Journal of Contemporary Religion, Volume 39, Issue 1 (2024)

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Youth and ‘political spirituality’: the emergence of a sub-culture among new Muslims in the West?
Géraldine Mossière
Pages: 1-20
Published online: 19 Feb 2024
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Religious identification in a changing Turkey
K. Amber Curtis & Laura R. Olson
Pages: 21-47
Published online: 11 Mar 2024
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Do ‘spiritual’ self-identifications signify affinity with New Age religion? Survey evidence from the Netherlands
Paul Tromp, Anna Pless & Dick Houtman
Pages: 49-67
Published online: 28 Feb 2024
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Neoliberal shifts and strategies of religious adaptation in post-war Sri Lanka
Orlando Woods
Pages: 69-86
Published online: 16 Nov 2023
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Consumerism is not a religion: aiming for the trivial at the shopping mall
Fredrik Portin
Pages: 87-105
Published online: 16 Feb 2024
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‘God’s Story’ as ideological determinant in faith-based cosmopolitanism
Robin Willey, Amy Kaler & John Parkins
Pages: 107-128
Published online: 08 Dec 2023
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Fostering the sacred in a secular society: Catholic women practicing religion through intimate relationships
Eline Huygens
Pages: 129-145
Published online: 11 Dec 2023
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The ‘religious’ response: experience of celebrity death among fans of John Lennon and Johnny Cash
Kathleen Ann Riddell
Pages: 147-164
Published online: 28 Feb 2024
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Book Reviews

Book Review
Spirit Wives and Church Mothers: Marriage, Survival, and Healing in Central Mozambique
by Christy K. Schuetze, Madison, WI: The University of Wisconsin Press, 2023, Women in Africa and the Diaspora, 269 pp., US$79.95, £80.00 (hb), ISBN 9780299343804
Bernice Martin
Pages: 165-167
Published online: 22 Apr 2024
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Women and the Anglican Church Congress 1861–1938: Space, Place and Agency
by Sue Anderson-Faithful and Catherine Holloway, London & New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2023, Bloomsbury Studies in Religion, Gender and Sexuality, 259 pp., £85.00, US$115.00 (hb), ISBN 978–1–3503–2418–3 (hb), ISBN 978–1–3503–2419–0 (ePDF), ISBN 978–1–3503–2420–6 (eb)
Emma Percy
Pages: 167-169
Published online: 22 Apr 2024
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Powerful Devices: Prayer and the Political Praxis of Spiritual Warfare
by Abimbola A. Adelakun, New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2023, 286 pp., US$150.00 (hb), US$37.95 (pb), ISBN 978–1–9788–3152–0 (hb), ISBN 978–1–9788–3151–3 (pb), ISBN 978–1–9788–3153–7 (EPub), ISBN 978–1–9788–3155–1 (PDF)
James Spickard
Pages: 169-170
Published online: 22 Apr 2024
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Obeah, Orisa & Religious Identity in Trinidad. Volume I: Obeah, Africans in the White Colonial Imagination
Obeah, Orisa & Religious Identity in Trinidad. Volume I: Obeah, Africans in the White Colonial Imagination, by Tracey E. Hucks, Durham, NC & London: Duke University Press, 2022, Religious Cultures of African and African Diaspora People, 262 pp., US$99.95, £n/a (hb), US$26.95, £n/a (pb), ISBN 978-1-4780-1391-4 (hb), ISBN 978–1–4780–1485–0 (pb), ISBN 978–1–4780–2214–5 (eb), also available Open Access
Obeah, Orisa & Religious Identity in Trinidad. Volume II: Orisa, Africana Nations and the Power of Black Sacred Imagination, by Dianne M. Stewart, Durham, NC & London: Duke University Press, 2022, Religious Cultures of African and African Diaspora People, 340 pp., US$104.95, £n/a (hb), US$28.95, £n/a (pb), ISBN 978–1–4780–1392–1 (hb), ISBN 978–1–4780–1486–7 (pb), ISBN 978–1–4780–2215–2 (eb), also available Open Access
Bettina E. Schmidt
Pages: 171-174
Published online: 22 Apr 2024
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The Moralist International: Russia in the Global Culture Wars
by Kristina Stoeckl and Dmitry Uzlaner, New York: Fordham University Press, 2022, Orthodox Christianity and Contemporary Thought, 199 pp., US$105.00 (hb), US$30.00 (pb), ISBN 9781531502133 (hb), ISBN 9781531502157 (pb), ISBN 9781531502140 (epub), also Open Access
Elina Kahla
Pages: 174-176
Published online: 22 Apr 2024
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Religion and Politics in Interwar Yugoslavia: Serbian Nationalism and East Orthodox Christianity
by Maria Falina, London & New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2023, 209 pp., £85.00, US$115.00 (hb), ISBN 978–1–3502–8203–2 (hb), ISBN 978–1–3502–8204–9 (ePDF), ISBN 978–1–3502–8205–6 (eBook)
Teuvo Laitila
Pages: 176-179
Published online: 22 Apr 2024
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The Romanian Orthodox Diaspora in Italy: Eastern Orthodoxy in a Western European Country
by Marco Guglielmi, Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2022, Religion and Global Migrations, 170 pp., £39.99 (hb), ISBN 978–3–031–07101–0 (hb), ISBN 978–3–031–07102–7 (eb)
Kristine Margvelashvili
Pages: 179-181
Published online: 22 Apr 2024
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Mass Observers Making Meaning: Religion, Spirituality and Atheism in Late 20th-Century Britain
by James Hinton, London & New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2022 (hb), 2023 (pb), The Mass-Observation Critical Series, 190 pp., £85.00, US$115.00 (hb), £28.99, US$39.95 (pb), ISBN 978–1–3502–7449–5 (hb), ISBN 978–1–3502–7453–2 (pb), ISBN 978–1–3502–7450–1 (ePDF), ISBN 978–1–3502–7451–5 (eb)
Robin Gill
Pages: 181-184
Published online: 22 Apr 2024
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Book Review
Is He Out There? Debating The God Delusion
by Paul Laffan, Eastbourne & Chicago, IL: Sussex Academic Press, 2023, 320 pp., £29.99, US$ n/a (pb), ISBN 9781789761627 (pb), ISBN 9781782847762 (pdf), ISBN 9781782847762 (epub), ISBN 9781782847762 (Kindle)
Martyn Percy
Pages: 184-185
Published online: 22 Apr 2024
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Religion and Public Administration: An Introduction
by Edoardo Ongaro and Michele Tantardini, Cheltenham & Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2023, 262 pp., £90.00, US$130.00 (hb), ISBN 978–1–80088–802–9 (hb), ISBN 978–1–80088–803–6 (eb)
Ani Sarkissian
Pages: 185-187
Published online: 22 Apr 2024
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New Perspectives on Urban Deathscapes: Continuity, Change and Contestation
edited by Danielle House, Mariske Westendorp with Avril Maddrell, Cheltenham & Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2023, 228 pp., £100.00, US$145.00 (hb), ISBN 978–1–80220–238–0 (hb), ISBN 978–1–80220–239–7 (eBook)
Douglas J. Davies
Pages: 187-188
Published online: 22 Apr 2024
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Sacred Cyberspaces: Catholicism, New Media, and the Religious Experience
by Oren Golan and Michele Martini, Montreal & Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2022, Advancing Studies in Religion, xvii + 218 pp., CAD130.00, £99.00 (hb), CAD37.95, £26.99 (pb), ISBN 978–0–2280–1419–5 (hb), ISBN 978–0–2280–1420–1 (pb), ISBN 978–0–2280–1518–5 (ePDF), ISBN 978–0–2280–1519–2 (ePUB)
Kieran Flanagan
Pages: 189-190
Published online: 22 Apr 2024
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Acute Religious Experiences: Madness, Psychosis and Religious Studies
by Richard Saville-Smith, London & New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2023, Bloomsbury Advances in Religious Studies, 254 pp., £85.00, US$115.00 (hb), ISBN 978–1–3502–7291–0 (hb), ISBN 978–1–3502–7292–7 (ePDF), ISBN 978–1–3502–7293–4 (eb)
Kate C. M. Loewenthal
Pages: 191-192
Published online: 22 Apr 2024
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Gnosticism and the History of Religions
by David G. Robertson, London & New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2022 (hb), 2023 (pb), Scientific Studies of Religion: Inquiry and Explanation, viii + 230 pp., £90.00, US$120.00 (hb), £28.99, US$39.95 (pb), ISBN 978–1–3501–3769–1 (hb), ISBN 978–1–3502–5859–4 (pb), ISBN 978–1–3501–3770–7 (ePDF), ISBN 978–1–3501–3771–4 (eb)
Mark Bratton
Pages: 192-194
Published online: 22 Apr 2024
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Book Review
Contested Concepts in the Study of Religion: A Critical Exploration
edited by George D. Chryssides and Amy R. Whitehead, London & New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2023, 183 pp., £65.00, US$90.00 (hb), £21.99, US$29.95 (pb), ISBN 978–1–3502–4381–1 (hb), ISBN 978–1–3502–4380–4 (pb), ISBN 978–1–3502–4383–5 (ePDF), ISBN 978–1–3502–4382–8 (eb)
Carmen Becker
Pages: 194-197
Published online: 22 Apr 2024
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Book Notes

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Portraits of Confucius: The Reception of Confucianism from 1560 to 1960, Volume I + Volume II
edited by Kevin DeLapp, London & New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2022, 917 pp., £395.00, US$540.00 (hb), ISBN 9781350079229
Elisabeth Arweck
Pages: 199-200
Published online: 22 Apr 2024
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No Place for Saints: Mobs and Mormons in Jacksonian America
by Adam Jortner, Baltimore, MA: John Hopkins University Press, 2022, Witness to History, 180 pp., US$22.95 (pb), ISBN 978–14214–4176–4 (pb), ISBN 978–1–4214–4177–1 (eb)
Elisabeth Arweck
Pages: 200-201
Published online: 22 Apr 2024
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Great Minds Don’t Think Alike: Debates on Consciousness, Reality, Intelligence, Faith, Time, AI, Immortality, and the Human
edited by Marcelo Gleiser, New York: Columbia University Press, 2022, 266 pp., US$80.00, £68.00 (hb), US$19.95, £16.99 (pb), ISBN 9780231204101 (hb), ISBN 9780231204118 (pb), ISBN 9780231555371 (eb)
Elisabeth Arweck
Pages: 201-202
Published online: 22 Apr 2024
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Religionen und Tod
by Anna-Katharina Höpflinger and Yves Müller, Baden-Baden: Nomos, 2022, Studienkurs Religion, 193 pp., €24.00 (pb), ISBN 978–3–8487–6714–4 (pb), ISBN 978–3–7489–0835–7 (ePDF)
Elisabeth Arweck
Pages: 203-204
Published online: 22 Apr 2024
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Hinduism in Five Minutes
edited by Steven W. Ramey, Sheffield & Bristol, CT: Equinox Publishing, 2022, Religion in 5 Minutes, 253 pp., £70.00, US$85.00 (hb), £23.95, US$28.95 (pb), ISBN 978–1–80050–239–0 (hb), ISBN 978–1–80050–240–6 (pb), ISBN 978–1–80050–241–3 (ePDF), ISBN 978–1–80050–258–1 (ePub)
Elisabeth Arweck
Pages: 204-206
Published online: 22 Apr 2024
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Singing the Goddess into Place: Locality, Myth, and Social Change in Chamundi of the Hill, a Kannada Folk Ballad
by Caleb Simmons, Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2022, SUNY series in Hindu Studies, 245 pp., US$99.00 (hb), US$34.95 (pb), ISBN 9781438488653 (hb), ISBN 9781438488660 (pb), ISBN 9781438488677 (eb)
Elisabeth Arweck
Pages: 206-207
Published online: 22 Apr 2024
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