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Religions in 2022

A special issue of Religions (ISSN 2077-1444).

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (25 October 2023) | Viewed by 5187

Special Issue Editors

Prof. Dr. Dyron B. Daughrity

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Religion and Philosophy Division, Seaver College, Pepperdine University, Malibu, CA 90263, USA
Interests: world Christianity; global Christianity; history of Christianity; world religions; religion in India; interreligious dialogue; ecumenical movement; ecumenism; history and theology of Christianity; secularization; sociology of religion; ethnography and religion; new religious movements; comparative religion
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Prof. Dr. Susanne Olsson

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History of Religions, Stockholm University, 10691 Stockholm, Sweden
Interests: Islamic studies; Islamic fundamentalism; Salafism; minority jurisprudence
Prof. Dr. Paul Morris

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School of Social and Cultural Studies, Victoria University of Wellington, Kelburn, Wellington 6012, New Zealand
Interests: religion and politics; religions, well-being and happiness; religious liberty; the management of religious diversity; religions in the Pacific; Jewish Studies; evil and salvation; religions and death

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues.

In 2022, Religions has published its 13th Volume of research in Religions in their plurality. We owe heartfelt thanks to you, our colleagues, as researchers and authors, as editors and peer reviewers, and of course as readers - and to all the staff of the editorial office, past and present, who have contributed to the successful development of our Journal as a Q1 journal for various years now in the field of religious studies and theologies worldwide.

To initiate an inspiring start to the year 2023, a special issue entitled “Religions in 2022” is being launched. This special issue is about collecting high quality original research and review articles in all areas of interest covered by Religions. The special issue aims to collect papers of our editors-in-chief, editorial board members, guest editors, societies, authors, and reviewers from Religions. The intention is to show wide variety of topics researcher and colleagues may find in a journal, and that we encourage and value this variety and richness of discussions in the field we would like to contribute to. 

We are grateful to our colleagues Prof. Dyron B. Daughrity, Prof. Susanne Olsson and Prof. Paul Morris who serve as Guest Editors and to all reviewers who contribute their expertise for the success of this special Religions in 2022 issue.

Potential topics include but are not limited to:

  1. Expanding our notions of Islamic Asceticism
  2. Who defines Islam? Critical perspectives on Islamic studies
  3. The contemporary understandings policies, and debates about religious
    diversity
  4. Christianity in India
  5. Christianity in the USA
  6. World Christianity
  7. Secularization
  8. Christianity and Politics
  9. Pentecostalism
  10. Sociological Study of Christianity
  11. Evangelicalism
  12. History of Christianity
  13. Early Christianity

We are looking forward to your groundbreaking research publications in Religions in 2022.

Prof. Dr. Dyron B. Daughrity
Prof. Dr. Susanne Olsson
Prof. Dr. Paul Morris
Guest Editors

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Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a double-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Religions is an international peer-reviewed open access monthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 1800 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

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Redefining Qurʾānic Hermeneutics: Muḥammad ʿĀbid al-Jābrī and Nasr Ḥāmid Abū Zayd’s Humanistic Interpretations
by Ali Mostfa
Religions 2024, 15(3), 278; https://doi.org/10.3390/rel15030278 - 23 Feb 2024
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This article presents the innovative endeavor by Muḥammad ʿĀbid al-Jābrī and Nasr Ḥāmid Abū Zayd in interpreting the Qurʾān through a humanistic lens. Their approach marks a pivotal shift, viewing the Qurʾān as a dynamic text that actively engages with the human interpreter. [...] Read more.
This article presents the innovative endeavor by Muḥammad ʿĀbid al-Jābrī and Nasr Ḥāmid Abū Zayd in interpreting the Qurʾān through a humanistic lens. Their approach marks a pivotal shift, viewing the Qurʾān as a dynamic text that actively engages with the human interpreter. This human-centric perspective underpins their hermeneutical method, which employs lexicography, philology, and semantics to unearth the layered meanings within the Qurʾānic narrative. The article delves into the nuances of their methodologies, drawing parallels and distinctions, and underscores their profound impact on modern Qurʾānic hermeneutics. Full article
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Religious Policy of the Mamluk Sultan Baybars (1260–1277 AC)
by Hatim Muhammad Mahamid
Religions 2023, 14(11), 1384; https://doi.org/10.3390/rel14111384 - 05 Nov 2023
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This study focuses on the religious policy of the Mamluk Sultan Rukn al-Din Baybars (d. 1277), and its application throughout his rule in Egypt and Syria (Bilād al-Shām). This study also discusses the impact of this policy and its benefit for Muslims and [...] Read more.
This study focuses on the religious policy of the Mamluk Sultan Rukn al-Din Baybars (d. 1277), and its application throughout his rule in Egypt and Syria (Bilād al-Shām). This study also discusses the impact of this policy and its benefit for Muslims and Islam in general in the region. Dealing with the character of Baybars of Mamluk origin is very important in this study to obtain the required answers to the questions related to the Islamic character of Mamluk rule in the regions of the Middle East in the Middle Ages. Although Baybars’ background was as a slave (mamlūk), who was not familiar with the religion of Islam, he had to prove his ability to act as a leader of an Islamic state. Baybars worked to implement the principles of Islam according to the Quran and the tradition of the Prophet (sunna), thus exploiting his status as an Islamic leader and as Sultan during his reign. Baybars was strict in his religious policy toward those who committed forbidden acts according to the Islamic religion, and he was keen to punish them and implement the Sharīʿa as required, in cooperation with the ʿulamā. Baybars was given relevant degrees and titles he deserved by the revived Abbasid Caliph in Cairo, such as a “holy warrior” (Mujāhid), “partner of emir of believers/the Caliph” (Qasīm Amīr al-Mu’minīn), and other religious titles that testify his high-ranking religious status as defender of Islam. Full article
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Phenomenology of Quranic Corporeality and Affect: A Concrete Sense of Being Muslim in the World
by Valerie Gonzalez
Religions 2023, 14(7), 827; https://doi.org/10.3390/rel14070827 - 24 Jun 2023
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It is a matter to ponder that, among the three Abrahamic monotheisms, Islam places the greatest ontotheological distance between the human and the divine. While God is the ground of being Muslim, Islam excludes theophany and prohibits any tangible association between the divine [...] Read more.
It is a matter to ponder that, among the three Abrahamic monotheisms, Islam places the greatest ontotheological distance between the human and the divine. While God is the ground of being Muslim, Islam excludes theophany and prohibits any tangible association between the divine and anything in the material world. God’s mode of manifesting Himself to His creatures has consisted of the most fleeting and discorporate of all means of communication, namely, sound. His words gathered in the Qur’an thus form a non-solid verbal bridge crossing over that unfathomable distance. One could then think that the relationship between the unique Creator and His creatures relies only on the strength of a blind faith founded on a dry, discursive pact. Arguing his “idea of an anthropology of Islam”, Talal Asad did posit that this religion and its culture form “a discursive tradition”. Exclusively focused on the mental modes of knowledge acquisition, this cognitivist verbalist characterization has become a certitude in Islamic studies at large. Yet, it is only a half-truth, for it overlooks the emphatic involvement, in the definition of this tradition of Islam, of the non-linguistic phenomenality of experience that implicates the pre-logical non-cognitive double agency of affect and sensation in the pursuit of divine knowledge. This article expounds this phenomenology of the Qur’an in using an innovative combination of philosophical and literary conceptualities, and in addressing some hermeneutical problems posed by the established Quranic studies. Full article
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Who Defines Islam? Critical Perspectives on Islamic Studies
by Abdessamad Belhaj
Religions 2023, 14(6), 753; https://doi.org/10.3390/rel14060753 - 07 Jun 2023
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This paper endeavors to answer the question of who defines Islam as an academic discipline. Firstly, it discusses the epistemic authority of producers and transmitters of knowledge about Islam. It is argued here that, despite modernization, religious scholars and learning centers in the [...] Read more.
This paper endeavors to answer the question of who defines Islam as an academic discipline. Firstly, it discusses the epistemic authority of producers and transmitters of knowledge about Islam. It is argued here that, despite modernization, religious scholars and learning centers in the Muslim world still define, to a certain extent, the main curriculum of texts and interpretations of the Muslim tradition within the discipline of Islamic studies. Furthermore, Western scholars of Islamic studies must navigate between the demands of politics and identity, which put pressure on the discipline. Secondly, this article maps the major models and approaches of Islamic studies at work today. In particular, this section highlights the diversity of research norms and practices in Europe. Finally, multiple critiques produced by decolonial, historicist, and theological views within the field of Islamic studies are shown to be complementary rather than exclusivist. Full article
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