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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
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Scripting Acts of Violence: Intersectionality and the Orlando Shooting
By Philip L. Tite At 2 a.m. this past Sunday morning in the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Florida gunshots were heard by patrons. The nightmare that they experienced did not end until 5 a.m. when police killed Omar Mateen, … Continue reading
Posted in Pedagogy, Philip L. Tite, Politics and Religion, Reflections on Islamic Studies, Religion and Society, Religion and Theory, Religion in the News, Sexuality and Gender, Theory and Method, Theory in the Real World
Tagged "radical Islam, american religion, Bruce Lincoln, cultural geography, domestic terrorism, domestic violence, ethnic identity, Feminism, feminist theory, foreign terrorism, gay rights, homonegativity, homophobia, intersectional violence, intertextuality, ISIL, ISIS, Islamophobia, Latin Americans, LGBTQ, Mark Juergensmeyer, media, mental health, narrative scripts, Omar Mateen, Orlando, pathology, pedagogy, performative violence, politics, Pulse nightclub, racism, Religion, religion and media, religious studies, Rhetoric, scholarship, secularism, shooting, social capital, Sociology of Religion, symbolic capital, teaching, Terrorism, violence, William Cavanaugh
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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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Religious Liberty, Gay Rights, or the Logic of the Marketplace??
by Dennis LoRusso Last week, state legislators in Mississippi and in my home state of Georgia introduced bills that would allow businesses to refuse service on religious grounds. Georgia’s bill, HB 1023, known popularly as the “Preservation of Religious Freedom” … Continue reading
Posted in Dennis LoRusso, Politics and Religion, Religion and Society, Religion and Theory, Theory and Method, Uncategorized
Tagged Abercrombie and Fitch, Arizona, Chic-Fil-A, Delta Airlines, gay rights, Georgia, Hani Khan, HB 1023, Hobby Lobby, Huffington Post, Kansas, LGBT, Marriot, Mississippi, National Football League, Penguin Books, Preservation of Religious Freedom, Religious liberty, Religious Right, The Hindus: An Alternative History, Wendy Doniger
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The Problem of “Social Justice Elitism”
by Joseph Laycock A recent piece by Amer F. Ahmed outlines a phenomenon he calls “social justice elitism.” Ahmed is the associate director of multi-ethnic student affairs at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He notes a tendency among certain students … Continue reading
Posted in Joseph Laycock, Pedagogy, Politics and Religion, Religion and Popular Culture, Religion and Society
Tagged Aaron Hughes, Amer F. Ahmed, Ann Arbor, Beckwith Circle, gay rights, Harvard Divinity School, identity politics, kyriarchy, Neo-Nazi, Omid Safi, Sanskrit, social justice elitism, social justice warriors, the Holocaust, the study of religion, tolerance, University of Michigan, Urban Dictionary, white supremacists
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