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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: May 2015
That Irish Vote for Same-Sex Marriage
by Eoin O’Mahony Late last week, a majority of citizens in Ireland voted to accept same-sex marriage. Many states in Europe and North America have legislated for same-sex marriage but Ireland’s citizens voted to amend the country’s constitution. 62% (or … Continue reading
Important, not Particular: A Reflection on Religion in 21st-Century America
Note: This post originally appeared on the Religion in American History blog. by Charles McCrary According to the new Pew study “America’s Changing Religious Landscape,” 6.9% of respondents identified their religious affiliation or belief as “nothing in particular” and also reported that … Continue reading
Posted in Charles McCrary, Politics and Religion, Religion and Society, Religion and Theory, Theory and Method
Tagged A Ministry of Presence, Franklin Baz, Hugh Urban, John Modern, Mike Graziano, Religious Freedom Restoration Act, The Church of Scientology, William James, Winnifred Sullivan
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NAASR Notes: Ian Cuthbertson
by Ian Cuthbertson I suppose I had better just come out and say it: I’m interested in lucky charms. My research in Montréal, Québec involves an online survey and in-depth semi-structured interviews with individuals who possess and use lucky or … Continue reading
Posted in NAASR Notes, Religion and Popular Culture, Religion and Society, Religion and Theory, Theory and Method, Uncategorized
Tagged Bronislaw Malinowski, Christopher Partridge, E.E Evans-Prichard, Emile Durkheim, Ian Cuthbertson, James George Frazer, Keith Thomas, Magic, Marcel Mauss, Max Weber, Randall Styers, Simon During
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NAASR Notes: Dennis LoRusso
by Dennis LoRusso Abiding the Habitus, or the Habitus Abides: Getting acquainted with Bourdieu Chances are, if you’ve had the (mis)fortune of reading any of my scholarly work, I probably mentioned some aspect of Pierre Bourdieu’s ideas. His ambitious efforts … Continue reading
Can an Atheist Believe in God?
By Steven Ramey My last post generated an extended exchange with a colleague who has rightly pushed me concerning my disavowal of judging identity claims. My colleague suggested, for example, that someone who believes that Jesus is the Son of … Continue reading
Posted in Steven Ramey, Theory in the Real World
Tagged Atheism, belief in God, Christians, Jesus, Orthodoxy, practice, Religion, religious identification
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Scripture Made Me Do It: On Images of Mohammad and Scholarly Offence
by Matt Sheedy A recent article from CNN on the shootings in Garland, Texas outside an event sponsored by the American Freedom Defense Initiative on May 3, 2015, provides a useful example of some of the pitfalls that often occur … Continue reading
Posted in Matt Sheedy, Politics and Religion, Religion and Society, Religion and Theory, Religion in the News, Theory and Method
Tagged American Freedom Defense Initiative, Charlie Hebdo, CNN, Danish Cartoons, Evelyn Alsultany, Garland, hadith, ISIS, Jack Shaheen, Judith Butler, Mahmood Mamdani, Mohammad, Saba Mahmood, Shiite, Sunni, Talal Asad, Texas, war on terror, Wendy Brown
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Call for Participants: NAASR Job Market Workshop (Atlanta, 2015)
If the phrase “academic job market” makes you feel like this… …you’re not alone. There’s no shortage of posts, essays, tweets, and columns devoted to how to position yourself on the job market: what to study, how to shape a … Continue reading