Religion and Society
Advances in Research
Aims & Scope
Editors: Simon Coleman, Centre for the Study of Religion, University of Toronto, Ramon Sarró, Institute of Social Sciences, Lisbon and University of Oxford, and Ruy Llera Blanes, Institute of Social Sciences, Lisbon, and London School of Economics
Religion and Society responds to the need for a rigorous, in-depth review of current work in the expanding sub-discipline of the anthropology of religion. In addition, this important annual aims to provide a dynamic snapshot of developments in the study of religion as a whole and encourages inter-disciplinary perspectives.
Each volume contains a Portrait section that profiles a senior scholar of religion, with invited essays on the scholar's work by authorities in their respective subfields. In the Articles section, contributions provide overviews of a given topic with critical, ‘positioned’ views of the subject and of relevant research. In the Debate section, scholars of religion reflect on a high-profile issue or event, and the Author Meets Critics section invites discussants to comment on a recently published volume, followed by a response from the author. Other sections cover teaching, news, and—vitally—reviews of new books and ethnographic films.
Subjects: Anthropology of Religion, Religious Studies, Sociology of Religion
Current Issue
Volume 3
Introduction
I. PORTRAIT - Jean Comaroff
Religion, Society, Theory
Jean Comaroff
Religion’s ‘Others’: Jean Comaroff on Religion and Society
Peter Geschiere
Thoughts on Jean Comaroff’s Political Economy of Zombies
Kamari M. Clarke
Religion, Society, and the Everyday
Adeline Masquelier
II. ARTICLES
Contemporary Cosmologies, Critical Re-Imaginings
Allen Abramson and Martin Holbraad
Seriousness, Irony and the Mission of Hyperbole
Michael Carrithers
The Multiple Agencies of Afro-Brazilian Religions
Roger Sansi and Luis Nicolau Parés
Religion and Diaspora
Paul Christopher Johnson
The Contribution of Post-colonial Critique to an Anthropology of Missions
Paula Montero
Occupied Territory at the Interstices of the Sacred: Between Capital and Community
Paul-François Tremlett
God Does Not Play Dice with the Universe, or Does He? Anthropological Interlocutions of Sport and Religion
Thomas F. Carter
III. DEBATE SECTION: RELIGION AND REVOLUTION
The Future of Religious Rebellion
Mark Juergensmeyer
Tigers, Temples and the Remaking of Tamil Society: Report from the Field
Sidharthan Maunaguru and Jonathan Spencer
Charisma and Community in Islam: Two Routes to Jihad
Charles Lindholm
IV. AN AUTHOR MEETS HIS CRITICS
Manuel Vásquez: More than Belief: A Materialist Theory of Religion
Comments
Abby Day, Lionel Obadia, David Chidester, Chad Seales
Response to Comments
Manuel A. Vásquez
V. TEACHING
Religion Matters: Reflections from an AAA Teaching Workshop
James Bielo