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Bulletin for the study of religion feed- British Forum for Ethnomusicology, University of Edinburgh, 13-16 April 2023
- 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
Tag Archives: Clifford Geertz
Religion as Film: Constructing a Course as a Critique of a Dominant Paradigm
This post originally appeared on the Practicum: Critical Theory, Religion, and Pedagogy blog. by Tenzan Eaghll This summer I taught a class on Religion and Film, and I feel as though I had to reinvent the wheel. This was my … Continue reading
Posted in Pedagogy, Tenzan Eaghll, Theory and Method, Uncategorized
Tagged and Pedagogy, Clifford Geertz, Conrad E. Ostwalt, Critical Theory, Douglas Kellner, Gregory J. Watkins, Joel Martin, John C. Lyden, Louis Giannetti, M. Gail Hamner, Michael Ryan, Oliver Stone, Platoon, Religion, Timothy Corrigan
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Teaching Theory in the Introductory Classroom
This is another installment in an ongoing series of posts in a collaborative effort between the Practicum: Critical Theory, Religion, and Pedagogy and the Bulletin for the Study of Religion blogs. On November 23, 2014, approximately 20 scholars of religion, from … Continue reading
Posted in Pedagogy, Religion and Theory, Theory and Method
Tagged and Pedagogy, Brent Nongbri, Bruce Lincoln, Carolyn Chen, Clifford Geertz, Craig Martin, Daniel Pals, Deal and Beal, J.Z. Smith, Judith Butler, Kathryn Lofton, Mary Douglas, NAASR, Pat McCullough, Practicum: Critical Theory, Religion, Richard Madsen, Russell McCutcheon, Saba Mahmood, Tala Asad, Winnifred Sullivan
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The Problem with Belief
by Sean McCloud * This post originally appeared on the Practicum: Critical Theory, Religion and Pedagogy blog. “When that sick old mythology claimed you as its prize, you pulled the arrow out yourself but the poison’s still inside.” Mares of Thrace, … Continue reading
Ode to Islamic Studies: Its Allure, Its Danger, Its Power
by Edward E. Curtis IV Editor’s note: This post is part of the Reflections on Islamic Studies series. By any measure, Islamic studies is a vibrant field. In the last several decades, the number of tenure-track positions dedicated to the study … Continue reading
Posted in Politics and Religion, Reflections on Islamic Studies, Religion and Society, Religion and Theory, Theory and Method, Uncategorized
Tagged Carl Stoneham, Clifford Geertz, Dale Eickleman, Edward E. Curtis IV, fiqh, Fred Donner, hadith, historical Muhammad, Islamic studies, John Bowen, Journal of Africana Religions, Muhammad, Muhammad and the Believers at the Origins of Islam, Muslim Journeys Bookshelf, orientalism, Qur'an, Reflections on Islamic Studies, Ruth Mas, Saba Mahmoud, Talal Asad, The Call of Bilal: Islam in the African Diaspora
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Some Thoughts on Navigating the “Normative/Descriptive” Divide: Reflections on Islamic Studies
by Vernon Schubel Editor’s note: This post is part of a broader conversation on scholarship in Islamic Studies that was sparked by two recent articles, one by Omid Safi and one by Aaron Hughes. The Bulletin will be hosting a series of scholars in Islamic … 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 Hughes, Alevi, Claude Levi-Strauss, Clifford Geertz, Emile Durkheim, J.G. Frazer, J.Z. Smith, Jadaliyyah, Kenyon College, Mary Douglas, Max Weber, Mircea Eliade, Omid Safi, Paul Courtright, Robert Orsi, Rudolph Otto, Russell McCutcheon, Shi`i, Sufi, Sunni, Talal Asad, Turkish Alevi, Victor Turner
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