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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: Buddhism
European Association for the Study of Religions (EASR) Conference in Leuven, 2017
by Teemu Taira and Suzanne Owen The annual conference of the European Association for the Study of Religions (EASR) took place in Leuven, Belgium, in September 2017. It was organized by BABEL, the Belgian Association for the Study of Religions. … Continue reading
Posted in Academy, Conference Notes, Guest Contributor, Pedagogy, Politics and Religion, Religion and Society, Religion and Theory, Suzanne Owen, Theory and Method, Uncategorized
Tagged Anne Taves, Belgian Association for the Study of Religions, Buddhism, Bulletin for the Study of Religion, Claire Wanless, Communicating Religion, Daoism, European Academy of Religion, European Association for the Study of Religions, Hubert Siewert, Islam, Jorg Rüpke, Kocku von Stuckrad, Leuven, Marcus Moberg, Ninian Smart, Paula Schrode, pedagogy, pluralism, politics, Religion, Religion and education, Religious Education, religious studies, Robert Yelle, scholarship, Social Construction, Suzanne Owen, teaching, Teemu Taira, world religions paradigm, worldview
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What’s in Your Religion Syllabus?: Sarah F. Haynes
In this new series with the Bulletin, we ask scholars of religion to share with our readers what’s in their religion syllabus, from a new class or a class they’ve taught for years, reflecting on what has worked, what has been … Continue reading
Posted in Buddhist Studies, Pedagogy, Politics and Religion, Religion and Popular Culture, Religion and Society, Religion and Theory, Religion in the News, Sexuality and Gender, South Asian Studies, Southeast Asian Studies, Theory and Method
Tagged Buddhism, Charles Prebish, Damien Keown, David McMahon, Gender, Kim Gutschow, Modernity, nuns, politics, pop culture, socially-engaged Buddhism, the Walking Dead, Tibetan Buddhism, zombies
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Offerings for the Loch Ness Monster—a Sign of Buddhism’s Arrival in the West
By Joseph P. Laycock and Natasha L. Mikles * This post now appears in expanded form in the Bulletin for the Study of Religion journal. While discussing construction of the upcoming Karma Kagyu Tibetan Buddhist practice center near Loch Ness, … Continue reading
Posted in Joseph Laycock, Natasha Mikles, Religion and Popular Culture, Religion and Society, Religion in the News, South Asian Studies, Theory in the Real World
Tagged Buddhism, cryptozoology, folklore, Gelongma Zangmo, Hinduism, Loch Ness, Loch Ness Monster, mythology, naga, Nessie, Religion, religious studies, Scotland, Tibetan Buddhism
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Debating a Discipline, Contesting Identities, and the Future of Islamic Studies
The following is the editorial introduction to the November 2014 issue of the Bulletin for the Study of Religion (the full table of contents having already been posted). We offer this editorial here on the blog in order to give … Continue reading
Posted in Academy, Announcements, Editorial, Joseph Laycock, Matt Sheedy, Natasha Mikles, Philip L. Tite, Reflections on Islamic Studies, Religion and Popular Culture, Religion and Society, Religion and Theory, Theory and Method, Theory in the Real World
Tagged Aaron Hughes, Atheism, Belief, biblical studies, Buddhism, Bulletin for the Study of Religion, Edward E. Curtis IV, emic, etic, Hinduism, Islam, Islamic studies, James Crossley, Jewish studies, Judaism, Loch Ness, Loch Ness Monster, naga, NEH, new atheism, Omid Safi, orientalism, Qur'an, Qur'anic origins, Qur'anic studies, Religion, religious studies, Richard Amesbury, Ruth Mas, Sarah Imhoff, scholarship, Scotland, secularism, Vernon James Schubel
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Now Published – Bulletin for the Study of Religion 43.4 (November 2014)
The November issue of the Bulletin has been published and is available. Below is the table of contents of this issue, which includes a panel of papers on the current state and future of Islamic studies with contributors building on … Continue reading
Posted in Announcements, Joseph Laycock, Matt Sheedy, Natasha Mikles, Philip L. Tite, Politics and Religion, Reflections on Islamic Studies, Religion and Popular Culture, Religion and Society, Religion and Theory, Theory & Religion Series, Theory and Method
Tagged Aaron Hughes, Belief, biblical studies, Buddhism, Bulletin for the Study of Religion, Edward E. Curtis IV, emic, etic, Islam, Islamic studies, James Crossley, Jewish studies, Loch Ness, Loch Ness Monster, naga, NEH, new atheism, Omid Safi, Religion, religious studies, Richard Amesbury, Ruth Mas, Sarah Imhoff, scholarship, Scotland, Vernon James Schubel
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Reflexive Religious Studies: A Note
Jason Ānanda Josephson * This post originally appeared on the author’s blog. I’ve been lecturing about and, even calling for, what I term “Reflexive Religious Studies” for some time. My comments about it will be appearing in print in the … Continue reading
Posted in Religion and Society, Religion and Theory, Theory and Method
Tagged Alvin Gouldner, Anthony Giddens, Buddhism, Heidegger/Derrida, Immanuel Wallerstein, Jason Ānanda Josephson, Karl Popper, Lacanian, laïcité, Niklas Luhmann, Peter Beyer, Pierre Bourdieu, Reflexive Religious Studies, reflexive sociology, Robert Merton, Secular Studies, secularism, social systems theory, The Invention of Religion in Japan, transnational modernity, Ulrich Beck, Western Christendom, world-systems analysis
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Definitive Descriptions in the Study of Religion and the Doniger Controversy
by Steven Ramey The responses to Wendy Doniger’s book, The Hindus: An Alternative History, whose publisher (Penguin, India) is withdrawing the book in India to settle a criminal lawsuit over offending religious sentiments, raise a whole host of issues. Scholars … Continue reading
Posted in Politics and Religion, Religion and Society, Religion and Theory, Religion in the News, South Asian Studies, Steven Ramey, Theory and Method
Tagged Buddhism, Christianity, Epistemology, Hindu Sufi or Sikh, Hinduism, India, Jewish, Muslim, objectivist, Penguin, postmodern, The Hindus: An Alternative History, University of Alabama, Wendy Doniger
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