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Tag Archives: Adam T. Miller
So You’re Not a Priest? Scholars Explain What They Do to Outsiders: Adam Miller
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
Theory & Religion Series: Bruce Lincoln’s Gods and Demons, Priests and Scholars
by Adam Miller * This post is part of the Theory & Religion Series, where contributors are asked to discuss a current project they are working on, or a book or essay by a particular theorist that they have found useful in … Continue reading
Posted in Adam Miller, Religion and Society, Religion and Theory, Theory & Religion Series, Theory and Method, Uncategorized
Tagged Adam T. Miller, Adhvaryu, Bruce Lincoln, Chandogya Upaniṣad, Craig Martin, Discourse and the Construction of Society, Gods and Demons, Mahāyāna sūtra, Priests and Scholars, Ṛg Veda, Russell McCutcheon, Sāma Veda, Yajur
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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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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
Feeling Rules and the Construction of Sacred Space
by Adam Miller I don’t often think in terms of affect, but I’ve talked enough with Danae Faulk to be mildly familiar with the perspective/vocabulary. (Donovan Schaefer has also given me much to think with in this regard, though I wrote what … Continue reading
Posted in Adam Miller, Buddhist Studies, Religion and Society, Religion and Theory, South Asian Studies, Theory and Method
Tagged Adam T. Miller, affect theory, Arlie Russell Hochschild, Buddhist Studies, Danae Faulk, Donovan Schaefer, Emile Durkheim, Feeling Rules, Ideology, Indian Buddhism, Mircea Eliade, Sacred Space
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