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https://muse.jhu.edu/article/988778
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Our new book review editor is Syed Atif Rizwan, who has been an assistant professor of Islamic and Interreligious Studies, director of the Catholic-Muslim Studies Program, and chair of the Dept. of Intercultural Studies and Ministry Education at the Catholic Theological Union in Chicago since 2020. He has a B.A. in economics from Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ; an M.A. in Islamic Studies from Claremont (CA) Graduate University; and a Ph.D. in Islamic Studies (2018) from the University of California, Los Angeles.His areas of research expertise include Islamic law and jurisprudence, Qur'ān and hadith studies, the history of Muslim societies, Islamic ethics, interreligious studies and dialogue, and comparative
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/668/image/coversmallWelcome to the New Editors2026-05-01text/htmlen-USWelcome to the New Editors2026-05-012026TWOProject MUSE®68042026-05-16T00:00:00-05:002026-05-01Aruna Gnanadason: Indigenous Wisdom, Indian Eco-Feminist Theology, and the World Council of Churches—Confronting Violence against Women and Shaping the Future of Ecumenism
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/988779
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When tasked with defining a feminist theology for India, Aruna Gnanadason has steadfastly declared, "a theology from the perspective of women in struggle."1 Gnanadason, now seventy-five, served from 1991 to 2009 as director of the global programs of the World Council of Churches (W.C.C.) on Women in Church and Society and on Justice, Peace, and Creation.2 Recognizing the "euro-centric, patriarchal and anthropocentric worldview" of the Christian church as the perpetrator of oppression and violence against both women and the earth itself, she has dedicated her life to dismantling the "systemic sin of patriarchy" through her ecumenical activism.3Gnanadason's theology offers a significant methodological contribution to
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/668/image/coversmallAruna Gnanadason: Indigenous Wisdom, Indian Eco-Feminist Theology, and the World Council of Churches—Confronting Violence against Women and Shaping the Future of Ecumenism2026-05-01text/htmlen-USAruna Gnanadason: Indigenous Wisdom, Indian Eco-Feminist Theology, and the World Council of Churches—Confronting Violence against Women and Shaping the Future of Ecumenism2026-05-012026TWOProject MUSE®905812026-05-16T00:00:00-05:002026-05-01Intricate Modernity: The South Korean Protestant Experience
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/988780
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Protestantism has long been seen as sharing elective affinities with modernity.1 This Weberian thesis has significantly shaped recent scholarship on Korean Protestantism, which often portrays it as a symbol of Western modernity and a driving force in Korea's twentieth-century modernization.2 This essay reexamines the South Korean Protestant experience of modernity by offering a more nuanced account of the conventional view that Protestantism produced a decisive rupture with traditional society and religious culture. Drawing on global/world Christian literature and my own ethnographic research, I argue that, while the Protestant faith often urges Korean Christians to break with their religious and cultural past, it
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/668/image/coversmallIntricate Modernity: The South Korean Protestant Experience2026-05-01text/htmlen-USIntricate Modernity: The South Korean Protestant Experience2026-05-012026TWOProject MUSE®1173342026-05-16T00:00:00-05:002026-05-01Interfaith Declarations as Negotiations between Tradition and Change
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/988781
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Religious declarations addressing interfaith relations—whether unilateral or jointly authored—occupy a unique space at the intersection of tradition, modernity, and global political dynamics. As documents that seek to articulate religious principles while fostering dialogue, they must navigate the delicate balance between preserving theological integrity and adapting to shifting social and political landscapes. This tension is reflected in four pioneering declarations published over the past sixty years: Nostra Aetate (1965), Dabru Emet (2000), A Common Word (2007), and the Alexandria Declaration (2002). Each document represents a distinctive initiative by a religious tradition to reassess its approach to
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/668/image/coversmallInterfaith Declarations as Negotiations between Tradition and Change2026-05-01text/htmlen-USInterfaith Declarations as Negotiations between Tradition and Change2026-05-012026TWOProject MUSE®1121962026-05-16T00:00:00-05:002026-05-01Comparing Two Worldview Manifestos: Abraham Kuyper's Six Stone Lectures and Kadir Mısıroğlu's Islamic Worldview
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/988782
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The concept of "worldview" (Weltanschauung) first emerged within German Idealism and Romanticism, where it quickly became a prominent term in secular intellectual discourse.1 By the mid-nineteenth century, it was often employed with an anti-clerical edge, contrasting the "new" scientific worldview with the "old" dogmatic Christianity. Soon, however, Christian theologians appropriated the concept as a philosophical and rhetorical tool to defend faith in the modern world, transforming it into a cornerstone of apologetic strategy.2By the early twentieth century, "worldview" had become central to both secular and religious intellectual projects, offering a comprehensive framework for interpreting reality, defending
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/668/image/coversmallComparing Two Worldview Manifestos: Abraham Kuyper's Six Stone Lectures and Kadir Mısıroğlu's Islamic Worldview2026-05-01text/htmlen-USComparing Two Worldview Manifestos: Abraham Kuyper's Six Stone Lectures and Kadir Mısıroğlu's Islamic Worldview2026-05-012026TWOProject MUSE®1194872026-05-16T00:00:00-05:002026-05-01The Narrow Covenant: Contemporary Christian Zionism and the Challenges of Overcoming Supersessionism
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/988783
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In the last few decades, new expressions of evangelical Christian Zionism have appeared.1 Prominent theologians have begun to elaborate a common set of beliefs and claims that distinguish them from earlier Christian Zionists. They have spoken strikingly positively about Jews and evinced both sympathy for Jewish concerns and remorse for Christian hostility to Jews. Leading contemporary Christian Zionist individuals and organizations avoid or minimize missionary activity, foreswear Antisemitism, voice love for Jews and Israel, and provide Israel with extensive political and philanthropic support. They have distinguished themselves from earlier Christian Zionists' claims of prophetic fulfillment and their vivid, often
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/668/image/coversmallThe Narrow Covenant: Contemporary Christian Zionism and the Challenges of Overcoming Supersessionism2026-05-01text/htmlen-USThe Narrow Covenant: Contemporary Christian Zionism and the Challenges of Overcoming Supersessionism2026-05-012026TWOProject MUSE®1441622026-05-16T00:00:00-05:002026-05-01Holy Smoke: Censers across Cultures ed. by Beate Fricke (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/988784
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This book immediately piqued my interest at first glance of the title. As a Greek Orthodox Christian, incense and censers are a fixture within our liturgical and personal prayer life and worship. This volume clearly seeks to demonstrate the cross-cultural, cross-temporal, cross-geographical interdependent and independent presence of censers, incense, and their role within a variety of religious landscapes: East and West, North and South alike. The ubiquitousness of this most vital worship tool, whether free-standing, hanging, or human-dependent as it may be, is quite successfully documented through the addition of 170 high-quality full-color images. As someone who teaches courses on ecumenical relations and has
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/668/image/coversmallHoly Smoke: Censers across Cultures ed. by Beate Fricke (review)2026-05-01text/htmlen-USHoly Smoke: Censers across Cultures ed. by Beate Fricke (review)2026-05-012026TWOProject MUSE®61362026-05-16T00:00:00-05:002026-05-01Scripture People: Salafi Muslims in Evangelical Christians' America by Matthew D. Taylor (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/988785
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This book explains how the development of Evangelical Protestantism set the stage for the presence and Americanization of Salafism in America. Written from an insider's perspective as someone born and raised in the Evangelical Christian tradition, Taylor's analysis seeks to redress three interlocking narratives about Islam in the United States: America as a Christian or Judeo-Christian nation at odds with Islam, Islam as especially prone to religious fundamentalism, and Salafism as "Radical Islam" intrinsically posing a threat to the U.S. Although he begins with these security studies tropes, Taylor crafts a far more complex and nuanced interrogation of both Christian Evangelicalism from its roots in the founding
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/668/image/coversmallScripture People: Salafi Muslims in Evangelical Christians' America by Matthew D. Taylor (review)2026-05-01text/htmlen-USScripture People: Salafi Muslims in Evangelical Christians' America by Matthew D. Taylor (review)2026-05-012026TWOProject MUSE®91742026-05-16T00:00:00-05:002026-05-01Beyond Boundaries: Essays on Theology, Dialogue, and Religion in Honor of Perry Schmidt-Leukel. ed. by Melanie Barbato et al. (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/988786
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Given Perry Schmidt-Leukel's breadth, depth, and creative rigor, it is no surprise that Beyond Boundaries gathers so many wide-ranging, theologically substantive essays. Few scholars have shaped contemporary interreligious theology as decisively as Schmidt-Leukel. His influence is visible throughout this volume—not only in the topics chosen but also in the dialogical, comparative, and methodologically open posture that characterizes the best of these chapters. The Festschrift, marking his seventieth birthday, succeeds both as a tribute and as a substantive contribution in its own right. The editors frame the volume around Schmidt-Leukel's signature approach that expands theology's evidentiary base from
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/668/image/coversmallBeyond Boundaries: Essays on Theology, Dialogue, and Religion in Honor of Perry Schmidt-Leukel. ed. by Melanie Barbato et al. (review)2026-05-01text/htmlen-USBeyond Boundaries: Essays on Theology, Dialogue, and Religion in Honor of Perry Schmidt-Leukel. ed. by Melanie Barbato et al. (review)2026-05-012026TWOProject MUSE®104792026-05-16T00:00:00-05:002026-05-01