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Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1. Thinking with Everyday Religion -- 2. Benjamin's Berlin -- 3. Cults of War -- 4. Religion Around Weimar -- 5. Habits of Seeing in the End -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

Brian Britt discusses his book: Biblical Curses and the Displacement of Tradition. Brian Britt offers an intriguing perspective on curses as the focus of debates over the power, pleasure, and danger of words. Biblical authors transformed ancient Near Eastern curses against rival ethnic groups, disobedient ancestors, and the day of ones own birth with great variety and ingenuity. Transformations of biblical curses proliferated in post-biblical history, even during periods of secularization. This study argues that biblical, early modern, and contemporary transformations of curses constitute displacements rather than replacements of earlier traditions. The crucial notion of displacement draws from Freuds psychoanalytic theory, Nietzsches critical philosophy, and Benjamins engagement with textual tradition; it highlights not only manifest shifts but also many hidden continuities between cursing in biblical texts and cursing in such secular domains as literature, law, politics, and philosophy. The tradition of biblical cursingneither purely religious nor purely seculartravels through these texts and contexts as it redefines verbal, human, and supernatural power. ; Video. 25:20

Online communities devoted to mobile games represent exemplary examples of competitive communities of practice, leveraging the competing forces of cooperation and competition to foster in-group solidarity and motivate members to further engage with the game and community. In this study, latent Dirichlet allocation was used to model conversation topics across over two million posts and comments made during a 3-year period on the r/grandorder subreddit, a competitive community of practice devoted to the mobile game Fate/Grand Order. In total, 20 distinct topics emerged spanning topical foci and emotional tones. The prevalence of certain topics, such as those related to gacha game mechanics, declined as community members mastered the practice and as the practice itself changed. Future studies should compare the structure and evolution of conversations across contexts, and they should likewise examine differences that emerge in discourse due to the relative balance of competitive and cooperative influences.