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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: Bertrand Russell
Name it and Disclaim it: A Tool for Better Discussion in Religious Studies
by Joseph P. Laycock and Natasha L. Mikles Anyone who has led discussion in an introductory undergraduate Religious Studies class has experienced frustrating comments from students such as, “Jews practice empty ritual,” or “Buddhists are more spiritual than other religions.” … Continue reading
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Tagged Bertrand Russell, Dan Brown Syndrome, Elie Wiesel, Franklin Graham, hermeneutics of suspicion, Jeffrey Kripal, John Dominic Crossan, Joseph P. Laycock, Natasha L. Mikles, No Good Scotsman, Robert Orsi, School of Thought International, William Cantwell Smith, William James, world religions
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A Shared, Yet Strangely Comforting Delusion: Cognizing Minds, Theorizing Exegesis, and Scholarship as Readerly Constructed Intentionality
By Philip L. Tite I have recently been working through Hugo Lundhaug’s wonderful book, Images of Rebirth: Cognitive Poetics and Transformational Soteriology in the Gospel of Philip and the Exegesis on the Soul (NHMS, 73; Leiden: Brill, 2010). In this … Continue reading
Posted in Academy, Philip L. Tite, Religion and Theory, Theory and Method, Theory in the Real World
Tagged author-function, authorial intention, Bertrand Russell, blending theory, Catherine Caufield, Christianity, cognitive science of religion, cognitive studies, exegesis, Genealogies of Religion, George Lakoff, Gilles Fauconnier, Hermeneutics, Hugo Lundhaug, ICMs, idealized cognitive models, Interpretation, interpretative communities, intertextuality, J.Z. Smith, Jonathan Z. Smith, Julia Kristeva, literary analysis, Margaret Freeman, Mark Turner, Michel Foucault, Nag Hammadi, Paul Ricoeur, Randi Warne, Raymond Gibbs, Reader Response Theory, reception history, Religion, religious studies, scholarship, Stanley Fish, understanding vs. explanation
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God’s Not Dead: A Film Review Essay
by Matt Sheedy The Pure Flix Entertainment production God’s Not Dead has done remarkably well at the box office for a “Christian drama film,” ranking 4th in the U.S. on its opening weekend and turning an approximately $2 million budget … Continue reading
Posted in Matt Sheedy, Politics and Religion, Religion and Popular Culture, Religion and Society, Religion and Theory, Theory and Method, Uncategorized
Tagged Abortion, atheist, Bertrand Russell, Captain America, Chick Tract, cognitive anthropology, Darren Aronofsky, David A.R. White, Dean Kane, Dropped Chalk, Duck Dynasty, evangelical Christianity, evolution, Franklin Graham, Freud, Friedrich Nietzsche, gay rights, God's Not Dead, GQ magazine, Guide to the Study of Religion, Hercules, History Channel, Hollywood, Johnny Depp, Kevin Sorbo, Korie Robertson, liberals, Luke 12:48, Malice of Absence, Marx, Matthew 10:32-33, Mulisms, Newsboys, Noah, Noam Chomsky, Pandora, Phil Robertson, Pure Flix Entertainment, Richard Dawkins, Russell McCutcheon, sociologists, Son of God, Superman, veiling, Willi Braun, Willie Robertson
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