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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: Durkheim
When We Forget Our Roots
by Aaron Hughes I have been asked to respond to Rachel Fulton Brown’s piece at the University of Chicago Divinity’s School Sightings. I’ll leave it to others to adjudicate her political leanings or apparent support for Milo Yiannopoulos’ cross-country speaking … Continue reading
Posted in Academy, Politics and Religion, Reflections on Islamic Studies, Religion and Popular Culture, Religion and Society, Religion and Theory, Religion in the News, Theory and Method, Theory in the Real World
Tagged Christianity, Durkheim, Eliade, Islam, J.Z. Smith, Judaism, Lincoln, Marx, Middle Ages, Milo Yiannopoulos, Otto, Rachel Fulton Brown, University of Chicago, Weber
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On the Return of the Savages
by Craig Martin The New York Times recently reviewed Jared Diamond’s new book on “tribal” societies, The World Until Yesterday. Among other things—according to the review—we learn: The people Diamond describes seem immersed in the collective. We generally don’t see them … Continue reading
Death by Area Studies
by Aaron W. Hughes and Randi R. Warne A worrying trend is gaining momentum in the academic study of religion. There appears to us to be an increasing tendency toward filling professorial vacancies with individuals with PhDs in area studies … Continue reading
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Tagged Alan Watts, Arabist, Christian studies, Durkheim, Erikson, Esalen, Freud, Islam, Islamic studies, Islamicist, Jewish studies, Jung, Liberation Theology, Marxism, Mircea Eliade, religionists, religious studies, Weber
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Religion and Cartoons: Nina Paley, Durkheim, Politics
By Donovan Schaefer Nina Paley, who first came to my attention with her 2008 film Sita Sings the Blues, has released an animated short entitled “This Land Is Mine,” a prelude to a possible new feature length work tentatively called … Continue reading
On the Myth of Religious Violence: An Interview with William T. Cavanaugh
William T. Cavanaugh is Professor of Catholic Studies at DePaul University in Chicago, Illinois. Cavanaugh is a well-published theologian; his works include Torture and Eucharist (1998), Theopolitical Imagination (2003), and Being Consumed: Economics and Christian Desire (2008). His most recent … Continue reading
Nationalist Hierophanies
One semester in REL 101 I told students that I would perform a “ritual” with them, whereby I would make “the Sacred” manifest itself. My ritual supplies included a bowl of water, a glue stick, a lighter, and some square, rectangular, … Continue reading
Posted in Craig Martin, Pedagogy, Politics and Religion
Tagged Durkheim, Elieade, Hierophany, July 4th, Nationalism, pedagogy, ritual, satire, The Sacred
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Rhetoric, Rites and Repentance: Some Thoughts on the Chris Hayes Affair
By Matt Sheedy On the Memorial Day Weekend edition of his show, Up with Chris Hayes, the MSNBC host posed a question that is rarely asked on mainstream television: when speaking of war and remembrance, what does the word “hero” … Continue reading