Showing papers in "Religion in 2021"
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TL;DR: The authors examines the existing literature on the relationship between religion and populism, and is intended as a starting point for further examination of the relationships between populism, religion, and emotions, which can be divided into two broad categories of religious populism and identitarian populism.
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TL;DR: The authors explores the emerging scholarship investigating the relationship between religion(s) and populism and concludes that there is a scarcity of literature on this topic particularly in the non-Western and Judeo-Christian context.
30 citations
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TL;DR: The authors identify two ideal-typical versions of this narrative: the white Christian nation and the color-blind Judeo-Christian nation, but differ in their framing of how religion and race intersect as markers of American belonging and power.
20 citations
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors show that the contents of the Friday sermons, that reach at least 50 percent of the country's adult males every week, have moved from Turkish nationalist understanding of militarism and martyrdom to more radical, Islamist and pro-violence interpretations that actively promote dying for the nation, homeland, religion and God.
19 citations
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors focus on Turkey and argue that by instrumentalizing the Diyanet (Turkey's Presidency of Religious Affairs), the authoritarian Islamists in power have been able to consolidate manufactured populist dichotomies via the weekly Friday sermons.
19 citations
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TL;DR: The authors provides an overview of the investigation of genres in Qur'anic studies to date and argues for the utility of the theory of speech genres for the interpretation of the Qur'an generally.
19 citations
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TL;DR: For example, this article explored how Church-State relations in Germany and the United States have produced different incentives and opportunity structures for faith leaders when facing right-wing populism based on quantitative studies, survey data, and 31 in-depth elite interviews, and found that whereas Germany's system of benevolent neutrality encourages highly centralised churches whose leaders perceive themselves as integral part and defenders of the current system, and are therefore both willing and able to create social taboos against rightwing populism, America's "Wall of separation" favours a de-centralised religious marketplace, in which
18 citations
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TL;DR: This paper examined how the material and corporeal aspects of Buddhist ritual contribute to the distinctive religious sense of place that reinforce the memory of the Buddha's life and the historical ties to the Indian subcontinent.
18 citations
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TL;DR: A scoping review of existing literature on death anxiety can be found in this article, where the authors search in databases such as PubMed, Scopus, and PsychINFO using key words such as "death anxiety", "fear of death", "culture", and "psychopathology" combined with Boolean operators to narrow down the search results.
17 citations
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TL;DR: In this paper, Nahdlatul Ulama (NU) takes a leading role in initiating counter-terror counter-culture in Indonesia, where Islamic counter-terrorism culture contests Islamic radicalization.
17 citations
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TL;DR: In this article, a qualitative design within a case study tradition was implemented to investigate instructional barriers during COVID-19 faced by Indonesian teachers in Islamic boarding schools (Pesantren).
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors define Turkey's Islamic soft power as ambivalent and scrutinise the reasons behind this ambiguity by exploring examples from other countries in South-eastern and Western Europe.
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TL;DR: The authors examines the ways in which mainstream Islamic politics in Indonesia, the world's largest majority Muslim nation, has been shaped by disagreements between modernists and traditionalists, beginning in the early 1950s, and discusses the social and political influence of, and relationships between, three major Indonesian Islamic intellectual streams: Modernists, Traditionalists, and neo-Modernists.
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TL;DR: This article explored Zhi Qian's literary refinements from the lexical, stylistic, and conceptual points of view based on his Foshuo pusa benye jing (佛說菩薩本業經, T. 281) in close conjunction with three related sūtras, including the Pusa shizhu xingdao pin (Pusa xingdingdao Pin, T., T. 283), all attributed to Lokakṣema.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the need for new typologies of what is religious on the Internet is explored and a conceptual framework for mapping digital religion is presented based on influential classification by Helland.
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TL;DR: This paper investigates how several species were implicated in the mediaeval invention of what it meant to be (like) a pig and contends that the Livre des proprietes des choses employs discourses of porcinity to self-define and -stabilise particular notions of human identity by debasing and othering human and nonhuman animals with seemingly porcine traits.
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TL;DR: This paper examined the rise of religious populism in Indonesia through a study of the Islamic Defenders Front (FPI) and identified the FPI as an Islamist civilizationist populist group and showed how the group frames Indonesian domestic political events within a larger cosmic battle between faithful and righteous Muslims and the forces that stand against Islam, whether they be "unfaithful Muslims" or non-Muslims.
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors focus on the case of the Romanian Orthodox Church and explore its current position towards human rights that has developed within the context of EU membership and hypothesise a reorientation of the latter from a position of closure and a general rejection of human rights in the direction of their partial acceptance, with this being related to its attempt to develop a European identity.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss the scale and nature of the practice of transmitting Holy Mass by parishes of the Roman Catholic Church in Poland through online live-streaming in spring 2020, and analyze these issues in a multifaceted and interdisciplinary way, mainly within the framework of communication and media studies and theology.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors surveyed each and every one of the 70 Spanish dioceses, taking them as representatives of the global Catholic community in the country, and their responses highlight the huge and unprecedented step towards the digitalization of the community through consistent, creative and efficient action.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the link between right-wing nationalism and Cultural Christianity from a historical-theoretical perspective is discussed, with the example of contemporary illiberal and selective European memory constructions including a special emphasis on the exclusivist elements.
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TL;DR: In this article, a state controlled religious institution used religion, fear, trauma, insecurity, grievances, and conspiracy theories to dehumanize a religious community, and presented it as an existential threat to the nation, the global community of believers and religion, by investigating the case of Turkey's Directorate of Religious Affairs' (the Diyanet) securitizing role under the authoritarian Islamist Erdoganist rule.
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors identify such Islamic principles and examine the undesirability of the mistreatment of religious minorities in Pakistan, focusing on the arguments for and against religious freedom in Pakistan on the one hand, and the religious rights and freedoms of non-Muslim minorities from an Islamic perspective on the other.
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TL;DR: In this article, an overview of IRE development since 2015 until now regarding the policy incentives concerning the Flemish IRE, taking into account the concept of separation of Church and State.
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TL;DR: The authors explored the religious projection and ethical appeal in the art and literature of Leda and the Swan created from ancient times to the contemporary era, so as to make a comparative review and reading on it, providing religious reflection and ethical enlightenment to today's society.
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors consider various methods of disposing the human body after death, with a particular focus on the environmental impact that the different disposal techniques have, including traditional burial, cremation, natural burial, and resomation.
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that contemporary European prisons are sites of intense religious change, in which many people born outside Islam and many born-Muslims believe in and practise Islam for the first time.
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TL;DR: In this paper, a qualitative self-study research based on personal experiences with various Islamic higher education programs at Leiden University will be used to reflect on the broader developments in Islamic education programs in Europe.
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TL;DR: The authors found that nearly half of secondary religious education (RE) teachers in England and more than half in Scotland have no religion, and that most teachers in these countries do not believe in God.
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TL;DR: The first vita of the Franciscan Tertiary abbess Juana de la Cruz (Vida y fin de la bienaventurada virgen sancta Juana De la Cruz, written c. 1534) as mentioned in this paper is a chronicle that narrates the origins and reform of a specific religious community in the Castile of the Catholic Monarchs.