Jesus, Mama, and the constraints on salvific love in contemporary country music [0.03%]
耶稣、母亲与当代乡村音乐中的救赎之爱面临的局限性
M L Grossman
M L Grossman
The discourse of contemporary country music creates a world permeated with religion and centered on the notion of salvific love. This form of salvation arises in the connection between people (or between people and God) and includes element...
Women's religious conversions on death row: theorizing religion and state [0.03%]
女死囚的宗教皈依：论宗教与国家的关系
P M Cooey
P M Cooey
Most scholars of religion who approach the phenomena associated with religious conversion in order to theorize religion tend to ignore the legal and political implications of the actual context in which conversion occurs for theorizing reli...
Death, neurosis, and normalcy: on the ubiquity of personal and social delusions [0.03%]
死亡、神经症和常态：论个人的和社会的错觉的普遍性
Jerry S Piven
Jerry S Piven
In this article Freudian theory is invoked to illustrate the connections among repression, the fear of death, and delusional phantasies. Civilization is a structure invented to protect individuals from death, but the sacrifices imposed by t...
"The Sphinx must solve her own riddle": Emerson, secrecy, and the self-reflexive method [0.03%]
“斯芬克斯必须解答她自己的谜语”——爱默生、隐秘性和自我反思法
David L Smith
David L Smith
This article offers a fresh approach to the religious thought of Ralph Waldo Emerson, exploring (1) the particular conception of secrecy in connection with which he understands the human spiritual predicament and (2) his response to this pr...
Kelly James Clark,Robin R Wang
Kelly James Clark
The oppression of Chinese women is typically blamed on Confucianism. We present a version of Confucianism that relies on the metaphysics of the I Ching, one of the "canonical" Confucian texts, and on more characteristic Confucian doctrines....
John Stratton Hawley
John Stratton Hawley
The publication of Kali's Child by Jeffrey Kripal in 1995 ignited a furious debate that persists unresolved today. Two questions are paramount. First, is it right to think of the religious and erotic realms as overlapping, particularly when...
An Anglican crisis of comparison: intersections of race, gender, and religious authority, with particular reference to the Church of Nigeria [0.03%]
比较带来的危机：种族、性别和宗教权威的交叉，特别是尼日利亚教会的例子
Mary-Jane Rubenstein
Mary-Jane Rubenstein
The 1998 Lambeth Conference of the Anglican Communion brought into striking relief the two major issues dividing this particular global church: homosexuality and the ordination of women. Debates over these questions tend to split the church...
"Magia sexualis": sex, secrecy, and liberation in modern western esotericism [0.03%]
性、隐秘与解放：现代西方神秘主义中的性魔法理论与发展
Hugh B Urban
Hugh B Urban
Although the forces of Eros and Magic have long been linked in western esoteric traditions, it is really not until the nineteenth century that we see the emergence of a large and sophisticated body of literature on the art of sexual magic. ...
Reversing the gaze: constructing European race discourse as modern witchcraft practice [0.03%]
逆向审视：建构欧洲种族论说为现代巫术实践
James W Perkinson
James W Perkinson
In keeping with the challenge of (African American) historian of religions Charles Long to develop a mode of postcolonial encounter that is a process of mutual hermeneusis, I am proposing in this article to think "race" in terms of "indigen...