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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: Ruminations
So You’re Not a Priest? Scholars Explain What They Do to Outsiders: Alexander Rocklin
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 … Continue reading
The Origins of the Juggernaut
This post originally appeared on the OUP blog. by Michael J. Altman People deploy the word juggernaut to describe anyone or anything that seems unstoppable, powerful, dominant. The Golden State Warriors, the recent National Basketball Association champions, are a juggernaut. National … Continue reading
Posted in Guest Contributor, Politics and Religion, Religion and Popular Culture, Religion and Society, Ruminations, Uncategorized
Tagged Bulletin for the Study of Religion, Christianity, Claudius Buchanan, Heathen Hindoo Hindu: American Representations of India 1721-1893, Hinduism, Idol, Idolatry, India, Jagannath, Juggernaut, Marvel comics, Michael J. Altman, Mike Altman, missionaries, Ratha Yatra, Religion, religious studies, Representation, scholarship, study of religion
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How to Resist Christian Hegemony: Reflections on the #RAAC2017 Biennial
by Travis Cooper Just this last weekend I had the privilege of attending the 5th Biennial Conference for the Study of Religion and American Culture held in Indianapolis. I started coming … Continue reading
Posted in Academy, Conference Notes, Guest Contributor, Politics and Religion, Religion and Society, Religion and Theory, Religion in the News, Ruminations, Theory and Method, Theory in the Real World, Travis Cooper, Uncategorized
Tagged "Nones", American culture, american protestantism, Americanists, Biennial Conference for the Study of Religion and American Culture, Cara Burnidge, Christian hegemony, Christianity, Conference, Daniel Silliman, Digital Methods, diversity, evangelical Christianity, Evangelicals, hegemony, Kathryn Lofton, Khyati Joshi, Melissa Wilcox, Mike Altman, pluralism, Power, Protestantism, raac, raac2017, Religion, Religion and the State, religious studies, secularism, social theory, structuralism, Sylvester Johnson
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“Gender” in/and the Study of Religion: Cameron Montgomery
In this series, the Bulletin asks scholars if and how they critically engage “gender” in the study of religion. Contributors consider how gender intersects with method & theory, pedagogy, professional practices, or matters of … Continue reading
Posted in "Gender" in/and the Study of Religion, Academy, Guest Contributor, Pedagogy, Politics and Religion, Religion and Popular Culture, Religion and Society, Religion and Theory, Ruminations, Sexuality and Gender, Theory and Method, Theory in the Real World, Uncategorized
Tagged Activism, and Pedagogy, Beyond God the Father, Bulletin for the Study of Religion, Christianity, ethnography, Faith, Feminism, feminist theory, Gender, Goddess, Helen Keller, Maria Birnbaum, Mary Daly, Mary Douglas, Methodolatry, Pamela Dickey Young, pedagogy, politics, Religion, Religion and Gender Network, religious studies, Sara Borillo, scholarship, secularism, slavery, teaching, women, worship
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Theory in Unlikely Places: Tim Kinsella’s Lyrics
In this series with the Bulletin, we ask readers and contributors to share some reflections on unlikely places (i.e., non-stodgy-academic-prose) where religious studies theory and method show up for them–be it in song, poetry, literature, television, film, or anything else. by Adam T. Miller A … Continue reading
Posted in Adam Miller, Religion and Popular Culture, Religion and Society, Religion and Theory, Ruminations, Theory and Method, Theory in the Real World
Tagged Adam T. Miller, Authenticity, comparison, Ideology, interpellation, Jesus Christ, Karl Marx, Madison Langston, Make Believe, Origins, Owls, Poststructuralism, Purity and Danger, Rhetoric, Russell McCutcheon, Tim Kinsella
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