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Journal articles on the topic "Critical religious studies"

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Lee, Becky. "Gender-critical Studies in Religious Studies." Method & Theory in the Study of Religion 16, no. 4 (2004): 386–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/1570068043079019.

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Kirkpatrick, Frank G., and Mark C. Taylor. "Critical Terms for Religious Studies." Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 38, no. 2 (June 1999): 320. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/1387805.

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Thomas, Owen C. "Religious Plurality and Contemporary Philosophy: A Critical Survey." Harvard Theological Review 87, no. 2 (April 1994): 197–213. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0017816000032788.

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The fact of religious plurality and how to interpret this fact have in the last decade become central issues in contemporary theology and philosophy of religion. The discussion in recent years has been focused on the debate between the pluralists and the inclusivists, as represented respectively in the volume edited by John Hick and Paul F. Knitter, The Myth of Christian Uniqueness: Toward a Pluralistic Theology of Religions and that edited by Gavin D'Costa, Christian Uniqueness Reconsidered: The Myth of a Pluralistic Theology of Religions.
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Hyman, Gavin. "Book Review: Critical Terms for Religious Studies." Theology 102, no. 809 (September 1999): 374–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0040571x9910200520.

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Wood, M. D. "Religious Studies as Critical Organic Intellectual Practice." Journal of the American Academy of Religion 69, no. 1 (March 1, 2001): 129–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jaarel/69.1.129.

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Barreto, Raimundo C. "Racism and Religious Intolerance: A Critical Analysis of the Coloniality of Brazilian Christianity." Mission Studies 38, no. 3 (December 15, 2021): 398–423. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15733831-12341811.

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Abstract This article examines the persistence of religious intolerance experienced by practitioners of Afro-Brazilian religions. Drawing from recent reports and historical resources on religious intolerance, it approaches religious diversity in Brazil from a decolonial perspective, pointing to the contradiction between the image of Brazil as a place where religious change and plurality occurs with minimal conflict and the painful reality experienced by practitioners of Afro-Brazilian religions. Picturing religious intolerance and racism as two faces of the same coin, it argues that both must be resisted. The article concludes with a call for a religious-racial literacy which is intercultural in nature and promises a path to overcome the insidious persistence of racism and religious intolerance. Such a way forward, however, demands a de-centering of Brazilian Christianity, despite its religious majority status, in favor of an epistemic humility which gives full consideration to the knowledge, memories, and lived experience of Afro-Brazilian religious practitioners.
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Rowe, Arthur J. "Critical Openness and Religious Education." British Journal of Religious Education 8, no. 2 (March 1986): 62–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0141620860080202.

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Warne, Randi R. "(En)gendering religious studies." Studies in Religion/Sciences Religieuses 27, no. 4 (December 1998): 427–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/000842989802700405.

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The analytical category of gender has gained an increasing profile in the humanities and social sciences over the last 20 years. This article considers the extent to which gender-critical approaches to teaching and scholarship have had an impact on the academic study of religion. In so doing it also considers the politics of knowledge-making in the academy.
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Kilde, Jeanne Halgren. "Approaching Religious Space: An Overview of Theories, Methods, and Challenges in Religious Studies." Religion & Theology 20, no. 3-4 (April 2, 2014): 183–201. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15743012-12341258.

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Abstract The study of religious space, both physical and imagined, has advanced significantly in the past two decades, drawing upon theoretical perspectives and analytical methods from several fields, from anthropology and historical studies, to geography and architecture, to social and literary critical theory. Marking a path through this varied landscape of approaches, this essay presents a four-part taxonomy into which most can be classified. The categories discussed are (1) Structuralist-hermeneutical approaches, (2) Socio-historical approaches, (3) Critical-spatial theory and approaches, and (4) Critical-spatial approaches from within the study of religions. This taxonomy is intended to aid scholars in clarifying their approaches to religious spaces, both physical and imagined, and thus advance the study of this constitutive component of religion.
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Lalonde, Marc P. "A critical theory of religious insight." Studies in Religion/Sciences Religieuses 34, no. 3-4 (September 2005): 357–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/000842980503400303.

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This essay begins and ends with the question: what is the meaning and purpose of religious thought today? In response to this query, the paper outlines the critical significance of the socio-cultural fragmentation of contemporary religious thought by: first, reclaiming an ethical moment within the critical theory of Max Horkheimer; second, justifying the significance of that moment by expanding our understanding of morality as explained by Charles Taylor; and third, cultivating its religio-ethical content in relation to Emmanuel Levinas' understanding of God as an ethical force that interrupts, subverts and throws into question. It is this juxtaposition of themes that points toward a critical theory necessarily informed by religious insights. What it represents is an untried form of critical theory whose religio-ethical cast and substance contributes to the venture of contemporary thinking by working with the fragility of religious thought today.
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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Critical religious studies"

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Buckingham, John C. III. "Passio Sancti Clementis| A New Critical Edition with English Translation." Thesis, California State University, Long Beach, 2018. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10784504.

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Ever since an influential study conducted by Pio Franchi de' Cavalieri in the early twentieth century, the Greek Martyrdom of Clement text has been acknowledged as a translation of the original Latin Passio Sancti Clementis text. Yet despite this discovery, very little work has been done to advance the frontier of knowledge on the Latin text itself over the last one hundred years. This work seeks to correct this oversight.

This work revisits the last Latin critical edition of the Passio text published by F. Diekamp in 1913, two years prior to Cavalieri's study. Given Diekamp's preferential treatment to the Greek Martyrdom as the original, this paper collates additional manuscript witnesses against Diekamp's Passio text, offers some conjectural textual emendations, postulates a stemma diagram of the Latin tradition, and provides an English translation to the improved text.

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Lockler, Tori Chambers. "Radical Religious Groups and Government Policy: A Critical Evaluation." [Tampa, Fla.] : University of South Florida, 2004. http://purl.fcla.edu/fcla/etd/SFE0000447.

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Turyatunga, Vanessa. "African Traditional Religions in Mainstream Religious Studies Discourse: The Case for Inclusion Through the Lens of Yoruba Divine Conceptualizations." Thesis, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/39917.

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The history of African Traditional Religions (ATRs), both inside and outside academia, is one dominated by exclusions. These exclusions were created by the colonial framing of ATRs as primitive, irrational and inferior to other religions. This colonial legacy is in danger of being preserved by the absence of ATRs from the academic study of religion, legal definitions of religion, and global and local conversations about religion. This thesis will explore the ways that a more considered and accurate examination of the understudied religious dimensions within ATRs can potentially dismantle this legacy. It will do so by demonstrating what this considered examination might look like, through an examination of Yoruba divine conceptualizations and the insights they bring to our understanding of three concepts in Religious Studies discourse: Worship, Gender, and Syncretism. This thesis will demonstrate how these concepts have the ability to challenge and contribute to a richer understanding of various concepts and debates in Religious Studies discourse. Finally, it will consider the implications beyond academia, with a focus on the self-understanding of ATR practitioners and African communities. It frames these implications under the lens of the colonial legacy of ‘monstrosity’, which relates to their perception as primitive and irrational, and concludes that a more considered examination of ATRs within the Religious Studies framework has the potential to dismantle this legacy.
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Nieder-Heitmann, Jan Hendrick. "Christendom at the Cape : a critical examination of the early formation of the Dutch Reformed Church." Doctoral thesis, University of Cape Town, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/8195.

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The primary research question of this dissertation is: What was the particular form that Christendom took on at the Cape during the formative period of the Dutch East Indies Company (VOC) rule and how did it shape the Dutch Reformed Church as established church in this locale? This question was prompted by my hunch that the Dutch Reformed Church at the Cape and in the later South Africa has since VOC rule displayed signs of regarding itself as an important ecclesiastical partner in a Christian establishment. This was evidenced in the development of the Church2 into a quasi-established position (during British rule and thereafter), and the Volkskerk of the Afrikaner people and nationalism. In post-VOC times Christendom at the Cape Colony and in South Africa has also undergone various transformations. The answer to the primary research question can therefore contribute to our understanding of the contemporary character of Christendom in South Africa and the Church. A secondary research question is how the development of Christendom at the Cape can help us understand the phenomenon of Christendom itself. In order to answer these questions I embarked on a critical and comparative study of the concept of Christendom in various contexts and the position of the church within them - postChristian Europe, post-Vatican II Latin America, and post-1960's North America. In the light of this study an archival and theologically critical analysis was made of Christendom at the Cape, mainly from the vantage point of the Dutch Reformed Church. The findings were categorised under three headings: Church privilege; the control of state and culture over Church and gospel; and, the freedom of the Church. The primary research question yielded a picture of the Church as inheritor of, and involuntary partner in a Christendom that was the result of a colonial venture of capitalist upper middle class Dutch Reformed merchants. The Church imbibed the habit of being co-opted by the powers that be for the sake of material and social benefit and for the sake of promoting its evangelistic, diaconal, and educational charges. In the process it grew accustomed to compromise the integrity of its own faith and order and ultimately its public witness.
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Djordjevic, Djordje. "Kant's Epistemological geography : the role of Schwärmerei and demarcation in the conception of critical philosophy." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/13907.

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This study intends to examine one Kantian problematic that has been often overlooked, especially in recent years. It explores Kant's reactions to so-called occult phenomena and related teachings. Kant's initial and the single most important interlocutor in this respect was Emanuel Swedenborg. Kant refers to his visions and the tone of his writings as Schwärmerei, that is an exaltation or an exalted tone. The problem of explaining the conditions of possibility or impossibility of the knowledge-claims of this type, is apparent in Kant's writings from the late 1760s. The object of the exalted knowledge-claims, it is argued, continued to figure in the critical period as one of the prime s of the unkowable objects, that is, noumena. Therefore, it is claimed that Schwärmerei and the related practices played an intrinsic role in Kant's conception of the Grenze, a limit of the conditions of possibility of human knowledge. For , the demarcation between the phenomena and noumena relies on an assumption of the particular nature of the knowledge-claims, modelled upon the claims of Schwärmerei, pertaining to objects which are beyond our grasp. In addition, Kant's concept of Grenze and the outcome of his demarcation has been put into an historical perspective. Thus, his demarcation criteria are contrasted to modern pre-Kantian attitudes towards the occult practices and the attempts to devise demarcation criteria in science. In this respect special attention has been given to Newton's methodology and research. The study also contains an examination of more recent criteria of demarcation proposed in philosophy of science which draw from Kantian conception of demarcation. Of particualar interest are Popper's and Kuhn's demarcation criteria between the scientific and non-scientific as well as some recent demarcation policies that is argued, can be related to them. The primary sources of this study can be found in an interdisciplinary field: Kantian scholarship, history of science and the occult in the period of Renaissance and early Enlightenment, contemporary philosophy of science, and the recent debates concerning modernity.
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Mathee, Mohamed Shaid. "A critical reading of Fazlur Rahman's Islamic methodology in history : the case of the living Sunnah." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/8005.

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Sunnah has become synonymous with hadith as it is found primarily in the six canonical works of hadith. This change, Rahman argues, came about after Mohammad b. Idris al-Shafi'i articulated his bayan scheme, which in a nutshell means that the entirety of law resides in two texts the Qur'an and the Sunnah and that Sunnah is only the Sunnah of Muhammad (concept and content). In search for uniformity and stability, Rahman claims, that Shafi'i destroyed the living Sunnah or more precisely the organic relationship between Sunnah, ijtihad (progressive interpretation) and ijma. But was this living Sunnah conceptually linked to the """"Ideal Sunnah"""" of the Prophet? Why did Shafi'i decimate an entire tradition and what were his reasons and how did he do it? This thesis seeks to answer these questions by critically analyzing Rahman's living Sunnah notion. On the other hand whilst it appreciates Shafi'i's argument for the Sunnah, of the Prophet only, as the exclusive legislative supplement to the Qur'an it problematizes how Shafi'i dealt with the materials from which he reconstructed (the content) the Prophetic Sunnah (as a concept).
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Holness, Lyn. "Christology from within : a critical retrieval of the humanity of Christ, with particular reference to the role of Mary." Doctoral thesis, University of Cape Town, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/11650.

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The aim of this dissertation is to recover the significance of the humanity of Christ for our redemption. This involves exploring ways in which the issue of Christ's humanity has been dealt with in the past, identifying both shortcomings of previous Christological models and elements that can be retrieved for a contemporary paradigm.
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Desmarais, Gabrielle. "Religion Drag: The Relevance of “Critical Religion” and Queer Theory to Canadian Law and Religious Freedom." Thèse, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/30438.

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This dissertation analyses the use of the word “religion” in Canadian law and theorises the consequences of its use for the legal protection of religious movements in Canada. Chapter One establishes the problems of the word “religion” in academic discourse by providing an overview of work in the field of critical religion. This dissertation considers whether the critiques of the term “religion” by scholars working within critical religion are equally relevant when considering the role of religion in human rights law. Chapter Two turns an investigative eye toward Canadian case law using the word “religion”, from Chaput v Romain (1959) to Alberta v Hutterian Brethren of Wilson Colony (2009). The analysis highlights how the use of “religion” in Canadian law does indeed reflect academic concerns. Chapter Three uses queer theory to speculate the consequences of an unstable concept of religion for the protection of religious freedom, especially as it pertains to new religious movements. Judith Butler’s notions of performativity and drag are applied to theorise the performance of “religion” and its outcomes. Some suggestions for how to proceed conclude the dissertation.
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Mentoor, P. M. "Development of sin as personal and social: a critical comparison of Irenaeus of Lyons, Martin Luther and Juan Luis Segundo." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 1990. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/14343.

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This thesis explores the development of the Doctrine of Sin as personal and social in the thinking of three representative theologians, Irenaeus, Martin Luther and Juan Luis Segundo. We shall show that both their understanding of sin, and their understanding of redemption is at once personal and social. This thesis rejects any individualistic or private conception of sin as unbiblical and contrary to the mainstream of Christian tradition. We shall show how the three theologians we have chosen expose the corporate nature of sin, and therefore show an awareness of a deeper, communal involvement of human persons in sin, thus demonstrating that sin is both personal and social. At the same time each of the theologians approaches the problem in a different way, highlighting that dimension of sin which is most appropriate in his particular context.
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Brews, Alan S. "A critical evaluation of the concept of the revolution of God in the theology of Karl Barth." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 1987. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/15874.

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The paradox evident in these quotations from Barth's writings forms the centre of his theology. On the one hand, humanity is incapable of speaking of God. On the other hand, it is imperative for humanity to speak of God. This dilemma is resolved by God's act for humanity in Jesus Christ, giving rise to a human response of faith and obedience. Humanity can speak of God only because God has revealed Godself. Hence, all theology and praxis begins doxologically, in praise for God's initiative of grace. This thesis proposes that Barth's perception of this initiative of God is best expressed in the concept of the revolution of God, which provides a paradigm from which to recover the liberative and humanising intention of his theology. This theology implies human praxis which participates in the divinely instituted process of transforming human reality. In this way Barth simultaneously speaks of God and humanity, without confusing the deity of God and the humanness of humanity. This provides a way beyond both quietism and the legitimation of power, choosing instead permanent confrontation with power in the interest of true humanisation.
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Books on the topic "Critical religious studies"

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1945-, Taylor Mark C., ed. Critical terms for religious studies. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998.

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Comparative religious ethics: Critical concepts in religious studies. New York: Routledge, 2015.

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Muhammad: Critical concepts in religious studies. New York: Routledge, 2015.

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Paul, Williams, ed. Buddhism: Critical concepts in religious studies. London ; New York: Routledge, 2005.

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Hinduism: Critical Concepts in Religious Studies. New York: Routledge, 2014.

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Paganism: Critical concepts in religious studies. London: Routledge, 2009.

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Elizabeth, Koepping, ed. World Christianity: Critical concepts in religious studies. Abingdon: Routledge, 2010.

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Islam and religious diversity: Critical concepts in Islamic studies. New York, NY: Routledge, 2011.

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Fletcher, Harding Sara, and Morvillo Nancy, eds. Religion and science: Critical concepts in religious studies. New York: Routledge, 2010.

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Aden, Ross. Religion today: A critical thinking approach to religious studies. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2012.

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Book chapters on the topic "Critical religious studies"

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Easton, Christina, Angela Goodman, Andrew Wright, and Angela Wright. "Critical Religious Education and GCSE Religious Studies." In Critical Religious Education in Practice, 127–60. Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2019.: Routledge, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315648989-7.

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Cohen, Ilana. "Menstruation and Religion: Developing a Critical Menstrual Studies Approach." In The Palgrave Handbook of Critical Menstruation Studies, 115–29. Singapore: Springer Singapore, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-0614-7_11.

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Abstract Cohen develops a critical approach to menstruation and religion by showing how in both Judaism and Hinduism menstruation is part of larger purity systems concerned with defining the boundaries of identity and community. In so doing, Cohen moves beyond the question of how religious women meaningfully navigate compliance with menstrual practices and restrictions to draw attention to the ways religiously motivated menstrual practices create gendered roles and expectations and channel women’s sexuality for specific reproductive purposes. Through a comparative discussion of how the laws of Niddah in Judaism have evolved and a discussion of the different ways menstruation is linked to communicative states of being in Hinduism, Cohen explores how studying the intersection of menstruation and religion can contribute to better understanding how religious communities and cultures define and (re)produce themselves.
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Accardi, Dean. "Religious and Political Power in Kashmir." In Routledge Handbook of Critical Kashmir Studies, 239–51. London: Routledge, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780429330810-22.

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Maharaj, Trisha, and Inga T. Winkler. "Transnational Engagements: Cultural and Religious Practices Related to Menstruation." In The Palgrave Handbook of Critical Menstruation Studies, 163–74. Singapore: Springer Singapore, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-0614-7_15.

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Abstract This transnational engagement brings together participants from various cultural and religious backgrounds in a dialogue about menstrual practices. They are asked to consider their own experiences with these practices and reflect on how the practices have affected them. The discussion makes clear that participants have varying understandings and views of traditional menstrual practices, and that these views often challenge the common depiction of traditional practices as restrictions that are forced upon women.
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Mirvis, Tova. "Personal Narrative: Out of the Mikvah, into the World." In The Palgrave Handbook of Critical Menstruation Studies, 131–35. Singapore: Springer Singapore, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-0614-7_12.

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Abstract In this personal essay, Tova Mirvis describes her religious evolution concerning the Jewish ritual of mikvah, or women’s immersion into a bath to attain a state of ritual purity. Her initiation begins before her wedding night, when she is accompanied by her mother to the mikvah to be purified before having sex for the first time. The practice continues each month, at the conclusion of her menstrual period. As the years go by, Mirvis begins to experience doubt about her religious observance in general and adherence to the practice of mikvah in particular, chafing at the requirement to ‘cleanse’ herself monthly. Mirvis writes that her discomfort over time leads her to experiment with other forms of ritual immersion and, eventually, she leaves the religious world that had been so central to her.
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Fredrickson, Nathan. "Designing a Course Integrating Critical Pedagogy, Fantasy Literature, and Religious Studies." In Fantasy Literature, 57–76. Rotterdam: SensePublishers, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-758-0_5.

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Gottlieb, Alma. "Menstrual Taboos: Moving Beyond the Curse." In The Palgrave Handbook of Critical Menstruation Studies, 143–62. Singapore: Springer Singapore, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-0614-7_14.

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Abstract Why do so many communities surround menstruation with taboos? And, are all menstrual taboos created equal? Gottlieb opens this chapter with an anthropological approach to the nature of “taboo” itself. From there, the chapter explores the wide variety of ways that the Hebrew Bible in particular, as well as several other religious traditions, have shaped menstrual taboos (including, but going well beyond, the notion of a “curse”). Such taboos have operated in diverse ways and diverse places, hence this chapter also explores how both individual and whole communities may experience them differently, including offering less negative interpretations. As such, the chapter introduces readers to a striking diversity of menstrual experiences. Moreover, people and communities in both the Global North and the Global South increasingly challenge taboos with creative activism. The chapter concludes with a brief survey of what has become a menstrual movement.
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"Critical Thinking." In The Religious Studies Skills Book. Bloomsbury Academic, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781350033771.ch-006.

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Longkumer, Atola. "Christian Mission and Religious Studies." In The Oxford Handbook of Mission Studies, 513—C29.N60. Oxford University Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198831723.013.30.

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Abstract Christian mission and religious studies share an ambiguous relationship. Simultaneously, polemical discourse and constructive production have characterized the encounter between Christian mission and religious studies. Two major strands undergird the debate. On one hand, scholarship remains critical of Christian mission as “conquering” other world religions. On the other hand, another perspective recognizes the role of Christian mission in establishing the systematic study of world religions including the translation of sacred texts, production of ethnography, and establishment of the first academic chairs dedicated to the study of other world religions. Within this general scaffolding, the essay demonstrates that both dimensions exist in the study of Indigenous religions. Profiles of missionary-academics and their writings illustrate the role of Christian mission in the recognition and critical study of Indigenous religions.
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"For the advancement of my career: a form critical study in the art of acknowledgement." In Reinventing Religious Studies, 135–39. Routledge, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315729671-25.

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Conference papers on the topic "Critical religious studies"

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Ciugureanu, Adina. "INTERDISCIPLINARY APPROACHES TO CITYSPACE: FROM THE POSTMODERN TO THE GLOBAL CITY." In GEOLINKS International Conference. SAIMA Consult Ltd, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.32008/geolinks2020/b2/v2/32.

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Cityspace has been the topic of urban and cultural studies for at least two decades and has opened a variety of ways to approach the city, from historical and cultural perspectives to socio-geographical, economic, religious, literary, postmodernist, post-colonial and, more recently, geo-critical ones. The article looks at the European and American city from the 1970s to the present through the lenses offered by the theoretical approaches by Edward Soja, David Harvey, Michel Foucault, Frederick Jameson, Bertrand Westphal, Manuel Castells, among others, while highlighting the specific characteristics of cityspace and citizenship, the use and misuse of living and imagined spaces in the period mentioned above. The shift from the modern city to the postmodern metropolis and global megalopolis has entailed essential changes in the views on cityspace both from the architectural perspective and from the city dweller’s perception of space in the city. How these changes have affected our lives and what the city of the future will look like are two core questions this article attempts to answer.
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Mavuru, Lydia, and Oniccah Koketso Pila. "PRE-SERVICE TEACHERS’ PREPAREDNESS AND CONFIDENCE IN TEACHING LIFE SCIENCES TOPICS: WHAT DO THEY LACK?" In International Conference on Education and New Developments. inScience Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.36315/2021end023.

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Pre-service teachers’ preparedness and confidence levels to teach is a topical subject in higher education. Previous studies have commented on the role of teacher in-service training in preparing teachers for provision of meaningful classroom experiences to their learners, but many researchers regard pre-service teacher development as the cornerstone. Whilst teacher competence can be measured in terms of different variables e.g. pedagogy, knowledge of the curriculum, technological knowledge etc., the present study focused on teacher competency in terms of Life Sciences subject matter knowledge (SMK). The study was framed by pedagogical content knowledge (PCK). The study sought to answer the research question: How do preservice teachers perceive their levels of preparedness and confidence in teaching high school Life Sciences topics at the end of their four years of professional development? In a qualitative study, a total of 77 pre-service teachers enrolled for the Methodology and Practicum Life Sciences course at a university in South Africa participated in the study. Each participant was tasked to identify topic(s)/concept(s) in Life Sciences they felt challenged to teach, provide a critical analysis of the reasons for that and map the way forward to overcome the challenges. This task was meant to provide the pre-service teachers with an opportunity to reflect and at the same time evaluate the goals of the learning programme they had gone through. Pre-service teachers’ perspectives show their attitudes, values and beliefs based on their personal experiences which therefore help them to interpret their teaching practices. The qualitative data was analysed using content analysis. The findings showed that whilst pre-service teachers were competent to teach other topics, the majority felt that they were not fully prepared and hence lacked confidence to teach the history of life on earth and plant and animal tissues in grade 10; excretion in animals particularly the functions of the nephron in grade 11; and evolution and genetics in grade 12. Different reasons were proffered for the lack of preparedness to teach these topics. The participants regarded some of these topics as difficult and complex e.g. genetics. Evolution was considered to be antagonistic to the participants’ and learners’ cultural and religious belief systems. Hence the participants had negative attitudes towards them. Some of the pre-service teachers indicated that they lacked interest in some of the topics particularly the history of life on earth which they considered to be more aligned to Geography, a subject they did not like. As remedies for their shortcomings in the content, the pre-service teachers planned to co-teach these topics with colleagues, and others planned to enrol for content enrichment programmes. These findings have implications for teacher professional development programmes.
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Reports on the topic "Critical religious studies"

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Avis, William. Role of Faith and Belief in Environmental Engagement and Action in MENA Region. Institute of Development Studies (IDS), May 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.19088/k4d.2021.086.

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This helpdesk report provides a critical review of the literature on the role of faith and religious values in environmental engagement and action. Contemporary studies have examined the relationship between religion and climate change including the ongoing “greening” process of religions. The review focuses on the responses of the Islamic faith in the MENA region to climate-related issues. MENA is considered one of the region’s most vulnerable to the impacts of climate change. The rapid review drawing from empirical findings notes that religious organizations have great potential in the protection of the environment. Religious organizations possess resources and infrastructure to positively impact the conversation on climate change. While the review acknowledges the important role that religion plays in environmental engagement, there is still no unified perception of climate change among members of the Islamic faith. There are those who believe that there are other more urgent issues such as radicalism, terrorism, democracy, and human rights. The review notes that the shared challenge of climate change can provide a mechanism to bring together faiths to discuss, share teachings, and agree on common action.
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Basis, Najwa, and Tamar Shochat. Associations between religion and sleep: A systematic review of observational studies in the adult population. INPLASY - International Platform of Registered Systematic Review and Meta-analysis Protocols, July 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.37766/inplasy2022.7.0057.

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Review question / Objective: The aim of this systematic review is to investigate observational studies on the association between religion and sleep in the adult population. To this end, the proposed systematic review will address the following question: What is the role religion plays in shaping an individual's sleep health? Condition being studied: Sleep is a fundamental biological process increasingly recognized as a critical indicator of development and overall health. Generally, insufficient sleep is associated with depressed mood, daytime fatigue, poor daytime functioning and daytime sleepiness, increased risk of cancer, cardiovascular problems, diabetes, and the cause of the higher risk of mortality. Furthermore, changes in sleep architecture and quality have been related to cognitive deterioration, including dementia and Alzheimer's disease. Here we will identify the role of religion in elements of sleep health, to include sleep duration and sleep quality, and associated health outcomes in the adult population.
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Arora, Saurabh, Arora, Saurabh, Ajit Menon, M. Vijayabaskar, Divya Sharma, and V. Gajendran. People’s Relational Agency in Confronting Exclusion in Rural South India. Institute of Development Studies (IDS), December 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.19088/steps.2021.004.

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Social exclusion is considered critical for understanding poverty, livelihoods, inequality and political participation in rural India. Studies show how exclusion is produced through relations of power associated with gender, caste, religion and ethnicity. Studies also document how people confront their exclusion. We use insights from these studies – alongside science and technology studies – and rely on life history narratives of ‘excluded’ people from rural Tamil Nadu, to develop a new approach to agency as constituted by two contrasting ways of relating: control and care. These ways of relating are at once social and material. They entangle humans with each other and with material worlds of nature and technology, while being mediated by structures such as social norms and cultural values. Relations of control play a central role in constituting exclusionary forms of agency. In contrast, relations of care are central to the agency of resistance against exclusion and of livelihood-building by the ‘excluded’. Relations can be transformed through agency in uncertain ways that are highly sensitive to trans-local contexts. We offer examples of policy-relevant questions that our approach can help to address for apprehending social exclusion in rural India and elsewhere.
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