actively negotiate a shared purpose. I argue that through these public interactional negotiations, congregants of B'nai Israel not only co-construct and (re)create spiritual community in the absence of a shared putative faith in God or shared practice of
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Wrestling with Tradition
Reconstructing Jewish Community through Negotiating Shared Purpose
Chantal Tetreault
In Religion and Society
- Published (Print):
- 01 Sep 2021
- Article Type:
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- 178–190 (13 total)
Ayala Fader
defining religious/spiritual communities at all (Hillewaert, Elisha). The majority of the communities discussed probably fit most comfortably in scholarship on new religious movements or New Age scholarship (Elisha). What links these contributions is a
Introduction
Communities Reimagining Sharedness in Belief and Practice
Sarah Hillewaert and Chantal Tetreault
either as contributing to community building or as indicative of shared purpose across differences. The theoretical and ethnographic thread is therefore a reconsideration of the notion of sharedness often assumed to be at the core of (spiritual) community
In Religion and Society
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- 01 Sep 2021
- Article Type:
- Research Article
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- 129–136 (8 total)
A UK Psychologist's Reflections on the First Year of the COVID-19 Lockdown
Can We Talk about a Jewish Experience?
Nikki Scheiner
individual solitude, we are a spiritual community. Some cultural life flourished throughout COVID-19 thanks to the internet. Although live theatre was suspended, other arts were successful in expanding or moving (temporarily) online. The 2020 innovative
In European Judaism
- Published (Print):
- 01 Sep 2022
- Article Type:
- Research Article
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- 138–153 (16 total)
Dangerous speculation
The appeal of pyramid schemes in rural Siberia
Leonie Schiffauer
calculative reason and the desire for big money that draws people into pyramid schemes, but so does the prospect of becoming part of a spiritual community (cf. Cahn 2011 , who made the same point with regard to MLM companies). Imagining wealth
Sarah M. Hillewaert
these engagements beyond seemingly more evident exoticism or ‘voluntourism’. This article contemplates the different discursive constructions of sharedness that underlie the flourishing of alternative lifestyle or spiritual communities in Eastern
In Religion and Society
- Published (Print):
- 01 Sep 2021
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 163–177 (15 total)
Individualization and Ethnopedagogy at Small Elementary Schools
Components of Vocational Training for University Tutors
Nikolai Neustroev, Anna Neustroeva, Tuyaara Shergina, and Jenanne K. Ferguson
Unity of the Russian Nation and the Ethnocultural Development of the Peoples of Russia for 2014-2020” is the preservation and development of cultures and language of the peoples of the Russian Federation; the strengthening of their spiritual community
Steven Brooke, Dafne Accoroni, Olga Ulturgasheva, Anastasios Panagiotopoulos, Eugenia Roussou, Francesco Vacchiano, Jeffrey D. Howison, Susan Greenwood, Yvonne Daniel, Joana Bahia, Gloria Goodwin Raheja, Charles Lincoln Vaughan, Katrien Pype, and Linda van de Kamp
construction, decoration, and placement that was standardized through photography by Hortensia and her spiritual community descendants. This involved, for example, the use of translucent lighting within altars, mirrors and satin or similar materials that
In Religion and Society
- Published (Print):
- 01 Sep 2016
- Article Type:
- Book Review
- Pages:
- 141–165 (25 total)
Jack Hunter, Annelin Eriksen, Jon Mitchell, Mattijs van de Port, Magnus Course, Nicolás Panotto, Ruth Barcan, David M. R. Orr, Girish Daswani, Piergiorgio Di Giminiani, Pirjo Kristiina Virtanen, Sofía Ugarte, Ryan J. Cook, Bettina E. Schmidt, and Mylene Mizrahi
Haiti, Rocha portrays in her ethnography the transnational spiritual community around the Brazilian faith healer known as John of God. As Rocha outlines from the start, John of God and his growing community of followers present a perfect case study for a
In Religion and Society
- Published (Print):
- 01 Sep 2018
- Article Type:
- Book Review
- Pages:
- 192–217 (26 total)
Francesc Bellaubi
). The geosphere supports the living matter but also generates life in a social, cultural, and spiritual community sense, and the expression of its multiple manifestations in terms of rivers, lakes, and mountains may be considered as common beings