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- JCA Book Review by Barbara Hausmair: Archaeologies of Totalitarianism, Authoritarianism, and Repression: Dark Modernities edited by James Symonds and Pavel Vařeka
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- JCA Book Reviews: Networked Remembrance: Excavating Buried Memories in the Railways Beneath London and Berlin. By Samuel Merrill
- JCA Book Reviews: Reluctant Landscapes: Historical Anthropologies of Political Experience in Siin, Senegal. By François Richard
- JCA Book Reviews: Future Remains: A Cabinet of Curiosities for the Anthropocene. Edited by Gregg Mitman, Marco Armiero and Robert. S. Emmett
- Lewis, A. David and Martin Lund, eds. Muslim Superheroes: Comics, Islam, and Representation. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2017. Pp. 256. $24.93 (paperback). by Aaron Ricker
Monthly Archives: October 2011
Occupy Wall Street: Between “Church” and “Sect”
By Ben Brazil A month ago, when the Occupy movement was beginning to gain traction, Matt Stoller penned an influential response to criticism about the movement’s lack of a clear, concise message. The critics, he wrote, had failed to notice … Continue reading
Durkheim Disappoints
Upon rereading the main body of Durkheim’s Division of Labor in Society I was struck at how subtle and sophisticated he is. I thought I had remembered—from my previous experience with this material—that he used a superficial freedom/constraint binary. However, as … Continue reading
The Bhagavad Gita, The Time Machine, and Monty Python
In the Bhagavad Gita, the god Krishna tells a hesitant Arjuna that—as a member of the warrior class—he must fight a battle despite the fact that he will, in the commission of this action, kill some of his family members. … Continue reading
Laptops and theory in the Religious Studies classroom
Do you let your students bring their laptops to class? Personally, I’m torn. I love gadgets and hate to sound like a Luddite, but most of the research I’ve seen — not to mention my own experience — suggests that … Continue reading
Posted in Nathan Rein, Pedagogy
Tagged internet, J.Z. Smith, laptops, pedagogy, teaching, technology, theory
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Taking a Stab at Explaining Weber
I started my lecture yesterday by scanning the faces in the classroom and scrutinizing a few as a I panned across. Then I declared, “Wow. Someone in this room is going to be really, really embarrassed when they discover the … Continue reading
Posted in Craig Martin
Tagged pedagogy, Predestination, Protestantism, Weber, work ethic
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Material Remnants as Cultural Signifiers: A Roman Lamp – Practical or Sacral Object?
By Philip L. Tite As an historian who studies ancient religious traditions, I am constantly concerned about how we evaluate and use our sources. Although source analysis tends to be seen as a key component in first order data collection … Continue reading
Posted in Philip L. Tite
Tagged archaeology, late antiquity, material culture, religious studies, scholarship, textual analysis
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“Because he is Jewish he can talk smack about other Jews”
I’m going to go out on a limb here and guess that the weirdest religion news story you missed last month was the so-called “Jewish scandal that wasn’t” (as it was labeled by the National Post of Toronto). Here’s the scenario: … Continue reading