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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
Category Archives: Buddhist Studies
So You’re Not a Priest? Scholars Explain What They Do to Outsiders: Adam Miller
In this series with the Bulletin, we ask scholars to talk about how they describe what they do to outsiders by sharing a story or two, and reflect on how this has affected their identity as scholars of religion. For other … Continue reading
Again with the Elephants…
by Adam T. Miller A few years ago, I started teaching an introductory religious studies course online. While I have since had the opportunity to redevelop the course, initially it was just something I inherited—syllabus, textbook, assignments, all of it. … Continue reading
What’s in Your Religion Syllabus?: Sarah F. Haynes
In this new series with the Bulletin, we ask scholars of religion to share with our readers what’s in their religion syllabus, from a new class or a class they’ve taught for years, reflecting on what has worked, what has been … Continue reading
Posted in Buddhist Studies, Pedagogy, Politics and Religion, Religion and Popular Culture, Religion and Society, Religion and Theory, Religion in the News, Sexuality and Gender, South Asian Studies, Southeast Asian Studies, Theory and Method
Tagged Buddhism, Charles Prebish, Damien Keown, David McMahon, Gender, Kim Gutschow, Modernity, nuns, politics, pop culture, socially-engaged Buddhism, the Walking Dead, Tibetan Buddhism, zombies
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Introduction: René Girard’s Legacy
The following is the introduction to the special double-size September-December 2016 issue of the Bulletin for the Study of Religion (the full table of contents having already been posted). The introduction to … Continue reading
Posted in Announcements, Buddhist Studies, Editorial, Guest Contributor, Reflections on Islamic Studies, Religion and Society, Religion and Theory, Theory and Method
Tagged Bulletin for the Study of Religion, Conference, Contagion, cosmic war, COV&R, David Frankfurter, disgust, Girardian theory, Islam, Jonathan Klawans, Margo Kitts, Mark Juergensmeyer, Martha J. Reineke, Method, Michael Jerryson, mimesis, mimetic theory, Myth, myth-ritual, NAASR, Religion, Religion and Violence, religious studies, Rene Girard, Sandor Goodhart, scapegoat, The Iliad, The Mahabharata, Vanessa J. Avery, violence
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Basic Buddhists, Bad Buddhists
by Adam T. Miller A few days back, the Bulletin’s own Nathan Rein asked the hive-mind that is Facebook to fill him in on what it means to … Continue reading
Posted in Adam Miller, Buddhist Studies, Religion and Popular Culture, Religion and Society, Religion and Theory, South Asian Studies, Theory and Method
Tagged Adam T. Miller, Bad Bitches, Basic Bitches, Buddhist Studies, Christian Wedemeyer, Classification, comparison, Craig Martin, Identification, Indian Buddhism, John Powers, lay Buddhists, monastic Buddhists, Nathan Rein, siddhas, Tantric Buddhism, Tibetan Buddhist
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Ignorance strip’t bare: Rodney Stark and triumphalist historiography
by Richard K. Payne I remember being struck many years ago by the question underlying Joseph Needham’s massive project Science and Civilization in China: Why did China not follow the same line of progress in the development of science that … Continue reading
Feeling Rules and the Construction of Sacred Space
by Adam Miller I don’t often think in terms of affect, but I’ve talked enough with Danae Faulk to be mildly familiar with the perspective/vocabulary. (Donovan Schaefer has also given me much to think with in this regard, though I wrote what … Continue reading
Posted in Adam Miller, Buddhist Studies, Religion and Society, Religion and Theory, South Asian Studies, Theory and Method
Tagged Adam T. Miller, affect theory, Arlie Russell Hochschild, Buddhist Studies, Danae Faulk, Donovan Schaefer, Emile Durkheim, Feeling Rules, Ideology, Indian Buddhism, Mircea Eliade, Sacred Space
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