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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: Días de Muertos
Holiday Films and Discursive Celebrations: Exchange, Confluence, and The Book of Life
by Doug Valentine Perhaps it’s the fact that I am a new dad (two weeks on the job), but I’ve paid far more attention to advertisements for children’s movies this fall. One film in particular has peaked my interest. The … Continue reading
Posted in Religion and Popular Culture, Religion and Society, Religion and Theory
Tagged Bread to the Dead: the Day of the Dead in Mexico and Beyond, David J. Skal, Death Makes a Holiday: a Cultural History of Halloween, Días de Muertos, Doug Valentine, Guillermo del Toro, Jorge Gutierrez, La Muerte, Regina M. Marchi, Skulls to the Living, Stanley Brandes, The Book of Life, Xibalba
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Beyond Binaries: Syncretism, Hybridity, and other Frustrating Descriptors, Part 1
by Doug Valentine In their introduction to Religion on the Edge: De-Centering and Re-Centering the Sociology of Religion (2012) Courtney Bender et al. describe the religious landscape as a space in which: [r]eligious bodies, objects, and ideas leave from and travel … Continue reading
Posted in Pedagogy, Politics and Religion, Religion and Society, Religion and Theory
Tagged Courtney Bender, Días de Muertos, Doug Valentine, Hybrid Cultures, Jacques Derrida, Manuel Vásquez, Marie Friedmann Marquardt, Néstor García Canclini, Northwestern University, Our Lady of Guadalupe, Reneto Rosaldo, Santa Muerte, Sylvester Johnson, syncretism
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