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Bulletin for the study of religion feed- British Forum for Ethnomusicology, University of Edinburgh, 13-16 April 2023
- 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
Monthly Archives: April 2014
Mirror Reflections: Some Thoughts on the Relationship Between Religion and Culture
by Leslie Dorrough Smith * This post initially appear on the Practicum: Critical Theory, Religion Pedagogy blog. Back in the 1980s – that decade of abundant pastel makeup – I loved nothing more than sitting in front of my grandmother’s … Continue reading
A is for Adjunct, Part 2
by Kate Daley-Bailey Editor’s Note: Part 1 of this post ended with a few lines posing questions about what those in an adjunct position can do, which has been re-posted here as a lead-in to Part 2. So, make a final … Continue reading
Posted in Kate Daley-Bailey, Pedagogy, Politics and Religion, Religion and Society, Uncategorized
Tagged A is for Adjunct, American Association of University Professors, Bulletin for the Study of Religion, early Christianity, Indian Jones, new religious movements, NPR, Religion Nerd, Target, The Adjunct Project, The Diane Rehm Show, the Humanities, Theories and Methods
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A is for Adjunct, Part 1
by Kate Daley-Bailey For part 2, see here. “Hello, my name is Kate and I am an adjunct.” Crowd’s unenthusiastic response… “Hi, Kate…” This is the cliché introduction which members of Alcoholics Anonymous use when greeting new inductees. While I … Continue reading
Life After Religious Studies: An Interview with Nicholas Dion
Editor’s Note: This is the first in a series of interviews with former scholars of religion who have, for one or another reason, decided to leave the world of academia. In this series we hope to open up a conversation … Continue reading
Taking Care of Jesus and Muhammad: Reflections on Islamic Studies
by James Crossley Editor’s note: This post is part of a broader conversation on scholarship in Islamic Studies that was sparked by two recent articles, one by Omid Safi and one by Aaron Hughes. Other articles in this series can be found here and here. … Continue reading
Posted in Politics and Religion, Religion and Society, Religion and Theory, Theory and Method, Uncategorized
Tagged AAR, Aaron Hughes, Albert Schweitzer, biblical studies, culture wars, Edward Said, historical Jesus, historical Muhammad, Islamic studies, James Crossley, Muhammad, N.T. Wright, New Atheist, New Testament studies, Omid Safi, Reflections on Islamic Studies, Russell McCutcheon, SBL, September 11, Ward Blanton
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Reflexive Religious Studies: A Note
Jason Ānanda Josephson * This post originally appeared on the author’s blog. I’ve been lecturing about and, even calling for, what I term “Reflexive Religious Studies” for some time. My comments about it will be appearing in print in the … Continue reading
Posted in Religion and Society, Religion and Theory, Theory and Method
Tagged Alvin Gouldner, Anthony Giddens, Buddhism, Heidegger/Derrida, Immanuel Wallerstein, Jason Ānanda Josephson, Karl Popper, Lacanian, laïcité, Niklas Luhmann, Peter Beyer, Pierre Bourdieu, Reflexive Religious Studies, reflexive sociology, Robert Merton, Secular Studies, secularism, social systems theory, The Invention of Religion in Japan, transnational modernity, Ulrich Beck, Western Christendom, world-systems analysis
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Defining Postsecularism: A Response
by Donovan Schaefer In response to a question from a colleague, I asked a small group of scholars working on issues of secularism and secularity how they would define postsecularism, postsecular, or the postsecular (hereafter just “postsecularism”). Their responses are posted at these links … Continue reading