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- 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
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Monthly Archives: June 2015
Better get to know Practicum: Critical Theory, Religion, and Pedagogy
Ipsita Chatterjea: Brad, Craig, thank you for taking the time to talk to the Bulletin for the Study of Religion Blog about your group and its work! Practicum observed its 1 year anniversary on April 26 2014. What is Practicum’s … Continue reading
Posted in Craig Martin, Ipsita Chatterjea, Pedagogy, Religion and Society, Religion and Theory, Theory and Method, Uncategorized
Tagged Aaron Hughes, and Pedagogy, Brad Stoddard, Bruce Lincoln, Florida State University, Huston Baker, Leslie Dorrough Smith, Matt Sheedy, McDaniel College, Merinda Simmons, Monica Miller, NAASR, Practicum: Critical Theory, Religion, Religious Studies Project, Russell McCutcheon, Sean McCloud, St. Thomas Aquinas College, Tara Baldrick-Morrone, Teaching Theology and Religion, Veronique Altglas, William Arnal
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Making Sense—and Nonsense—of ‘Religious Terrorism’
by Simon Frankel Pratt One does not have to engage all that deeply with popular and academic conversations on terrorism before religion shows up. These days, and especially in the media, such conversations mainly consider one religion in particular, but … Continue reading
Posted in Politics and Religion, Religion and Society, Religion and Theory, Religion in the News, Uncategorized
Tagged al-Qa’ida, Hamas, Hans-Georg Gadamer, IRA, Mark Juergensmeyer, Red Army Faction, Simon Frankel Pratt, Terror in the Mind of God, The Myth of Religious Violence, Wilfred Cantwell Smith, William Cavanaugh
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Profile Me: The Confederate Flag, Shame, and White Male Terror
by Donovan Schaefer Editor’s note: This post initially came out in response to the mass shooting at the Sikh Temple of Wisconsin in 2012. We are reposting it in the light of recent discussions about white terrorism, racism, and the … Continue reading
NASSR Notes: Robert Yelle
NAASR Notes is a feature with the Bulletin where we invite members of the North American Association for the Study of Religion to describe books they are reading and/or research and writing projects that will be of interests to scholars … Continue reading
Posted in NAASR Notes, Politics and Religion, Religion and Society, Religion and Theory, Theory and Method
Tagged Anne Koch, Carl Schmitt, Georges Bataille, Giorgio Agamben, Greg Alles, Gustavo Benavides, Heinrich Meier, Ian Cuthbertson, John Spencer, Jubilee, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Matthew Tindal, Max Weber, Michael Saler, NAASR, NYU, overeignty and the Sacred: The Political Economy of Religion, Robert Yelle, social contract theory, sovereignty, Talal Asad, Thomas Morgan, Tikvah Center for Law and Jewish Civilization, utilitarianism, Victor Turner
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On the Nature and Ends of Critique in the Study of Religion: Part Two
Edited by Craig Martin Recently Critical Research in Religion (CRR) posted an editorial titled “How Can Mainstream Approaches Become More Critical,” written by editors Warren S. Goldstein, Roland Boer, Rebekka King, and Jonathan Boyarin. The editorial identified four sites where critique could … Continue reading
Posted in Religion and Society, Religion and Theory, Theory and Method, Uncategorized
Tagged 11th Thesis on Feuerbach, biblical criticism, bill o'reilly, Capitalism, Craig Martin, cultural relativism, Emile Durkheim, Ernst Troeltsch, Facebook, Feminism, Frankfurt School, Friedrich Nietzsche, Gandhi, Ian Wilson, Jonathan Boyarin, Karl Kautsky, Liberation Theology, Martin Luther King, Marx, Matthew Baldwin, Max Weber, Per Smith, post-structuralist, postmodern, Raymond Geuss, Rebekka King, Richard Niebuhr, Roland Boer, Russell McCutcheon, Socialism, Sociology of Religion, The German Ideology, value neutrality, Warren Goldstein, William Arnal
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On the Nature and Ends of Critique in the Study of Religion: Part One
Edited by Craig Martin Recently Critical Research in Religion (CRR) posted an editorial titled “How Can Mainstream Approaches Become More Critical,” written by editors Warren S. Goldstein, Roland Boer, Rebekka King, and Jonathan Boyarin. The editorial identified four sites where … Continue reading
Posted in Politics and Religion, Religion and Society, Religion and Theory, Theory and Method, Uncategorized
Tagged Craig Martin, Critical Research in Religion, Facebook, Friedrich Engels, Friedrich Nietzsche, Hegelians, Ian Wilson, Jonathan Boyarin, Jürgen Habermas, Matthew Baldwin, Per Smith, Rebekka King, Roland Boer, Russell McCutcheon, Sociology of Religion, value neutrality, Warren S. Goldstein
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