scholarly journals Book Reviews

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 171-196
Author(s):  
Mariske Westendorp ◽  
Bruno Reinhardt ◽  
Reinaldo L. Román ◽  
Jon Bialeki ◽  
Alexander Agadjanian ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Religious Conversion ◽  
Urban Violence ◽  
Ethical Practice ◽  
Spiritual Power ◽  
Religious Imagination ◽  
University Of Toronto ◽  
The Bible ◽  
History Of Religions ◽  
Duke University

Bielo, James, Materializing the Bible. Digital project. http://www.materializingthebible.com.Casselberry, Judith, The Labor of Faith: Gender and Power in Black Apostolic Pentecostalism, 240 pp., notes, index. Durham, NC : Duke University Press, 2017. Paperback, $25.95. ISBN 9780822369035.Clark, Emily Suzanne, A Luminous Brotherhood: Afro-Creole Spiritualism in Nineteenth-Century New Orleans, 280 pp., notes, index. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2016. Hardback, $34.95. ISBN 9781469628783.Cowan, Douglas E., America´s Dark Theologian: The Religious Imagination of Stephen King, 272 pp., notes, index. New York: NYU Press, 2018. Hardback, $30.00. ISBN 9781479894734.Darieva, Tsypylma, Florian Mühlfried, and Kevin Tuite, eds., Sacred Places, Emerging Spaces: Religious Pluralism in the Post-Soviet Caucasus, 246 pp., illustrations, bibliography, index. New York: Berghahn Books, 2018. Hardback, $90.00. IS BN 9781785337826.Daswani, Girish, Looking Back, Moving Forward: Transformation and Ethical Practice in the Ghanaian Church of Pentecost, 280 pages, figures, notes, index. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2015. Paperback, $30.95. ISBN 9781442626584.Giraldo Herrera, César E., Microbes and Other Shamanic Beings, 274 pp., index. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. Paperback, $99.99. ISBN 9783030100414.Kaell, Hillary, ed., Everyday Sacred: Religion in Contemporary Quebec, 356 pp., figures, notes, index. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2017. Hardback, $110.00. ISBN 9780773550940.Kripal, Jeffrey J., Secret Body: Erotic and Esoteric Currents in the History of Religions, 448 pp., appendix, notes, index. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2017. Paperback, $35.00. ISBN 9780226679082.Cabot, Zayin, Ecologies of Participation: Agents, Shamans, Mystics and Diviners, 352 pp., preface, index. London: Rowman & Littlefield, 2018. Hardback, $110.00. ISBN 9781498568159.Lauterbach , Karen, Christianity, Wealth, and Spiritual Power in Ghana, 221 pp., appendix, index. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. Paperback, $119.99. ISBN 9783319815299.Liberatore, Giulia, Somali, Muslim, British: Striving in Securitized Britain, 304 pp., figures, index. London: Bloomsbury, 2017. Paperback, $32.50. ISBN 9781350094628.Mansur, Marcia, and Marina Thomé, dirs., The Sound of Bells (O Som dos Sinos), documentary film, Portuguese, 70 min. Estúdio Crua, 2016. $320.00. https://store.der.org/the-sound-ofbells-p1012.aspx.Oosterbaan, Martijn, Transmitting the Spirit: Religious Conversion, Media, and Urban Violence, 264 pp., notes, bibliography, index. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2017. Paperback, $39.95. ISBN 9780271078441.Srinivas, Tulasi, The Cow in the Elevator: An Anthropology of Wonder, 296 pp., notes, references, index. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2018. Paperback, $26.95. ISBN 9780822370796.Taneja, Anand Vivek, Jinnealogy: Time, Islam and Ecological Thought in the Medieval Ruins of Delhi, 336 pp., illustrations, notes, references, index. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2018. Paperback, $30.00. ISBN 9781503603936.Wilcox, Melissa M., Queer Nuns: Religion, Activism, and Serious Parody, 336 pp., notes, bibliography, index. New York: NYU Press, 2018. Paperback, $30.00. ISBN 9781479820368.

Reimagining Religious Imagination, in Theory and in Practice

2021 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 390-408
Author(s):  
Adrian Ivakhiv
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Material Culture ◽  
Columbia University ◽  
Religious Imagination ◽  
Oxford University ◽  
Princeton University ◽  
History Of Religions ◽  
History Of ◽  
David Morgan ◽  
University Of Chicago Press

Jack Miles, Religion as We Know It: An Origin Story (New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 2020). T.M. Luhrmann, How God Becomes Real: Kindling the Presence of Invisible Others (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2020). David Morgan, Images at Work: The Material Culture of Enchantment (New York: Oxford University Press, 2018). Jennifer Anna Gosetti-Ferencei, The Life of Imagination: Revealing and Making the World (New York: Columbia University Press, 2018). Jeffrey J. Kripal, The Flip: Epiphanies of Mind and the Future of Knowledge (New York: Bellevue Literary Press, 2019). Jeffrey J. Kripal, Secret Body: Erotic and Esoteric Currents in the History of Religions (University of Chicago Press, 2017). Mary-Jane Rubenstein, Pantheologies: Gods, Worlds, Monsters (New York: Columbia University Press, 2018).

Exceptional America

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mugambi Jouet
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
San Francisco ◽  
Mass Incarceration ◽  
American Exceptionalism ◽  
Wealth Inequality ◽  
Law School ◽  
Gun Control ◽  
Alexis De Tocqueville ◽  
American Conservatism ◽  
The Bible

Americans are far more divided than other Westerners over basic issues, including wealth inequality, health care, climate change, evolution, the literal truth of the Bible, apocalyptical prophecies, gender roles, abortion, gay rights, sexual education, gun control, mass incarceration, the death penalty, torture, human rights, and war. The intense polarization of U.S. conservatives and liberals has become a key dimension of American exceptionalism—an idea widely misunderstood as American superiority. It is rather what makes America an exception, for better or worse. While exceptionalism once was largely a source of strength, it may now spell decline, as unique features of U.S. history, politics, law, culture, religion, and race relations foster grave conflicts and injustices. They also shed light on the peculiar ideological evolution of American conservatism, which long predated Trumpism. Anti-intellectualism, conspiracy-mongering, radical anti-governmentalism, and Christian fundamentalism are far more common in America than Europe, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. Drawing inspiration from Alexis de Tocqueville, Mugambi Jouet explores American exceptionalism’s intriguing roots as a multicultural outsider-insider. Raised in Paris by a French mother and Kenyan father, he then lived throughout America, from the Bible Belt to New York, California, and beyond. His articles have notably been featured in The New Republic, Slate, The San Francisco Chronicle, The Huffington Post, and Le Monde. He teaches at Stanford Law School.

„Rzymski” Żyd – nieznana twórczość Romana Brandstaettera

2012 ◽  
Vol 53 (1) ◽  
pp. 47-61
Author(s):  
Dariusz Konrad Sikorski
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Social Norms ◽  
Cultural Values ◽  
Interwar Period ◽  
Free Speech ◽  
Role Model ◽  
The Self ◽  
Polish Literature ◽  
The Bible ◽  
The Law

Summary After 1946, ie. after embracing Christianity, Roman Brandstaetter would often point to the Biblical Jonah as a role model for both his life and his artistic endeavour. In the interwar period, when he was a columnist of Nowy Głos, a New York Polish-Jewish periodical, he used the penname Romanus. The ‘Roman’ Jew appears to have treated his columns as a form of an artistic and civic ‘investigation’ into scandalous cases of breaking the law, destruction of cultural values and violation of social norms. Although it his was hardly ‘a new voice’ with the potential to change the course of history, he did become an intransigent defender of free speech. Brought up on the Bible and the best traditions of Polish literature and culture, Brandstaetter, the self-appointed disciple of Adam Mickiewicz, could not but stand up to the challenge of anti-Semitic aggression.

The Idea of Decadence in French Literature, 1830-1900,; Twelve Modern French Canadian Poets; Dictionary of French Literature; Blake’s Marriage of Heaven and Hell (Research Series III); the Order and Integration of Knowledge; Beginning Norwegian; Twelve French Poets; Andiamo in Italia; Raynal et Sa Machine de Guerre; A Book of ContemplationThe Idea of Decadence in French Literature, 1830-1900, by A. E. Carter; University of Toronto Press, 1958; price $4.50.Twelve Modern French Canadian Poets translated by G. R. Roy; Ryerson Press, Toronto, 1958; price $3.50.Dictionary of French Literature edited by Sidney D. Braun; Philosophical Library, New York, 1958; price $10.00.Blake’s Marriage of Heaven and Hell (Research Series III) by Martin K. Nurmi; Kent State University Bulletin, Kent, Ohio, 1957.The Order and Integration of Knowledge, W. O. Martin, University of Michigan Press; $6.50.Beginning Norwegian, Einar Haugen, Appleton-Century-Crofts; $3.25. German Grammar for Science Students, H. K. Kalbfeisch, Copp Clark;Twelve French POETS, D. Parmée, Longmans Green; $2.25.Andiamo in Italia, Fowler and Torre, Clarke, Irwin; $1.15.Raynal et sa Machine de Guerre, Hans Wolpe, Stanford University Press; $3.75.A Book of Contemplation by Dagobert D. Runes; Philosophical Library, New York, 1947; price $3.00.

1959 ◽  
Vol 15 (4) ◽  
pp. 44-44
Author(s):  
Robert Speers
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
French Literature ◽  
Stanford University ◽  
State University ◽  
University Of Michigan ◽  
Science Students ◽  
French Canadian ◽  
Kent State University ◽  
University Of Toronto

The Mainstreaming of Postmodernism: A Status Report on the "New" Scholarship in CanadaPARACHUTE: ART CONTEMPORAINI CONTEMPORARY ART.STRUGGLES WITH THE IMAGE. Philip Monk. Toronto: YYZ Books, 1989.A POETICS OF POSTMODERNISM: HISTORY, THEORY AND FICTION. Linda Hutcheon. London and New York: Routledge, 1988.THE CANADIAN POSTMODERN: A STUDY OF CONTEMPORARY ENGLISH-CANADIAN FICTION. Linda Hutcheon. Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1988.FUTURE INDICATIVE: LITERARY THEORY AND CANADIAN LITERATURE. Ed. John Moss. Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press, 1987.GYNOCRITICS: FEMINIST APPROACHES TO WRITING BY CANADIAN AND QUEBECOISE WOMEN. Ed. Barbara Godard. Toronto: ECW Press, 1987.A MAZING SPACE: WRITING CANADIAN WOMEN WRITING. Ed. Shirley Neuman and Smaro Kamboureli. Edmonton: Longspoon and NeWest, 1986.FEMINIST RESEARCH: PROSPECT AND RETROSPECT. Ed. Peta Tancred-Sheriff. Kingston and Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 1988.THE EVERYDAY WORLD AS PROBLEMATIC: A FEMINIST SOCIOLOGY. Dorothy Smith. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1987.THE POSTMODERN SCENE: EXCREMENTAL CULTURE AND HYPER-AESTHETICS. Arthur Kroker and David Cook. Montreal: New World Perspectives, 1985.CANADIAN JOURNAL OF POLITICAL AND SOCIAL THEORY.BODY INVADERS: PANIC SEX IN AMERICA. Ed. Arthur Kroker and Mari-louise Kroker. Montreal: New World Perspectives, 1987.

1989 ◽  
Vol 24 (3) ◽  
pp. 146-173
Author(s):  
Gaile McGregor
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New World ◽  
Status Report ◽  
University Of Toronto ◽  
Oxford University ◽  
Feminist Sociology ◽  
Dorothy Smith ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Research Prospect ◽  
English Canadian

The Bible in the German Empire

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joerg Rieger
Keyword(s):  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Friedrich Schleiermacher ◽  
German Empire ◽  
The Bible ◽  
Biblical Scholarship ◽  
Cultural Climate ◽  
Colonial Empire ◽  
History Of Religions ◽  
History Of ◽  
Intellectual Production

Even though Germany’s colonial empire lasted merely three decades, from 1884 to 1915, German colonial fantasies shaped intellectual production from the late eighteenth century onward. This cultural climate shapes a great variety of engagements with the Bible, from the beginnings of liberal theology with Friedrich Schleiermacher to missionary efforts and the rather abstract academic productions of biblical scholarship in the late nineteenth century, including the prominent history of religions school. At the same time, there are also efforts to resist colonial tendencies, sometimes in the work of the same authors who otherwise perpetuate the colonial spirit.

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