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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: Classification
On “Religious Symbols” and the Politics of Perception
by Matt Sheedy On September 10, 2013, the government of Québec made international headlines with the proposal of Bill 60, more commonly known as the “Charter of Values.” The Bill would see restrictions on the wearing of “religious symbols,” requiring … Continue reading
Posted in Politics and Religion, Religion and Popular Culture, Religion and Society, Religion and Theory, Religion in the News, Scholarship on the Road, Theory and Method, Theory in the Real World, Uncategorized
Tagged Bill 60, Canada, Charter of Secularism, Charter of Values, Classification, cultural identity, Gabrielle Desmarais, Hijab, Human Rights, Islamophobia, laïcité, Manitoba, Parti Québécois, political Islam, Québec, Québec City, Québec Collective Against Islamophobia, racism, religious belief, religious symbols, secularism, secularization, sovereignty, Supreme Court of Canada, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, yarmulke
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“Religion” and the “Secular” at the 2013 AAR Conference
by Matt Sheedy In a recent Huffington Post article entitled, “How to Find the Secular at the American Academy of Religion,” Brandon G. Withrow points to an increase in the number of panels that were focused on questions of the … Continue reading
Posted in Matt Sheedy, Politics and Religion, Religion and Popular Culture, Religion and Society, Religion and Theory, Religion in the News, Scholarship on the Road, Theory and Method
Tagged AAR, American Academy of Religion, Brandon G. Withrow, Bruce Lincoln, Classification, Huffington Post, Kevin Schilbrack, Pew Forum, Russell McCutcheon, secularism, the Nones, The Sacred is Profane, the secular
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Classify This: Reflections on the 2013 York Christian Apocrypha Symposium
by Ian Brown Last weekend I had the pleasure of attending the 2013 York Christian Apocrypha Symposium at York University. The symposium featured 20 invited papers from scholars hailing from numerous North American universities. The papers were very eclectic with … Continue reading
Posted in Ian Brown, Religion and Theory, Theory and Method
Tagged Anne Rice, Christian Apocrypha, Classification, Dan Brown, Jesus, New Testament, Tony Burke
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Religion and Spirit at The Huffington Post
In a recent piece for Religion Nerd (“The Nonpocalypse as Postmodern Ritual”), I mistook Ben Ritz’s snarky Huffington Post satire of the Family Radio preacher, Harold Camping (“Rapture Occurs, But No One Worth Saving”), for actual news coverage. Given the … Continue reading
Reading Hard Copies vs. Electronic Copies
I was preparing to review an essay today, and I was wondering to myself: “Should I read it on the computer or go ahead and print it out? I think I’ll print it out.” Then I thought: “Why print it … Continue reading
Posted in Craig Martin, Uncategorized
Tagged Classification, Electronic Reading, Grid of Intelligibility, Spatial Memory
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