Journal of Contemporary Religion, Volume 39, Issue 2 (2024)

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Skateboarding and subjective-life embodied spirituality
Terry Shoemaker & Ciara Bernal
Pages: 209-228
Published online: 17 Jun 2024
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Yoga, emotion, and behaviour: becoming conscious of habitual social roles
Cecilia Bastos
Pages: 229-247
Published online: 30 May 2024
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Meaning-making and well-being among exiters of religious fundamentalism
Andreea Nica
Pages: 249-269
Published online: 02 Jul 2024
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Contesting religious space: spatiality, religion, and identity-making among Jews in Trondheim
Ida Marie Høeg
Pages: 271-290
Published online: 19 Jun 2024
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Review Article
Migrant Pentecostalism and the rise of Latin American street preachers in Barcelona
Antonio Montañés Jiménez
Pages: 291-308
Published online: 30 May 2024
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“I’m not saying this to be racist, but…”: uncovering attitude of whiteness in a narrative study of a Brazilian Pentecostal church leader
Kim Teresa Beecheno
Pages: 309-326
Published online: 17 Jun 2024
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Beyond conflict: an exploration of the way UK church leaders view the relationship between science and religion
Lydia Reid
Pages: 327-345
Published online: 30 May 2024
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Churches in the 2020 elections and political protests in Belarus: raising voices at the time of uncertainties and turmoil
Aliaksei Lastouski, Sergei A. Mudrov & Nikolay Zakharov
Pages: 347-359
Published online: 09 May 2024
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Book Reviews

Book Review
The Struggle to Stay: Why Single Evangelical Women are Leaving the Church
by Katie Gaddini, New York & Chichester: Columbia University Press, 2022 (hb), 2023 (pb), xiii + 278 pp., US$35.00, £30.00 (hb), US$27.00, £22.00 (pb), ISBN 978–0–2311–9674–1 (hb), ISBN 978–0–2311–9675–8 (pb), ISBN 978–0–2315–1580–9 (eb)
Bernice Martin
Pages: 361-363
Published online: 30 Jul 2024
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Caught in the Current: British and Canadian Evangelicals in an Age of Self-Spirituality
by Sam Reimer, Montreal, Kingston, London & Chicago: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2023, Advancing Studies in Religion, 231 pp., CA$120.00, £100.00, US$120.00 (hb), CA$34.95, £29.99, US$34.95 (pb), ISBN 978–0–2280–1695–3 (hb), ISBN 978–0–2280–1696–0 (pb), ISBN 978–0–2280–1779–0 (ePDF), ISBN 978–0–2280–1780–6 (ePUB)
Andrew Village
Pages: 363-365
Published online: 30 Jul 2024
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The Holy Vote: Inequality and Anxiety among White Evangelicals
by Sarah Diefendorf, Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2023, 231 pp., US$95.00, £80.00 (hb), US$29.95, £25.00 (pb), ISBN 978–0–5203–5559–0 (hb), ISBN 978–0–5203–5560–6 (pb), ISBN 978–0–5209–7595–8 (eb)
Aron Engberg
Pages: 365-366
Published online: 30 Jul 2024
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An Epidemic among My People: Religion, Politics, and COVID-19 in the United States
edited by Paul A. Djupe and Amanda Friesen, Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press, 2023, Religious Engagement in Democratic Politics, 322 pp., US$115.50 (hb), US$39.95 (pb), ISBN 978–1–4399–2339–9 (hb), ISBN 978–1–4399–2340–5 (pb), ISBN 978–1–4399–2341–2 (pdf), also Open Access
Charissa Mikoski
Pages: 367-368
Published online: 30 Jul 2024
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The Spirit of Populism: Political Theologies in Polarized Times
edited by Ulrich Schmiedel and Joshua Ralston, Leiden & Boston: Brill, 2022, Political and Public Theologies: Comparisons, Coalitions, Critiques, 333 pp., €59.00, US$69.00 (pb), ISBN 978–90–04–49831–0 (pb), ISBN 978–90–04–49832–7 (eb)
Marius Timmann Mjaaland
Pages: 368-370
Published online: 30 Jul 2024
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Before and Beyond the ‘Big Society’: John Milbank and the Church of England's Approach to Welfare
by Joseph Forde, Cambridge & Bristol, CT: James Clarke & Co./The Lutterworth Press, 2022, 324 pp., £75.00, US$113.00, €112.50 (hb), £25.00, US$38.00, €37.50 (pb), ISBN 9780227177808 (hb), ISBN 9780227177778 (pb), ISBN 9780227177785 (PDF), ISBN 9780227177792 (ePub)
Martyn Percy
Pages: 370-373
Published online: 30 Jul 2024
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Materializing the Bible: Scripture, Sensation, Place
by James S. Bielo, London & New York: Bloomsbury Academic/Bloomsbury Publishing, 2022 (hb), 2023 (pb), Bloomsbury Studies in Material Religion, xi + 273 pp., £95.00, US$130.00 (hb), £28.99, US$39.95 (pb), ISBN 978–1–3500–6504–8 (hb), ISBN 978–1–3502–6025–2 (pb), ISBN 978–1–3500–6506–2 (ePDF), ISBN 978–1–3500–6505–5 (eb)
Mark Bratton
Pages: 373-374
Published online: 30 Jul 2024
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The Routledge Handbook of Religious and Spiritual Tourism
edited by Daniel H. Olsen and Dallen J. Timothy, London & New York; Routledge, 2022 (hb), 2024 (pb), 504 pp., £215.00, US$280.00 (hb), £43.99, US$58.95 (pb), ISBN 978–0–367-19195–5 (hb), ISBN 978–1–032–02077–8 (pb), ISBN 978–0–429–20101–1 (eb)
Wayne E. Arnold
Pages: 375-376
Published online: 30 Jul 2024
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Roaming Free Like a Deer: Buddhism and the Natural World
by Daniel Capper, Ithaca, NY & London: Cornell University Press, 2022, 289 pp., US$130.00, £n/a (hb), US$39.95, £n/a (pb), ISBN 9781501759574 (hb), ISBN 9781501761966 (pb), ISBN 9781501759581 (pdf), ISBN 9781501759598 (epub)
Susan M. Darlington
Pages: 376-378
Published online: 30 Jul 2024
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Cultures Colliding: American Missionaries, Chinese Resistance, and the Rise of Modern Institutions in China
by John R. Haddad, Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press, 2023, 335 pp., US$125.50 (hb), US$39.35 (pb), ISBN 978–1–4399–1160–0 (hb), ISBN 978–1–4399–1161–7 (pb), ISBN 978–1–4399–1162–4 (eb)
Wing Tai Leung
Pages: 378-380
Published online: 30 Jul 2024
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After the Decolonial: Ethnicity, Gender and Social Justice in Latin America
by David Lehmann, Cambridge: Polity/Wiley, 2022, 228 pp., £55.00 (hb), 17.99 (pb), ISBN 978–1–509–53752–5 (hb), ISBN 978–1–509–53753–2 (pb), ISBN 978–1–509–53754–9 (eb)
Nicolás Panotto
Pages: 380-383
Published online: 30 Jul 2024
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Decolonizing Contemporary Gospel Music Through Praxis: Handsworth Revolutions
by Robert Beckford, 2023, London & New York: Bloomsbury Academic, Bloomsbury Studies in Black Religion and Cultures, ix + 250 pp., £85.00, US$115.00 (hb), ISBN 978–1–3500–8173–4 (hb), ISBN 978–1–3500–8175–8 (ePDF), ISBN 978–1–3500–8176–5 (eb)
Vaughan S Roberts
Pages: 383-385
Published online: 30 Jul 2024
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Vodou en Vogue: Fashioning Black Divinities in Haiti and the United States
by Eziaku Atuama Nwokocha, Chapel Hill, NC: The University of North Carolina Press, 2023, 208 pp., US$24.95 (pb), ISBN 978-1-4696-7401-8
Benjamin Hebblethwaite
Pages: 385-389
Published online: 30 Jul 2024
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Religion and Worldviews: The Triumph of the Secular in Religious Education
edited by L. Philip Barnes, 2023, Abingdon & New York: Routledge, x + 184 pp., £135.00, US$180.00 (hb), £24.99, US$32.95 (pb), ISBN 978–1–032–20618–9 (hb), ISBN 978–1–032–20619–6 (pb), ISBN 978–1–003-26443–9 (eb)
Paul Smalley
Pages: 389-391
Published online: 30 Jul 2024
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Magisteria: The Entangled Histories of Science and Religion
by Nicholas Spencer, London: Oneworld Publications, 2023, 467 pp., £25.00 (hb), ISBN 9780861544615 (hb), ISBN 9780861544622 (eb)
Paul Gifford
Pages: 391-393
Published online: 30 Jul 2024
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Book Notes

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Narrative Visions and Visual Narratives in Indian Buddhism
Pages: 395-396
Published online: 30 Jul 2024
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Studying the Religious Mind: Methodology in the Cognitive Science of Religion
Pages: 396-397
Published online: 30 Jul 2024
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Religionsvergleich: Ansätze, Kritik, Praxis
Pages: 398-399
Published online: 30 Jul 2024
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The Spires Still Point to Heaven: Cincinnati’s Religious Landscape, 1788–1873
Pages: 399-401
Published online: 30 Jul 2024
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The Covid Pandemic and the World’s Religions: Challenges and Responses
Pages: 401-403
Published online: 30 Jul 2024
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Truth, Faith, and Reason: Scripture, Tradition, and John Paul II
Elisabeth Arweck
Pages: 404-405
Published online: 30 Jul 2024
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