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Thematic Issue: Religion and utopia. Guest Editors: Anja Kirsch and Andrea Rota

Editorial

Editorial
Religion in changing times: an overview of the journal in its comparative scholarly and publishing contexts
Steven Engler & Michael Stausberg
Pages: 371-395
Published online: 09 Jul 2024
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Introduction

Introduction
Religion and utopia: a critical overview of the field
Anja Kirsch & Andrea Rota
Pages: 396-411
Published online: 09 Jul 2024
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Back to the future? The place of the religious ‘other’ in Ismail Gasprinsky’s Islamic utopia
Laurent Mignon
Pages: 412-430
Published online: 10 Jun 2024
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Futures of an unknown world: utopian and dystopian visions of religion in Ada Palmer’s Terra Ignota series
Adrian Hermann
Pages: 431-452
Published online: 12 Jun 2024
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The future never dies: a relational approach to secular and religious entanglements of posthuman utopia
Oliver Krüger
Pages: 453-473
Published online: 06 Jun 2024
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Utopias for Boomers: religion, psychology, and sovereignty in the long sixties
Andrea Rota
Pages: 474-493
Published online: 05 Jun 2024
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Anything is possible: Word of Life and utopian thinking during the revolutionary processes in Estonia, 1987–1991
Nele Dresen
Pages: 494-513
Published online: 07 Jun 2024
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A processual perspective on utopia as a lived social project: the case of a Ghanaian ‘Christian Town’
Anne Beutter & E. Sasu Kwame Sewordor
Pages: 514-537
Published online: 09 Jul 2024
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Vernacular utopia
Anja Kirsch
Pages: 538-562
Published online: 05 Jun 2024
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Reply

Reply
Conceptualizing utopias: Tibetan perceptions
Karénina Kollmar-Paulenz
Pages: 563-568
Published online: 06 Jun 2024
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Utopia, theodicy, and ritual: East Asian perspectives
Aike P. Rots
Pages: 569-579
Published online: 27 Jun 2024
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Decolonizing utopias
Karina Kosicki Bellotti
Pages: 580-586
Published online: 06 Jun 2024
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What can utopia do for us?
Rodrigo Toniol
Pages: 587-591
Published online: 06 Jun 2024
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Book Reviews

Book Review
Monks in Motion: Buddhism and Modernity Across the South China Sea
by Jack Meng-Tat Chia, New York, Oxford University Press, 2020, 288 pp., £82.00 (hardback), ISBN 978 019 009097 5
Zhengjin He
Pages: 592-595
Published online: 22 Jan 2024
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The Shariatisation of Indonesia: The Politics of the Council of Indonesian Ulama (Majelis Ulama Indonesia, MUI)
by Syafiq Hasyim, Brill, Leiden, 2023, xvii + 459 pp., €198.00 (hardback) ISBN9789004525702
Syamsul Wathani, Alex Medani & Muhammad Lutfi Hakim
Pages: 595-598
Published online: 31 Jan 2024
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The Spiritual Turn: The Religion of the Heart and the Making of Romantic Liberal Modernity
by Galen Watts, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2022, xi + 256 pp., $105 (Hardback), ISBN 978 019 285983 9
Joseph Sedgwick
Pages: 598-601
Published online: 29 Apr 2024
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The Forbidden Body: Sex, Horror, and the Religious Imagination
by Douglas E. Cowan, New York, New York University Press, 2022, xi + 315 pp., US$30.00 (paperback), ISBN 978 147 980311 8
Michael Nichols
Pages: 601-604
Published online: 12 Feb 2024
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The Gospel of J. Edgar Hoover: How the FBI Aided and Abetted the Rise of White Christian Nationalism
by Lerone A. Martin, Princeton, Princeton University Press, 2023, 352 pp., $29.95 (Hardcover), ISBN 978 069 117511 9
Göran Larsson
Pages: 604-606
Published online: 23 Feb 2024
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The Baha’i Faith in India: A Developmental Stage Approach
by William Garlington, Studies in the Bábí and Bahá’í Religions Volume 28, Los Angeles, Kalimát Press, 2023, xii + 233 pp., $29.95 (paperback), ISBN 978 189 068825 7
Moojan Momen
Pages: 606-609
Published online: 05 Mar 2024
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Christianity’s American Fate: How Religion Became More Conservative and Society Became More Secular
by David A. Hollinger, Princeton, Princeton University Press, 2022, xvi + 200 pp., US$29.95 (hardback), ISBN 978 0 691 23388 8
Kipp Gilmore-Clough
Pages: 609-611
Published online: 06 Mar 2024
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The Kabbalistic Tree: האילן הקבלי
by J. H. Chajes, University Park, Pennsylvania State University Press, 2022, xiv+440 pp., US$ 99.95 (hardback), ISBN 978 0 271 09345 1
Vadim Putzu
Pages: 611-615
Published online: 18 Mar 2024
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Learning Morality, Inequalities, and Faith: Christian and Muslim Schools in Tanzania
by Hansjörg Dilger, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2022, xii + 288 pp., £75.00 (hardback), ISBN 978 131 651422 1
Insa Nolte
Pages: 615-619
Published online: 25 Mar 2024
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Critical Approaches to Science and Religion
edited by Myrna Peres Sheldon, Ahmed Ragab and Terence Keel, Columbia University Press, New York City, 2023, 404 pp., $35.00 (paperback), ISBN 978 023 120657 0
Sayed Hassan Akhlaq
Pages: 619-622
Published online: 27 Mar 2024
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The Holy Spirit and the Eagle Feather: The Struggle for Indigenous Pentecostalism in Canada
by Aaron A. M. Ross, Montreal, McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2023, 384 pp., US$39.95 (paperback), ISBN 978 022 801766 0
David Lehmann
Pages: 622-624
Published online: 16 Apr 2024
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Rastafari: The Evolution of a People and Their Identity
by Charles Price, New York City, New York University Press, 2022, viii+343 pp., US$30.00 (paperback) ISBN 978 147 988812 2
Michael T Miller
Pages: 624-626
Published online: 18 Apr 2024
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The Khoja Shia Ithna-Asheries of East Africa: Their Quest for a New Socio-religious Identity (1860–1960)
by Sibtain Akberali Panjwani and edited by Imranali Panjwani, Dar es Salaam, Africa Federation, 459 pp., £15.00 (paperback), ISBN 978 190 811086 2
Liyakat Takim
Pages: 626-629
Published online: 02 May 2024
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The Western Epistemic Tradition and the Scientific Study of Religion
by Donald Wiebe, Sheffield, Equinox, 2023, xiii+212 pp., US$32.00 (paperback) ISBN 978 180 050274 1
Nickolas P. Roubekas
Pages: 629-631
Published online: 24 Apr 2024
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