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- JCA Book Review by Barbara Hausmair: Archaeologies of Totalitarianism, Authoritarianism, and Repression: Dark Modernities edited by James Symonds and Pavel Vařeka
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- 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
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Tag Archives: Classification
Looking Over and Overlooking
by Russell McCutcheon This post originally appeared on the Studying Religion in Culture blog of the University of Alabama. Malory Nye’s tweet, the other day, got me thinking… So I replied: For a while, now, I’ve had this feeling: as … Continue reading
Posted in Academy, Pedagogy, Politics and Religion, Religion and Theory, Theory and Method, Uncategorized
Tagged Bulletin for the Study of Religion, Classification, Field, Malory Nye, Method and Theory in the Study of Religion, pedagogy, Peter Berger, politics, Religion, religious studies, Russell McCutcheon, scholarship, State of the Field, Syllabi, Syllabus, Theories of Religion
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Basic Buddhists, Bad Buddhists
by Adam T. Miller A few days back, the Bulletin’s own Nathan Rein asked the hive-mind that is Facebook to fill him in on what it means to … Continue reading
Posted in Adam Miller, Buddhist Studies, Religion and Popular Culture, Religion and Society, Religion and Theory, South Asian Studies, Theory and Method
Tagged Adam T. Miller, Bad Bitches, Basic Bitches, Buddhist Studies, Christian Wedemeyer, Classification, comparison, Craig Martin, Identification, Indian Buddhism, John Powers, lay Buddhists, monastic Buddhists, Nathan Rein, siddhas, Tantric Buddhism, Tibetan Buddhist
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How to Get Undergrads to Begin to Disbelieve – Start with the Days of the Week
* This post initially appear on the Practicum: Critical Theory, Religion Pedagogy blog. We are pleased to share this pedagogical piece here on the Bulletin‘s blog and we encourage readers to check out other valuable posts on the Practicum blog. … Continue reading
Rethinking Gnostic Intellectuals? Categories as Weapons and History as Construct
By Philip L. Tite A few weeks ago, Larry Hurtado posted on the question as to whether the ancient Gnostics were or were not intellectuals. Hurtado claimed that they were not, that what the Gnostics wrote was not intelligent discourse, … Continue reading
Posted in Philip L. Tite, Religion and Theory, Uncategorized
Tagged ancient intellectuals, April DeConick, Christianity, Classification, Clement of Alexandria, Dan Brown, early Christianity, Einar Thomassen, Elizabeth Claman, Epiphanius, Gnosticism, Gospel of Jesus' Wife, Gospel of Judas, Gospel of Philip, Gospel of Truth, Irenaeus, Jacques Le Goff, John Turner, Karen King, Larry Hurtado, Michael Williams, Michel Desjardins, Nag Hammadi, Neoplatonic, Neopythagorean, Origen, Ptolemy, Pythagorean, Religion, religious studies, Steven Rendall, Tertullian, The DaVinci Code, Valentinus
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Non-theism and the “Nones”: Four Scholars Weigh-In, Part 1
This is a two-part special with the Bulletin featuring religion scholars Joseph Blankholm, Donovan Schaefer, Monica Miller and Steven Ramey on the topic of the “Nones.” In part 1, Blankholm and Schaefer respond to a 2013 American Academy of Religion … Continue reading
Posted in Politics and Religion, Religion and Society, Religion and Theory, Religion in the News, Scholarship on the Road, Theory and Method, Theory in the Real World
Tagged AAR, American Grace, Carol Ann MacGregor, Chaeyoon Lim, Classification, Claude S. Fischer, David Campbell, Donovan Schaefer, Ethical Culture, Geoffrey Layman, Glenn M. Vernon, Heidi Glenn, Huffington Post, Humanist, Humanistic Judaism, Joe Blankholm, John Green, Michael Hout, Michel Foucault, Monica Miller, Pew Forum, Religious Right, religiously unaffiliated, Robert D. Putnam, Robert Wuthnow, Russell McCutcheon, secularism, secularity, Sikhs, sociology, Sociology of Religion, Steven Ramey, the Nones, Unitarian, Unitarian Universalist Church
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This Class is Not About “Profoundly Religious Acts”: Pedagogy and Method for the New Year
by Charlie McCrary On New Year’s Eve 2013, The Atlantic ran an article entitled, “Why Getting Drunk and Making Resolutions on New Year’s Are Profoundly Religious Acts.” If you’re the sort of person who reads the Bulletin Blog, it’s likely that … Continue reading
Posted in Charles McCrary, Pedagogy, Politics and Religion, Religion and Popular Culture, Religion and Society, Religion and Theory, Religion in the News, Theory and Method
Tagged Classification, Diwali, Emma Green, Lent, Magic, Rosh Hashanah, Second Great Awakening, secular, The Atlantic, Wendy Doniger
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