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| Graduate Program in Religion : Publications since January 2023List all publications in the database. :chronological alphabetical by author listing:%% @book{fds352603, Author = {Kadivar, M}, Title = {The illusion of Islamic Theocracy: The Transformation of Shi’ite Political Thought in the Islamic Republic of Iran}, Publisher = {The University of North Carolina Press}, Year = {2023}, Month = {December}, Abstract = {Revisiting Shi’ite Political thoughts of the Islamic Republic of Iran}, Key = {fds352603} } @article{fds374475, Title = {The Institution of Marriage in Islam: A Case Study of the First Pillar of the Marriage Contract}, Pages = {35-53}, Booktitle = {Islam and the Institution of Marriage: Legal and Sociological Approaches}, Publisher = {AMI Press}, Editor = {Lemons, K and Rooij, LD}, Year = {2023}, Month = {November}, ISBN = {9781915550033}, Abstract = {The pillars of a legitimate marriage in Islam between two adult males and females are two: clear consent of the two parties themselves for marriage and binding an agreement so that they become husband and wife. ‘Non-verbal conventional marriage’ is a legitimate marriage because both pillars of marriage were observed in it. A written marriage contract and especially its submission in a legal center for marriage is closer to caution for a time of frequent disagreement. The Western style of partnership ‘cohabitation’ is not necessarily equivalent to non-verbal conventional marriage.}, Key = {fds374475} } @article{fds374404, Title = {An Analysis of Shi’ite Political Thought}, Pages = {3-38}, Booktitle = {The Hawza and the State: The Shiite Islam, Question of Authority, Women and Geopolitics}, Publisher = {Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung - Amman office}, Editor = {Al-Taie, AM}, Year = {2023}, Month = {November}, ISBN = {978-9923-759-43-1}, Abstract = {Ali Ibn Abi Talib recognized the mutual rights of the ruler and ruled, the sanctity of contracts, especially with the enemy, and freedom of speech as the cornerstones of Shite political philosophy. Understanding Shi’ite political thought is impossible without considering the doctrine of justice and its consequences such as the right to an uprising against unjust rulers, which is crystallized in al-Hussein b. Ali’s maxims and teachings. Ayatollah Khomeini’s political theory is in the absolute minority not only in the history of Shi’ite fiqh but also in contemporary Shi’ite fiqh.}, Key = {fds374404} } @book{fds374476, Author = {Kadivar, M}, Title = {The Punishment of Apostasy and the Freedom of Thought: Criticism of the punishment for apostasy and blasphemy according to the standards of demonstrative jurisprudence (Hadd al-Ridda wa Hurriyya al-‘Aqida: Naqd uqubat al-irtidad wa sabb al-nabi tibqan li-mawazn al-fiqh al-istidlali)}, Volume = {1}, Pages = {464 pages}, Publisher = {Arab Center for Research & Policy Studies}, Year = {2023}, Month = {October}, ISBN = {978-614-445-546-3}, Abstract = {After the assassination of the Azerbaijani journalist Rafiq Taqi in 2011 under the fatwa of the Iranian jurist Muhammad Fadil Lankarani, who condemned him to death for a blasphemous news article in 2006, Mohsen Kadivar criticized this fatwa, condemned the assassination, and wrote a detailed open letter in Persian denying the ruling on apostasy and blasphemy in light of the deductive approach and evidence from the Qur’an and Prophetic Traditions as well as Shi’ite Imams Hadiths. Kadivar wrote a detailed introduction in English to the second edition of the book in which he presented the genealogy of the development of the rule of apostasy and blasphemy on one hand and religious freedom on the other hand among Sunni and Shiite Muslim jurists and thinkers. The Arabic translation of the book includes all of these texts and the author’s opinions on the issue of apostasy, blasphemy, and freedom of belief. The preface, entitled “Toward Removing the Punishment of Apostasy in Islam” is one of the features of the Arabic version.}, Key = {fds374476} } @book{fds372977, Author = {Morgan, D}, Title = {The sacred gaze: Religious visual culture in theory and practice}, Pages = {1-318}, Year = {2023}, Month = {September}, ISBN = {9780520243064}, Abstract = {"Sacred gaze" denotes any way of seeing that invests its object-an image, a person, a time, a place-with spiritual significance. Drawing from many different fields, David Morgan investigates key aspects of vision and imagery in a variety of religious traditions. His lively, innovative book explores how viewers absorb and process religious imagery and how their experience contributes to the social, intellectual, and perceptual construction of reality. Ranging widely from thirteenth-century Japan and eighteenth-century Tibet to contemporary America, Thailand, and Africa, The Sacred Gaze discusses the religious functions of images and the tools viewers use to interpret them. Morgan questions how fear and disgust of images relate to one another and explains how scholars study the long and evolving histories of images as they pass from culture to culture. An intriguing strand of the narrative details how images have helped to shape popular conceptions of gender and masculinity. The opening chapter considers definitions of "visual culture" and how these relate to the traditional practice of art history. Amply illustrated with more than seventy images from diverse religious traditions, this masterful interdisciplinary study provides a comprehensive and accessible resource for everyone interested in how religious images and visual practice order space and time, communicate with the transcendent, and embody forms of communion with the divine. The Sacred Gaze is a vital introduction to the study of the visual culture of religions.}, Key = {fds372977} } @misc{fds369861, Author = {Holleman, A and Chaves, M}, Title = {US Religious Leaders' Views on the Etiology and Treatment of Depression.}, Journal = {JAMA psychiatry}, Volume = {80}, Number = {3}, Pages = {270-273}, Year = {2023}, Month = {March}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jamapsychiatry.2022.4525}, Abstract = {<h4>Importance</h4>Religious leaders commonly provide assistance to people with mental illness, but little is known about clergy views regarding mental health etiology and appropriate treatment.<h4>Objective</h4>To assess the views of religious leaders regarding the etiology and treatment of depression.<h4>Design, setting, and participants</h4>This cross-sectional study used the National Survey of Religious Leaders, which is a nationally representative survey of leaders of religious congregations in the United States, with data collected from February 2019 to June 2020. Data were analyzed in September and October 2022.<h4>Main outcomes and measures</h4>Views about causes of depression (chemical imbalance, genetic problem, traumatic experience, demon possession, lack of social support, lack of faith, and stressful circumstances) and appropriate treatments (seeing a mental health professional, taking prescribed medication, and addressing the situation through religious activity).<h4>Results</h4>The analytic sample was limited to congregations' primary leaders (N = 890), with a 70% cooperation rate. Clergy primarily endorsed situational etiologies of depression, with 93% (95% CI, 90%-96%) endorsing stressful circumstances, 82% (95% CI, 77%-87%) endorsing traumatic experiences, and 66% (95% CI, 59%-73%) endorsing lack of social support. Most clergy also endorsed a medical etiology, with 79% (95% CI, 74%-85%) endorsing chemical imbalance and 59% (95% CI, 52%-65%) endorsing genetics. A minority of clergy endorsed religious causes: lack of faith (29%; 95% CI, 22%-35%) or demon possession (16%; 95% CI, 10%-21%). Almost all of the religious leaders who responded to the survey would encourage someone with depressive symptoms to see a mental health professional (90%; 95% CI, 85%-94%), take prescribed medication (87%; 95% CI, 83%-91%), and address symptoms with religious activity (84%; 95% CI, 78%-89%). A small but nontrivial proportion endorsed a religious cause of depression without also endorsing chemical imbalance (8%; 95% CI, 5%-12%) or genetics (20%; 95% CI, 13%-27%) as a likely cause. A similar proportion would encourage someone exhibiting depressive symptoms to engage in religious treatment without also seeing a mental health professional (10%; 95% CI, 5%-14%) or taking prescribed medication (11%; 95% CI, 8%-15%).<h4>Conclusions and relevance</h4>In this cross-sectional survey, the vast majority of clergy embrace a medical understanding of depression's etiology and treatment. When clergy employ a religious understanding, it most commonly supplements rather than replaces a medical view, although a nontrivial minority endorse only religious interpretations. This should encourage greater collaboration between medical professionals and clergy in addressing mental health needs.}, Doi = {10.1001/jamapsychiatry.2022.4525}, Key = {fds369861} } @article{fds372822, Author = {Morgan, D}, Title = {Agency, Images, and Visual Culture: the impact of Hans Belting}, Journal = {Material Religion}, Volume = {19}, Number = {3}, Pages = {310-311}, Year = {2023}, Month = {January}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17432200.2023.2244370}, Doi = {10.1080/17432200.2023.2244370}, Key = {fds372822} } @article{fds371507, Author = {Lieber, LS}, Title = {Aesthetic Convention and Ritual Creativity in Late Antique Piyyut}, Journal = {Prooftexts - Journal of Jewish Literature History}, Volume = {40}, Number = {1}, Pages = {12-58}, Year = {2023}, Month = {January}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.2979/prooftexts.40.1.02}, Abstract = {In this article, I will examine how liturgical poets creatively reworked biblical quotations and allusions in service of their own poetic and liturgical ambitions through analysis of a late antique composition attributed to Eleazar Haqallir (Qallir) (late sixth/early seventh century), “What Man Lives and Does not See Death?” This poem, which takes its opening line from Psalm 89:49, was composed for an occasion when the Torah reading began with Deuteronomy 33:1, Moses’s poetic blessing of the Israelites before his death. Qallir’s composition transforms the biblical episode into a miniature, multivoiced drama, one that draws on an extensive body of postbiblical exegetical tradition. First, it depicts Moses’s vigorous arguments with God and various heavenly intercessors as he seeks to avert his fate; upon conceding that he cannot escape mortality, it describes how Moses is mourned by not only the Israelites but all creation. The final portion of the piyyut transitions from a depiction of funerary ritual (in the biblical past) to the recitation of the Qedushah (in the liturgical present). With its complex, multivocal narrative, this composition illustrates how liturgical poets reworked biblical poetry—in this case, Deuteronomy 32–33 and Psalm 90—by reading it through the lens of postbiblical narrative traditions while also leveraging the performative-ritual context in which the poems were experienced. This poem’s reuse of traditional material reflects the aesthetic conventions of the poetic craft and performative practices of dramatic delivery in late antiquity.}, Doi = {10.2979/prooftexts.40.1.02}, Key = {fds371507} } @article{fds374574, Author = {Lieber, LS}, Title = {Power and Praxis: Writing and Performance in Megillat Ahimaatz}, Journal = {Hebrew Studies}, Volume = {64}, Pages = {111-131}, Year = {2023}, Month = {January}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/hbr.2023.a912652}, Abstract = {In this essay, the text of Megillat Ahimaatz offers a window into compositional conventions, particularly around liturgy, as well as understandings of writing at a pivotal moment, and in a pivotal location: southern Italy (Apulia) in during the 9th–11th centuries. Both writing technologies and ritual performances (liturgical and magical) occupy prominent places in Megillat Ahimaatz, and the text seems to reflect a moment of great cognizance concerning the significance of writing and performative power and praxis, particularly among Jews but also in other communities, as well, as viewed through Jewish eyes. In this essay, I will (1) outline the text’s general interest in writing, writers, performers, and performance, after which I will (2) present the specific varieties of writing and performance that occur in Megillat Ahimaatz. Finally, I will (3) examine the scroll’s specific vocabulary for writing (texts and practices) and similarly, I will consider the way liturgical performance is described. These elements – narrative and lexical – when read together offer a window into at least one writer’s understanding of his tradition at a pivotal crossroads in Jewish literary and liturgical history.}, Doi = {10.1353/hbr.2023.a912652}, Key = {fds374574} } @article{fds374922, Author = {Lieber, LS}, Title = {SYMPOSIUM READING, WRITING, AND RITUAL: JEWISH BOOKS AND MANUSCRIPTS IN LATE ANTIQUITY INTRODUCTION}, Journal = {Hebrew Studies}, Volume = {64}, Pages = {5-9}, Year = {2023}, Month = {January}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/hbr.2023.a912647}, Abstract = {First, a prologue: The five essays assembled in this symposium were shared, in a preliminary fashion, as part of a panel at the 2022 Association for Jewish Studies annual meeting in Boston organized by Monika Amsler on the theme of, "How Scrolls, Tablets, and Books Shaped Early Jewish Minds and Ritual Practice." The papers published here are not those presented in that venue, but they grew out of questions we asked of each other before those drafts were written, from the conversations among our group and with attentive listeners in that echoey ballroom and the crowded hallway outside, and over dinner and via emails in the weeks after. During the weeks and months that followed, new versions of papers were written and shared the group, comments posted, additional sources exchanged, side conversations encouraged, and over time, final versions took shape. In short, the essays shared here truly are the product of a symposium: of a lengthy period of intellectual and social dialogue and exchange, of companionable give-and-take, with everyone learning and everyone teaching. We make cameos in each other's footnotes - and I suspect we will continue to do so for a long time after this, because this is the kind of collaborative enterprise few scholars (or perhaps I should say few senior scholars) have had graduate school. Such multimedia collegiality is, perhaps, more common today, facilitated by digital tools made familiar out of necessity, but also in a moment in which the humane is at least sometimes more valued in the humanities than once was common. I would like to thank the editor of Hebrew Studies, David Nelson, for the opportunity to serve as guest editor of this symposium, and my colleagues who contributed essays, for being such exemplary colleagues and scholars all.}, Doi = {10.1353/hbr.2023.a912647}, Key = {fds374922} } @misc{fds371871, Author = {Roso, J and Chaves, M}, Title = {Clergy-lay political (mis)alignment in 2019-2020}, Journal = {Politics and Religion}, Volume = {16}, Number = {3}, Pages = {533-542}, Publisher = {Cambridge University Press (CUP)}, Year = {2023}, Month = {January}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S1755048323000172}, Abstract = {We use data from the new and nationally representative National Survey of Religious Leaders, supplemented with the 2018 General Social Survey, to examine the extent to which clergy are politically aligned with people in their congregations. Two assessments of alignment - clergy reports of how their political views compare to the political views held by most people in their congregations, and comparisons between clergy and lay voting preferences in the 2016 election - yield the same findings. Clergy in Black Protestant and predominantly white evangelical churches are much more likely to be politically aligned with their people than are Catholic or, especially, white mainline Protestant clergy, who often are more liberal than their people. Contrary to media reports suggesting that evangelical clergy are now likely to be less conservative than their people, the vast majority are either politically aligned with, or more conservative than, their members.}, Doi = {10.1017/S1755048323000172}, Key = {fds371871} } @article{fds373413, Author = {Prasad, L}, Title = {"Finding Anna"}, Journal = {Critical Muslim}, Volume = {44}, Number = {1}, Year = {2023}, Key = {fds373413} } @book{fds352602, Author = {Kadivar, M}, Title = {Governance by Guardianship}, Publisher = {Cambridge University Press}, Editor = {Sadri, M}, Year = {2023}, Abstract = {Rule and Government in the Islamic Republic of Iran}, Key = {fds352602} } @book{fds374477, Author = {Kadivar, M}, Title = {The Rights of Mankind: Human Rights and Reformist Islam (Haqq al-Nas: Islam-e nowandish va hoquq-e bashar)}, Pages = {532 pages}, Publisher = {New Thoughts Press}, Year = {2023}, ISBN = {978-3-948894-09-2}, Abstract = {The book contains fourteen chapters in five sections: The Bases for Discussions on Islam and Human Rights; Islam and Human Rights; Freedoms of Belief, Religion, and Politics; Women’s Rights; and Other Debates in Human Rights. Its first edition was published in 2008. The translation of the critical and detailed introduction to the English version (2021) has been added to the new edition. Anything that we call ‘Islamic’ today must be reasonable, just, moral, and more functional according to the conventions of the present time. The main problem of traditional Islam is that it is living in the 21st century while breathing in the atmosphere of several centuries ago. It is possible to have a reading of the Qur’an and the Tradition of the Prophet and a methodology in ijtihad and jurisprudence that is consistent with the criteria of human rights.}, Key = {fds374477} } @article{fds352581, Author = {Kadivar, M}, Title = {Islam and the State from a Shi'ite Perspective}, Volume = {23}, Pages = {57-80}, Booktitle = {Secularism in Comparative Perspective — Religion across Political Contexts}, Publisher = {Springer}, Editor = {Laurence, J}, Year = {2023}, ISBN = {978-3-031-13309-1}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-13310-7_4}, Abstract = {The article details the perspective of Ja’fari Shi’ite Muslims and delves into the history of Shi’ism, the separation of religious and profane affairs, the guardianship of the jurists, Shi’ism within a constitutionalist context, political Shi’ism in a secular context, and Islamic republic. The author’s thorough historical overview is followed by a discussion of political theories of Shi’ite authorities after constitutionalism and the establishment of the Islamic Republic of Iran, specifically theories proposed by Khorasani and Khomeini, and how other Shi’ite scholars differ from these two groups of thought.}, Doi = {10.1007/978-3-031-13310-7_4}, Key = {fds352581} } | |
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