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Religions, Volume 12, Issue 4

April 2021 - 61 articles

Cover Story: Hundreds of wayside crosses (croix de chemin) stand along rural roads across Quebec, cared for by people who live nearby. In the 1970s, the provincial government funded a major survey of the crosses in the wake of Vatican II, which exemplifies how religious objects may be reimagined as national heritage. Drawing on archival survey materials and fieldwork with contemporary cross caretakers, this article shows how both heritage professionals and local caretakers lay claim to "modern" ways of interacting with religious objects, while still associating a cohesive national identity with a Catholic past. More broadly, to understand either perspective, one must trace the convergence of three mid-century trends: Quebecois and other emergent nationalisms, Catholic liberalization, and the rise of an international heritage industry. View this paper
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Articles (61)

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,320 Views
17 Pages

The Loss of Self-Dignity and Anger among Polish Young Adults: The Moderating Role of Religiosity

  • Wojciech Rodzeń,
  • Małgorzata Maria Kulik,
  • Agnieszka Malinowska,
  • Zdzisław Kroplewski and
  • Małgorzata Szcześniak

20 April 2021

Does the way we think or feel about ourselves have an impact on our anger-based reactions? Is the direction and strength of this relationship direct, or affected by other factors as well? Given that there is a lack of research on the loss of self-dig...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,505 Views
14 Pages

19 April 2021

This essay engages with some of the experiences and metaphysics of Indigenous peoples who are members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormonism/LDS/the Church) by responding to their structural construction as “Lamanites”. Lamanit...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,766 Views
18 Pages

19 April 2021

Faced with the complex reality of their countries in the grip of multifaceted crises, the intellectuals in the Maghreb and sub-Saharan Africa are baffled. Indeed, this situation, with a wealth of lessons, ought to challenge them to reflect together o...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,187 Views
13 Pages

19 April 2021

Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution was, to a certain extent, influenced and shaped by external factors, including the milieu of ideas in the early-nineteenth century, regarding how the natural world should be understood. Therefore, these ideas and...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
7,666 Views
15 Pages

19 April 2021

Shamanship is a thing-ish practice. Early missionary observers in Korea noted that features of the landscape, quotidian objects, and specialized paraphernalia figure in the work of shamans (mansin) and in popular religious practice more generally. Su...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
4,364 Views
12 Pages

16 April 2021

In the church tradition, we find that the great theologians were also deeply involved in the life of the church as bishops, priests, or pastors who served the believers in their parishes, though, even at that time, practicing theology started to drif...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
5,094 Views
17 Pages

16 April 2021

Posthumanism and transhumanism are philosophies that envision possible relations between humans and posthumans. Critical versions of posthumanism and transhumanism examine the idea of potential threats involved in human–posthuman interactions (i.e.,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,994 Views
11 Pages

16 April 2021

In this article, I critically engage Stephen Best’s provocative text, None Like Us. The article agrees with Best’s general concerns regarding longings for a unified black community or a We before the collective crime of slavery. Yet I contend that me...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,533 Views
11 Pages

Is an Integrative Model of Neurotheology Possible?

  • Leandro M. Gaitán and
  • Javier S. Castresana

16 April 2021

This article examines the basic and dialogical models of neurotheology and suggests a third model based on the work of Aldous Huxley. In other words, this proposal is not limited to understanding this discipline as a mere pursuit of neural correlates...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,399 Views
30 Pages

16 April 2021

This paper focuses on ethnography among Dutch Muslim women who chose to practice Islam (whether they were born Muslim, known as ‘Newly practicing Muslims,’ or they chose to convert, known as ‘New Muslims’), which is often considered by the native Dut...

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