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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: David Eckel
Create Your Own Religion (Out of Someone Else’s): A Class Exercise
by Jospeh Laycock This semester I had the pleasure of conducting a grand experiment with my students that I have wanted to do for several years. My class ran a simulation in which we created eleven imaginary religious traditions and … Continue reading
Posted in Joseph Laycock, Pedagogy, Religion and Society, Religion and Theory, Uncategorized
Tagged Anthony Wallace, Boston University, Catherine Wessinger, David Eckel, Laurence R. Iannaccone, Max Weber, Rodney Stark, Roger Finke, Sid Meier, Stephen Prothero, The Interior Castle, The Life Milarepa, Westboro Baptist Church, William James
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Do you believe in god? Like, god that isn’t Kanye West?
By Joseph Laycock 2014 is shaping up to be the year of dubious new hip-hop religions. In January, a movement called “Yeezianity” that reveres Kanye West gained headlines. Now a movement called “Beyism” or “The Church of Bey” has arisen, … Continue reading
Posted in Joseph Laycock, Religion and Popular Culture, Religion and Society, Religion and Theory, Theory and Method, Theory in the Real World
Tagged At Boston University, Beybles, Beyism, Beyoncé, Brian David Liebman, celebrity cults, David Eckel, Duke University, Euhemerism, Gary Laderman, Gregory Bateson, Gucchi Mane, humanism, John Crow, Kanye West, NewsNerd, Pauline John Andrews, Sheliaism, Stephen Prothero, The Church of Bey, Tumblr, Vice, Yeezianity
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