Journal of Interdisciplinary Study of Monotheistic Religions（JISMOR) 18/ March 2023

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Feature: Current Situation of Politics and Religions in U.S.A.

Ada Taggar Cohen: Introduction
中村　覚: アラブ・イスラエル関係正常化を推進したアメリカ外交の目的－対中国デカップリングと21世紀型の戦争－
松本　佐保: 米国におけるカトリック保守の形成
石黑　安里: アメリカにおけるユダヤ教の現在地－二極化する支持政党の傾向とイスラエル国家をめぐる諸見解から－

Article

ハディ　ハーニ: 「ムスリム・シオニスト」が投げかけるもの－パレスチナ問題の現状認識と二項対立の罠－

Book Review

会田　弘継: ハイデガー「技術論」でアメリカ公共宗教読み直す－書評・藤本龍児『「ポスト・アメリカニズム」の世紀』－

Book Introductions

青島　忠一朗: ビリー・ジーン・コリンズ著、アダ・タガー・コヘン日本語版監修、山本孟訳『ヒッタイトの歴史と文化―前2千年紀の忘れられた帝国への扉』（リトン、2021年）
岩崎　真紀: 塩尻和子著『イスラーム文明とは何か――現代科学技術と文化の礎』（明石書店、2021年）

Special Contribution

Martin Leiner: Reconciliation in Judaism

Journal of the Interdisciplinary Study of Monotheistic Religions (JISMOR) 16/ March 2021

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Feature: Islamic Revivalism among Muslim Minorities in Asia

Junya Shinohe: Introduction
Masako Nakaya: Islamic Revival under Socialist Regime of China: A Case Study of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region
Naomi Nishi: Aspects of Islamic Revivalism in Thailand

Articles

Roy E. Gane: The God Who is Affected by Human Problems: Atonement Through Israelite Purification Offerings
Jörg Rüpke: Urban Religion: Religion and the City in Historical Perspective
Hisae Nakanishi: Impacts of Iran-U.S. Relations on Women's Movement in Iran: From Ahmadinejad Era to Today

Book Reviews

Akio Tsukimoto: Judaism in the World of Monotheism: Collection of Articles Dedicated to Professor Hiroshi Ichikawa, Etsuko Katsumata, Daisuke Shibata, Masahiro Shida, and Keisuke Takai eds. (Lithon, 2020)
Takehito Miyake: Can Religion Save Modern People? Perspectives of Buddhism, Thoughts of Christianity, Shizuka Sasaki and Katsuhiro Kohara (Heibonsha, 2020)
Maki Iwasaki: 60 Chapters to Learn about Libya (2nd ed.), Area Studies 59, Kazuko Shiojiri ed. (Akashi Shoten, 2020)
Naoki Yamamoto: Thoughts and Practice of Islamic Mysticism in Turkey, İdiris Danışmaz (Nakanishiya Shuppan, 2019)

Journal of the Interdisciplinary Study of Monotheistic Religions (JISMOR) 15/ March 2020

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Feature: The Dead Sea Scrolls and Early Christianity

Ada Taggar Cohen: Introduction
Emanuel Tov: The Biblical DSS as Representing Variety in Judaism and Early Christianity
Teppei Kato: 4QMMT Reconsidered: Is It Really a Sectarian Text?

Article

Koji Osawa: Aaron in the Dead Sea Scrolls: Whitewash or Criticism

Research Notes

Hajime Yamamoto: A Survey of Hieroglyphic Inscriptions from Hittite Anatolia
Anri Ishiguro: Exploring Different Interpretations of Zionism within American Reform Judaism: Report on Historical Documents and Current Situation

Book Reviews

Nozomi Abe: Suggestions for Research Methods on the History of Jewish Exegesis: Reviewing Koji Osawa, The Incident of the Golden Calf: A History of Exegesis (Kyobunkwan, 2018)
Toshihiro Horikawa: Book Review Jews and Judaism by Hiroshi Ichikawa (Iwanami Shoten, 2019)
Tomoyasu Igo: Does Truth Exist in the Original Hebrew Text? Book Review: Teppei Kato, Jerome's Bible Translation (Kyobunkwan, 2018)
Koji Murata: International Politics from the Perspective of Monotheism: Deciphering Katsuhiro Kohara's What is Monotheism? A Primer on Christianity, Judaism, and Islam (Heibonsha, 2018)

Journal of the Interdisciplinary Study of Monotheistic Religions (JISMOR) 14/ March 2019

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Ada Taggar Cohen: Preface

Feature: The Term Ḥalāl in Islām

Junya Shinohe: On Ḥalāl and Ḥarām
Taiji Abe: Current Situation of Ḥalāl Business

Articles

Etsuko Katsumata: Toward Investigation of Democracy in Jewish Thought:Freedom, Equality, and Dimos in the Rabbinic Literature
Ada Taggar Cohen: Biblical Wisdom Literature and Hittite Didactic Texts in the Ancient Near Eastern Literary Context
Jonathan Magonet: Kashrut – the Jewish Dietary Laws
Yoshiko Oda: Food Restrictions in Islām

Research Note

Asuka Nakamura: Was “Shaking of the Land in Esfand Month” True?: Some Transitions of Tourism in Iran

Book Review

Kotaro Hiraoka: Book Review: Toshihiro Horikawa, Buber as Bible Translator. [in Japanese] (Tokyo: Shinkyo Shuppansha) 2018. pp. 325. \4100E. ISBN: 978-4-400-11069-9

Journal of the Interdisciplinary Study of Monotheistic Religions (JISMOR) 13/ February 2018

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Feature: Politics and Religion

Junya Shinohe: Introduction
Guanghu He: Between the Heaven and the Human: History, Paradox and Trend of Sino-Christian Theology Movement
Arie Nadler: Psychological Features Affecting the Israeli-Palestinian Relations and Thoughts about Facilitating Peace in the Middle-East

Articles

Kenji Tomita: Unstable Balance between Theocracy and Democracy: A Preliminary Study of Religious Democracy in Iran
Hisae Nakanishi: Examining the "Spirit of Revolution" in the Contemporary Iran's Security Policies

Journal of the Interdisciplinary Study of Monotheistic Religions (JISMOR) 12/ March 2017

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Feature: Paul and Judaism

Ada Taggar-Cohen: Introduction
Etsuko Katsumata: Paul in Jewish Studies and Judaism
Moriyoshi Murayama: Judaism as Presented in Paul’s Sayings

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Katsuhiro Kohara: Sacrifice, Religion and Nation: Essentials for Peace-building in the Age of Terror
Takamitsu Shimamoto: Mortaza Motahhari and William James: The Background to the Compilation of The Stories of the Righteous (Dāstān-e Rāstān)

Journal of the Interdisciplinary Study of Monotheistic Religions (JISMOR) 11/ March 2016

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Feature: Can Freedom of Expression and Religious Sanctity Co-Exist?

Katsuhiro Kohara: Opening Greetings
Seiichi Kondo: Terrorism and Liberal Democracy: Views from Historical and Civilizational Perspectives
Keisuke Kikuchi: What’s Wrong with the “Clash of Civilizations” Theory? : Reconsidering the Charlie Hebdo Shooting
Hirotsugu Aida: Comment
Kondo, Kikuchi, Aida (Panelists), Kohara (Moderator): Panel Discussion

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Uzi Rebhun: The Contemporary Jewish Diaspora

Journal of the Interdisciplinary Study of Monotheistic Religions (JISMOR) 10/ March 2015

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Feature: Judaism in Pre-war Japan

Ada Taggar-Cohen: Introduction
Masanori Miyazawa: Pro-Nazi Newspapers in Showa Wartime Japan, the Increase in Anti-Semitism and Those Who Opposed this Trend
Chizuko Takao: Prewar Japan's Perception of Jews and the Harbin Jewish Community: The Harbin Jewish Commnunity under Japanese Rule 1932-1941

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Danielle Gurevitch: Symbolism and Fantasy of the Biblical Leviathan: From Monster of the Abyss to Redeemer of the Prophets
Eli Isser Kavon: Beyond the Dark Ages: Modern Jewish Historians and Medieval Judaism

Journal of the Interdisciplinary Study of Monotheistic Religions (JISMOR) 9/ March 2014

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Feature: Monotheism and the Redefinition of Divinity in Ancient Israel

Ada Taggar-Cohen: Introduction
Mark S. Smith: Monotheism and the Redefinition of Divinity in Ancient Israel
Elizabeth Bloch-Smith: Questions about Monotheism in Ancient Israel: Between Archaeology and Texts
Ada Taggar-Cohen: Concept of the Divine in Hittite Culture and the Hebrew Bible: Expression of the Divine

Journal of the Interdisciplinary Study of Monotheistic Religions (JISMOR) 8/ March 2013

Feature: Religion in China: Focusing on the Monotheistic Religions

Kastuhiro KOhara: Introduction
Xu Xin: Tracing Judaism in China
John Z. X. Wang: Christianity in China Today
Min Junqing: The Present Situation and Characteristics of Contemporary Islam in China

Articles

Etsuko Katsumata: Abraham the Iconoclast Different Interpretations in the Literature of the Second
Shigeru Kamada: Mahdi and Maitreya (Miroku) Saviors in Islam and Buddhism
Takamitsu Shimamoto: Gnosis (‘erfān) and Reason (‘aql) The Case of Hafez, the Persian Poet
Mojtaba Zarvani: Shi‛ite Schools of Thought on Imȃm, A Critical Survey

Reserch Note

Junichi Isomae: Modern Japan from the Viewpoint of the Arab World Modernities in Different Cultures

Journal of the Interdisciplinary Study of Monotheistic Religions (JISMOR) 7 / March 2012

Feature: Islamic World and Globalization: Beyond the Nation State, the Rise of new Caliphate

Ko Nakata: Summary
Ko Nakata: Preface
Hamit Bozarslan: The Issue of the Khilafat and the Turkish Debates of 1924
Muhammad Ismail Yusanto: Establishment of Caliphate in Indonesia Recent Challenge and Opportunities
Recep Şentürk: Unity in Multiplexity Islam as an Open Civilization

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Eli Isser Kavon: Politics and Religion in the Warsaw Ghetto Beyond the Labor Zionist Narrative

Journal of the Interdisciplinary Study of Monotheistic Religions (JISMOR) 6 / March 2010

Feature: The Philosophy of Martin Buber and his Biblical Hermeneutics: Between Germanness and Jewishness

Hiroya Katsumura: Past, Present, and Future Research on Martin Buber in Japan In place of the summary of the symposium
Fumio Ono: Morphology of the Voice in the Hermeneutics of Martin Buber An Inquiry in to the Form of the Unformed
Toshihiro Horikawa: On the Significance of Theocracy(Direct Rule of God) in the Thought of Martin Buber The Kingship of God and Utopian Social Thought as Seen in Buber's Interpretation of the Book of Judges
Kotaro Hiraoka: Jewish Thought Martin Buber's Theocracy　and Its Reception in an Israeli Context

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Hassan Ko Nakata: The deconstruction of Sunnite Theory of Caliphate Spreading the Rule of Law on the Earth
Etsuko Katsumata: The Nuances of TRGM(” to translate ”) in the Rabbinic Writings
Doron B. Cohen: Speaking Sweety from

Journal of the Interdisciplinary Study of Monotheistic Religions (JISMOR) 5 / February 2010

Feature: On Dialogue Between Islam and Judaism

Isaiah (Izaya) Teshima: Opening Remarks on the Workshop No Truth Exists Where There is No Love
Osman Bakar: Exclusive and Inclusive Islam in the Qur’an Implications for Muslim-Jewish Relations
Esther Benbassa: Otherness, Openness and Rejection in Jewish Context
Esther Benbassa: Perspectives on the Muslim Other in Jewish Tradition
Yakov M Rabkin, Hinda Rabkin: Perspectives on the Muslim Other in Jewish Tradition
Mohammad Hashim Kamali: Islam and Judaism Juridical and Theological Perspectives

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Niels Henrik Gregersen: The Danish Cartoon-Crisis 2005–2006 A Cultural and Theological Analysis
Mojtaba Zarvani: Justification of Political Authority in Theological(Islamic) Epistemology

Journal of the Interdisciplinary Study of Monotheistic Religions (JISMOR) 4 / February 2008

Aasulv Lande: Monotheism in Modern Shinto
Rachel Elior: Exile and Redemption in Jewish Mystical Thought
Takamitsu Shimamoto: The Question of “Self Knowledge”(ma’rifat an-nafs) in Islam Mortazā Motahharī’s Theory of the Perfect Man (ensān-e kāmel)
Michael L. Fitzgerald: What the Catholic Church Has Learnt from Interreligious Dialogue

Journal of the Interdisciplinary Study of Monotheistic Religions (JISMOR) 3 / February 2007

Kenji Tomita: Islamic Governance and Democracy Intersection and Separation
Einat Ramon: Jewish Secularism as a Challenge for Modern Jewish Theologians The Case of David Hartman's Thought
Masahide Goto: Modern Judaism and Religious Tolerance On the Paradoxical Phenomenon of 'Exclusivism in Enlightenment'
Yuki Shiozaki: Formation of Public Spheres and Islamist Movements in Malay Muslim Society of Malaysia
Akiko Sugase: 'Man shall live by wheat' Wheat Porridge ('qamh masluq') as a Symbol of the Idnetity of Arab Christians in Israel

Journal of the Interdisciplinary Study of Monotheistic Religions (JISMOR) Special Issue / February 2006

Barbara Brown Zikmund: How Living in Japan Enriches My Understanding of Monotheistic Religions
Talal Asad: Thinking about Law, Morality, and Religion in the Story of Egyptian Modernization
Peter Machinist: One More Monotheism in Biblical Israel
Solomon Schimmel: Developing an Internet-Based Trialogue on Peace and Reconciliation in Judaic, Christian, and Islamic Thought
Koichi Mori: President Bush's Discourse on War Against 'Terrorism'
Katsuhiro Kohara: Discourses and Realpolitik on Monotheism and Polytheism
Hassan Ko Nakata: The Islamic World Today and the Language of Jihad
Kazuo Ohtsuka; Yoshitsugu Sawai: Comments

Journal of the Interdisciplinary Study of Monotheistic Religions (JISMOR) 2 / February 2006

Katsuhiro Kohara: Discourses and Realpolitik on Monotheism and Polytheism
Victor A. Faessel: The Tyranny of the Horizon Giant Myths and the Tenacity of the Apocalyptic Imagination
Takamitsu Shimamoto: Leadership in Twelver Imami Shi'ism Mortaza Motahhari's Ideas on the Imamate and Religious Scholars
Hassan Ko Nakata: The Border of Salvation The Salvation of Non-Muslims in Islam
Doron B. Cohen: Voices of Dissent Uchimura Kanzō and Yosano Akiko

Journal of the Interdisciplinary Study of Monotheistic Religions (JISMOR) 1 / February 2005

Mori Koichi: 9.11 and the 'American Civil Religion'Today
Tsunashima-Miyake Ikuko: Towards Mutual Understanding or Religious Intorelance？
Mohaghegh Damad, S. Mostafa: Peace in the Islamic Thought and Culture
Tomita Kenji: The Iranian Islamic State and Present-Exploring the front line of the conflict of civilization
Cohen, Ada Taggar: Violence at the Birth of Religion
Takahashi Toru: Changing Female Religious Leadership in Christianity
Katsumata Etsuko: ICHIKAWA Hiroshi, Yudaya-kyo no Seishin Kozo