This is an article about eschatology, ressentiment , and Christian nationalism. It is also about the unfixed nature of the nationalist imagination, the mutability of the ethical form, and the consequences of the various masks that ethics takes. My
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Eschatology, Ethics, and Ēthnos
Ressentiment and Christian Nationalism in the Anthropology of Christianity
Jon Bialecki
In Religion and Society
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- 01 Sep 2017
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- Research Article
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- 42–61 (20 total)
Afterword
So What Is the Anthropology of Buddhism About?
David N. Gellner
study of communalism and ethno-nationalism, Turek on emotion and charisma, and White with spirit possession. This collection of case studies provides a good overview of the range of work on Buddhism, both Mahāyāna and Theravāda, that is now being done
In Religion and Society
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- 01 Sep 2017
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- Research Article
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- 203–209 (7 total)
Belonging in a New Myanmar
Identity, Law, and Gender in the Anthropology of Contemporary Buddhism
Juliane Schober
include the socially engaged Saffron Revolution in 2007, which challenged a military regime, and more recent expressions of Buddhist nationalism that have emerged in the political transition since military rule ended in 2011. These technologies have also
In Religion and Society
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- 01 Sep 2017
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- 158–172 (15 total)
Introduction
Religions, Histories, and Comparisons
Simon Coleman, Ruy Llera Blanes, and Sondra L. Hausner
commentary on Peel’s paper. The first contribution to our articles section, by Jon Bialecki, offers variations on some of the themes raised by J. D. Y. Peel’s piece on iconoclasm and his work more generally. These include nationalism, uses of the past in the
Commentary on “Siting Pluralism”
Winnifred Fallers Sullivan
sacrilegious transgression of the sacred space of Russian Orthodoxy, but as the violation of a civic space of a certain Russian nationalism, one that in many ways is quite secular. The Cathedral of Christ the Saviour is not a diocesan church but a monument
Introduction
Religious Plurality, Interreligious Pluralism, and Spatialities of Religious Difference
Jeremy F. Walton and Neena Mahadev
ironically strengthen the asymmetrical power of majoritarian Sinhala nationalism. Islamic institutions in the Balkans have become sites for a new minority politics of recognition that could not have been anticipated in socialist Yugoslavia. In each of these
In Religion and Society
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- 01 Sep 2019
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- Introduction
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- 81–91 (11 total)
On Institutional Pluralization and the Political Genealogies of Post-Yugoslav Islam
Jeremy F. Walton and Piro Rexhepi
-socialist Serbian and Macedonian nationalism, and the ongoing legacies of the governance of Islam in the Habsburg and Yugoslav eras. 8 In this section, we trace the parallel trajectories of the Islamic Community of Kosovo (Bashkësia Islame Kosovës, BIK) and the
In Religion and Society
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- 01 Sep 2019
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- 151–167 (17 total)
Portrait
J. D. Y. Peel
Marloes Janson, Wale Adebanwi, David Pratten, Ruth Marshall, Stephan Palmié, Amanda Villepastour, and J. D. Y. Peel
Edited by Richard Fardon and Ramon Sarró
Nationalism . Exemplifying what Brubaker ( 2001: 533 ) deems the “disabling consequences of identity politics,” John summarizes the book’s trajectory: “Hucks’s subject is not the Yoruba themselves, nor the interaction between Nigerian Yoruba and ‘Yoruba
In Religion and Society
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- 01 Sep 2017
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- 1–41 (41 total)
Post-war Blood
Sacrifice, Anti-sacrifice, and the Rearticulations of Conflict in Sri Lanka
Neena Mahadev
Sinhala people. This racialized conception of ethnos combines with the political-cosmological principles evident in vernacular forms of Sinhala Buddhist nationalism. Anthropologists and historians of Theravāda Buddhism have pointed to the cosmological
In Religion and Society
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- 01 Sep 2019
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- Research Article
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- 130–150 (21 total)
Francis, a Criollo Pope
Valentina Napolitano
Anderson's thesis, Criollo nationalism in the Americas (and Mexico in particular) was also sacralized, rather than secularized, through its belief that all people, regardless of place of birth, were children of the same blood of Christ ( Lomnitz-Adler 2001
In Religion and Society
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- 01 Sep 2019
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- Research Article
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- 63–80 (18 total)