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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
- JCA Book Reviews: The Archaeology of Burning Man: The Rise and Fall of Black Rock City by Carolyn L. White
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- 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
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Theory in Unlikely Places: Tim Kinsella’s Lyrics
In this series with the Bulletin, we ask readers and contributors to share some reflections on unlikely places (i.e., non-stodgy-academic-prose) where religious studies theory and method show up for them–be it in song, poetry, literature, television, film, or anything else. by Adam T. Miller A … Continue reading
Posted in Adam Miller, Religion and Popular Culture, Religion and Society, Religion and Theory, Ruminations, Theory and Method, Theory in the Real World
Tagged Adam T. Miller, Authenticity, comparison, Ideology, interpellation, Jesus Christ, Karl Marx, Madison Langston, Make Believe, Origins, Owls, Poststructuralism, Purity and Danger, Rhetoric, Russell McCutcheon, Tim Kinsella
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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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“New Religious Movements” as an Interpretive Category
Typically, when we think of New Religious Movements (NRMs), our gaze is directed to the relatively small number of traditions that cluster at the fringes of the contemporary religious landscape (e.g., the Church of Scientology, International Raelian Religion, Heaven’s Gate, … Continue reading