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Tag Archives: Genealogies of Religion
Genealogies of Religion, Twenty Years On: An Interview with Talal Asad
The following is part of an interview conducted by Craig Martin with Talal Asad, which appears in the February issue of the Bulletin for the Study of Religion, Vol. 43, No. 1 (2014). To read the full interview, please follow … Continue reading
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Tagged anthropology, beliefs, Bernard of Clairvaux, Christianity, City University of New York, Craig Martin, empiricism, functionalism, Genealogies of Religion, Hugh of St. Victor, ideological formations, Islam, Marxist ideology, political studies, Religious language, religious studies, sacrality, science and technology, secularism, sociology, Spirituality, Talal Asad, Wittgenstein
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A Shared, Yet Strangely Comforting Delusion: Cognizing Minds, Theorizing Exegesis, and Scholarship as Readerly Constructed Intentionality
By Philip L. Tite I have recently been working through Hugo Lundhaug’s wonderful book, Images of Rebirth: Cognitive Poetics and Transformational Soteriology in the Gospel of Philip and the Exegesis on the Soul (NHMS, 73; Leiden: Brill, 2010). In this … Continue reading
Posted in Academy, Philip L. Tite, Religion and Theory, Theory and Method, Theory in the Real World
Tagged author-function, authorial intention, Bertrand Russell, blending theory, Catherine Caufield, Christianity, cognitive science of religion, cognitive studies, exegesis, Genealogies of Religion, George Lakoff, Gilles Fauconnier, Hermeneutics, Hugo Lundhaug, ICMs, idealized cognitive models, Interpretation, interpretative communities, intertextuality, J.Z. Smith, Jonathan Z. Smith, Julia Kristeva, literary analysis, Margaret Freeman, Mark Turner, Michel Foucault, Nag Hammadi, Paul Ricoeur, Randi Warne, Raymond Gibbs, Reader Response Theory, reception history, Religion, religious studies, scholarship, Stanley Fish, understanding vs. explanation
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Let’s Talk “Religion”: A Politically and Culturally Embedded Product
By Philip L. Tite The following is the editorial introduction to the most recent issue of the Bulletin for the Study of Religion (43.1, February 2014). We offer this introduction here in order to give readers of the Bulletin’s blog a sense … Continue reading
Posted in Academy, Announcements, Editorial, Philip L. Tite, Politics and Religion, Religion and Popular Culture, Religion and Society, Religion and Theory, Religion Snapshots, Theory and Method, Theory in the Real World
Tagged 12 years a slave, Bulletin for the Study of Religion, Clifford Geertz, Craig Martin, Data, Donovan Shaefer, Educational Technology, Genealogies of Religion, James Dennis LoRusso, Matt Sheedy, Max Weber, Occupy Movement, Paul Ricoeur, Religion, religious studies, Richard Amesbury, Robert A. Segal, Robert Orsi, Robert Segal, scholarship, Sociology of Religion, Talal Asad
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Now Published – Bulletin for the Study of Religion 43.1 (February 2014)
The February issue of the Bulletin has been published and is available in both print and electronic versions. Below is the table of contents of this issue, which includes a set of papers marking the twentieth anniversary of Talal Asad’s … Continue reading
Posted in Announcements, Craig Martin, Dennis LoRusso, Donovan Schaefer, Film Reviews, James Dennis LoRusso, Matt Sheedy, Pedagogy, Philip L. Tite, Politics and Religion, Religion and Popular Culture, Religion and Society, Religion and Theory, Religion Snapshots, Theory and Method, Theory in the Real World, Uncategorized
Tagged 12 years a slave, Bulletin for the Study of Religion, Data, Genealogies of Religion, Occupy Movement, Religion, religious studies, Robert Segal, scholarship, Sociology of Religion, Talal Asad, technology
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