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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: Matt Sheedy
So You’re Not a Priest? Scholars Explain What They Do to Outsiders: Matt Sheedy
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
Theses on Professionalization: Jennifer Collins-Elliott
Thesis #11. While higher education is organized so as to train ever increasing specialists–a process that begins with surveys and broad course work, examines candidates on their knowledge in general areas, and then culminates in writing a dissertation on a … Continue reading
Religious Symbols with a Hipster-Sikh Twist
by Matt Sheedy For those paying attention to Canadian politics these days (beyond the occasional swoon-fest over Justin Trudeau, Canada’s “super hot Prime Minister”) one of the more popular figures to have emerged in recent months is Jagmeet Singh, a … Continue reading
Posted in Matt Sheedy, Politics and Religion, Religion and Society, Religion and Theory, Religion in the News, Theory and Method, Theory in the Real World, Uncategorized
Tagged Bloc Québécois, Jagmeet Singh, Justin Trudeau, laïcité, Martine Ouellet, New Democratic Party, Québec Charter of Secular Values, religious symbols, religious values, Rise Canada, Sikhism
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Theses on Professionalization Series: Matt Sheedy
In this new feature 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 … Continue reading
Free Speech, Precious Snowflakes, and Religious Experience
We do not blame such an one, when he tries for himself to advance as far as he can with the help of such principles of explanation as he knows, interpreting “aesthetics” in terms of sensuous pleasure, and “religion” … Continue reading
Posted in Matt Sheedy, Politics and Religion, Religion and Society, Religion and Theory, Religion in the News, Theory and Method, Theory in the Real World
Tagged Ann Coulter, Auburn University, Berkeley, Bill Maher, Charles Murray, free speech, Jean-Francois Lyotard, Middlebury College, Milo Yiannopoulos, New York Times, Richard Spencer, Rudolph Otto, Russell McCutcheon, Ulrich Baer, Winnifred Fallers Sullivan
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What’s in Your Religion Syllabus? Matt Sheedy
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 Matt Sheedy, Pedagogy, Theory and Method
Tagged Alan Watts, Aristotle, Augustine, Charles Darwin, Constance Furey, D.T. Suzuki, Dalai Lama, David C. Lindberg, David Cross, Denis Covington, Discovery Institute, Donald Lopez, Epicurus, Galileo, Isaac Newton, Karl Marx, Peter Harrison, Plato, Richard Dawkins, science and religion, Sigmund Freud, Susan Friend Harding, Thomas Aquinas, Thomas Dixon, Tim Murphy
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