Since state atheism was abandoned in the 1990s, the Russian Federation entered what can be called a postsecular phase. Religion, formerly limited to the private sphere, reappeared in the public and underwent an astonishing religious revival. During the time of my fieldwork in 2006/2007, a tendency to favor the Russian Orthodox Church (ROC) and to facilitate its return to the public reached its climax. In this article I draw attention to how the political, the secular, and the religious are interconnected and allow for new vernacular forms of legitimating power and authority. One example is the introduction of new public holidays and public rituals. They connect local and national narratives and relate to ideas about the communality of the Russian people. They create new forms of a divine kinship, which draw heavily on religious and national symbols and merge the sacred and the profane.
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Ritual and commemoration in contemporary Russia
State-church relationships and the vernacularization of the politics of memory
Tobias Köllner
Postsecular cities: space, theory and practice, edited by Beaumont, Justin and Christopher Baker
CAROLINA IVANESCU
In Social Anthropology/Anthropologie sociale
- Published (Print):
- 01 Aug 2012
- Article Type:
- Book Review
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- 331–332 (1 total)
Learning the Elsewhere of ‘Inner Space’
The Affective Pedagogy of Post-Secular Sufi Healing in Germany
Nasima Selim
. In addition, I will discuss how the boundaries between religious and therapeutic discourses were dissolved in Inayati practice, rendering their post-secular politics visible. 5 However, not all the feelings emanating from the Elsewhere that were
In Religion and Society
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- 01 Sep 2020
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- Research Article
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- 105–119 (15 total)
Jewish Secular-Believer Women in Israel
A Complex and Ambivalent Identity
Hagar Lahav
becomes a focal point of this study. Theoretical Background The post-secular turn in the study of religion and society criticizes the conceptualization offered by the ‘secularization thesis’ (see, e.g., Asad 2003 ; Bellah 1991 ; Berger 1996 ; Bhargava
In Israel Studies Review
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- 01 Dec 2017
- Article Type:
- Research Article
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- 66–88 (23 total)
Co-existing through Opposition
Competitive Theologies and Cohesion in a Spanish Village
Josep Almudéver Chanzà
the context of postsecular states whose past is shaped by faith-based violence, competing for faith-based resources paradoxically allows for the mediation between secular and religious imaginings of the community, the social group, and the nation
In Social Analysis
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- 01 Dec 2022
- Article Type:
- Research Article
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- 134–153 (20 total)
Book Reviews
Ian Hague, Nancy Pedri, José Alaniz, Stefano Ascari, and Silke Horstkotte
Daniel Stein and Jan-Noël Thon, eds, From Comic Strips to Graphic Novels: Contributions to the Theory and History of Graphic Narrative
Barbara Postema, Making Sense of Fragments: Narrative Structure in Comics
Shane Denson, Christina Meyer and Daniel Stein, eds., Transnational Perspectives on Graphic Narratives: Comics at the Crossroads
Mélanie Van Der Hoorn, Bricks and Balloons: Architecture in Comic Strip Form
Thomas Hausmanninger, Verschwörung und Religion: Aspekte der Postsäkularität in den franco-belgischen Comics [Conspiracy and Religion: Aspects of Post-Secularity in Franco-Belgian Comics]
Teachings of Tara
Sacred Place and Human Wellbeing in the Shimla Hills
Jonathan Miles-Watson
Abstract
This article presents the case for a rethinking of the academy’s approach to sacred space through a demonstration of the way that a focus on unskilled actors reconfigures established approaches and interpretations. The article opens with an auto-ethnographic account of the powerful effect of Shimla’s Tara Devi temple on personal wellbeing and from this starting point spirals out to explore how Tara (and her sacred places) are connected to wellbeing both in the Himalayan region of Shimla and beyond. Through this process, arguments that I have previously made, concerning both the relation of sacred places to happiness (2010) and the way that sacred places operate in Himalayan North India (2012), are significantly complicated, leading to a reappraisal of the role that unskilled actors play in the constitution of sacred space. The article concludes by drawing these ethnographic reflections and theoretical considerations together to develop a key set of recommendations that call for policy-makers to engage sensitively with sacred places in the contemporary, post-secular city.
In Anthropology in Action
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- 01 Dec 2016
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- Research Article
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- 30–42 (13 total)
Book Reviews
Jon Bialecki, Erica Weiss, Hillary Kaell, Christopher Hewlett, Sibyl Macfarlane, Grit Wesser, Emma Gobin, James S. Bielo, Sindre Bangstad, and Thorgeir Kolshus
SHULTS, F. LeRon, Iconoclastic Theology: Gilles Deleuze and the Secretion of Atheism, 242 pp., illustrations, index. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2014. Hardback, $104. ISBN 9780748684137.
BARBER, Daniel Colucciello, Deleuze and the Naming of God: Post-secularism and the Future of Immanence, 232 pp., index. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2014. Hardback, $113. ISBN 9780748686360.
DROEBER, Julia, The Dynamics of Coexistence in the Middle East: Negotiating Boundaries Between Christians, Muslims, Jews and Samaritans in Palestine, 256 pp., notes, bibliography, index. London: I.B. Tauris, 2013. Hardback, £58.00. ISBN 9781780765273.
ENGELKE, Matthew, God’s Agents: Biblical Publicity in Contemporary England, 320 pp., notes, references, index. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2013. Paperback, $34.95, £24.95. ISBN 9780520280472.
FAUSTO, Carlos, Warfare and Shamanism in Amazonia, 368 pp., illustrations, maps, tables, references, annex, index. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012. Hardback, £62. ISBN 9781107020061.
HARVEY, Graham, Food, Sex and Strangers: Understanding Religion as Everyday Life, 244 pp. Durham: Acumen, 2013. Paperback, $23. ISBN 9781844656936.
NYNÄS, Peter, and Andrew Kam-Tuck YIP, eds., Religion, Gender and Sexuality in Everyday Life, 173 pp., index. Farnham: Ashgate, 2012. Hardback, £45. ISBN 9781409445838.
PALMIÉ, Stephan, The Cooking of History: How Not to Study Afro-Cuban Religion, 360 pp., notes, references, index. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2013. Cloth, $85. ISBN 9780226019420.
SEALES, Chad E., The Secular Spectacle: Performing Religion in a Southern Town, 238 pp., illustrations, notes, index. New York: Oxford University Press, 2013. Paperback, $24.95. ISBN 9780199860289.
SELBY, Jennifer A., Questioning French Secularism: Gender Politics and Islam in a Parisian Suburb, 241 pp., illustrations, appendix, notes, bibliography, index. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. Hardcover, $73. ISBN 9780230121010.
TOMLINSON, Matt, and Debra MCDOUGALL, eds., Christian Politics in Oceania, 260 pp., illustrations, maps, bibliography, index. New York: Berghahn Books, 2013. Hardback, $90. ISBN 9780857457462.
In Religion and Society
- Published (Print):
- 01 Sep 2014
- Article Type:
- Book Review
- Pages:
- 261–281 (21 total)
From the Throes of Anguished Mourning
Shi‘i Ritual Lamentation and the Pious Publics of Lebanon
Fouad Gehad Marei
short, I will argue that cultivated engagements with the Elsewhere constitute a mode of socialization, cultivate an affective bond among group members, and promulgate community-oriented values suited for late-modern and post-secular settings. A moral and
In Religion and Society
- Published (Print):
- 01 Sep 2020
- Article Type:
- Research Article
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- 133–147 (15 total)
The Bible, Hayden White, and the Settlements
Teaching Religious Zionist History in the Postmodern Era
Roy Weintraub
of religion to the political arena and to the center of social life in many parts of the world. 9 The “postsecular condition” that results from this process is postmodern, but not in a deconstructive-epistemological sense. Rather, this condition is
In Journal of Educational Media, Memory, and Society
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- 01 Sep 2019
- Article Type:
- Research Article
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- 45–64 (20 total)