Journal of Contemporary Religion, Volume 34, Issue 2 (2019)

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Journal of Contemporary Religion, Volume 34, Issue 2 (2019)

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Introduction

Introduction
Religious cultures and gender cultures: tracing gender differences across religious cultures
Heidemarie Winkel
Pages: 241-251
Published online: 08 Jul 2019
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The gendering of heterosexual religious young adults’ imagined futures
Sarah-Jane Page & Andrew Kam-Tuck Yip
Pages: 253-273
Published online: 08 Jul 2019
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The centrality of the female body in Brazilian culture: Evangelical and Muslim responses
Cristina Maria de Castro & Nina Rosas
Pages: 275-290
Published online: 08 Jul 2019
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The continuance of gender culture amid change in Mexican–American immigrant Catholic contexts
Karen Hooge Michalka & Mary Ellen Konieczny
Pages: 291-310
Published online: 08 Jul 2019
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Between womanhood as ideal and womanhood as a social practice: women’s experiences in the Church organisation in Poland
Katarzyna Leszczyńska
Pages: 311-330
Published online: 08 Jul 2019
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Gendered contours of contemporary South Asian religious practices in the context of migration: second-generation Jain women and men in Britain and the US
Bindi V. Shah
Pages: 331-351
Published online: 08 Jul 2019
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Female religious leadership in Switzerland: norms, power, and money
Jörg Stolz & Christophe Monnot
Pages: 353-373
Published online: 08 Jul 2019
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Book Reviews

Book Review
The I-zation of Society: Religion, and Neoliberal Post-Secularism
Peter Beyer
Pages: 375-376
Published online: 08 Jul 2019
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The Myth of Disenchantment: Magic, Modernity, and the Birth of the Human Sciences
Galen Watts
Pages: 376-378
Published online: 08 Jul 2019
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Out of Many Faiths: Religious Diversity & the American Promise
Peter Kivisto
Pages: 378-380
Published online: 08 Jul 2019
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Apocalypse, Revolution, and Terrorism: From the Sicari to the American Revolt against the Modern World
George Michael
Pages: 380-382
Published online: 08 Jul 2019
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What is it like to be Dead? Near-Death Experiences, Christianity, & the Occult,
Egil Asprem
Pages: 382-384
Published online: 08 Jul 2019
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Consecrating Science: Wonder, Knowledge and the Natural World
Louise Hickman
Pages: 385-386
Published online: 08 Jul 2019
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Science Fiction and the Imitation of the Sacred
Douglas E. Cowan
Pages: 386-388
Published online: 08 Jul 2019
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Mountain, Water, Rock, God: Understanding Kedarnath in the Twenty-First Century
John Eade
Pages: 388-389
Published online: 08 Jul 2019
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The Bloomsbury Handbook of Religion and Nature: The Elements
Tony Watling
Pages: 390-392
Published online: 08 Jul 2019
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The Cognitive Science of Religion: A Methodological Introduction to Key Empirical Studies
Carles Salazar
Pages: 392-395
Published online: 08 Jul 2019
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God in Sound and Silence: Music as Theology,
Vaughan S. Roberts
Pages: 395-397
Published online: 08 Jul 2019
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Public Theology, Religious Diversity, and Interreligious Learning
Kathrin Winkler
Pages: 397-398
Published online: 08 Jul 2019
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Religion and Education: Comparative and International Perspectives
Daniel Moulin-Stożek
Pages: 399-401
Published online: 08 Jul 2019
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Faith in Flux: Pentecostalism and Mobility in Rural Mozambique
Bernice Martin
Pages: 401-403
Published online: 08 Jul 2019
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Spiritual Citizenship: Transnational Pathways from Black Power to Ifá in Trinidad
Bettina E. Schmidt
Pages: 403-405
Published online: 08 Jul 2019
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Anarchy in the Pure Land: Reinventing the Cult of Maitreya in Modern Chinese Buddhism
Xinzhong Yao
Pages: 405-406
Published online: 08 Jul 2019
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Unforgetting Chaitanya: Vaishnavism and Cultures of Devotion in Colonial Bengal
Gwilym Beckerlegge
Pages: 406-408
Published online: 08 Jul 2019
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From Conquest to Deportation: The North Caucasus under Russian Rule
Teuvo Laitila
Pages: 409-412
Published online: 08 Jul 2019
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Becoming Better Muslims: Religious Authority and Ethical Improvement in Aceh, Indonesia
Abdulkader Tayob
Pages: 412-414
Published online: 08 Jul 2019
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Contemporary Puritan Salafism: A Swedish Case Study
Jason Dean
Pages: 414-415
Published online: 08 Jul 2019
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Book Notes

Book Notes
Elisabeth Arweck
Pages: 417-425
Published online: 08 Jul 2019
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