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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: Joseph Laycock
Evangelizing the Ufologists
by Joseph Laycock Last week my friend Blake Smith, co-host of the podcast “Monstertalk,” e-mailed me about a new documentary called “Alien Intrusion.” The film, which promises to “unmask a deception” about extra-terrestrials, is based on a book by Gary … Continue reading
Posted in Joseph Laycock, Religion and Popular Culture, Religion and Society, Theory and Method, Theory in the Real World, Uncategorized
Tagged Aetherius Society, Alien Intrusion, Alien Resistance, Answers in Genesis, Ark Encounter, Blake Smith, Budd Hopkins, Catherine Albanese, Christian demonology, Conrad Hyers, Creation Ministries International, David Jacobs, Enrico Fermi, FaithWorks, Fathom Events, Fermi paradox, Gary Bates, Hal Lindsey, Heaven’s Gate, J. Allen Hynek, Jacque Vallée, John Keel, John Mack, John Schneider, Johnny Hunt, Ken Ham, Monstertalk, Operation Trojan Horse, Planet Earth––2000 AD, Raelians, Southern Baptist Convention, The Creation Museum
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Who Gets to Play in the Sandbox? Debating Identities, Methodologies, and Theoretical Frameworks
The following is the editorial introduction to the December 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, Craig Martin, Editorial, Interviews, Ipsita Chatterjea, Joseph Laycock, Kate Daley-Bailey, Nathan Rein, Pedagogy, Philip L. Tite, Religion and Society, Religion and Theory, Religion in the News, Theory and Method, Theory in the Real World
Tagged AAR, adjunctification, Adjuncts, Ahmed Mohamed, American Academy of Religion, american religion, and Pedagogy, Annual Meeting, Brad Stoddard, Bulletin for the Study of Religion, Caroline Schaffalitzky de Muckadell, Craig Martin, definitions, Definitions of Religion, J. Aaron Simmons, JAAR, Joseph Laycock, Journal of the American Academy of Religion, K. Merinda Simmons, NAASR, Nathan Rein, North American Association for the Study of Religion, Open Letter, pedagogy, Practicum, Religion, religious studies, Russell McCutcheon, teaching
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Now Published – Bulletin for the Study of Religion 44.4 (December 2015)
The December issue of the Bulletin has now been published and is available. Below is the table of contents of this issue, which includes an Open Letter to the AAR on the challenges facing adjunct/contingent faculty with regard to the … Continue reading
Posted in Announcements, Brad Stoddard, Craig Martin, Editorial, Interviews, Ipsita Chatterjea, Joseph Laycock, Kate Daley-Bailey, Nathan Rein, Pedagogy, Philip L. Tite, Politics and Religion, Religion and Society, Religion and Theory, Religion in the News, Theory and Method, Theory in the Real World
Tagged AAR, Ahmed Mohamed, American Academy of Religion, american religion, and Pedagogy, Belief, Bulletin for the Study of Religion, Caroline Schaffalitzky de Muckadell, Craig Martin, critical thinking, Definitions of Religion, Essentialism, functionalism, Ipsita Chatterjea, J. Aaron Simmons, Joseph P. Laycock, K. Merinda Simmons, NAASR, Nathan Rein, North American Association for the Study of Religion, pedagogy, Practicum: Critical Theory, Religion, religious studies, scholarship, teaching
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Who Stands with Ahmed and Why?
In this past Monday’s post, Joseph Laycock discusses the Ahmed Mohamed affair–the 14-year old Texas boy arrested for bringing a clock to school, mistaken for a bomb, despite a clear lack of evidence–and asks whether it is “necessary to believe … Continue reading
Posted in Joseph Laycock, Matt Sheedy, Politics and Religion, Religion and Society, Religion and Theory, Religion in the News, Theory and Method
Tagged #IStandWithAhmed, Ahmed Mohamed, Chris Hadfield, Evelyn Alsultany, Facebook, Google, Islamphobia, NASA, President Obama, Sara Ahmed, Stanley Cohen, twitter, wired.com
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Who Believed There Was A Bomb and When Did They Believe It? What Ahmed Mohamed’s Clock Says About Belief and Moral Panic
by Joseph Laycock Thousands have expressed outrage over the treatment of Ahmed Mohamed, a 14-year-old Muslim student at MacArthur High School in Irving, Texas, who was arrested after trying to show his English teacher an electronic clock he had constructed. … Continue reading
Create Your Own Religion (Out of Someone Else’s): A Class Exercise
by Jospeh Laycock This semester I had the pleasure of conducting a grand experiment with my students that I have wanted to do for several years. My class ran a simulation in which we created eleven imaginary religious traditions and … Continue reading
Posted in Joseph Laycock, Pedagogy, Religion and Society, Religion and Theory, Uncategorized
Tagged Anthony Wallace, Boston University, Catherine Wessinger, David Eckel, Laurence R. Iannaccone, Max Weber, Rodney Stark, Roger Finke, Sid Meier, Stephen Prothero, The Interior Castle, The Life Milarepa, Westboro Baptist Church, William James
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