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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: January 2015
Dad Wanted a Boy: Feminism, Transcendence, and Cuarón’s Gravity (film review essay)
by Donovan Schaefer Warning: Spoilertown, USA, directly ahead. No American film has been more desperately in need of a feminist retelling than Stanley Kubrick’s 1968 classic 2001: A Space Odyssey. Now, with Alfonso Cuarón’s Gravity (2013), we have exactly that, … Continue reading
Posted in Donovan Schaefer, Religion and Popular Culture, Sexuality and Gender
Tagged 2001, alfonso cuaron, animality, Feminism, grace jantzen, gravity, john caputo, kubrick, lisa guenther, Prayer, religion and film
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Offerings for the Loch Ness Monster—a Sign of Buddhism’s Arrival in the West
By Joseph P. Laycock and Natasha L. Mikles * This post now appears in expanded form in the Bulletin for the Study of Religion journal. While discussing construction of the upcoming Karma Kagyu Tibetan Buddhist practice center near Loch Ness, … Continue reading
Posted in Joseph Laycock, Natasha Mikles, Religion and Popular Culture, Religion and Society, Religion in the News, South Asian Studies, Theory in the Real World
Tagged Buddhism, cryptozoology, folklore, Gelongma Zangmo, Hinduism, Loch Ness, Loch Ness Monster, mythology, naga, Nessie, Religion, religious studies, Scotland, Tibetan Buddhism
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Why Paris Matters but Peshawar Does not: Moderate Muslims and the Invention of Disaster
by Sher Afgan Tareen On December 16th, nine members of the Pakistan Tehreek-e- Taliban killed one hundred and thirty-two students attending Army Public School at Peshawar, wiping out the entire 9th grade except one boy who overslept and fortuitously skipped … Continue reading
Posted in Politics and Religion, Religion and Society, Religion and Theory, Religion in the News, Theory and Method, Uncategorized
Tagged Army Public School at Peshawar, Charlie Hebdo, Je Suis Charlie, Kevin Rozario, Newsweek, Pakistan, Saba Mahmood, secularism, Sher Afgan Tareen, Tehreek-e- Taliban
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Conference on Religion and Culture: Syracuse University, March 28, 2015, Syracuse, NY
Second Undergraduate Conference on Religion and Culture Syracuse University | March 28, 2015 | Syracuse, NY The Department of Religion at Syracuse University will host its second annual “Undergraduate Conference on Religion and Culture” on Saturday, March 28, 2015. The … Continue reading
Now That’s Islamophobia (Charlie Hebdo, Religion & Satire)
by Zachery Braiterman * This post initially appeared on the author’s blog. Clearly uncomfortable with the comics run by Charlie Hebdo depicting the Prophet, ALZ approached me at synagogue yesterday and asked me what I thought about them. He asked … Continue reading
Teaching Theory in the Introductory Classroom, Part 4
This is part of an ongoing series of posts in a collaborative effort between the Practicum: Critical Theory, Religion, and Pedagogy and the Bulletin for the Study of Religion blogs. On November 23, 2014, approximately 20 scholars of religion, from grad students to more … Continue reading