Journal of Contemporary Religion, Volume 36, Issue 1 (2021)

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Journal of Contemporary Religion, Volume 36, Issue 1 (2021)

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Religious complexity: theorizing multiple religious trends
Inger Furseth
Pages: 1-18
Published online: 26 Apr 2021
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Reflections on Afrika Bambaataa’s Universal Zulu Nation: horizons, hip hop, and hybridity
Roy Whitaker
Pages: 19-36
Published online: 26 Apr 2021
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A ‘proper’ black mass: the rhetorical struggle over a deviant ritual
Joseph P. Laycock
Pages: 37-55
Published online: 26 Apr 2021
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Transferred, mediated or transformed: considering the design, features, and presentation of sacred text mobile applications
Ruth Tsuria, Wendi Bellar, Heidi Campbell & Kyong James Cho
Pages: 57-78
Published online: 26 Apr 2021
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Legitimating a religion through culture: revisiting Peter Clarke’s discussion on the globalisation of Japanese new religions
Masato Kato
Pages: 79-103
Published online: 26 Apr 2021
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‘Culture-free’ religion: new second-generation Muslims and Christians
Prema A. Kurien
Pages: 105-122
Published online: 26 Apr 2021
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Interdependence and competition between the religious and the secular: the welfare role of the Church in Croatia and Finland
Valdemar Kallunki & Siniša Zrinščak
Pages: 123-142
Published online: 26 Apr 2021
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Is Christianity still the dominant religion in the United States?
George Yancey
Pages: 143-160
Published online: 26 Apr 2021
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Review Essay

Tracing the routes to pro-Trump Evangelicalism
Mathew Guest
Pages: 161-166
Published online: 26 Apr 2021
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Book Review

Book Review
White Too Long: The Legacy of White Supremacy in American Christianity
by Robert P. Jones, New York: Simon & Schuster, 2020, 320 pp., US$28.00 (hb), ISBN 978–1–9821–2286–7 (hb), ISBN 978–1–9821–2288–17 (eb)
Aron Engberg
Pages: 167-168
Published online: 26 Apr 2021
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Christian Globalism at Home: Child Sponsorship in the United States
by Hillary Kaell, Princeton, NJ & Woodstock: Princeton University Press, 2020, 312 pp., US$95.00, £78.00 (hb), US$27.95, £22.00 (pb), ISBN 978–0–691–20145–07 (hb), ISBN 978–0–691–20146–7 (pb), ISBN 978–0–691–20147–4 (eb)
Ingie Hovland
Pages: 169-170
Published online: 26 Apr 2021
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Book Review
A Gospel for the Poor: Global Social Christianity and the Latin American Evangelical Left,
by David C. Kirkpatrick, Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019, 244 pp., US$55.00 (hb), ISBN 9780812250947
Paul Freston
Pages: 170-172
Published online: 26 Apr 2021
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Book Review
The Bloomsbury Handbook to Studying Christians
edited by George D. Chryssides and Stephen E. Gregg, London & New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2020, 338 pp., £130.00, US$175.00 (hb), ISBN 978–1–3500–4338–1 (hb), ISBN 978–1–3500–4339–8 (EPUB), ISBN 978–1–3500–4340–4 (PDF)
Helje Kringlebotn Sødal
Pages: 172-174
Published online: 26 Apr 2021
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Christianity and “the World”: Secularization Narratives through the Lens of English Poetry 800 AD to the Present
by David Martin, Eugene, OR: Cascade Books (Wipf and Stock Publishers), 2020, xvi + 206 pp., US$47.00, £36.00 (hb), US$27.00, £21.00 (pb), ISBN 978–1–5326–6050–4 (hb), ISBN 978–1–5326–6049–8 (pb), ISBN 978–1–326–6051–1 (eb)
Nikos Kokosalakis
Pages: 174-175
Published online: 26 Apr 2021
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Book Review
Comics and Sacred Texts: Reimagining Religion & Graphic Narratives
edited by Assaf Gamzou and Ken Koltun-Fromm, Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi, 2018, Comic Studies/Popular Culture/Religion, xxi + 299 pp., US$90.00 (hb), US$30.00 (pb), ISBN 978–1–4968–1921–5 (hb), ISBN 978–1–4968–1947–5 (pb), ISBN 978–1–4968–1922–2 (epub), ISBN 978–1–4968–1924–65 (pdf)
Carole M. Cusack
Pages: 175-177
Published online: 26 Apr 2021
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Book Review
What Happens When We Practice Religion? Textures of Devotion in Everyday Life
by Robert Wuthnow, Princeton, NJ & Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2020, ix + 242 pp., US$85.00, £70.00 (hb), US$27.95, £22.00 (pb), ISBN 9780691198583 (hb), ISBN 9780691198590 (pb), ISBN 9780691201276 (eb)
Kieran Flanagan
Pages: 177-179
Published online: 26 Apr 2021
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Book Review
Veiling in Fashion: Space and the Hijab in Minority Communities
by Anna-Mari Almila, London: I.B. Tauris, 2018 (hb), 2020 (pb), Dress Cultures, 243 pp., £85.00 (hb), £28.99 (pb), ISBN 978–1–7845–3923–8 (hb), ISBN 978–1–3501–7535–8 (pb), ISBN 978–1–7883–1577–7 (eb), ISBN 978–1–7883–1576–0 (PDF)
Lina Molokotos-Liederman
Pages: 179-181
Published online: 26 Apr 2021
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Book Review
Postsecular Feminisms: Religion and Gender in Transnational Context
edited by Nandini Deo, London & New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2018, 227 pp., £90.00, US$120.00 (hb), £28.99, US$39.95 (pb), ISBN 978–1–3500–3806–6 (hb), ISBN 978–1–3501–4788–1 (pb), ISBN 978–1–3500–3807–3 (ePDF), ISBN 978–1–3500–3808–0 (eb)
Heidemarie Winkel
Pages: 181-184
Published online: 26 Apr 2021
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Book Review
Women in British Buddhism: Commitment, Connection, Community
by Caroline Starkey, London & New York: Routledge, 2019, 212 pp., £120.00, US$128.00 (hb), ISBN 9781138087460 (hb), ISBN 9781315110455 (eb)
Dawn Llewellyn
Pages: 185-186
Published online: 26 Apr 2021
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Book Review
Converting American Buddhism: Second-Generation Buddhist Americans, Orientalism, and the Politics of Family Religion
by Drew Baker, Claremont, CA: Claremont Press, 2020, Claremont Studies in Interreligious Dialogue 2, 394 pp., US$ n/a, open access, ISBN 978–1–946230–40–90 (print), ISBN 978–1–946230–43–0 (eb)
Martin Baumann
Pages: 186-188
Published online: 26 Apr 2021
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Book Review
Religion and Technology in India: Spaces, Practices and Authorities
edited by Knut A. Jacobsen and Kristina Myrvold, Abingdon & New York: Routledge, 2018, Routledge South Asian Religion Series, 216 pp., £120.00, US$160.00 (hb), £36.99, US$48.95 (pb), ISBN 978–0–8153–8416–8 (hb), ISBN 978–0–3675–9029–1 (pb), ISBN 978–1–351–20479–8 (eb)
Silje Lyngar Einarsen
Pages: 188-190
Published online: 26 Apr 2021
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Book Review
Sunni and Shia: A Political History of Discord
by Laurence Louër, translated by Ethan Rundell, Princeton, NJ & Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2020, 227 pp., US$29.95, £25.00 (hb), ISBN 9780691186610 (hb), ISBN 9780 691199641 (eb)
Ingvild Flaskerud
Pages: 190-192
Published online: 26 Apr 2021
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Book Notes

Remembering J. Z. Smith: A Career and its Consequence
edited by Emily D. Crews and Russell T. McCutcheon, 2020, Sheffield & Bristol, CT: Equinox Publishing, NAASR Working Papers, 238 pp., £75.00, US$100.00 (hb), £26.95, US$34.00 (pb), ISBN 978–1–78179–968–0 (hb), ISBN 978–1–78179–969–7 (pb), ISBN 978–1–78179–970–3 (ePDF)Remembering J. Z. Smith: A Career and its Consequence
Elisabeth Arweck
Pages: 193-198
Published online: 26 Apr 2021
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