Reviews for Symposia: The Journal of the Department for the Study of Religion, University of Toronto

Posted February 15, 2015

Readers:

Symposia: The Journal of the Department for the Study of Religion University
of Toronto has just published its latest issue at
http://symposia.library.utoronto.ca/index.php/symposia. We invite you to
review the Table of Contents here and then visit our web site to review
articles and items of interest.

Symposia is an online, peer-reviewed journal for scholars in the humanities
and social sciences who identify religion as an important consideration in
their research.

Thanks for the continuing interest in our work,

Ryan Olfert
Symposia General Editor
University of Toronto
ryan.olfert@utoronto.ca

Symposia: The Journal of the Department for the Study of Religion University
of Toronto
Vol 6 (2014)
Table of Contents
http://symposia.library.utoronto.ca/index.php/symposia/issue/view/1513

Front Matters
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Forward

Articles
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Benny Hinn’s Media Empire: Image and Presence in Global Televangelism (1-19)
Travis Warren Cooper
Internet Searchers, God Seekers, and Longing for the Unmediated (20-33)
Sam Berrin Shonkoff
Women and Spiritual Authority: Interviews on Feminism (34-48)
Bailey Gerrits
Didactic Victorianism: Chinese Eunuchs in the Late Nineteenth Century
(49-65)
Deysy Vaneza Ordóñez-Arreola
The Necessity and Necessary Overcoming of Revealed Religion in Hegel’s
Phenomenology of Spirit (66-74)
Patti Nyman
Shugendō and The Shining: Liminal Space and Religious Experience in the
Work of Stanley Kubrick (75-93)
Caterina Fugazzola, Christopher Moreman

Roundtable Discussion
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Mediation’s Promise: Probing the Limits of A Scholarly Turn (94-103)
Zoe Anthony, Maria Dasios

Book Reviews
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Éric Rebillard, Christians and Their Many Identities in Late Antiquity,
North Africa, 200-450 CE (104-105)
Heather Barkman
Claire S. Smith, Pauline Communities as ‘Scholastic Communities’: A
Study of the Vocabulary of ‘Teaching’ in 1 Corinthians, 1 and 2 Timothy
and Titus (105-107)
Ian Brown
Torrance Kirby and Matthew Milner (eds.), Mediating Religious Cultures in
Early Modern Europe (107-108)
Hadi Fakhoury
Olga Litvak, Haskalah: The Romantic Movement in Judaism (108-110)
Yaelle Frohlich
Stephen C. Berkwitz, Buddhist Poetry and Colonialism: Alagiyavanna and the
Portuguese in Sri Lanka (110-113)
Justin W. Henry
Elizabeth A. Pritchard, Religion in Public: Locke’s Political Theology
(113-114)
Alex Holznienkemper
Janet Carsten (ed.), Blood will Out: Essays on Liquid Transfers and Flows
(114-116)
Ryan Olfert
Eduardo Mendieta & Jonathan VanAntwerpe (eds.), The Power of Religion in
the Public Sphere (116-118)
Avishek Ray

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Symposia: The Journal of the Department for the Study of Religion University
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