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The Routledge Handbook of Material Religion places objects and bodies at the center of scholarly studies of religious life and practice.Propelling forward the study of material religion, the Handbook first reveals the deep philosophical roots of its key categories and then advances new critical analytics, such as queer materialities, inescapable material entanglements, and hyperobjects that explode the small-scale personal view on religions.The Handbook comprises thirty chapters, written by an international team of contributors who offer a global perspective of religious pasts and presents, divided into four thematic parts:Genealogies of Material ReligionMaterializing the Terms of the Study of ReligionEntanglements, Entrapment, EscapingHyperobjects, or How Ginormous Things Affect ReligionsIn these four parts, the study of material religion is redirected towards systematic, critical interrogations of the imbrication of religious structures of power with racial, economic, political, and gendered forms of domination.From Spinoza’s political theology to African philosophies of ubuntu; from the queer materialities of Mesoamerican religion to the Satanic Temple of the United States; from Islamic love and sacrifice in human-animal entanglements to Shia militants’ attachment to weaponry; from epidemic cataclysm in Latin America to vast infrastructures and the gathering of millions in India’s Kumbh Mela, the study of material religion proves to be the study par excellence of the human condition.The Handbook is essential reading for students and researchers in religious studies, anthropology, history, and media studies, and will also be of interest to those in related fields such as archeology, sociology, and philosophy.

The Routledge Handbook of Material Religion places objects and bodies at the center of scholarly studies of religious life and practice.Propelling forward the study of material religion, the Handbook first reveals the deep philosophical roots of its key categories and then advances new critical analytics, such as queer materialities, inescapable material entanglements, and hyperobjects that explode the small-scale personal view on religions.The Handbook comprises thirty chapters, written by an international team of contributors who offer a global perspective of religious pasts and presents, divided into four thematic parts:Genealogies of Material ReligionMaterializing the Terms of the Study of ReligionEntanglements, Entrapment, EscapingHyperobjects, or How Ginormous Things Affect ReligionsIn these four parts, the study of material religion is redirected towards systematic, critical interrogations of the imbrication of religious structures of power with racial, economic, political, and gendered forms of domination.From Spinoza’s political theology to African philosophies of ubuntu; from the queer materialities of Mesoamerican religion to the Satanic Temple of the United States; from Islamic love and sacrifice in human-animal entanglements to Shia militants’ attachment to weaponry; from epidemic cataclysm in Latin America to vast infrastructures and the gathering of millions in India’s Kumbh Mela, the study of material religion proves to be the study par excellence of the human condition.The Handbook is essential reading for students and researchers in religious studies, anthropology, history, and media studies, and will also be of interest to those in related fields such as archeology, sociology, and philosophy.

CrossCurrents connects the wisdom of the heart with the life of the mind and the experiences of the body. The journal is operated through its parent organization, the Association for Public Religion and Intellectual Life (APRIL), an interreligious network of academics, activists, artists, and community leaders seeking to engage the many ways religion meets the public. Contributions to the journal exist at the nexus of religion, education, the arts, and social justice. In the September 2 8 issue of CrossCurrents:"Interreligious Art in Light of Hindu and Buddhist Thought" by Melanie Barbato"To See Your Face is to See the Face of God: Changing Interfaith Work from Talking to Seeing and Feeling" by Daniel K. Epstein"Visions of Beauty: Exploring Aesthetics as a Starting Point for Meaningful Inter&82 8 Religious Encounter, True&82 8 Seeing, Truth&82 8 Seeking, and Personal Transformation" by Fatimah Mohammed-Ashrif"Eat, Sing, Love: How Interfaith Families Model Interfaith Engagement" Susan Katz Miller"Writing the Sublime: Visual Hagiography and the Promotion of Interreligious Understanding" by Lucinda Allen Mosher"Being There: What do Students Learn by Visiting Houses of Worship?" by Henry Goldschmidt"Interreligious Narratives and Contra&82 8 Religious Aesthetics in the Material Culture of Navarra, Northern Spain" by Daniel Moulin&82 8 Sto&38 ek and Anna K. Dulska"Experiencing Sacred Place: Architecture and the Individual in Immigrant and Refugee Communities" by Robert Knight"At the Threshold: Tobi Kahn's Interfaith Spaces" by Aaron Rosen

CrossCurrents connects the wisdom of the heart with the life of the mind and the experiences of the body. The journal is operated through its parent organization, the Association for Public Religion and Intellectual Life (APRIL), an interreligious network of academics, activists, artists, and community leaders seeking to engage the many ways religion meets the public. Contributions to the journal exist at the nexus of religion, education, the arts, and social justice.In the March 2 2 issue of CrossCurrents:"CrossCurrents at 7 and Beyond: An Editor's Introduction" by S. Brent Rodriguez-Plate"Hooked on Feelings: The Story of My Jewish Pathologies" by Jodi Eichler-Levine"Feeling Jewish: Nostalgia and American Jewish Religion" by Rachel B. Gross"Something Alive Appears" by Hannah Altman"'Becoming' Bodies: Affect Theory, Transgender Jews, and the Rejection of the Coherent Subject" by S.J. Crasnow"Contemporary Relics" by Laura S. Levitt"The Art of Fixing Broken Worlds" by Heather Stoltz"Jewish Objects and Jewish Affects: A Conversation" by Jodi Eichler-Levine, Rachel B. Gross, Laura A. Leibman, and Laura S. Levitt"Holy Kiss" and "Son of Soil" by Owolusi Lucky Oluwabunmi"Echoing Abundance: Public Art and Mutual Aid in Pandemic New Orleans" by Gwen Dilworth

CrossCurrents connects the wisdom of the heart with the life of the mind and the experiences of the body. The journal is operated through its parent organization, the Association for Public Religion and Intellectual Life (APRIL), an interreligious network of academics, activists, artists, and community leaders seeking to engage the many ways religion meets the public. Contributions to the journal exist at the nexus of religion, education, the arts, and social justice. In the June 2 2 issue of CrossCurrents: "Christian Realism, Human Vulnerability, and the U.S. Immigration Crisis" by Ilsup Ahn "Religions and the Abuse of Women and Girls: Digging Deeper" by Carol B. Crist "Lived Religion as Hermeneutical Comparative Theology: Employing Shiva Nataraja (Lord of the Dance) Imagery in Christian Art and Music" by Paul Hedges "The American Redoubt and the Coyolxauqui Imperative: Dismembering America through Whiteness, Remembering America with Gloria Anzaldua" by Terrance McMullan "Non-Christian Religions in the Work of Uchimura Kanz&333 " by James Harry Morris "Looking Forth as The Much-Loved Morning" poetry by Robert Vivian "The Uses and Abuses of Apocalypse" by S. Brent Rodriguez-Plate Book Reviews by Melanie Barbato and Elaine Nogueira-Godsey

The September issue of CrossCurrents is a special issue on the "Spirituality of Parenting". This issue brings together essays at the intersection of religious life and parenting. Essays are reflective, creative, and bring in the writers' own experiences of being a parent and how one brings religious or spiritual insights or practices into the parenting practice. Sometimes religious beliefs and practices cause a hindrance to good parenting and traditional values must be revised. Through it all, the spirituality of parenting is understood as a socio-political act.

CrossCurrents connects the wisdom of the heart with the life of the mind and the experiences of the body. The journal is operated through its parent organization, the Association for Public Religion and Intellectual Life (APRIL), an interreligious network of academics, activists, artists, and community leaders seeking to engage the many ways religion meets the public. Contributions to the journal exist at the nexus of religion, education, the arts, and social justice. In the December issue of CrossCurrents: "Not Yet Uhuru: Soundings on the Legacy of James H. Cone and Englebert Mveng for an Africana Liberation Theology" by Akintunde E. Akinade "Muslims in these United States: Living up to the Ideals of the Greatest in the Shadows of Terrorism" by Amir Hussain "Holocaust Memory and Restorative Justice: Competition, Friction, and Convergences" by Bjorn Krondorfer "A Tale of Two Floods: Reflections on Biological Sustainability" by Regina Linder "Court, Four Witnesses" by Alyda Faber Shenila Khoja-Moolji, Sovereign Attachments: Masculinity, Muslimness, and Affective Politics in Pakistan, reviewed by Elise Hocking "Healing Fire at the Met: Terence Blanchard's Fire Shut Up in My Bones and Rashid Johnson's The Broken Nine" reviewed by Irina Sheynfeld "Journeys: Sarah Sze and Rashid Johnson at Storm King Art Center" reviewed by Irina Sheynfeld

CrossCurrents connects the wisdom of the heart with the life of the mind and the experiences of the body. The journal is operated through its parent organization, the Association for Public Religion and Intellectual Life (APRIL), an interreligious network of academics, activists, artists, and community leaders seeking to engage the many ways religion meets the public. Contributions to the journal exist at the nexus of religion, education, the arts, and social justice. In the September 2 2 issue of CrossCurrents: "Cinema: The Georeligious Aesthetic" by S. Brent Plate "Nollywood and Pentecostalism: Preaching Salvation, Propagating the Supernatural" by Chijioke Azuawusiefe "Film as a Ritual of Seeing Beyond the Visible: The Case of Manshin: Ten Thousand Spirits (2 3)" by Hwasun Choe "'As They Really Are': The World Outlook of Protestant&82 8 Sponsored Mission Films, 93 82 95 " by April Makgoeng "PARASITE as Parable: Bong Joon&82 8 Ho's Cinematic Capitalism" by Minjung Noh "People on the Move: Religion, Film and Migration" by Daria Pezzoli&82 8 Olgiati "Once the Buddha Was Born as Keanu Reeves: The Shaping of Buddhism in American Film and Popular Culture" by Sharon A. Suh "Resurrection, Remediation, and Religious Fundamentalism in Contemporary Indian Sci&82 8 Fi/Fantasy Films" by Anu Thapa "Making a Way Out of No Way: Black Faith in Barry Jenkins's If Beale Street Could Talk" by Joe Tolbert Jr. "Souvenirs of the Apocalypse: Guns as Authenticating Props" by Rachel Wagner

CrossCurrents connects the wisdom of the heart with the life of the mind and the experiences of the body. The journal is operated through its parent organization, the Association for Public Religion and Intellectual Life (APRIL), an interreligious network of academics, activists, artists, and community leaders seeking to engage the many ways religion meets the public. Contributions to the journal exist at the nexus of religion, education, the arts, and social justice. In the June 2 2 issue of CrossCurrents: "Introduction: The Mediation of Meaning, or Re-Mediating McLuhan" by S. Brent Plate "The Skin of Religion: Aesthetic Mediations of the Sacred" by S. Brent Plate "First&82 8 Person Shooter Religion: Algorithmic Culture and Inter-Religious Encounter" by Rachel Wagner "Pixels Perpetual Shine: The Mediation of Illness, Dying, and Death in the Digital Age" by Elizabeth Drescher "Cross Purposes: Museum Display and Material Culture" by Julia Petrov "Between God and Google: Reflections on the Technology Project of the Society for the Arts, Religion and Contemporary Culture" by Erling Hope "Reflections on the Impact of "The Digital Revolution" on Art and Religion" by Rafael Chodos "Athanasius" book review by J. Harold Ellens "Christianity: How a Tiny Sect from a Despised Religion Came to Dominate the Roman Empire" book review by J. Harold Ellens "The Dead Sea Scrolls on Sexuality Attitudes Towards Sexuality in Sectarian and Related Literature at Qumran" book review by J. Harold Ellens "Justice for Hedgehogs" book review by Peter Heinegg "Islam and Homosexuality" book review by J. Harold Ellens "Geoffrey Fisher, Archbishop of Canterbury Reformed Dogmatics, Abridged in One Volume Wild and Robust, The Adventure of Christian Humanism 4 Questions About Christians and Biblical Law The Miracle of Kindness, Changing the World One Act at a Time A Different Priest, The Epistle to The Hebrews" book review roundup by J. Harold Ellens PhD

CrossCurrents connects the wisdom of the heart with the life of the mind and the experiences of the body. The journal is operated through its parent organization, the Association for Public Religion and Intellectual Life (APRIL), an interreligious network of academics, activists, artists, and community leaders seeking to engage the many ways religion meets the public. Contributions to the journal exist at the nexus of religion, education, the arts, and social justice. In the September 2 9 issue of CrossCurrents: INTRODUCTION "The Varieties of Contemporary Pilgrimage" by S. Brent Plate THE EXPERIENCES OF PILGRIMAGE "Pluralistic Pilgrimage: Travel as the Quest for the Strange" by Frederick J. Ruf "Encountering Gods and Goddesses: Two Pilgrimages to Greece" by Jill Dubisch "Dead Serious: A Theology of Literary Pilgrimage" by Darren J. N. Middleton "Seeing, Being Seen, and Not Being Seen: Pilgrimage, Tourism, and Layers of Looking at the Kumbh Mela" by Kama Maclean THE PLACES OF PILGRIMAGE "Rome: Multiversal City: The Material and the Immaterial in Religious Tourism" by Graham Holderness "Kyoto Pilgrimage Past and Present" by Pamela D. Winfield "The Temple That Won't Quit: Constructing Sacred Space in Orlando's Holy Land Experience Theme Park" by Joan R. Branham "Sedona, Arizona: New Age Pilgrim Tourist Destination" by Curtis Coats "Pilgrims at the Australia Zoo: Reflections on Being There" by Luis A. Vivanco

CrossCurrents connects the wisdom of the heart with the life of the mind and the experiences of the body. The journal is operated through its parent organization, the Association for Public Religion and Intellectual Life (APRIL), an interreligious network of academics, activists, artists, and community leaders seeking to engage the many ways religion meets the public. Contributions to the journal exist at the nexus of religion, education, the arts, and social justice.In the June issue of CrossCurrents:"Nonfiction Religion, Jumbo Shrimp, and Other Apparent Oxymorons: An Introduction" by Brook Wilensky Lanford"Activism and Inwardness" by Nathan Schneider"Unbound: Religion Runs Free on the Internet" by Mary Valle"How The Apostle Gets Religion" by Patton Dodd"Sticks and Stones: Watching The Jesus Film with Muslims" by S. Brent Plate"Where the Law Rock Lies" by Eric O. Scott"'Throw Me the Idol, I'll Throw You the Whip': Sacred Stories, Holy Theft, and the Task of the Religion Writer" by Peter Manseau"Belonging Without Believing" by Kaya Oakes"Your Children Are Not Your Children: Kahlil Gibran's Counter Cultural Bible" by Brook Wilensky Lanford"Trees, Walking: Praying on Prednisone with Flannery O'Connor" by Ashley Makar"Why I Am and Am Not a Calvinist" by Briallen Hopper"First Person Plural : Nonfiction Religion Writing for All of Us An Afterword" by S. Brent Plate

Equal parts pandemic testimony and "autotheology," God, The God of Unmet Desire is a record of the author's quest to find God during the lonely peak of the first COVID- 9 pandemic winter. At the heart of this special issue of CrossCurrents, lies a set of meditations on the daily, traditional Jewish weekday morning liturgy. They fiercely and feelingly explore that pandemic winter's themes of grief, sensuality, and surrender, and our dire need for old and new wisdoms to help us move into collective responsibility for our broken world. To do so, the work weaves together sources as various as the Babylonian Talmud, 21th century feminist science fiction, and 21st century African diasporic poetry. The writings range in length and style from a few lines of prose to a half-dozen lines of poetry to a full-length essay. This work is explicitly feminist, leftist, and non-Zionist. It playfully but sincerely demonstrates Jewish liturgical traditions' possibilities and limitations as resources for personal and political liberation and accountability. God, The God of Unmet Desire also explores the author's own gender and sexuality. It takes a tone that oscillates from sincerely pious to playfully kinky. The work is designed to be accessible to a wider audience while drawing from deep, Jewish roots. Religious-curious and religious-affiliated progressive-minded people of all backgrounds will be drawn to Zisl's creative and critical writing. God, The God of Unmet Desire will appeal to anyone who wishes to integrate liberatory models of collective social change with traditional insights about God and spiritual belonging mediated by the wisdom of an imperfectly human sacred liturgy developed over the last two millennia.

CrossCurrents connects the wisdom of the heart with the life of the mind and the experiences of the body. The journal is operated through its parent organization, the Association for Public Religion and Intellectual Life (APRIL), an interreligious network of academics, activists, artists, and community leaders seeking to engage the many ways religion meets the public. Contributions to the journal exist at the nexus of religion, education, the arts, and social justice. In the June 2022 issue of CrossCurrents: "Listening Contemplatively to Nature and Ourselves: Pedagogical and Personal Observations" by Dave Aftandilian "Daredevil: The Man Without Fear and White Catholic Masculinities" by Matthew J. Cressler "Political Theology, Public Theology, or a Theopoetic Anatheism for A Postecclesial, Post-secular Age?" by Scott Holland "Costa Brava" by Nestor E. Rodriguez "Guadalupe Maravilla: The Artist and The Sound Healer" reviewed by Irina Sheynfeld "Themes of death in Andy Warhol: Revelation at the Brooklyn Museum" reviewed by Irina Sheynfeld "Colleen D. Hartung, ed., Claiming Notability for Women Activists in Religion." reviewed by Winifred O. Whelan

CrossCurrents connects the wisdom of the heart with the life of the mind and the experiences of the body. The journal is operated through its parent organization, the Association for Public Religion and Intellectual Life (APRIL), an interreligious network of academics, activists, artists, and community leaders seeking to engage the many ways religion meets the public. Contributions to the journal exist at the nexus of religion, education, the arts, and social justice.In the June 2 23 issue of CrossCurrents:"Our Sounds Reach the Other World: Sacred Musical Instruments and Their Spiritual Roles" by Cara R. Schreffler"A Brief History of Jewish Victimhood Identity" by Marc J. Rosenstein"Setting the Table: A Baha'i geographer reflects on faith, fieldwork, and farmworkers" by Anisa Kline"Echoes of a Method: Inductive Christian Social Ethics, Social Practices, and the Radical Social Gospel" by Aaron Stauffer"A Sacred Disease" by Robin Root"Being Jain: South Indian Art Meets Climate Ethics at Zurich's Rietberg Museum" reviewed by Melanie Barbato"The Brooklyn Museum's Arts of the Islamic World" reviewed by Rayyan Mikati"Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio: What It Takes to Craft a Life" reviewed by Irina Sheynfeld"Emily Dumler-Winckler, Modern Virtue: Mary Wollstonecraft and a Tradition of Dissent" reviewed by Elizabeth Ursic

CrossCurrents connects the wisdom of the heart with the life of the mind and the experiences of the body. The journal is operated through its parent organization, the Association for Public Religion and Intellectual Life (APRIL), an interreligious network of academics, activists, artists, and community leaders seeking to engage the many ways religion meets the public. Contributions to the journal exist at the nexus of religion, education, the arts, and social justice. In the September 2 23 issue of CrossCurrents: "Re-Reading the Annunciation (Luke :2 82 38): Towards Comprehensive Sexuality Education" by Telesia Musili "Mystery and the Problem of Election in Judaism and Christianity" by Malka Z. Simkovich "Halakha vs. Capitalism" by Allen Lipson "Who Do Our Methods Serve and Protect? Pedagogical and Meta-Ethical Challenges in Teaching Breonna Taylor" by Andrew Stone Porter "Anointed" by Mindy Misener "Olthuis, James H. 2 22. Dancing in the Wild Spaces of Love: A Theopoetics of Gift and Call, Risk and Promise" reviewed by Ben Brazil "Thistlethwaite, Susan. 2 22. Walls of Fear: A Kristin Ginelli Mystery" reviewed by Christine Meyer "Jill Freedman: an artist with a story to tell" reviewed by Irina Sheynfeld "Homrighausen, Jonathan. Planting Letters and Weaving Lines: Calligraphy, The Song of Songs, and the Saint John's Bible" reviewed by David Simonowitz

CrossCurrents connects the wisdom of the heart with the life of the mind and the experiences of the body. The journal is operated through its parent organization, the Association for Public Religion and Intellectual Life (APRIL), an interreligious network of academics, activists, artists, and community leaders seeking to engage the many ways religion meets the public. Contributions to the journal exist at the nexus of religion, education, the arts, and social justice. In the March 2 24 issue of CrossCurrents: "Beyond Borders: Wu-Tang Clan's Quest for Transcendence" by Marcus Evans "The Magic Mirror of Ritual: Three Weddings of the Waters and the Grand Celebrations of the Erie Canal" by Marla Segol "Walls, Paths, Gardens, and a Gravediggers' Pub" by Matthew R. Anderson "Slung Sky Glitter" & "Mass-Ejection Ejection" poetry by Agnes Hanying Ong "Randall Balmer, Passion Plays: How Religion Shaped Sports in North America" reviewed by Cody Musselman "Sharon Ellis Davis, The Trauma of Sexual and Domestic Violence: Navigating My Way Through Individuals, Religion, Policing, and the Courts" reviewed by Joshua Turpin "Omar Kasmani. 2 22. Queer Companions: Religion, Public Intimacy, and Saintly Affects in Pakistan" reviewed by Issar Lucky "Cecily Brown: Death and the Maid at the Metropolitan Museum of Art" reviewed by Irina Sheynfeld "The 3 Women Collection, Then and Now: Peggy Guggenheim's First All-Women Show Recreated Eighty Years Later" reviewed by Irina Sheynfeld