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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: June 2014
The First Day in Orientation to the Study of Religion
by Sean McCloud * This post originally appeared on the Practicum: Critical Theory, Religion, and Pedagogy blog. “Let’s start at the very beginning (a very good place to start).” “Everything seems to be up in the air at this time.” … Continue reading
Posted in Pedagogy, Religion and Society, Religion and Theory, Theory and Method, Uncategorized
Tagged Bruce Lincoln, Camper van Beethoven, J.Z. Smith, Judith Richardson, Karl Marx, Meredith McGuire, Pierre Bourdieu, Practicum: Critical Theory, Robert Orsi, Sarah Pike, Sean McCloud, Sigmund Freud, Victor Turner
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“Zionism Unsettled” (Holocaust, Heresy & Christian Anti-Zionism at the Presbyterian Church USA)
by Zachary Braiterman Note: this post originally appeared on the author’s blog, Jewish Philosophy Place. Published by the Israel/Palestine Mission Network of the Presbyterian Church USA, the study guide “Zionism Unsettled” has been very much on people’s mind as they … Continue reading
Posted in Politics and Religion, Religion and Society, Religion and Theory
Tagged “Zionism Unsettled, Al-Quds University, Benjamin Netanyahu, David Hartman, Hanan Porat, Jean Paul Sartre, Joseph Massad, Marc Ellis, Menachem Begin, Mordecai Kaplan, Moshe Levinger, Pete Seeger, Presbyterian Church, Rabbi Brant Rosen, Reverend Naim Ateek, Shimon Gapso, supersesionism, Zachary Braiterman, Ze’ev Jabotinsky, Zvi Yehudah Kook
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Teaching Critical Theory Requires No Name
by Dennis LoRusso * This post originally appeared on the Practicum: Critical Theory, Religion, and Pedagogy blog. I must admit that in all of my years of as a student, I never once heard a professor utter the phrase “critical … Continue reading
Religion as Little Something: Kathleen Stewart’s Ordinary Affects (Theory & Religion Series)
by Donovan Schaefer * This post is the first in a new feature with the Bulletin where contributors are asked to discuss a book or essay by a particular theorist that they have found useful in their teaching and research … Continue reading
Posted in Donovan Schaefer, Religion and Theory, Theory and Method
Tagged affect theory, american religion, Ann Pellegrini, Appalachia, Duke University Press, Feminism, kathleen stewart, Kevin O'Neill, Manuel Vásquez, ordinary affects, Queer theory, Theory & Religion Series, William Connolly
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Teaching Bodies and Embodiment
by Kelly J. Baker How do we make the theoretical tangible and personal? How do we show the expectations of a gendered being? How do we interrogate embodiment and the expectations beset on bodies? How do we understand our bodies … Continue reading
Who Supports Persecution?
by Steven Ramey * This post originally appeared on the Culture on the Edge blog. The persecution of Ahmadis has hit the news again with the killing of an American Ahmadi doctor in Pakistan last week while he was volunteering … Continue reading
Serpents, Novelty, and Academic Fetish
by Travis Cooper * This is a revised version of a post originally found on the author’s personal blog. Novelty draws academics. This is no controversial claim. We cluster around the odd, the uncanny, and the strange. We gather around scenes … Continue reading
Posted in Religion and Society, Religion and Theory, Theory and Method, Travis Cooper
Tagged J.Z. Smith, Pierre Bourdieu, Robert Orsi
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