Journal of Contemporary Religion, Volume 35, Issue 3 (2020)

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Anti-abortion activism in the Czech Republic and Slovakia: ‘nationalizing’ the strategies
Andrea Beláňová
Pages: 395-413
Published online: 14 Dec 2020
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Ideological traditionalism and organisational innovation in Greek Orthodox ecclesiastical governance
Stratos Patrikios
Pages: 415-432
Published online: 14 Dec 2020
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The rhetoric of love in religious peacebuilding
Tale Steen-Johnsen
Pages: 433-448
Published online: 14 Dec 2020
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Religion and integration: religious organisations’ communication in a diverse city district of Oslo, Norway
Bjørn Hallstein Holte
Pages: 449-468
Published online: 14 Dec 2020
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Machine gun prayer: the politics of embodied desire in Pentecostal worship
Naomi Richman
Pages: 469-483
Published online: 14 Dec 2020
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Fleeing the resonance machine: music and sound in ‘Emerging Church’ communities
Mark Porter
Pages: 485-502
Published online: 14 Dec 2020
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Identity loss or identity re-shape? Religious identification among the offspring of ‘Christian–Muslim’ couples
Francesco Cerchiaro
Pages: 503-521
Published online: 14 Dec 2020
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The business alchemist: a study of the performative economics of an esoteric community
Stefania Palmisano
Pages: 523-542
Published online: 14 Dec 2020
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Buddhism and worldliness in modern Taiwan
Sumanto Al Qurtuby
Pages: 543-564
Published online: 14 Dec 2020
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Research Note

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The Christian Science Church in the twenty-first century
Elise Wolff
Pages: 565-573
Published online: 14 Dec 2020
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Book Reviews

Book Review
Voices from the Underworld: Chinese Hell Deity Worship in Contemporary Singapore and Malaysia
by Fabian Graham, Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2020, Alternative Sinology, xv + 259 pp., £80.00 (hb), ISBN 978–1–5261–4057–9
Robert P. Weller
Pages: 575-576
Published online: 14 Dec 2020
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American Cosmic: UFOs, Religion, Technology
Morgan Shipley
Pages: 576-578
Published online: 14 Dec 2020
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Secularity and Science: What Scientists around the World Really Think about Religion
by Elaine Howard Ecklund, David R. Johnson, Brandon Vaidyanathan, Kirstin R. W. Matthews, Steven W. Lewis, Robert A. Thomson Jr., and Di Di, New York: Oxford University Press, 2019, 344 pp, US$29.95 (hb), ISBN 978–0–19–092675–5 (hb), ISBN 978–0–19–092677–9 (eb), ISBN 978–0–19–092676–2 (pdf)
Stephen H. Jones
Pages: 578-580
Published online: 14 Dec 2020
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Religion and Extremism: Rejecting Diversity
Lorne L. Dawson
Pages: 580-581
Published online: 14 Dec 2020
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Christian Hospitality and Muslim Immigration in an Age of Fear
Katherine Bullock
Pages: 582-583
Published online: 14 Dec 2020
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Book Review
Handbook of Leaving Religion
edited by Daniel Enstedt, Göran Larsson, and Teemu T. Mantsinen, Leiden: Brill, 2020, Brill Handbooks on Contemporary Religion 18, 372 pp., €179.00 (hb), ISBN 978–90–04–33092–4 (hb), ISBN 978–90–04–33147–1 (eb)
Theodore Pulcini
Pages: 583-587
Published online: 14 Dec 2020
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Conversion and the Rehabilitation of the Penal System: A Theological Rereading of Criminal Justice
Andrew Krinks
Pages: 587-588
Published online: 14 Dec 2020
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Renewal: Liberal Protestants and the American City after World War II
by Mark Wild, Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2019, Historical Studies of Urban America, 336 pp., US$50.00 (hb), ISBN 978–0–226–60523–4 (hb), ISBN 978–0–226–60537–1 (eb)
Robert Saler
Pages: 588-589
Published online: 14 Dec 2020
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Evangelicals: Who They Have Been, Are Now, and Could Be
edited by Mark A. Noll, David W. Bebbington, and George M. Marsden, Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2019, 336 pp., US$28.99 (pb), ISBN 978–0–8028–7695–9
Greg Smith
Pages: 590-592
Published online: 14 Dec 2020
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Against: What does the White Evangelical Want?
by Tad DeLay, Eugene, OR: Cascade Books, 2019, 176 pp., US$ n/a (hb), US$19.00 (pb), ISBN 978–1–5326–6847–0 (hb), ISBN 978–1–5326–6846–3 (pb), ISBN 978–1–5326–6848–7 (eb)
George Sanders
Pages: 592-593
Published online: 14 Dec 2020
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Democracy and the Christian Churches: Ecumenism and the Politics of Belief
by Donald W. Norwood, London & New York, I.B. Tauris, 2019 (hb), 2020 (pb), 234 pp., £85.00, US$95.00 (hb), £28.99, US$39.99 (pb), ISBN 978–1–78453–832–3 (hb), ISBN 978–0–75561–808–8 (pb), ISBN 978–1–78672–488–5 (eb), ISBN 978–1–78673–488–4 (pdf)
Chris Dols
Pages: 594-595
Published online: 14 Dec 2020
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Book Review
Makarios: The Revolutionary Priest of Cyprus
by Demetris Assos, London & New York: I.B. Tauris, 2018 (hb), 2020 (pb), 286 pp., £90.00, US$120.00 (hb), £28.99, US$39.95 (pb), ISBN 978–1–78831–203–5 (hb), ISBN 978–0–75560–678–8 (pb), ISBN 978–1–78672–480–9 (eb), ISBN 978–1–78673–480–8 (PDF)
Achilles Emilianides
Pages: 595-597
Published online: 14 Dec 2020
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Book Review
Going to Pentecost: An Experimental Approach to Studies in Pentecostalism
by Annelin Eriksen, Ruy Llera Blanes, and Michelle MacCarthy, New York & Oxford: Berghahn, 2019, Ethnography, Theory, Experiment 7, 227 pp., US$135.00, £99.00 (hb), ISBN 978–1–78920–139–0 (hb), ISBN 978–1–78920–140–6 (eb, open access)
Bernice Martin
Pages: 597-599
Published online: 14 Dec 2020
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Women of Valor: Orthodox Jewish Troll Fighters, Crime Writers, and Rock Stars in Contemporary Literature and Culture
by Karen E. H. Skinazi, New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2018, ix + 272 pp., US$120.00 (hb), US$38.95 (pb), ISBN 978–0–8135–9602–0 (hb), ISBN 978–0–8135–9601–3 (pb), ISBN 978–0–8135–9605–1 (PDF), ISBN 978–0–8135–9603–7 (EPUB)
Dawn Llewellyn
Pages: 599-601
Published online: 14 Dec 2020
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Yoga in Modern Hinduism: Hariharānanda Āraṇya and Sāṃkhyayoga
by Knut A. Jacobsen, Abingdon & New York: Routledge, 2018, Routledge South Asian Religion, viii + 234 pp., £125.00, US$155.00 (hb), ISBN 978–1–138–08059–1 (hb), ISBN 978–1–315–11334–0 (eb)
Dermot Killingley
Pages: 601-602
Published online: 14 Dec 2020
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Other

Fortress Britain? Ethical Approaches to Immigration Policy for Post-Brexit Britain
Fortress Britain? Ethical Approaches to Immigration Policy for Post-Brexit Britain, edited by Ben Ryan, London & Philadelphia, PA: Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2018, 181 pp., £16.99, US$ not available (pb), ISBN 978–1–78592–309–8 (pb), ISBN 978–1–78450–620–9 (eb)
Elisabeth Arweck
Pages: 603-607
Published online: 14 Dec 2020
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Back Matter

List of Referees
Pages: 609-613
Published online: 14 Dec 2020
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