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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: Christian studies
Death by Area Studies
by Aaron W. Hughes and Randi R. Warne A worrying trend is gaining momentum in the academic study of religion. There appears to us to be an increasing tendency toward filling professorial vacancies with individuals with PhDs in area studies … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged Alan Watts, Arabist, Christian studies, Durkheim, Erikson, Esalen, Freud, Islam, Islamic studies, Islamicist, Jewish studies, Jung, Liberation Theology, Marxism, Mircea Eliade, religionists, religious studies, Weber
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When Bad Scholarship Is Just Bad Scholarship: A Response to Omid Safi
by Aaron W. Hughes I’ve never been called a racist before. Yet, if Omid Safi’s undocumented musings about the current state of Islamic Studies is to be believed, I am one of several non-Muslims who have the nerve to attack and critique … Continue reading
Posted in Politics and Religion, Religion and Society, Religion and Theory, Theory and Method, Theory in the Real World, Uncategorized
Tagged AAR, Aaron W. Hughes, Alberta, Amina Wadud, Buddhist Studies, Christian studies, David Freidenreich, Edmonton, Ingrid Mattson, Islamic studies, Islamophobe, Jewish studies, Jewish-Palestinian, Jonathan Brown, Kecia Ali, masjid al-Rashid mosque, Memories of Muhammad, Muhammad, Muslim, Muslim scholars, Omid Safi, Richard Martin, Seneca First Nation, Sherman Jackson, Shi`i
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