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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: South Asian Studies
So You’re Not a Priest? Scholar Explain What They Do to Outsiders: Natasha L. Mikles
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
Posted in Religion and Theory, South Asian Studies, Theory and Method, Theory in the Real World, Uncategorized
Tagged American Academy of Religion, Brent Nongbri, Bruce Lincoln, International Association of Tibetan Studies, Natasha L. Mikles, Richard Dawkins, So You're Not a Priest? Scholars Explain What They Do to Outsiders, Tomoko Masuzawa, Tyler Roberts
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Again with the Elephants…
by Adam T. Miller A few years ago, I started teaching an introductory religious studies course online. While I have since had the opportunity to redevelop the course, initially it was just something I inherited—syllabus, textbook, assignments, all of it. … Continue reading
What’s in Your Religion Syllabus? Natasha L. Mikles
In this 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 Pedagogy, Politics and Religion, Religion and Theory, South Asian Studies, Southeast Asian Studies, Theory and Method, Theory in the Real World, Uncategorized
Tagged Buddhism: Introducing the Buddhist Experience, discursive tradition, Donald Mitchell, John Strong, Natasha L. Mikles, Rohingya Muslim, Sarah Jacoby, Talal Asad, Tamil Hindu, The Experience of Buddhism, What's in Your Religion Syllabus
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On Reza Aslan’s “Believer”
by Andrew M. Henry [special thanks to my colleagues and fellow premiere-goers Derek Knox and Kate Soules for their contributions to this review] Still riding the wave of his bestselling book Zealot and a few high-profile interviews, Reza Aslan … Continue reading
Posted in Film Reviews, Pedagogy, Politics and Religion, Religion and Popular Culture, Religion and Society, Religion and Theory, Religion in the News, South Asian Studies, Theory and Method, Theory in the Real World
Tagged Aghori, Andrew Henry, Believer, Boston University, CNN, Ganges, Hinduism, religion dispatches, Religion For Breakfast, Reza Aslan, Seth Meyers, The Late Show, Varanasi
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What’s in Your Religion Syllabus?: Sarah F. Haynes
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 Buddhist Studies, Pedagogy, Politics and Religion, Religion and Popular Culture, Religion and Society, Religion and Theory, Religion in the News, Sexuality and Gender, South Asian Studies, Southeast Asian Studies, Theory and Method
Tagged Buddhism, Charles Prebish, Damien Keown, David McMahon, Gender, Kim Gutschow, Modernity, nuns, politics, pop culture, socially-engaged Buddhism, the Walking Dead, Tibetan Buddhism, zombies
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Basic Buddhists, Bad Buddhists
by Adam T. Miller A few days back, the Bulletin’s own Nathan Rein asked the hive-mind that is Facebook to fill him in on what it means to … Continue reading
Posted in Adam Miller, Buddhist Studies, Religion and Popular Culture, Religion and Society, Religion and Theory, South Asian Studies, Theory and Method
Tagged Adam T. Miller, Bad Bitches, Basic Bitches, Buddhist Studies, Christian Wedemeyer, Classification, comparison, Craig Martin, Identification, Indian Buddhism, John Powers, lay Buddhists, monastic Buddhists, Nathan Rein, siddhas, Tantric Buddhism, Tibetan Buddhist
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Interpellation in The Splendid Vision
by Adam Miller * This post originally appeared on the author’s blog. The French marxist Louis Althusser theorized interpellation as “the process by which ideology addresses the individual.” Or, put differently, interpellation is the way a dominant ideology constructs the human subject … Continue reading