The application of autoethnographic research as an investigative methodology in Sikh studies may appear relatively novel. Second, religion makes valuable contributions to pluralism when it protects the conscientious beliefs and practices of individuals and of minority religious groups. The current criminalization of labor migration from the global South in Europe is disrupting long established patterns of upward mobility through international migration, that entailed remitting money home, getting married and reuniting with one’s family in the host country and moving up the socio-professional ladder from low-paid jobs to self employment. Religious Presence in Civil Society, Autoethnography: A Potential Method for Sikh Theory to Praxis Research, Vulnerable Masculinities? The journal publishes articles employing experimental and correlational methods, qualitative analyses, and critical reviews of the literature. Subscribe to receive issue release notifications and newsletters from MDPI journals, You can make submissions to other journals. Instead, the life of an increasing number of Sikh migrants in France and elsewhere is marked by irregular status and socio-economic vulnerability. International Journal of Religion (IJOR) is a multidisciplinary peer-reviewed journal aiming to offer a venue for scholarly discussion on religion in reference to the social sciences and humanities. However, like any social formation, it is produced, reproduced, and contested through time. When the adapted Hindi version of CRS was used in both the study groups, there was no significant difference between the two groups, in terms of CRS total scores (t = 1.12; Religious values neither wholly threaten nor wholly reinforce the stability of liberal democracy. About This Journal. You seem to have javascript disabled. The contents include a variety of feature sections on contemporary educational issues, book reviews, conferences, resources and practical hints for teachers. By locating yoga in museums within broader and longer processes of racialization I offer a critical race and feminist lens to view these sorts of performances. The recent influence of Christian nationalists, who would promote a specific interpretation of Christianity as the only legitimate basis for. Deliberation (vichhar) of an individual’s experience through the embodied wisdom of the Gurū (gurmat) connecting the lived experience to a greater knowing and awareness of the self is an established practice in Sikhi. The Journal of Religion is one of the publications by which the Divinity School of The University of Chicago seeks to promote critical, hermeneutical, historical, and constructive inquiry into religion. Subcategories. Additionally, the study aimed to compare the religiosity as assessed by using CRS among healthy subjects and those with first-episode depression. Download new special issues, and recently published articles. The adaptation primarily involved elaboration on certain aspects of religious services and practices, keeping in mind the polytheistic religious beliefs in India. 423–537. Addendum: Parker, M.; Spennemann, D. For Whom the Bell Tolls: Practitioners’ Views on Bell-Ringing Practice in Contemporary Society in New South Wales (Australia). Disability studies offer several models of how one advantaged group understands and interacts with a less advantaged group. Psychology of Religion and Spirituality ® publishes peer-reviewed, original articles related to the psychological aspects of religion and spirituality. Taken together, these findings suggest that psycholinguistic features of religious words contribute to the detection of religiosity. The self-understanding of elite athletes of faith is then considered, as articulated in interviews collected over several years with one of the authors and in other published statements. In addition, religious people had higher familiarity to religious words than non-religious people. The, Previous studies have reported that religious words and religiosity affect mental processes and behaviors. Aims and Scope: IJRCS offers an international platform for awakening the civilisational potential of the Islamic heritage. 2020. SAGE's Religion portfolio features some of the world's most prestigious journals. Although in recent times the interest in them has grown, until now, most of the research carried out on names in both England and Spain has been devoted to the exploration of surnames and place, Names are a subject which concerns us all. During the process of translation, the scale was adapted to suit to the sociocultural milieu of India. 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Academic journals in religious studies, the academic field of multi-disciplinary, secular study of religious beliefs, behaviors, and institutions.It describes, compares, interprets, and explains religion, emphasizing systematic, historically based, and cross-cultural perspectives. Volume 100 Number 4 October 2020. pp. The participants also rated their own religiosity using the Japanese version of the Centrality of Religiosity Scale (JCRS). This article connects recent work in critical race studies, museum studies, and performance studies to larger conversations happening across the humanities and social sciences on the role of performance in white public spaces. We use cookies to improve your website experience. People always have choices they can make about what lessons they might derive from experiences. The Church’s theology of Original Sin, baptism, and salvation left the youngest children especially vulnerable to dying unbaptized and subsequently being denied a Christian burial in consecrated grounds. The present analysis of the philosophical and epistemological teachings of the Greek Byzantine Church Fathers and the thinkers of classical Arab-Islamic culture aims at overcoming stereotypes regarding the opposition of Christianity and Islam that strongly permeate both scholarly theorizing and contemporary social discourses. ... Editorial policies; Browse the list of issues and latest articles from Religion. If one faces discrimination within the realm of the state, which is historically well documented where Hazaras are concerned, one begins looking for alternative pathways to advancement. IIUM Journal of Religion and Civilisational Studies (IJRCS) is a peer-reviewed online scholarly journal in English, published biannually in June and December by the Kulliyah (Faculty) of Islamic Revealed Knowledge and Human Sciences, International Islamic University Malaysia. Spiritual care is a part of nurses’ professional responsibilities; however, nurses continue to report that they are poorly prepared for this. In conclusion, the autoethnographic approach has the means to illuminate nuances in understanding Sikhi that is transformative and familiar to the ancestral process of how Sikhs have made sense of themselves and the world around them. We begin with an analysis of medieval texts from Italy. Journal Religion Submit an article Journal homepage. This paper sets out (1) to provide an affirmative genealogy that shed light on the different forms taken by sacrifice, the origins of its various conceptual layers and the various social practices from which they come; (2) to analyze the initial conceptual layer proposed by Marcel Mauss and Henri Hubert and followed by Marcel Hénaff based on farming societies; (3) to analyze the rise of the anti-sacrificial narrative and its main landmarks, the problems of victims and the responses given by René Girard and Talcott Parsons; and finally (4) to analyze the dynamic tension between the tragic-apocalyptic narrative and the defensive-progressive narrative in modern times, and the main landmarks of each one. Its purpose is to publish current research on religion and to offer a platform for scholarly co-operation and debate within the field. The adapted Hindi version of the scale was used in 80 healthy subjects and 80 patients with first-episode depression. This article explores autoethnography as a potential research method to give an academic voice to and capture the depth of the lived experiences of Sikhs: first, by articulating the main spaces of synergy of autoethnography with gurmat vichhar; second, discussing common themes such as inclusivity of disregarded voices, accessibility to knowledge creation, relational responsibility, and integrity in storytelling common to both autoethnography and gurmat vichhar. Help us to further improve by taking part in this short 5 minute survey, The Endless Metamorphoses of Sacrifice and Its Clashing Narratives, Hindi Adaptation of Centrality of Religiosity Scale, Research with the Centrality of Religiosity Scale (CRS), Promise or Threat? The Journal of Southern Religion is the first scholarly journal devoted to the study of religion in the American South. SAGE Religion. The Journal of Religion & Society is a cross-disciplinary, electronic journal published by the Rabbi Myer and Dorothy Kripke Center for the Study of Religion and Society at Creighton University.. Editors: Willemein Otten, James Robinson, and Brook Ziporyn ALL ISSUES. As a result, the remains of unbaptized fetuses and infants have been discovered in consecrated ground. Although emergency baptism was promoted by the Church, the laity may have occasionally violated canon law by performing emergency baptism on stillborn infants. Because humanity is a young technological species, any extraterrestrials we meet will inevitably be more advanced than we are. Specifically, I examine the recent trend of museums such as. Journal for the Study of Religion is published twice a year in March and September by the Association for the Study of Religion in Southern Africa as a forum for scholarly contributions of up to 6000 words on topics of contemporary significance in the academic study of religion, in the form of articles, responses to articles, review articles and shorter book reviews. The authors begin by considering the nature of Christian worship, examining worship as a phenomenon, key biblical and theological ideas, the relationship of worship to sacred places and times, and the relation of worship to everyday life. The authors scrutinize the epistemological principles of the exoteric and esoteric knowledge of the Islamic Golden Age and the apophatic and cataphatic ways of attaining the knowledge of God in Early Christianity. However, it is unclear what psycholinguistic features of religious words (e.g., familiarity, imageability, and emotional aspects) are associated with each dimension of personal religiosity (intellect, ideology, public practice, private. Published since 1966, Zygon is dedicated to the manifold interactions between the sciences and human religious and moral convictions. This category has the following 9 subcategories, out of 9 total. These include personalised networks in religious communities, education, and business entrepreneurship. Specifically, I examine the recent trend of museums such as the Natural History Museum of London, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, and the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, to name but a few, offering meditation and wellness classes that purport to “mirror the aesthetics or philosophy of their collections.” Through critical ethnography and discursive analysis I examine and unpack this logic, exposing the role of cultural materialism and the residue of European imperialism in the affective economy of the museum. Nonsubscribers: Purchase the e-book of this issue, Frequency: 4 issues/year ISSN: 0022-4189 E-ISSN: 1549-6538. However, it is unclear what psycholinguistic features of religious words (e.g., familiarity, imageability, and emotional aspects) are associated with each dimension of personal religiosity (intellect, ideology, public practice, private practice, and experience). The journal publishes articles in theology, religious ethics, and philosophy of religion, as well as articles that approach the role of religion in culture and society from a historical, sociological, psychological, linguistic, or artistic standpoint. This depends upon how they may be interpreted and applied. The article suggests that, while the correspondence may not be complete or exact, there is good reason to take seriously the claims of elite athletes of faith that their sporting performance should be regarded as an act of worship. Culture may have the appearance of immutability. Members qualify for a membership discount on subscriptions to the journal. Elite sports participants often perform religious gestures and many speak of their sporting performance in terms. Spiritual care is a part of nurses’ professional responsibilities; however, nurses continue to report that they are poorly prepared for this. The application of autoethnographic research as an investigative methodology in Sikh studies may appear relatively novel. First, religious rights may threaten other rights, particularly when reinforced with public funds. To learn about our use of cookies and how you can manage your cookie settings, please see our Cookie Policy. From Proclamation to Narrative. That program was founded and chaired by Ninian Smart, and he served as the Chairman of the first editorial board. ... What Isn’t Religion? Exploring these models can give us a sense of the possible variation that might occur upon first contact. Previous studies have reported that religious words and religiosity affect mental processes and behaviors. There is limited. Our program encompasses high quality research on a wide range of topics, from biblical studies, theology and mission studies to ethics, psychology and education. 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