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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: Benjamin Franklin
A Review of Emily Ogden’s Credulity: A Cultural History of US Mesmerism
Editor’s note: Bulletin Book Reviews is the newly developed book review portal for the Bulletin for the Study of Religion, associated with NAASR and published by Equinox. We are interested in reviewing titles of wide relevance to the academic study of religion, … Continue reading
Posted in Bulletin Book Reviews, Politics and Religion, Religion and Society, Religion and Theory, Theory and Method, Uncategorized
Tagged Ann Braude, antebellum secularism, Benjamin Franklin, Bruno Latour, Bulletin Book Reviews, Charles McCrary, Charles Poyen, Emily Ogden, enchantment, Franz Anton Mesmer, Herman Melville, John Modern, Loraina Brackett, Mesmerism, Nathaniel Hawthorne, secularization, somnambulists, Spiritualism, Talal Asad, William Leete Stone
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ShaunTology, Part 3: I have measured out my life with power jumps
by Charles McCrary Shaun T, probably the most popular fitness guru in the United States today, tells us a great deal about selfhood, agency, and the good in twenty-first-century America. The first two parts of this series (one and two) … Continue reading
ShaunTology, Part 2: Shaun T and the American Self
by Charles McCrary In my first post in this series, I began a discussion of fitness instructor Shaun T, treating him as a lens through which to explore secularization theses, especially as he embodies an ethic of “human flourishing” at … Continue reading
Posted in Charles McCrary, Politics and Religion, Religion and Popular Culture, Religion and Society, Religion and Theory, Theory and Method, Theory in the Real World
Tagged Benjamin Franklin, Calvinism, Daniel Walker Howe, David Brainerd, Horace Mann, John Dewey, Jonathan Edwards, secularization, Shaun T, Talal Asad, Transcendentalists, Unitarians
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