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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: Ideology
Theory in Unlikely Places: Tim Kinsella’s Lyrics
In this series with the Bulletin, we ask readers and contributors to share some reflections on unlikely places (i.e., non-stodgy-academic-prose) where religious studies theory and method show up for them–be it in song, poetry, literature, television, film, or anything else. by Adam T. Miller A … Continue reading
Posted in Adam Miller, Religion and Popular Culture, Religion and Society, Religion and Theory, Ruminations, Theory and Method, Theory in the Real World
Tagged Adam T. Miller, Authenticity, comparison, Ideology, interpellation, Jesus Christ, Karl Marx, Madison Langston, Make Believe, Origins, Owls, Poststructuralism, Purity and Danger, Rhetoric, Russell McCutcheon, Tim Kinsella
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Feeling Rules and the Construction of Sacred Space
by Adam Miller I don’t often think in terms of affect, but I’ve talked enough with Danae Faulk to be mildly familiar with the perspective/vocabulary. (Donovan Schaefer has also given me much to think with in this regard, though I wrote what … Continue reading
Posted in Adam Miller, Buddhist Studies, Religion and Society, Religion and Theory, South Asian Studies, Theory and Method
Tagged Adam T. Miller, affect theory, Arlie Russell Hochschild, Buddhist Studies, Danae Faulk, Donovan Schaefer, Emile Durkheim, Feeling Rules, Ideology, Indian Buddhism, Mircea Eliade, Sacred Space
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Almighty God Created the Races
by Craig Martin Last semester I taught Fay Botham’s Almighty God Created the Races: Christianity, Interracial Marriage, and American Law (University of North Carolina Press, 2009). I enjoyed teaching the book, and the students reported liking it as well. However, as … Continue reading
Posted in Craig Martin, Religion and Society, Religion and Theory, Theory and Method
Tagged Almighty God Created the Races, Andrea Perez, Anti-miscegenation, Base, Bible, Daniel Marshall, Fay Botham, Hermeneutics, Ideology, Interpretation, Marriage Law, Perez v. Lippold, Superstructure, Sylvester Davis
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A Plea to Critique the Pope’s Pity
by Tenzan Eaghll Since the election of Pope Francis I in March, 2013, the media has effectively given the Pope a free pass on account of his acts of pity. Bathing him in unquestioning acceptance, news agencies around the world … Continue reading
Posted in Politics and Religion, Religion and Society, Religion and Theory, Religion in the News, Tenzan Eaghll, Theory and Method, Theory in the Real World, Uncategorized
Tagged atheists, Bergoglio, Catholics, Christianity, contraception, Gay Marriage, Ideology, La Repubblica, Nietzsche, paedophilia, pity, politics, Pope Francis, sacralization, sui generis, Vatican, Vito Mancuso
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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
Hitler’s Mythographer
By Kate Daley-Bailey Goring, Goebbels, Hitler, Himmler, Hess, and… Rosenberg? The first five men listed here might easily be recognized as the architects of the infamous Third Reich, whose atrocities still haunt European history. Rosenberg, however, is less well known. … Continue reading