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Review: Entanglements: Marking Place in the Field of Religion by Russell T. McCutcheon, Bristol, CT: Equinox Publishing Ltd., 2014, ix + 287 pp., ISBN 978 1 78179 076 2, US$99.95 (cloth); ISBN 978 1 78179 077 9, US$26.95 (paperback)
Travis Cooper
Interdisciplinary Journal for Religion and Transformation in Contemporary Society
Phallogocentrism, Global Entanglements and Comparison in the Study of Religion
2023 •
Giovanni Maltese
Along with the critique of generic terms, such as religion or mysticism, regarded as Western-centric, comparison in religious studies has been faulted for reinforcing Western dominance over the rest of the world. Global Religious History claims to constructively address these charges by focusing on global entanglements. On closer inspection, however, if the latter are theorized at all, an astounding exclusion comes to the fore: the omission of gender as category of knowledge. Engaging this phallogocentrism in Global Religious History, this article calls for a conceptualization of global entanglements that takes this omission seriously. As a case study, I use a tract published serially in a Singapore-based Islamic missionary journal (1938-1941), to argue that a revised conceptualization of global entanglements can help to uncover the contributions of non-hegemonic subjects to contemporary discourses on religion, mysticism, Islam, and Sufism, as well as to the comparative study of religion.
Entangled Religions 14/3
Entangled Religions Vol. 14 No. 3 (2023): WESTERN LEARNED MAGIC AS AN ENTANGLED TRADITION
2023 •
Bernd-Christian Otto
I edited a special issue of the journal Entangled Religions (Bochum) on the topic 'Western Learned Magic as an Entangled Tradition'. It includes contributions by Michael Noble, Sophie Page, Owen Davies, Dirk Johannsen, Henrik Bogdan, and myself. My contribution "Conjuring Planetary Spirits in the Twenty-First Century: Textual-Ritual Entanglements in Contemporary 'Magic(k)'" deals with Frater Acher and his unique 'Arbatel experience'. All articles are open access: https://er.ceres.rub.de/index.php/ER/issue/view/323.
Global Entanglements: Reflections on researching religion in a post 9/11 world (Part 1)
Karla O Poewe
Abstract Poewe Much current research is informed by Foucault’s discourse model based on speech forms and the assumption that power is in the discourse itself. The concreteness of human beings, their actions, the mentors and institutions that shape them, or the worldviews that hold them captive, are ignored. Another approach is necessary to get at the global entanglements and continuation of Nazism precisely because it is a political religion that most people want to forget. Metaphorically speaking, the approach is like peeling an onion. The paper is an assessment of a book, which does not ring true. Sigrid Hunke, claiming to be a scholar of religions, wrote a best-seller published in 1960 with the curious title, Allah’s Sun over the Occident: Our Arabic Heritage. According to Hunke, she wrote the book to defend Arabic Islam against Western prejudices. But initial archival research showed her to have been a committed SS-intellectual and defender of the Germanic exemplar in the 1940s. Why then this post-WWII transformation into a human rights advocate with an affinity for a politico-religious minority that, furthermore, is held up as a model worthy of emulation? Here the metaphor of peeling the onion is useful because I cut, as it were, into the flow of the paper with text boxes that contain commentaries about the methods and concepts that guided me in uncovering a deception. More importantly, and beyond this, the reader is taken to the core of the Nazi worldview and to Hunke’s mentors who devised their own methods and concepts to construct it – methods and concepts to which Hunke remained loyal in all her works.
On Entangled Hagiographies: Perspectives and Results, in: Entangled Hagiographies of the Religious Other, hg. von Alexandra Cuffel / Nikolas Jaspert, Newcastle upon Tyne 2019, S. 2–22.
2019 •
Nikolas Jaspert
Science and Christian Belief
Review: Entangled Worlds - Religion, Science and New Materialisms by Catherine Keller and Mary-Jane Rubenstein (eds)
2019 •
Tim Middleton
Soundings: A Journal of Politics and Culture
"Entanglements: the IHRA, Jews and non-White Minorities" (2022)
2022 •
Moshe Behar
Moshe Behar, "Entanglements: the IHRA, Jews and non-White Minorities," Soundings: A Journal of Politics and Culture, (Vol. 80, 2022), pp. 82-96. [full text]
History and Technology
Introduction: the entanglement of technology and religion
Jennifer Alexander
Macmillan Interdisciplinary Handbooks Religion Secret Religion
Kelley Coblentz Bautch
De Gruyter Open Theology
Quantum Entanglements and the Lutheran Dispersal of Salvation
2020 •
Eugen Spierer
Martin Luther suggested that God disperses the salvation gained by the sacrifice of Christ both before and after the crucifixion itself. In this essay I describe how quantum time entanglements can facilitate a timeless dispersal of salvific grace, and hypothesize that it is God who creates, maintains and manipulates space-time using such entanglements, in a way analogous to a spider controlling its web.
