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Bulletin for the study of religion feed- British Forum for Ethnomusicology, University of Edinburgh, 13-16 April 2023
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- 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: James Dennis LoRusso
Religious Proximity and Cultural Distance: An Introduction on the East/West Dichotomy
The following is the editorial introduction to the June 2015 issue of the Bulletin for the Study of Religion (the full table of contents having already been posted). We offer this editorial here on the blog in order to give … Continue reading
Posted in Announcements, Editorial, James Dennis LoRusso, Matt Sheedy, NAASR Notes, Pedagogy, Philip L. Tite, Politics and Religion, Religion and Society, Religion and Theory, South Asian Studies, Southeast Asian Studies, Theory and Method, Theory in the Real World
Tagged and Marianne Fibiger, Bulletin for the Study of Religion, Colonialism, East/West, Eastern religions, geography, James Mark Shields, Melissa Deckman, NAASR, Nicole Goulet, orientalism, pedagogy, politics, proximity, Religion, religious studies, Russell McCutcheon, Sarah Haynes, scholarship, Sociology of Religion, teaching, Western religions, world religions paradigm
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Now Published – Bulletin for the Study of Religion 44.2 (June 2015)
The June issue of the Bulletin has been published and is available. Below is the table of contents of this issue, which includes a panel of papers on the construction of “East/West” in the study of religion. This debate began … Continue reading
Posted in Academy, Announcements, James Dennis LoRusso, Matt Sheedy, Pedagogy, Philip L. Tite, Politics and Religion, Religion and Society, Religion and Theory, South Asian Studies, Southeast Asian Studies, Theory and Method, Theory in the Real World
Tagged Bulletin for the Study of Religion, Eastern religions, James Mark Shields, Jason Blum, Marianne C. Qvortrup Fibiger, Melissa Deckman, NAASR, Naomi Goldenberg, orientalism, pedagogy, Religion, religious studies, Russell McCutcheon, Sarah F. Haynes, scholarship, Sean Durbin, T. Nicole Goulet, teaching, West/East
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Now Published – Bulletin for the Study of Religion 43.1 (February 2014)
The February issue of the Bulletin has been published and is available in both print and electronic versions. Below is the table of contents of this issue, which includes a set of papers marking the twentieth anniversary of Talal Asad’s … Continue reading
Posted in Announcements, Craig Martin, Dennis LoRusso, Donovan Schaefer, Film Reviews, James Dennis LoRusso, Matt Sheedy, Pedagogy, Philip L. Tite, Politics and Religion, Religion and Popular Culture, Religion and Society, Religion and Theory, Religion Snapshots, Theory and Method, Theory in the Real World, Uncategorized
Tagged 12 years a slave, Bulletin for the Study of Religion, Data, Genealogies of Religion, Occupy Movement, Religion, religious studies, Robert Segal, scholarship, Sociology of Religion, Talal Asad, technology
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To Tweet or not to Tweet? Social Media in the Classroom
by James Dennis LoRusso The typical humanities student today experiences a multi-faceted exposure to new technologies. I have given lectures that move seamlessly between video clips from Youtube, online news articles, and animated power point. Courses regularly require students to … Continue reading
Posted in James Dennis LoRusso, Theory in the Real World
Tagged Raymond Williams, twitter
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Yoga and the Boundaries of Religion in the Public Square
by James Dennis LoRusso In one of the latest installments of the culture wars, we once again confront the struggle to specify the boundaries between religion and the state. A group of parents in Encinitas, CA, with the aid of … Continue reading