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Bulletin for the study of religion feed- 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
- 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: Reflections on Islamic Studies
Hijacked! Conference in Bonn, Germany
by Leslie Dorrough Smith Note: This post originally appeared on the Culture on the Edge blog. Hijacked!: A Critical Treatment of the Public Rhetoric of “Good” and “Bad” Religion was a conference held from June 8-10 in Bonn, Germany, at the Forum Internationale Wissenschaft … Continue reading
Posted in Academy, Conference Notes, Guest Contributor, Politics and Religion, Reflections on Islamic Studies, Religion and Popular Culture, Religion and Society, Religion and Theory, Religion in the News, Scholarship on the Road, Theory and Method, Theory in the Real World, Uncategorized
Tagged Aaron Hughes, american religion, Believer, Bonn, Bulletin for the Study of Religion, CNN, Cult, Culture on the Edge, Forum internationale Wissenschaft, Germany, government, Greek fire-walking, Hijacked!, Islam, Islamophobia, legitimization, Leslie Dorrough Smith, Merinda Simmons, NAASR, niqab debate, North American Association for the Study of Religion, pedagogy, politics, Public rhetoric, Religion, religious studies, Reza Aslan, Rhetoric, Sociology of Religion, University, University of Bonn, Vaia Touna
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When We Forget Our Roots
by Aaron Hughes I have been asked to respond to Rachel Fulton Brown’s piece at the University of Chicago Divinity’s School Sightings. I’ll leave it to others to adjudicate her political leanings or apparent support for Milo Yiannopoulos’ cross-country speaking … Continue reading
Posted in Academy, Politics and Religion, Reflections on Islamic Studies, Religion and Popular Culture, Religion and Society, Religion and Theory, Religion in the News, Theory and Method, Theory in the Real World
Tagged Christianity, Durkheim, Eliade, Islam, J.Z. Smith, Judaism, Lincoln, Marx, Middle Ages, Milo Yiannopoulos, Otto, Rachel Fulton Brown, University of Chicago, Weber
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Introduction: René Girard’s Legacy
The following is the introduction to the special double-size September-December 2016 issue of the Bulletin for the Study of Religion (the full table of contents having already been posted). The introduction to … Continue reading
Posted in Announcements, Buddhist Studies, Editorial, Guest Contributor, Reflections on Islamic Studies, Religion and Society, Religion and Theory, Theory and Method
Tagged Bulletin for the Study of Religion, Conference, Contagion, cosmic war, COV&R, David Frankfurter, disgust, Girardian theory, Islam, Jonathan Klawans, Margo Kitts, Mark Juergensmeyer, Martha J. Reineke, Method, Michael Jerryson, mimesis, mimetic theory, Myth, myth-ritual, NAASR, Religion, Religion and Violence, religious studies, Rene Girard, Sandor Goodhart, scapegoat, The Iliad, The Mahabharata, Vanessa J. Avery, violence
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Now Published – Bulletin for the Study of Religion 45.3-4 (September-December 2016)
A special double-size issue of the Bulletin has now been published and is available both online and in print. We are pleased to published this special memorial issue focused on a significant, … Continue reading
Posted in Announcements, Reflections on Islamic Studies, Religion and Society, Religion and Theory, Theory and Method
Tagged Bulletin for the Study of Religion, Conference, Contagion, cosmic war, COV&R, David Frankfurter, disgust, Girardian theory, Islam, Jonathan Klawans, Margo Kitts, Mark Juergensmeyer, Martha J. Reineke, Method, Michael Jerryson, mimesis, mimetic theory, Myth, myth-ritual, NAASR, Religion, Religion and Violence, religious studies, Rene Girard, Sandor Goodhart, scapegoat, The Iliad, Vanessa J. Avery, violence
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Scripting Acts of Violence: Intersectionality and the Orlando Shooting
By Philip L. Tite At 2 a.m. this past Sunday morning in the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Florida gunshots were heard by patrons. The nightmare that they experienced did not end until 5 a.m. when police killed Omar Mateen, … Continue reading
Posted in Pedagogy, Philip L. Tite, Politics and Religion, Reflections on Islamic Studies, Religion and Society, Religion and Theory, Religion in the News, Sexuality and Gender, Theory and Method, Theory in the Real World
Tagged "radical Islam, american religion, Bruce Lincoln, cultural geography, domestic terrorism, domestic violence, ethnic identity, Feminism, feminist theory, foreign terrorism, gay rights, homonegativity, homophobia, intersectional violence, intertextuality, ISIL, ISIS, Islamophobia, Latin Americans, LGBTQ, Mark Juergensmeyer, media, mental health, narrative scripts, Omar Mateen, Orlando, pathology, pedagogy, performative violence, politics, Pulse nightclub, racism, Religion, religion and media, religious studies, Rhetoric, scholarship, secularism, shooting, social capital, Sociology of Religion, symbolic capital, teaching, Terrorism, violence, William Cavanaugh
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Violence, Religion, and the Death of René Girard
By Philip L. Tite On November 4, 2015 the renowned literary theorist, René Girard (Stanford University) passed away at the age of 91. In an online announcement on the Stanford News, Cynthia Haven offers a comprehensive and glowing overview of … Continue reading
Posted in Academy, Announcements, Pedagogy, Philip L. Tite, Politics and Religion, Reflections on Islamic Studies, Religion and Society, Religion and Theory, Religion in the News, Theory and Method, Theory in the Real World
Tagged Aaron Hughes, affect theory, Bruce Lincoln, Carl Jung, Christianity, collective unconsciousness, Cynthia Haven, Daniel Pals, Desire, Emile Durkheim, functionalism, Genealogy of Religion, Girardian theory, grand theories, Islam, James Frazer, Judaism, Karl Marx, literar, Lord Raglan, Mark Juergensmeyer, Max Weber, methodological reduction, mimetic violence, Myth, obiturary, Reductionism, Religion, religious studies, Rene Girard, Robert Jewett, sacrifice, scapegoating, Sigmund Freud, violence, William Cavanaugh, world religions
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