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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: Islam
A Whole New People of the Book: A Review of Lewis and Lund, eds., Muslim Superheroes
Editor’s note: Bulletin Book Reviews is the newly developed book review portal for the Bulletin for the Study of Religion, associated with NAASR and published by Equinox. We are interested in reviewing titles of wide relevance to the academic study of religion, particularly … Continue reading
Posted in Bulletin Book Reviews
Tagged A. David Lewis, Aaron Ricker, Comics, Islam, Martin Lund, Muslim Superheroes, Popular Culture, Representation
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European Association for the Study of Religions (EASR) Conference in Leuven, 2017
by Teemu Taira and Suzanne Owen The annual conference of the European Association for the Study of Religions (EASR) took place in Leuven, Belgium, in September 2017. It was organized by BABEL, the Belgian Association for the Study of Religions. … Continue reading
Posted in Academy, Conference Notes, Guest Contributor, Pedagogy, Politics and Religion, Religion and Society, Religion and Theory, Suzanne Owen, Theory and Method, Uncategorized
Tagged Anne Taves, Belgian Association for the Study of Religions, Buddhism, Bulletin for the Study of Religion, Claire Wanless, Communicating Religion, Daoism, European Academy of Religion, European Association for the Study of Religions, Hubert Siewert, Islam, Jorg Rüpke, Kocku von Stuckrad, Leuven, Marcus Moberg, Ninian Smart, Paula Schrode, pedagogy, pluralism, politics, Religion, Religion and education, Religious Education, religious studies, Robert Yelle, scholarship, Social Construction, Suzanne Owen, teaching, Teemu Taira, world religions paradigm, worldview
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Forcing Tradition
by Craig Martin This post originally appeared on the Culture on the Edge blog. Recently on Netflix I watched an interesting episode of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (“Producer’s Backend,” season 16 episode 3, which originally aired 8 October … Continue reading
Hijacked! Conference in Bonn, Germany
by Leslie Dorrough Smith Note: This post originally appeared on the Culture on the Edge blog. Hijacked!: A Critical Treatment of the Public Rhetoric of “Good” and “Bad” Religion was a conference held from June 8-10 in Bonn, Germany, at the Forum Internationale Wissenschaft … Continue reading
Posted in Academy, Conference Notes, Guest Contributor, Politics and Religion, Reflections on Islamic Studies, Religion and Popular Culture, Religion and Society, Religion and Theory, Religion in the News, Scholarship on the Road, Theory and Method, Theory in the Real World, Uncategorized
Tagged Aaron Hughes, american religion, Believer, Bonn, Bulletin for the Study of Religion, CNN, Cult, Culture on the Edge, Forum internationale Wissenschaft, Germany, government, Greek fire-walking, Hijacked!, Islam, Islamophobia, legitimization, Leslie Dorrough Smith, Merinda Simmons, NAASR, niqab debate, North American Association for the Study of Religion, pedagogy, politics, Public rhetoric, Religion, religious studies, Reza Aslan, Rhetoric, Sociology of Religion, University, University of Bonn, Vaia Touna
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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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Introduction: René Girard’s Legacy
The following is the introduction to the special double-size September-December 2016 issue of the Bulletin for the Study of Religion (the full table of contents having already been posted). The introduction to … Continue reading
Posted in Announcements, Buddhist Studies, Editorial, Guest Contributor, Reflections on Islamic Studies, Religion and Society, Religion and Theory, Theory and Method
Tagged Bulletin for the Study of Religion, Conference, Contagion, cosmic war, COV&R, David Frankfurter, disgust, Girardian theory, Islam, Jonathan Klawans, Margo Kitts, Mark Juergensmeyer, Martha J. Reineke, Method, Michael Jerryson, mimesis, mimetic theory, Myth, myth-ritual, NAASR, Religion, Religion and Violence, religious studies, Rene Girard, Sandor Goodhart, scapegoat, The Iliad, The Mahabharata, Vanessa J. Avery, violence
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