Critical Research on Religion
Volume 9 Number 3 December 2021
Table of Contents
https://journals.sagepub.com/toc/crra/current
I. Articles:
Messianic illusions: Taubes, Bloch, Benjamin and the necessity of interiority
Benjamin Steele-Fisher
The heathen, the plague, and the model minority: Perpetual self-assessment of Asian Americans as a panoptic mechanism
Yuen-Yung Sherry Chan
Resolving the conflict between traditional Islam and human rights: A comparative study of Mahmoud Mohammed Taha’s and Mohsen Kadivar’s views
Masoumeh Rad Goudarzi
The ancient mesopotamian M"ıs Pˆı ritual: An application of the ecological anthropology of Roy Rappaport
Amy L. Balogh
Double hiddenness: Governmentality and subjectivization in Gelug Buddhism
Jed Forman
II. Symposium on David Newheiser’s Hope in a Secular Age: Deconstruction, Negative Theology, and the Future of Faith (Cambridge University Press 2020)
Introduction: A pebble in the mouth and a boulder on the horizon
Bradley Onishi
On apophatic political theology
Anna Rowlands
Critical reflections
Michelle C. Sanchez
Why hope?
Marius Timmann Mjaaland
Elusive hope in a secular age
Andre C. Willis
How hope becomes concrete
David Newheiser
III. Book Reviews:
Adam Possamai and Anthony J. Blasi (eds), The Sage Encyclopedia of the Sociology of Religion
Reviewed by Bryan Turner
Christopher R Cotter, The Critical Study of Non-Religion: Discourse, Identification and Locality
Reviewed by Paul-François Tremlett
Amanda J Lucia, White Utopias: The Religious Exoticism of Transformational Festivals
Reviewed by Matteo Di Placido
Ahmet T. Kuru, Islam, Authoritarianism, and Underdevelopment: A Global and Historical Comparison
Reviewed by Eleni Pothou
Philip Gorski, American Covenant: A History of Civil Religion from the Puritans to the Present
Reviewed by Jean-Pierre Reed
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