08-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135181312","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":"Old Stories, New Victims: Possession of Men in <i>A Nightmare on Elm Street 2</i> (1985) and <i>Demon</i> (2015)","authors":"William Samuel Chavez","doi":"10.1093/jaarel/lfad035","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/jaarel/lfad035","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Horror operates as social history and social practice, regularly sacrificing symbolic threats to normalcy and proper socialization to the altar of hegemony. Possession/exorcism cinema, which likewise functions through iterative scapegoating, is typically studied according to its exploitation of young women/girls—with little consideration of possessed young men and those embedded within other social dynamics. This article analyzes A Nightmare on Elm Street 2 (1985) and Demon (2015), as the possession of Jesse in the former corresponds to his suggested homosexuality, while the possession of Piotrek in the latter dramatizes his expatriate resistance to a coercive family culture. Suffering in horror is typically justified through a dispossession of quality traits and a possession of discursive liabilities. Though one might expect such victim choices to undermine the conservative sensibilities of the genre, these films leverage and reinforce the very mechanisms upon which horror depends.","PeriodicalId":51659,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF RELIGION","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-08-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135181680","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 Thigh of Its Mother: The Fetus and the Subordinated Subject in the Babylonian Talmud","authors":"Sara Ronis","doi":"10.1093/jaarel/lfad008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/jaarel/lfad008","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Modern discussions of abortion in Jewish thought often invoke the Talmudic phrase “ubar yerekh imo,” the fetus is the thigh of its mother. This article examines the ten instances in which the phrase first appears in the Babylonian Talmud. I demonstrate that the rabbis of Late Antique Sasanian Babylonia deploy the phrase in two specific contexts: discussions of the sanctification, criminalization, or sale of non-human animal fetuses, and discussions of the sale and manumission of the fetuses of enslaved people. Drawing on insights from animal studies and studies of slavery, I argue that this phrase illuminates how the rabbis think with the fetus to value some lives over others in a world reliant on the exploitation of enslaved humans and animals, and compare this approach with that of the Roman jurist Ulpian. Ultimately, I shed light on ancient rabbinic anthropologies of the human body and the body politic.","PeriodicalId":51659,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF RELIGION","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2023-08-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45352963","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}