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JAAR - Advance Access (OUP)Editor's Note: Something Observedview article | [Journal of the American Academy of Religion - Advance Access] Religion and Science Fictionview article | [Journal of the American Academy of Religion - Advance Access] Radical Love: An Introduction to Queer Theologyview article | [Journal of the American Academy of Religion - Advance Access] Death in the New World: Cross-Cultural Encounters, 1492-1800view article | [Journal of the American Academy of Religion - Advance Access] The Ethical Soundscape: Cassette Sermons and Islamic Counterpublicsview article | [Journal of the American Academy of Religion - Advance Access] Toward a Catholic Theology of Nationalityview article | [Journal of the American Academy of Religion - Advance Access] A Tale of Nouns and Verbs: Rejoinder to Ann Tavesview article | [Journal of the American Academy of Religion - Advance Access] Shrines and Miraculous Images: Religious Life in Mexico before the Reformaview article | [Journal of the American Academy of Religion - Advance Access] The Romance of Innocent Sexualityview article | [Journal of the American Academy of Religion - Advance Access] Manichaeism: An Ancient Faith Rediscoveredview article | [Journal of the American Academy of Religion - Advance Access] God in Translation: Deities in Cross-Cultural Discourse in the Biblical Worldview article | [Journal of the American Academy of Religion - Advance Access] Stone and Dung, Oil and Spit: Jewish Daily Life in the Time of Jesusview article | [Journal of the American Academy of Religion - Advance Access] The Good and Evil Serpent: How a Universal Symbol Became Christianizedview article | [Journal of the American Academy of Religion - Advance Access] Ecologies of Grace: Environmental Ethics and Christian Theologyview article | [Journal of the American Academy of Religion - Advance Access] The New Comparative Theology: Interreligious Insights from the Next Generationview article | [Journal of the American Academy of Religion - Advance Access] St. Paul's Ephesus: Texts and Archaeologyview article | [Journal of the American Academy of Religion - Advance Access] Body, Society, and Subjectivity in Religious StudiesAttention to bodies has transformed the study of religion in the past thirty years, aiding the effort to overcome the discipline's Protestant biases by shifting interest from beliefs to practices. And yet much of this work has unwittingly perpetuated an individualist notion of the religious subject. Although religionists are now well aware that bodies cannot be studied apart from the social forces that shape them, all too often the religious subject stands alone in a crowd, participating in communal rituals, subject to religious authorities and disciplinary practices, but oddly detached from intimate relationships. In this article, I first argue that the turn to the body was motivated by what it appeared to reject: theoretical questions about subjectivity. I then seek to challenge prevailing trends by arguing that these same theoretical insights should now prod us to attend to the import of intimacy and personal relationships. view article | [Journal of the American Academy of Religion - Advance Access] The Ethics of Commemoration: Religion and Politics in Nanjing, Hiroshima, and YasukuniThis article compares practices of commemoration of the war dead at three sites—Nanjing Memorial Hall, Hiroshima Memorial Hall, and the Yasukuni museum in Tokyo—in elucidating the ethical, political, and religious implications of commemoration. Drawing upon the ethical theories of Edith Wyschogrod, Emmanuel Levinas, and Alain Badiou, I argue that institutional commemoration is not only a political but also a religious practice—religious because commemoration is an act of transaction with the dead. I adapt Badiou's critique of Levinasian ethics as a kind of cryptotheology in which the "other" is construed as a transcendental being to reveal the intrinsically religious function of commemoration, in which the dead, ontologically distinct from the living, are genuinely other. This framework reveals the religious dimensions of the ostensibly secular commemorations at Nanjing and Hiroshima Memorial Halls (established and operated by the local and national governments), while also providing grounds for a critique of the explicitly religious Yasukuni museum, which exploits the dead in the interest of promoting nationalistic sentiments. view article | [Journal of the American Academy of Religion - Advance Access] Understanding the Relationship between Religion Online and Offline in a Networked SocietyThis article suggests that religious practice online, rather than simply transforming religion, highlights shifts occurring within broader Western culture. The concept of "networked religion" is introduced as a way to encapsulate how religion functions online and suggests that online religion exemplifies several key social and cultural changes at work in religion in general society. Networked religion is defined by five key traits—networked community, storied identities, shifting authority, convergent practice, and a multisite reality—that highlight central research topics and questions explored within the study of religion and the internet. Studying religion on the internet provides insights not only into the common attributes of religious practice online, but helps explain current trends within the practice of religion and even social interactions in networked society. view article | [Journal of the American Academy of Religion - Advance Access] Response to Russell T. McCutcheon's Review Essay: "Will Your Cognitive Anchor Hold in the Storms of Culture?" 78/4: 1182-1193view article | [Journal of the American Academy of Religion - Advance Access] |
