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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
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CFP for the Religion, Affect, and Emotion Group at the Annual AAR Conference, San Antonio, 2016
Statement of Purpose: This Group provides space for theoretically-informed discussion of the relationship between religion, affect, and emotion. The Group serves as a meeting point for conversations on the affective, noncognitive, and passional dimensions of religion coming from diverse fields, … Continue reading
Religious Affects: Animality, Evolution, and Power: An Interview with Donovan O. Schaefer, Part 1
The following is an interview with Donovan O. Schaefer based on his new book, Religious Affects: Animality, Evolution, and Power (2015), with Duke University Press. An excerpt from the book can be found here. Part two of this interview can … Continue reading
Posted in Interviews, Matt Sheedy, Politics and Religion, Religion and Theory, Theory and Method
Tagged affect theory, and Power, Ann Cvetkovich, Charles Darwin, Donna Haraway, Donovan O. Schaefer, Emile Durkheim, evolution, Friedrich Nietzsche, Friedrich Schleiermacher, Imagining Religion, Jacques Derrida, Jane Goodall, Jonathan Z. Smith, Martin Heidegger, Mary Midgley, Max Müller, Michel Foucault, Mircea Eliade, Oxford University, Postcolonialism, Religious Affects: Animality, The Animal that Therefore I Am, William James
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Blackfish: The Misbehavior of Compassion (Embodied Ethics, Part 2)
by Donovan Schaefer An introduction to the embodied ethics series can be found at this link. Gabriela Cowperthwaite‘s documentary Blackfish casts a light on the plight of captive killer whales in North American marine parks. The spine of the film … Continue reading
God’s Not Dead: A Film Review Essay
by Matt Sheedy The Pure Flix Entertainment production God’s Not Dead has done remarkably well at the box office for a “Christian drama film,” ranking 4th in the U.S. on its opening weekend and turning an approximately $2 million budget … Continue reading
Posted in Matt Sheedy, Politics and Religion, Religion and Popular Culture, Religion and Society, Religion and Theory, Theory and Method, Uncategorized
Tagged Abortion, atheist, Bertrand Russell, Captain America, Chick Tract, cognitive anthropology, Darren Aronofsky, David A.R. White, Dean Kane, Dropped Chalk, Duck Dynasty, evangelical Christianity, evolution, Franklin Graham, Freud, Friedrich Nietzsche, gay rights, God's Not Dead, GQ magazine, Guide to the Study of Religion, Hercules, History Channel, Hollywood, Johnny Depp, Kevin Sorbo, Korie Robertson, liberals, Luke 12:48, Malice of Absence, Marx, Matthew 10:32-33, Mulisms, Newsboys, Noah, Noam Chomsky, Pandora, Phil Robertson, Pure Flix Entertainment, Richard Dawkins, Russell McCutcheon, sociologists, Son of God, Superman, veiling, Willi Braun, Willie Robertson
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“I Like When They Stay Standing Up”: Embodied Ethics, Part 1
by Donovan Schaefer Embodied ethics is a heading to explore case studies in which the traditional liberal view of ethics as a set of choices made by rational, autonomous agents seems to be blurred or disrupted. Furthermore, embodied ethics may … Continue reading
Posted in Donovan Schaefer, Theory and Method
Tagged affect, compassion, embodied ethics, ethics, evolution, Frans de Waal
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