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Bulletin for the study of religion feed- Society for Pentecostal Studies , Tulsa, OK, 16-18 March 2023
- AAAL, Portland, OR, 18-21 March 2023
- JCA Book Review by Barbara Hausmair: Archaeologies of Totalitarianism, Authoritarianism, and Repression: Dark Modernities edited by James Symonds and Pavel Vařeka
- JCA Book Reviews: The Archaeology of Burning Man: The Rise and Fall of Black Rock City by Carolyn L. White
- JCA Book Reviews: Rock, Bone, and Ruin: An Optimist’s Guide to the Historical Sciences. By Adrian Currie
- 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
- Credulity: A Cultural History of US Mesmerism. By Emily Ogden. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2018. Pp. xiv + 268. $27.50 (paperback), $82.50 (hardcover). by Charles McCrary
Monthly Archives: April 2012
Iraqi Emos
By Joesph Laycock Since February, disturbing reports have come out of Iraq that Shiite militia groups have been killing “emo” youth. Between 50 and 100 young men have been killed, typically in “stonings” in which the victim’s head is crushed … Continue reading
Indian Child-Tossing Ritual and Selective Social Outrage
By Deeksha Sivakumar Which children should we save? On the one hand, the Bagalkot baby-tossing ritual has no recorded deaths and yet receives abhorrence. Audience members tweeted and emailed NDTV that they were appalled at the State’s lack of regulation … Continue reading
Posted in Deeksha Sivakumar, Religion and Society
Tagged Bagalkot, British colonialism, Child-tossing ritual, Hinduism, India, infant deaths, NDTV, Ratha Yatra, Suttee
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Some responses to “Qur’anic Reading as Embodied Practice”
I had a few responses to Summar Shoaib’s “Qur’anic Reading as Embodied Practice“. The first response concerns the opposition which the piece creates between traditional Islamic and so-called “Western” modes of reading. These two great abstractions (the traditional Islamic and the Western) are of course immensely … Continue reading
Posted in Deane Galbraith, Religion and Theory
Tagged body practices, Islam, Meaning, Qur'an, reading
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Qur’anic Reading as Embodied Practice
By Summar Shoaib In Western traditions, whether religious or scholarly, reading and meaning are typically understood in solely cognitive terms, as a matter of extracting content from a text by way of the mind’s interpretive efforts. In traditional Islamic worlds, … Continue reading
Painted Nails: Sexism, Privilege, and Desire
Every semester my students execute a deviance project in my “Introduction to Religion” course. I lecture on Pierre Bourdieu’s social theory and the concept of “habitus,” and we talk at length about how social codes are linked with social positions. … Continue reading
The Journal of the American Academy of Religion: An Interview with Amir Hussain (Part Three of Three)
Interview by Philip L. Tite This is the third, and final, installment of an interview conducted with Professor Amir Hussain, the new editor of the Journal of the American Academy of Religion. Be sure to read Parts One and Two. … Continue reading
Posted in Academy, Interviews, Philip L. Tite
Tagged AAR, academic journals, American Academy of Religion, Amir Hussain, Religion, religious studies
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Is Religion “Different Enough”?
As I discussed in an earlier Bulletin post, in defending the continued employment of “religion” as analytically distinct interpretive category, scholars such as Ivan Strenski argue that, relative to other modes of human behavior, what we typically identify as religion … Continue reading