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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
Tag Archives: Albert Schweitzer
Taking Care of Jesus and Muhammad: Reflections on Islamic Studies
by James Crossley Editor’s note: This post is part of a broader conversation on scholarship in Islamic Studies that was sparked by two recent articles, one by Omid Safi and one by Aaron Hughes. Other articles in this series can be found here and here. … Continue reading
Posted in Politics and Religion, Religion and Society, Religion and Theory, Theory and Method, Uncategorized
Tagged AAR, Aaron Hughes, Albert Schweitzer, biblical studies, culture wars, Edward Said, historical Jesus, historical Muhammad, Islamic studies, James Crossley, Muhammad, N.T. Wright, New Atheist, New Testament studies, Omid Safi, Reflections on Islamic Studies, Russell McCutcheon, SBL, September 11, Ward Blanton
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Will it Ever Be “Just about Bad Scholarship?”: A Response to Aaron Hughes and Omid Safi
by Carl J. Stoneham As a PhD student in a U.S. Religious Studies program (now entering the dissertation phase), I am struck by the ‘emic–etic tension’ in the field of Islamic Studies. While hashing out the particulars of the debate … Continue reading
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Tagged AAR, Aaron Hughes, Albert Schweitzer, apologetics, Carl Stoneham, Christian, emic, etic, historical Muhammad, identity politics, Insider-Outsider Problem, Islamic studies, Islamicists, Islamophobe, Jesus, Muhammad, Muslim, non-Muslim, Omid Safi, polemics, postcolonial, racist, religious studies, Theology
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