Symposia: The Graduate Student Journal of the Centre for the Study of Religion at the University of Toronto

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Call for Papers and reviews for volume 4 (2011-2012)

 
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Vol 3 (2011)

In the last twenty years, many fields of study in the social sciences and humanities have undergone a ‘spatial turn’, and the study of religion is no exception. Not only does everything occur in space, but where things happen has become recognised as key to understanding how and why they happen. On the one hand, certain long-established categories within the study of religion itself, such as ‘sacred space’ and ‘pilgrimage’, involve an obvious spatial dimension. On the other hand, the sociopolitical realities of transnational communities, diasporic religions, and economic globalisation suggest further considerations relevant to religions in the modern world. Finally, the influence from social theorists like Henri Lefebvre and David Harvey, as well as the work of modern geographers, suggests ways in which religion specifically, and culture in general, might play a role in the deployment of social relations across space.

This volume is interested in the intersection of religion and space/place, from a variety of disciplinary perspectives.

Table of Contents

Front Matters

Foreword PDF
 

Articles

Public Rationality and Performative Religiosity PDF
Tara Dankel
‘Being’ religious and ‘becoming’ secular in Ireland and France: rescaling secularisation theory PDF
Eoin O'Mahony
Pentecostal Power and the Holy Spirit of Capitalism: Re-territorialization in the Charismatic Cosmology PDF
Elsie Lewison
Space, Power, and Stories: hagiography, nationalist discourse, and the construction of sacred space at the Khwaja Sahib in Ajmer, India PDF
Ilyse Morgenstein Fuerst
Travel, the Inn, and Identity in Rabbinic Storytelling PDF
John Mandsager

Book Reviews

Jill Fehleisen, 'Boundaries of Faith' PDF
Greg Bereiter
Randall Balmer, 'The Making of Evangelicalism' PDF
Cara Burnidge
Anne Blackburn, 'Locations of Buddhism' PDF
Chipamong Chowdhury
Alfred Tauber, 'Freud, the Reluctant Philosopher' PDF
Nicholas Dion
G. Sujin Pak, 'The Judaizing Calvin' PDF
Adam Asher Duker
Louise Nelstrop et al., 'Christian Mysticism: An Introduction' PDF
Tenzan Eaghll
Jose Cabezon, 'Tibetan Ritual' PDF
Nicholas Field
Zsuzsanna Varhelyi, 'The Religion of Senators in the Roman Empire' PDF
Christina M.L. Fry
Benjamin Zeller, 'Prophets and Protons' PDF
Neil Terrence George
Tisa Wenger, 'We Have A Religion' PDF
Tammy Heise
W.G. Runciman, 'The Theory of Cultural and Social Selection' PDF
David Kaden
Richard A. Debs, 'Islamic Law and Civil Code' PDF
Harun Karcic
Terry Eagleton, 'On Evil' PDF
Joseph Laycock
Susan Karant-Nunn, 'The Reformation of Feeling' PDF
John W. McCormack
Gordon Heath, 'A War With a Silver Lining' PDF
Denis McKim
Conor Cunningham, 'Darwin's Pious Idea' PDF
Nathan Metzger
Diarmaid MacCulloch, 'Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years' PDF
Derek Michaud
Barbara Reeves Ellington et al., 'Competing Kingdoms' PDF
Elizabeth Dilkes Mullins
Leah DeVun, 'Prophecy, Alchemy, and the End of Time' PDF
Richard Oosterhoff
William Inboden, 'Religion and American Foreign Policy, 1945-1960' PDF
Andrew Polk
Averroes, 'Long Commentary on the 'De Anima' of Aristotle' (Taylor translation) PDF
Jessica L Radin
Cate Gunn, 'Texts and Traditions of Medieval Pastoral Care' PDF
Andrew Reeves
Ward Blanton et al., 'Jesus Beyond Nationalism' PDF
Sarah Rollens
Thomas J. Csordas, 'Transnational Transcendence' PDF
Justin Stein
Alexander Kulik, '3 Baruch' PDF
Andy Chi Kit Wong
Suzanne Marchand, 'German Orientalism in the Age of Empire' PDF
Christopher Zeichmann