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)
Afterword
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)
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
Discourses, Bodies, and Questions of Sharedness in Kenya's Wellness Communities
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)
Spiritual Dimensions in Exploring the Human-Geosphere Relationship under a Values-Based Approach in Lake Turgoyak, Southern Urals, Russia
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