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JCA Book Reviews: Reluctant Landscapes: Historical Anthropologies of Political Experience in Siin, Senegal. By François Richard

On September 10, 2019 By Equinox Publishing
Reluctant Landscapes: Historical Anthropologies of Political Experience in Siin, Senegal. By François Richard, 2018. University of Chicago Press. Paperback, 400 pp. ISBN 9780226252544. Fragmentary time in Atlantic West Africa François Richard’s Reluctant Landscapes describes places that refuse to be fully absorbed into political and commercial systems, and where global -isms themselves remain on-going or unresolved [...]
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JCA Book Reviews: Future Remains: A Cabinet of Curiosities for the Anthropocene. Edited by Gregg Mitman, Marco Armiero and Robert. S. Emmett

On September 10, 2019 By Equinox Publishing
Future Remains: A Cabinet of Curiosities for the Anthropocene. Edited by Gregg Mitman, Marco Armiero and Robert. S. Emmett. 2018. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Paperback, 224 pp. ISBN 9780226508795. This edited volume presents itself, unusually, as a cabinet of curiosities. Inside the cabinet, so to speak, are 15 objects, each of which is held [...]
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Lewis, A. David and Martin Lund, eds. Muslim Superheroes: Comics, Islam, and Representation. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2017. Pp. 256. $24.93 (paperback). by Aaron Ricker

On August 22, 2018 By Janet Joyce
  Lewis and Lund’s book is literally one of a kind, which is saying something given the exponentially productive academic field of comics and religion. I was accordingly impressed by the generous research shared by Lewis and Lund in their “Introduction,” and convinced that books like theirs are necessary given the ignorance and hostility that [...]
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Credulity: A Cultural History of US Mesmerism. By Emily Ogden. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2018. Pp. xiv + 268. $27.50 (paperback), $82.50 (hardcover). by Charles McCrary

On August 22, 2018 By Janet Joyce
  It can be a terribly tenuous thing, being modern. It slips. To be a secular liberal subject, a choosing agent, a person in control of faculties and wits, requires diligence. But if you’re ever unsure of your own enlightenment, it can be reassuring to find someone unenlightened. Even Benjamin Franklin, a healthy, wealthy, wise [...]
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Beyond Class, Only Commentary: Rereading the Licchavis’ Origin Story in Buddhist Contexts; Charles S. Preston

On February 5, 2018 By Janet Joyce
Abstract The origin story of the Licchavis, retold in two commentaries on Nikāya texts, has received some scant attention in the modern scholastic record, yet has usually been either cast aside as so much myth or has been recast in thematic or structural studies that align it with other tales of incest, foundling narratives, or origin stories [...]
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Bhikkhu Ñāṇananda’s Concept and Reality: A Reply to Stephen Evans; Bhikkhuni Dhammadinnā

On February 5, 2018 By Janet Joyce
Abstract This article offers a critical reply to the assessment of Bhikkhu Kaṭukurunde Ñāṇananda’s Concept and Reality in Early Buddhist Thought (1971) published by Stephen Evans in Buddhist Studies Review 34(1), 2017. The alleged flaws and inconsistencies detected by Evans — both internal to the presentation in Concept and Reality and vis-à-vis the doctrinal evidence in the early Pali discourses — [...]
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Heavenly Bodies: Incarnation, the Gaze, and Embodiment in Christian Theology by O. Sigurdson (2016), Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans, 683pp. Adam Pryor

On February 4, 2018 By Janet Joyce
    Reviewed by Adam Pryor Affiliation Bethany College, USA. email: [email protected] Keywords embodiment; Christian theology; incarnation; phenomenology; Christology; Bakhtin There are few texts written in Christian theology today that demonstrate the ambition of Ola Sigurdson’s work. At times breathtaking and at others overwhelming in its sheer size and density, Sigurdson has attempted to develop [...]
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Mullen, Lincoln A. The Chance of Salvation: A History of Conversion in America. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2017. Pp. 384. $39.95 (hardcover).

On February 3, 2018 By Janet Joyce
by Charlie McCrary These days, Americans choose their religions. Even those who seem to start with a religion, those “raised religious,” must choose to continue to be religious, or to switch religions, or to cease to be religious, maybe become “spiritual” instead, or adopt the label “atheist” or “freethinker” or “agnostic.” Pick one. This imperative, [...]
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Altman, Michael. Heathen, Hindoo, Hindu: American Representations of India, 1721–1893. New York: Oxford University Press, 2017. xxii+175. $34.95 (hardcover).

On February 3, 2018 By Janet Joyce
Reviewed by Andrew Kunze Michael Altman’s Heathen, Hindoo, Hindu turns a critical eye toward history of Hinduism in America and the nationalist, orientalist discourses of formative debates, from the Colonial era up to Chicago’s World Parliament, in order to revise the standard “Transcendentalist-Theosophist-Vivekananda-1965” trajectory (xvii). Taking a genealogical approach to his historical sources, Altman shows how ‘hazy [...]
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Inge, Anabel. 2016. The Making of a Salafi Muslim Woman: Paths to Conversion. New York: Oxford University Press. xiii + 303pp. £22.99. ISBN: 9780190611677 (pbk) (e-book also available). Reviewed by: Jennifer Philippa Eggert, University of Warwick. [email protected]

On February 2, 2018 By Janet Joyce
  Keywords: Islam; women in religion; Muslims in the UK; Salafism; conversion. The topics of women in Islam and Salafism in Europe have garnered considerable attention from researchers, journalists, policy-makers and the wider public recently. Anabel Inge’s book The Making of a Salafi Muslim Woman, which analyses UK-based Salafi Muslim women’s everyday experiences and is [...]
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