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Bulletin for the study of religion feed- Society for Pentecostal Studies , Tulsa, OK, 16-18 March 2023
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- 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: Jonathan Z. Smith
Something I Learned from J.Z. Smith: Brett Colasacco
This is part of a series where scholars reflect on something they’ve learned from the influential work of Jonathan Z. Smith, who died on December 30, 2017. For other posts in the series see here. by Brett Colasacco This … Continue reading
Something I Learned From J.Z. Smith: Tenzan Eaghll
by Tenzan Eaghll This is part of a new series where scholars reflect on something they’ve learned from the influential work of Jonathan Z. Smith, who died on December 30, 2017. For other posts in the series see here. I … 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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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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The Harm of World Religions
* This post originally appear on the Culture on the Edge Blog. by Steven Ramey While discussions of “World Religions” often attempt to encourage appreciation of human diversity, these presentations have become the focus of scholarly critiques because of the … Continue reading