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Religions, Volume 10, Issue 6

2019 June - 57 articles

Cover Story: This paper focuses on the relationship between clothing and identity, specifically, on Islamic dress as shaping the identity of Dutch Muslim women. How do these Dutch Muslim women shape their identity in a way that it is both Dutch and Muslim? Do they mix Dutch parameters into their Muslim identity while at the same time intersplicing Islamic principles into their Dutch sense of self? This study is based on two ethnographies conducted in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, and combines insights taken from in-depth interviews with Dutch Muslim women and observations in gatherings from Quranic and religious studies, social gatherings, and one-time events, as well as observations in stores for Islamic fashion and museums in Amsterdam. This study takes as its theme clothing and identity and how Islamic clothing can be mobilized by Dutch Muslim women in service of identity formation. View this paper
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Articles (57)

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
13,790 Views
17 Pages

25 June 2019

Relationships between religion and comics are generally unexplored in the academic literature. This article provides a brief history of Black religions in comic books, cartoons, animation, and newspaper strips, looking at African American Christianit...

  • Editorial
  • Open Access
19 Citations
9,720 Views
13 Pages

24 June 2019

This article introduces the Religions issue on Latin American religiosity exploring sociological perspectives on the Latin American religious situation, from a Latin American perspective. The Secularization Theory proposes “the more modernity,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
4,075 Views
24 Pages

24 June 2019

The following essay is presented as part of a long-term project concerned with the theory and practice of modern Jewish thinkers as interpreters of the Bible. The recent Bible commentaries of Eliezer Schweid, who is one of the foremost Jewish scholar...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
6,993 Views
21 Pages

23 June 2019

There are few empirical studies on the Catholic Church’s loss of followers in the state of Rio de Janeiro and, more generally, on the decline of Catholicism in Brazil. Drawing from the Weberian theses of disenchantment and religious rationalization,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
6,870 Views
16 Pages

Religious/Spiritual Struggles and Life Satisfaction among Young Roman Catholics: The Mediating Role of Gratitude

  • Małgorzata Szcześniak,
  • Grażyna Bielecka,
  • Iga Bajkowska,
  • Anna Czaprowska and
  • Daria Madej

22 June 2019

An extensive review of the psychological literature shows that interactions between religious/spiritual (R/S) struggles and other aspects of human functioning are complex and affected by “third” factors. Still, we have only a few studies...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
8,983 Views
22 Pages

22 June 2019

The new millennium has seen increased hostility to Israel among many progressive constituencies, including several mainline Protestant churches. The evangelical community in the US remains steadfastly Zionist, so overall support for financial aid to...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,879 Views
16 Pages

21 June 2019

Starting from Fehige’s and Polkinghorne’s analyses of the analogies between theological and scientific thought experiments (TEs), the main aim of this paper is to clarify the distinctive character of theological TEs. For this purpose, we...

  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
12,888 Views
26 Pages

20 June 2019

Tracing the devotional beliefs and practices of everyday people during the late Middle Ages through documents is tricky, as most were written with other purposes in mind. To make up for this, it is necessary to examine the abundant material culture t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
19,407 Views
41 Pages

19 June 2019

Although traditionally associated with Eastern Christianity, the practice of venerating icons became deeply rooted in the Catholic societies of the broad Adriatic region from the Late Middle Ages onwards and was an indispensable part of everyday popu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
5,761 Views
17 Pages

19 June 2019

In this article, I examine the possible thought experimenting qualities of Søren Kierkegaard’s novel Fear and Trembling and in which way (if any) it can be explanatory. Kierkegaard’s preference for pseudonyms, indirect communicatio...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
7,407 Views
17 Pages

18 June 2019

Recent research on Daoism has distinguished various models of self-cultivation present in the tradition, in particular those which aim at returning humanity to a natural, spontaneous form of existence (often associated with early pre-Qin “philo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,610 Views
12 Pages

17 June 2019

The eminent scholar-nun Chŏng Suok (1902–1966) traveled from colonial Korea to Imperial Japan from 1937 to 1939 and wrote a travelogue that provides an important first-hand account from a woman’s perspective on the state of Japanese and K...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
5,415 Views
15 Pages

17 June 2019

In the seventeenth century, a common saying in parts of rural Sweden when discussing someone lacking in piety was that they went to neither church nor cross. This reflects the practice of placing shrines in the fields, along the roads and in the wood...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
7,373 Views
26 Pages

14 June 2019

This article is about sahaja-jñāna, or ‘innate intuition’, as a form of Brahmo and Vaiṣṇava epistemology—a foundational invention within the development of modern Hinduism. I examine its nineteenth-century intellectual histor...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
24,742 Views
22 Pages

13 June 2019

Hindu goddesses have been mobilized as powerful symbols by various groups of activists in both visual and verbal campaigns in India. Although these mobilizations have different motivations and goals, they have frequently emphasized the theological as...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,557 Views
8 Pages

13 June 2019

Posthumanist critics such as Braidotti—informed by the antihumanisms of Foucault, Irigaray, and Deleuze—seek to respond to advanced capitalism by promoting what they take to be a radical transformation of what it means to be “human,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
6,744 Views
14 Pages

12 June 2019

In many religious education classrooms, the meaning of a sacred text is treated as something stable and authoritative. A teacher’s job is to transmit that meaning to students. This study reports on a year-long intervention conducted in a sevent...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,150 Views
18 Pages

12 June 2019

Recent research on student epistemology has shifted from seeing epistemology as a stable entity possessed by individuals to a collection of more situated cognitive resources that individuals may employ differently depending on the context. Much of th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3,696 Views
18 Pages

12 June 2019

This article introduces the life and medical histories of the luminary Khalkha Mongolian monk, Lungrik Tendar (Tib. Lung rigs bstan dar; Mon. Lungrigdandar, c. 1842–1915). Well known for his exegesis of received medical works from Central Tibet...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
11,031 Views
21 Pages

8 June 2019

A large majority of Japanese people describe themselves as mushūkyō, ‘non-religious’, even though they participate in several religious-related cultural practices that socialize them to accept spiritual attitudes without the mediation of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
5,554 Views
11 Pages

7 June 2019

This paper focuses on how Buddhist medicine in twentieth-century Inner Mongolia was defined, restricted, regulated, and transformed under different ruling political regimes since the fall of the Qing empire in 1911 to the 1980s. The paper argues that...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
4,032 Views
15 Pages

7 June 2019

This contribution explores a peculiar kind of annotation in Arabic multiple-text manuscripts. These manuscripts were often compiled as a personal ‘one-volume library’, containing copies and excerpts of a unique selection of texts. Further...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
12,183 Views
20 Pages

5 June 2019

From the late 19th to the mid-20th century, the practice of private confession to a priest was a mainstay of Catholic parish life in the United States. By the 1970s, Catholics had largely abandoned the practice of private confession. One dominant nar...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
16,381 Views
22 Pages

5 June 2019

This article aims to explain the ideas and the significance of Dr. Bilal Philips, a prominent ‘Salafi‘preacher, a major proponent of Neo-Traditional Salafism, and how his writings and activities can aid us in understanding the dynamics re...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
5,712 Views
21 Pages

4 June 2019

Implicit in Heidegger’s 1920–1921 Phenomenology of Religious Life is an account of religion as a radical transformation of the very structures of experience. This article seeks to apply that account to a classical Indian discourse on real...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,510 Views
31 Pages

4 June 2019

As recent research on the former bhaṭṭāraka lineages of Western and Central India has shown, the early modern Digambara tradition, rather than constituting a distinct, and defective, ‘bhaṭṭāraka era’, shows much similarity to contemporary...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
5,223 Views
16 Pages

3 June 2019

This essay considers the importance of the transspecies imagination for moral cultivation in contemporary Chinese Buddhism. Drawing on scriptural, theoretical, and fieldwork-based ethnographic data, it argues that olfaction—often considered the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
5,665 Views
10 Pages

3 June 2019

The term religious socialization has become a pressing issue in the context of religious socialization research. It also raises the question whether religious transmission can be interpreted through the reproduction or constructivist approach. Previo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
5,723 Views
14 Pages

3 June 2019

The paper argues for the continued importance and usefulness of the term “civil religion” in light of the (West) German discussion and the situation in Europe. For non-Americans, and especially for Germans for whom terms like “polit...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,873 Views
27 Pages

3 June 2019

In this article, we pursue a double mission: First, we will demonstrate the unique nature of dynamic group facilitation as it emerges from the concept of the unity of opposites and its relation to situations of conflict, as well as the pedagogical ch...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
10,107 Views
39 Pages

1 June 2019

Low competitiveness is a common denominator of historically Roman Catholic countries. In contrast, historically Protestant countries generally perform better in education, social progress, and competitiveness. Jesus Christ described the true and fals...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
9,434 Views
14 Pages

1 June 2019

In an early discourse from the Saṃyuttanikāya, the Buddha states: “I do not see any other order of living beings so diversified as those in the animal realm. Even those beings in the animal realm have been diversified by the mind, yet the mind...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,668 Views
17 Pages

31 May 2019

The Pilgrim’s Progress was one of the most popular translated novels in China from the late 19th until the 20th century. In this paper, I argue that one of the main reasons for the book’s success in China lies in an intricate rhetoric of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,848 Views
21 Pages

31 May 2019

This article argues that in postcolonial and post-secular Australia, a country in which Christianity has been imported from Europe in the process of colonization in the eighteenth century by the British Empire, institutional Christianity is waning in...

  • Essay
  • Open Access
1 Citations
6,407 Views
10 Pages

31 May 2019

The image of “straw dogs” (chugou 刍狗) is a simile used in chapter five of the Laozi (老子), in a passage generally understood as an explicit Daoist rejection of kind acts (or benevolence as ren 仁 was translated for a long time), well known...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
5,128 Views
17 Pages

31 May 2019

The study of religious freedom has not received sufficient empirical attention from sociologists of religion, despite significant theoretical discussion of the governance of religious freedom. This article suggests empirical findings about the views...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
9,250 Views
11 Pages

30 May 2019

In this article, I argue that “mindfulness of death” (maraṇasati) can be a tool to induce mortality salience and can have a positive psychological impact. The mindfulness of death is described in detail in the early Buddhist texts Aṅgutta...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,146 Views
18 Pages

30 May 2019

Scholars have long known that Jain authors from the early centuries of the common era composed their own versions of the story of Rāma, prince of Ayodhyā. Further, the differences between Jain and Brahminical versions of the narrative are well docume...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
17,927 Views
26 Pages

30 May 2019

This paper focuses on the relationship between clothing and identity—specifically, on Islamic dress as shaping the identity of Dutch Muslim women. How do these Dutch Muslim women shape their identity in a way that it is both Dutch and Muslim? D...

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