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- 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
Category Archives: Charles McCrary
American Converts and their Possessions: A Review of Lincoln Mullen’s The Chance of Salvation
Editor’s note: Bulletin Book Reviews is the newly developed book review portal for the Bulletin for the Study of Religion, associated with NAASR and published by Equinox. We are interested in reviewing titles of wide relevance to the academic study of religion, particularly … Continue reading
World Religions, American Religions, the Object of Study, and an Ode to Bruce Lincoln
by Charles McCrary This post originally appeared, in a slightly different version, at the group blog Religion in American History. This year I’ve been teaching “world religions” for the first time. I knew I would be required to do it … Continue reading
Posted in Charles McCrary, Pedagogy, Religion and Society, Religion and Theory, Theory and Method
Tagged Andy McKee, Bruce Lincoln, David Chidester, Karl Marx, Matt Day, Michel Foucault, Mike Altman, Mike Graziano, Nicole Kelley, Religion in American History, Russell McCutcheon, Tomoko Masuzawa, Wendy Brown, world religions
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For the Good or the Guild? Scholars Respond to Kate Daley-Bailey: Charles McCrary
In this series, a number of scholars respond to Kate Daley-Bailey’s provocative essay, “For the Good or the ‘Guild’: An Open Letter to the American Academy of Religion,” which appears in the most recent issue of the Bulletin journal, Vol 44, … Continue reading
Posted in Charles McCrary, Politics and Religion, Religion and Society, Theory in the Real World
Tagged AAR, Bruce Lincoln, Bulletin for the Study of Religion, Charles McCrary, Florida State University, For the Good or the Guild, Jeff Wheatley, Kate Daley-Bailey, King James Version, Michel Foucault, neoliberalism, revolutionary love, Wendy Brown
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Theses on Professionalization: Charles McCrary
In this series with the Bulletin, we have asked 21 early career scholars to weigh in on Russell McCutcheon’s Theses on Professionalization, first published in 2007. In his 21 theses, McCutcheon offers advice to young scholars entering (or soon to enter) the job … Continue reading
How to Organize the World Religions Survey (?)
by Charles McCrary Earlier this year, during the spring semester, I wrote a post about my teaching world religions and the possibility of using a tentative definition of “religion.” In the post I briefly considered how the course might look … Continue reading
Posted in Charles McCrary, Pedagogy, Politics and Religion, Religion and Society, Religion and Theory, Theory and Method, Uncategorized
Tagged Bruce Lincoln, David Chidester, Florida State University, Karl Marx, Michel Foucault, Russell McCutcheon, Tomoko Masuzawa, Wendy Brown, world religions
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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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