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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: Judith Butler
Scripture Made Me Do It: On Images of Mohammad and Scholarly Offence
by Matt Sheedy A recent article from CNN on the shootings in Garland, Texas outside an event sponsored by the American Freedom Defense Initiative on May 3, 2015, provides a useful example of some of the pitfalls that often occur … Continue reading
Posted in Matt Sheedy, Politics and Religion, Religion and Society, Religion and Theory, Religion in the News, Theory and Method
Tagged American Freedom Defense Initiative, Charlie Hebdo, CNN, Danish Cartoons, Evelyn Alsultany, Garland, hadith, ISIS, Jack Shaheen, Judith Butler, Mahmood Mamdani, Mohammad, Saba Mahmood, Shiite, Sunni, Talal Asad, Texas, war on terror, Wendy Brown
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Religion Snapshots: Michael Walzer, Islam, and the Left
Religion Snapshots is a feature with the Bulletin for the Study of Religion blog, where a number of contributors are asked to briefly comment on popular news items or pressing theoretical issues in the field, especially topics relating to definitions, classification, and method … Continue reading
Charlie Hebdo, “Free Speech,” and Critique
by Matt Sheedy It should go without saying that the massacre of journalists and police officers in Paris this past Wednesday is abhorrent, that the perpetrators should be brought to justice, and that measures should be taken to reduce the … Continue reading
Posted in Matt Sheedy, Politics and Religion, Religion and Society, Religion in the News, Theory and Method
Tagged Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, Al Qaeda, Catholic Church, Charlie Hebdo, Daesh, Danish Cartoons, Front National, ISIL, ISIS, Je Suis Charlie, Juan Cole, Judith Butler, Karl Marx, Marine Le Pen, PEGIDA, Prophet Mohammad, Saba Mahmood, Shiite, Stephane Charbonnier, Sunni, Talal Asad, Ted Cruz, The Onion, Webb Keane, Wendy Brown
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Teaching Theory in the Introductory Classroom
This is another installment in an ongoing series of posts in a collaborative effort between the Practicum: Critical Theory, Religion, and Pedagogy and the Bulletin for the Study of Religion blogs. On November 23, 2014, approximately 20 scholars of religion, from … Continue reading
Posted in Pedagogy, Religion and Theory, Theory and Method
Tagged and Pedagogy, Brent Nongbri, Bruce Lincoln, Carolyn Chen, Clifford Geertz, Craig Martin, Daniel Pals, Deal and Beal, J.Z. Smith, Judith Butler, Kathryn Lofton, Mary Douglas, NAASR, Pat McCullough, Practicum: Critical Theory, Religion, Richard Madsen, Russell McCutcheon, Saba Mahmood, Tala Asad, Winnifred Sullivan
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Jesus’ Man-Breasts
by Deane Galbraith In contemporary Western society, an (imaginary) flat “chest” is marker of male gender; and round, spherical breasts are a marker of female gender. In the realm of the symbolic the everyday real breasts of men and women, with their assortment of different … Continue reading
Posted in Deane Galbraith, Religion and Theory, Sexuality and Gender
Tagged Apocalypse, bra, breast implants, breasts, chest, digital enhancement, flat-chested, Gender Trouble, Jack Nicholson, Jesse Rainbow, Jesus, Judith Butler, Keira Knightley, man-boobs, man-breasts, moobs, paps, Real, Revelation of John, Son of Man, Song of Solomon, symbolic, voyeurism, μαστοῖς
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Teaching Bodies and Embodiment
by Kelly J. Baker How do we make the theoretical tangible and personal? How do we show the expectations of a gendered being? How do we interrogate embodiment and the expectations beset on bodies? How do we understand our bodies … Continue reading