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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: Travis Cooper
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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Theory & Religion Series: Reflections on Fieldwork in Morocco by Paul Rabinow
by Travis Cooper Paul Rabinow’s Reflections on Fieldwork in Morocco (1977) was a game changer. As a novice anthropologist of religion, picking my way slowly through the history of American anthropology—and conducting fieldwork at the same time—encountering Rabinow was nothing less … Continue reading
A Quasi-Caricatured Taxonomy of Religious Studies Instructors
by Travis Cooper * This post originally appeared on the author’s blog. As an advanced graduate student in religious studies, among other departments, I’ve been advised by or have sat under for classes a number of different types of instructors … Continue reading
Serpents, Novelty, and Academic Fetish
by Travis Cooper * This is a revised version of a post originally found on the author’s personal blog. Novelty draws academics. This is no controversial claim. We cluster around the odd, the uncanny, and the strange. We gather around scenes … Continue reading
Posted in Religion and Society, Religion and Theory, Theory and Method, Travis Cooper
Tagged J.Z. Smith, Pierre Bourdieu, Robert Orsi
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Religion Snapshots: On the Uses of “Data,” Part 2
Religion Snapshots is a new feature with the Bulletin for the Study of Religion blog, where a number of contributors are asked to briefly comment on popular news items or pressing theoretical issues in the field, especially those topics relating to definitions, … Continue reading
Posted in Eoin O'Mahony, Kate Daley-Bailey, Kelly J. Baker, Kenneth G. MacKendrick, Politics and Religion, Religion and Popular Culture, Religion and Society, Religion and Theory, Theory and Method, Theory in the Real World, Travis Cooper, Uncategorized
Tagged AAR, Ireland, Ku Klux Klan, Michel Foucault, Monica Miller, Pentecostal, Roma
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