Recently added articles from Journal for the Study of Religion : JSR:

Carmelita's In-Possible Dance: Another style of Christianity in the Capitalist Ridden Caribbean1

Jan 01, 2006; Guadeloupe, Francio ... Abstract Two characteristics mark the Caribbean: capitalism and the hegemony of North Atlantic versions of Christianity. The colonization and exploitation of the Caribbean was justified in the name of profit and the dominant North Atlantic renderings of Christ's message. Having been ...

Tibetan Buddhist Nuns in Exile: Creating A Sacred Space to be at Home

Jan 01, 2006; Tobler, Judy ... Abstract This article looks at the activities of the Tibetan Nuns Project in North India and the experience of Tibetan Buddhist nuns at Dolma Ling Nunnery and Institute for Higher Learning and Shugsep Nunnery in the district of Dharamsala. It is argued that although these women are now ...

The Impact of the Iranian Revolution on Muslim Organizations in South Africa during the Struggle against Apartheid

Jan 01, 2006; Lehmann, Uta ... Abstract This article explores the impact of the Iranian revolution in 1979 on Muslim communities in South Africa, a socio-political context that is profoundly shaped by the struggle against apartheid. The contribution of the Muslim community to this struggle has only been observable ...

Language, Person, and Place: Echoes of Religion in Minority Literatures

Jan 01, 2006; Chidester, David ... Abstract Minority literature, whether produced by prominent authors writing in marginalized languages or marginalized authors writing in dominant languages, raises questions of human identity and alienation, human location and dislocation, which resonate with characteristically religious ...

Mourning in a Minority Language: Assia Djebar's Algerian White

Jan 01, 2006; Schneider, Annedith ... Abstract Numerous books and articles have dealt with the violence of the 1990s civil war in Algeria. Sociological and historical studies, as well as news reports and literary works have sought to contain the violence by describing and explaining it and, in some way, give meaning to what ...

Mute Child in the House of the Spirit: The Relationship Between Creative Expression and Community

Jan 01, 2006; Rubin, Riva ... Abstract The house of the spirit in the title refers to the creative mind of the writer-incorporating the roots that have fed that mind. The mute child is the writer-self that has reverted to the status of a patronized, inarticulate child in the course of the material and psychological ...

Yiddish Writing in South Africa: Leibl Feldman's Radical History of Johannesburg Jewry

Jan 01, 2006; Belling, Veronica ... Abstract Leibl Feldman's Yiddish history of the Jews in Johannesburg to 1910, Yidn in Yohanesburg biz Yunyen, 31 May 1910, published in 1956 by the South African Yiddish Cultural Federation in Johannesburg, is part of the body of Yiddish literature produced in South Africa after the ...

Parallel Universes and Detonating Words: The Brixton Wonderland of Biyi Bandele's The Street

Jan 01, 2006; Cooper, Brenda ... Abstract The key proposition of this article is that deep in the guts of the European languages in which many African writers communicate are the echoes of other languages, universes and knowledges, which contest European imperialist power. This is true for writers working from within ...

Cintia Moscovich's Brazilian View on Jewish Literary Themes

Jan 01, 2006; Rozenchan, Nancy ... Abstract This article focuses on the work of Cintia Moscovich, author of four books, and one of the very few Brazilian writers dealing with Jewish subjects. Her writings concentrate on the southern Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul, where Jewish immigration began 100 years ago. Unlike ...

Surviving a Lost War

Jan 01, 2006; van der Merwe, Chris N ... Abstract Afrikaans writers have often found themselves in a marginal position. During the time of apartheid, they vehemently criticised racial discrimination, thus dissociating themselves from the centre of power. After the demise of apartheid, Afrikaans writers were marginalised in a ...

Between Satire and Suture: Some Aspects of White Writing in Post-Apartheid South Africa

Jan 01, 2006; Reckwitz, Erhard ... Abstract Since 1994, whites in South Africa have been trying to accommodate themselves to their newly acquired status as minoritarian. In the process, the initial attitude of political correctness vis-a-vis the black majority has given way to a more critical stance, which is evidenced by ...

Writing from the Margins - and Beyond ...

Jan 01, 2006; van Ryneveld, Hannelore ... Abstract In 1987 José F. A. Oliver published his first poetry volume Auf-Bruch in Germany. His standing as a German-speaking poet from Spanish-Andalusian stock was linked to the Gastarbeiterliteratur, or migrant worker literature in Germany, a literature that writes from the margins of ...

Suture as the Seam Between Literatures

Jan 01, 2006; Reisenberger, Azila Talit ... Abstract Ownership of art and, by implication, of literature as an art form cannot be attributed to a single individual as if he or she were living or writing alone in a vacuum. This is because culture has collective ownership. Thus a writer gives voice to a collective experience. Even ...