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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
- 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: Culture on the Edge
So You’re Not a Priest? Scholars Explain What They Do To Outsiders: Merinda Simmons
In this series with the Bulletin, we ask scholars to talk about how they describe what they do to outsiders by sharing a story or two, and reflect on how this has affected their identity as scholars of religion. For other … Continue reading
Posted in Politics and Religion, Religion and Popular Culture, Religion and Society, Religion and Theory, Sexuality and Gender, Theory and Method, Theory in the Real World
Tagged “Theses on Method”, Bruce Lincoln, Culture on the Edge, Hayden White, Jacques Derrida, Merinda Simmons, Method & Theory in the Study of Religion, NAASR, So You're Not a Priest? Scholars Explain What They Do to Outsiders
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Forcing Tradition
by Craig Martin This post originally appeared on the Culture on the Edge blog. Recently on Netflix I watched an interesting episode of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (“Producer’s Backend,” season 16 episode 3, which originally aired 8 October … Continue reading
Hijacked! Conference in Bonn, Germany
by Leslie Dorrough Smith Note: This post originally appeared on the Culture on the Edge blog. Hijacked!: A Critical Treatment of the Public Rhetoric of “Good” and “Bad” Religion was a conference held from June 8-10 in Bonn, Germany, at the Forum Internationale Wissenschaft … Continue reading
Posted in Academy, Conference Notes, Guest Contributor, Politics and Religion, Reflections on Islamic Studies, 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 Aaron Hughes, american religion, Believer, Bonn, Bulletin for the Study of Religion, CNN, Cult, Culture on the Edge, Forum internationale Wissenschaft, Germany, government, Greek fire-walking, Hijacked!, Islam, Islamophobia, legitimization, Leslie Dorrough Smith, Merinda Simmons, NAASR, niqab debate, North American Association for the Study of Religion, pedagogy, politics, Public rhetoric, Religion, religious studies, Reza Aslan, Rhetoric, Sociology of Religion, University, University of Bonn, Vaia Touna
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Names and Things
Note: This post originally appeared on the Culture on the Edge blog. by Russell McCutcheon Have you heard? There’s a new theory as to where the term “eskimo” originated. Click the above image to read the brief article, but here’s … Continue reading
It’s All About Us
by Steven Ramey Note: This post initially appear on the Culture on the Edge blog just after the Paris attacks on November 13. Given our goal at the Bulletin blog to keep this conversation going, a re-post is in order. … Continue reading
Using World Religions
by Steven Ramey Note: This post originally appeared on the Culture on the Edge blog. “World religions” as a way of organizing the world have become the focus of scholarly critiques (including my recent post) that connect this discourse to the interests and … Continue reading
Posted in Politics and Religion, Religion and Society, Religion and Theory, Religion in the News, Theory and Method, Theory in the Real World
Tagged Archdiocese of Ottawa, Ashley Madison, Banksy Graffiti, Culture on the Edge, Ottawa Sun, Rajan Zed, Reverend Terrence Thomas Prendergast, Richard Cocks, Steven Ramey, Universal Society of Hinduism, world religions
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