Journal of Contemporary Religion, Volume 36, Issue 2 (2021)

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Journal of Contemporary Religion, Volume 36, Issue 2 (2021)

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Evangelicals, evolution, and inerrancy: a comparative study of congregational boundary work
Amy Unsworth & Elaine Howard Ecklund
Pages: 199-221
Published online: 08 Sep 2021
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Gendered pilgrimage: hajj and umrah from women’s perspectives
Viola Thimm
Pages: 223-241
Published online: 01 Sep 2021
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The spatial imaginaries of Mujaddidī Sufis and political integration in the northwestern borderlands of colonial India
Sana Haroon
Pages: 243-263
Published online: 08 Sep 2021
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The wheel-turning king and the lucky lottery: perspectives new and old on wealth and merriment within Buddhism
Saskia Abrahms-Kavunenko & Matthew D. Milligan
Pages: 265-286
Published online: 08 Sep 2021
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Religion and local civil society: participation and change in a post-industrial village
Howard Davis, David Dallimore, Marta Eichsteller & Robin Mann
Pages: 287-309
Published online: 01 Sep 2021
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“I’m just British—normal British”: Exploring Teachers’ and Pupils’ Conceptualisations of Religion(s) and Religious Belonging
Céline Benoit
Pages: 311-328
Published online: 08 Sep 2021
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Much more than a negation of religion: a qualitative exploration of the diversity of non-religious identities in England and Wales
Sariya Cheruvallil-Contractor, Kingsley Purdam & Paul Weller
Pages: 329-348
Published online: 01 Sep 2021
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Religiosity and life satisfaction: evidence from the Russian data
Maksym Bryukhanov & Igor Fedotenkov
Pages: 349-371
Published online: 08 Sep 2021
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Book Review

Book Review
Religion, Hypermobility and Digital Media in Global Asia: Faith, Flows and Fellowship
edited by Catherine Gomes, Lily Kong, and Orlando Woods, Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2020, Media, Culture and Communication in Migrant Societies, 258 pp., €99.00 (hb), ISBN 978–94–6372–893–5 (hb), ISBN 978–90–4855–210–8 (eb)
Xenia Zeiler
Pages: 373-374
Published online: 14 Oct 2021
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Hidden Heretics: Jewish Doubt in the Digital Age
by Ayala Fader, Princeton, NJ & Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2020, Princeton Studies in Culture and Technology, 270 pp., US$29.95, £25.00 (hb), ISBN 978–0–691–16990–3 (hb), ISBN 978–0–691–20148–1 (eb)
Melissa Raphael (Emerita)
Pages: 374-375
Published online: 14 Oct 2021
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Serpent in the Garden: Amish Sexuality in a Changing World
by James A. Cates, Baltimore, MD: John Hopkins University, 2020, xv + 203 pp., US$39.95 (hb), ISBN 978–1–421–43873–3 (hb), ISBN 978–1–421–43873–3 (eb)
‘Ben’ Pink Dandelion
Pages: 376-377
Published online: 14 Oct 2021
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Book Review

Book Review
Humble Women, Powerful Nuns: A Female Struggle for Autonomy in a Men’s Church
by Kristien Suenens, Leuven: Leuven University Press, 2020, KADOC-Studies on Religion, Culture and Society 26, 381 pp., €55.00 (pb), ISBN 978–94–6270–227–1 (pb), ISBN 978–94–6166–327–6 (eb)
Marta Trzebiatowska
Pages: 377-378
Published online: 14 Oct 2021
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The Cultivation of Conformity: Towards a General Theory of Internal Secularisation
by Pink Dandelion, London & New York: Routledge, 2019, 182 pp., £120.00, US$160.00 (hb), £34.99, US$46.95 (pb), ISBN 978–1–138–74014–3 (hb), ISBN 978–1–138–74019–8 (pb), ISBN 978–1–315–18368–8 (eb)
Pål Repstad
Pages: 378-381
Published online: 14 Oct 2021
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The Religious Heritage Complex: Legacy, Conservation, and Christianity
edited by Cyril Isnart and Nathalie Cerezales, London: Bloomsbury, 2020, Bloomsbury Studies in Material Religion, 280 pp., £85.00 (hb), ISBN 9781350072510 (hb), ISBN 9781350072534 (EPUB), ISBN 9781350072527 (PDF)
Lieke Wijnia
Pages: 381-382
Published online: 14 Oct 2021
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The Twentysomething Soul: Understanding the Religious and Secular Lives of American Young Adults
by Tim Clydesdale and Kathleen Garces-Foley, New York: Oxford University Press, 2019, 256 pp., £19.99, US$31.95 (hb), ISBN 9780190931353
Patricia Snell Herzog
Pages: 382-384
Published online: 14 Oct 2021
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Spirituality and Wellbeing: Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Study of Religious Experience and Health
edited by Bettina E. Schmidt and Jeff Leonardi, Sheffield & Bristol, CT: Equinox Publishing, 2020, 248 pp., £75.00, US$100.00 (hb), £26.95, US$34.00 (pb), ISBN 978–1–78179–764–8 (hb), ISBN 978–1–78179–765–5 (pb), ISBN 978–1–78179–766–2 (ePDF)
Emily Pierini
Pages: 385-387
Published online: 14 Oct 2021
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Prescribing the Dharma: Psychotherapists, Buddhist Traditions, and Defining Religion
by Ira Helderman, Chapel Hill, NC: The University of North Carolina Press, 2019, 314 pp., US$90.00 (hb), US$29.95 (pb), ISBN 978–1–4696–4851–4 (hb), ISBN 978–1–4696–4852–1 (pb), ISBN 978–1–4696–4853–8 (eb)
Caroline Starkey
Pages: 387-389
Published online: 14 Oct 2021
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Die postmigrantische Gesellschaft: Ein Versprechen der pluralen Demokratie
by Naika Foroutan, Bielefeld: transcript, 2019, X-Texte zu Kultur und Gesellschaft, 276 pp., €19.99 (pb), ISBN 978–3–8376–5944–3 (pb), ISBN 978–3–8394–5944–7 (PDF), ISBN 978–3–7328–5944–3 (EPUB)
Martin Baumann
Pages: 389-391
Published online: 14 Oct 2021
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Shi’a Minorities in the Contemporary World: Migration, Transnationalism and Multilocality
edited by Oliver Scharbrodt and Yafa Shanneik, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2020, 344 pp., £85.00 (hb), ISBN 9781474430371 (hb), ISBN 9781474430401 (ePub), ISBN 9781474430395 (PDF)
Ingvild Flaskerud
Pages: 391-393
Published online: 14 Oct 2021
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Book Review
Dealing with Religious Difference in Kindergarten: An Ethnographic Study in Religiously Affiliated Institutions
by Helena Stockinger, Münster & New York: Waxmann, 2018, Religious Diversity and Education in Europe 38, 256 pp., €39.90, US$ n/a (pb), ISBN 978–3–8309–3983–2 (pb), ISBN 978–3–8309–8983–7 (eb)
Bram de Muynck
Pages: 393-394
Published online: 14 Oct 2021
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Book Notes

Book Note
Elisabeth Arweck
Pages: 395-400
Published online: 14 Oct 2021
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