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Understanding the Relationship between Religion Online and Offline in a Networked Society by Campbell, Heidi A.

“…This article suggests that religious practice online, rather than simply transforming religion, highlights shifts occurring within broader Western culture. The…”
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Is There Such a Thing as Animism? by Wilkinson, Darryl

“…This article considers the recent reemergence of the category of animism in the anthropological study of religion, a concept that has once again become…”
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AAR Centennial Roundtable: Religion, Conquest, and Race in the Foundations of the Modern/Colonial World by Maldonado-Torres, Nelson

“…This article explores the entanglements between the emergence of the anthropological conception of religion and the logic of race in the modern/colonial world…”
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Seeing the Invisible: Ambient Catholicism on the Side of the Road by Kaell, Hillary

“…The public role of religious objects is highly contested in Quebec, epitomized by the Charter of Values in 2013. In this heated political atmosphere, rural…”
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No, a Woman Did Not "Edit the Qur˒ān": Towards a Methodologically Coherent Approach to a Tradition Portraying a Woman and Written Quranic Materials by Geissinger, Aisha

“…Some traditions found in classical Muslim sources that variously depict the quranic text's oral and written transmission and canonization portray female…”
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Different Ways of Doing Violence: Sexuality, Religion, and Public Health in the Lives of Same-Gender-Loving Men in Kenya by Blevins, John, Irungu, Peter

“…This article examines two perspectives commonly invoked in debates about homosexuality in African cultures: claims by religious leaders that homosexuality is…”
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Durkheim with Data: The Database of Religious History by Slingerland, Edward, Sullivan, Brenton

“…This article introduces a new online, quantitative encyclopedia of religious cultural history, the Database of Religious History (DRH). The DRH aims to…”
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A Response by Doniger, Wendy

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Alice and Laurence Oliphan's Divine Androgyne and "The Woman Question" by Chajes, Julie

“…This article offers a historical and cultural analysis of two treatises of heterodox spirituality: Sympneumata (1885) and Scientific Religion (1888), and a…”
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The Dangers of Reading As We Know It: Sight Reading As a Source of Heresy in Early Rabbinic Traditions by Wollenberg, Rebecca Scharbach

“…Contemporary scholarship often treats classical rabbinic allusions to "reading" the Bible as evidence that late antique rabbinic culture valorized the written…”
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Roundtable on the Sociology of Religion: Twenty-Three Theses on the Status of Religion in American Sociology—A Mellon Working-Group Reflection by Smith, Christian, Vaidyanathan, Brandon, Ammerman, Nancy Tatom, Casanova, José, Davidson, Hilary, Ecklund, Elaine Howard, Evans, John H., Gorski, Philip S., Konieczny, Mary Ellen, Springs, Jason A., Trinitapoli, Jenny, Whitnah, Meredith

“…American sociology has not taken and does not take religion as seriously as it needs to in order to do the best sociology possible. Despite religion being an…”
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Beyond Broken: Affective Spaces and the Study of American Religion by O'Neill, Kevin Lewis

“…This article addresses the politics of space in the study of American religion. Part 1 argues that an attention to broken space, namely an assumed division…”
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A Response by Gade, Anna M.

“…In addressing a certain type of "normativity" in Islamic studies, each contribution to the roundtable offers a corrective in turn. Authors' justifications for…”
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Full Bellies and Sincere Intentions: Re-reading Sayyid Qutb as a Theorist of Human Welfare by Elfenbein, Caleb

“…Islamist activists are increasingly seeking, sometimes fitfully, to participate in democratic processes. In theory, these processes force communities to…”
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Is There a Postsecular? by Furani, Khaled

“…Postsecularism, arriving after multiple transcending endeavors (such as postmodernism, poststructuralism, and postcolonialism), is commonly invoked to question…”
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The Creation Story, or How We Learned to Stop Worrying and Love "Schempp" by Imhoff, Sarah

“…Many scholars highlight the 1963 Supreme Court Schempp decision as a major turning point, or even a point of origin for the field of religious studies. This…”
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The Normal and Abnormal: On the Politics of Being Muslim and Relating to Same-Sex Sexuality by Mahomed, Nadeem, Esack, Farid

“…This article focuses on the nexus between sexual diversity, secularism, and empire as sites of contestation and collaboration that continue to influence…”
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Friendship and the Cultivation of Religious Sensibilities by Moore, Brenna

“…In recent years, some scholars have argued that our field's focus on society, discourse, and bodily practice has been insufficiently attentive to the power…”
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Violence, Passion, and the Law: A Brief History of Section 295A and Its Antecedents by Adcock, C. S.

“…The lawsuit filed against Wendy Doniger's The Hindus: An Alternative History under section 295A of the Indian Penal Code prompted a controversy about free…”
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Queer Love in a "Christian Nation": Zambian Gay Men Negotiating Sexual and Religious Identities by van Klinken, Adriaan

“…On the basis of a study of a group of Zambian men identifying both as gay and as Christian, this article explores the negotiation of sexual and religious…”
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