Monthly Archives: October 2013

Religion Snapshots: On the Uses of “Data,” Part 2

Religion Snapshots is a new feature with the Bulletin for the Study of Religion blog, where a number of contributors are asked to briefly comment on popular news items or pressing theoretical issues in the field, especially those topics relating to definitions, … Continue reading

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Religion Snapshots: On the Uses of “Data,” Part 1

Religion Snapshots is a new feature with the Bulletin for the Study of Religion blog, where a number of contributors are asked to briefly comment on popular news items or pressing theoretical issues in the field, especially those topics relating … Continue reading

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I Know Exactly What That Is: White Atheism and Islamophobia, Part 3

by Donovan Schaefer * Follow these links for part 1 and part 2. American atheist Sam Harris recently responded to the swirl of celebrity surrounding Pakistani girls’s education advocate and assassination survivor Malala Yousafzai by claiming her as one of … Continue reading

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The Violence of Mistaken Identities

by Steven Ramey * This post originally appeared on the Culture on the Edge blog. Two recent incidents of mistaken identity in the United States have garnered significant attention. The crowning of Nina Davuluri as Miss America, the first Indian-American to win … Continue reading

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Thank You, Anarchy: A Review Essay

by Matt Sheedy Nathan Schneider’s newly released book, Thank You Anarchy, Notes from the Occupy Apocalypse, provides a unique insiders’ account of the original Occupy Wall Street encampment in Zuccotti Park in New York City, along with compelling data on … Continue reading

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Parodies, the paranormal, and para-academics

by Joseph Laycock * This post is a creative summary of the author’s essay that appears in the latest issue of the Bulletin for the Study of Religion 42.3 (September 2013), entitled “Laughing Matters: ‘Parody Religions’ and the Command to Compare.” … Continue reading

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Evangelical Tastes, Gray Matters, and (a) Shifting Habitus

by Travis Cooper First, watch this short video introducing evangelical film critic and writer Brett McCracken’s Gray Matters: Navigating the Space Between Legalism & Liberty (2013). Both the book’s video preview and the monograph itself frustrate anthropological categories. “How does … Continue reading

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