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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
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- 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: Deane Galbraith
Jesus’ Man-Breasts
by Deane Galbraith In contemporary Western society, an (imaginary) flat “chest” is marker of male gender; and round, spherical breasts are a marker of female gender. In the realm of the symbolic the everyday real breasts of men and women, with their assortment of different … Continue reading
Posted in Deane Galbraith, Religion and Theory, Sexuality and Gender
Tagged Apocalypse, bra, breast implants, breasts, chest, digital enhancement, flat-chested, Gender Trouble, Jack Nicholson, Jesse Rainbow, Jesus, Judith Butler, Keira Knightley, man-boobs, man-breasts, moobs, paps, Real, Revelation of John, Son of Man, Song of Solomon, symbolic, voyeurism, μαστοῖς
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The Worst Book Cover in Religious Publishing Awards 2012
Religion Bulletin would like to open nominations for The Worst Book Cover in Religious Publishing Awards 2012. You have until January 31, 2013 to nominate a book. Nominations are open to any persons, for any book published since January 1, 2011 and not previously … Continue reading
Some responses to “Qur’anic Reading as Embodied Practice”
I had a few responses to Summar Shoaib’s “Qur’anic Reading as Embodied Practice“. The first response concerns the opposition which the piece creates between traditional Islamic and so-called “Western” modes of reading. These two great abstractions (the traditional Islamic and the Western) are of course immensely … Continue reading
Posted in Deane Galbraith, Religion and Theory
Tagged body practices, Islam, Meaning, Qur'an, reading
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Women at the Society of Biblical Literature (SBL) Annual Meeting 2011
Michael F. Bird (Evangelion) notes that, of 700 papers to be presented at this month’s Evangelical Theological Society Conference, he recognises that only 8 are by women. There may be a few other women’s names that Michael acknowledges he does … Continue reading
Religion, Sport, Opium and the Wealth Gap
First, reread the classic statement, but note in particular its deeply sympathetic tone: “Religion is, indeed, the self-consciousness and self-esteem of man who has either not yet won through to himself, or has already lost himself again. But man is no abstract … Continue reading
Posted in Deane Galbraith, Politics and Religion, Religion and Popular Culture, Religion and Society
Tagged A Contribution to the Critique of Hegel’s Philosophy of Right, criticism of religion, false consciousness, football, free market, inequality, Karl Marx, New Zealand, opium of the people, Reagan, real happiness, Richard Wilkinson, rugby, Rugby World Cup 2011, Spirit Level, sport, Sunday Star-Times, Terry Eagleton, Thatcher, The Meaning of Life, the sigh of the oppressed creature, trickle-down, vale of tears, vulgar Marxism
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