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Bulletin for the study of religion feed- American Society of Overseas Research, Boston, 16-19 November 2022
- American Academy of Religion, Denver, CO, 19-22 November 2022
- Annual Conference on South Asia, Madison, Wisconsin, 19-22 October 2022
- Multilingual Education in Linguistically Diverse Contexts, University of Tirana, 22-23 September 2022
- Second Language Teacher Education conference, University of Vienna, 15-17 September 2022
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- International Association for the Study of Popular Music, Liverpool, 31 August to 2 September 2022
- British Association for Religious Studies, The Open University, 30 August to 1 September 2022
- Rhythm Changes, Amsterdam, 25-28 August 2022
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Tag Archives: Karl Marx
So You’re Not a Priest? Scholars Explain What They Do to Outsiders: T. Nicole Goulet
In this series with the Bulletin, we ask scholars to talk about how they describe what they do to outsiders by sharing a story or two, and reflect on how this has affected their identity as scholars of religion. For other … Continue reading
So You’re Not a Priest? Scholars Explain What They Do to Outsiders: Sarah Lynn Kleeb
In this series with the Bulletin, we ask scholars to talk about how they describe what they do to outsiders by sharing a story or two, and reflect on how this has affected their identity as scholars of religion. For other … Continue reading
Violence, Religion, and the Death of René Girard
By Philip L. Tite On November 4, 2015 the renowned literary theorist, René Girard (Stanford University) passed away at the age of 91. In an online announcement on the Stanford News, Cynthia Haven offers a comprehensive and glowing overview of … Continue reading
Posted in Academy, Announcements, Pedagogy, Philip L. Tite, Politics and Religion, Reflections on Islamic Studies, Religion and Society, Religion and Theory, Religion in the News, Theory and Method, Theory in the Real World
Tagged Aaron Hughes, affect theory, Bruce Lincoln, Carl Jung, Christianity, collective unconsciousness, Cynthia Haven, Daniel Pals, Desire, Emile Durkheim, functionalism, Genealogy of Religion, Girardian theory, grand theories, Islam, James Frazer, Judaism, Karl Marx, literar, Lord Raglan, Mark Juergensmeyer, Max Weber, methodological reduction, mimetic violence, Myth, obiturary, Reductionism, Religion, religious studies, Rene Girard, Robert Jewett, sacrifice, scapegoating, Sigmund Freud, violence, William Cavanaugh, world religions
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How to Organize the World Religions Survey (?)
by Charles McCrary Earlier this year, during the spring semester, I wrote a post about my teaching world religions and the possibility of using a tentative definition of “religion.” In the post I briefly considered how the course might look … Continue reading
Posted in Charles McCrary, Pedagogy, Politics and Religion, Religion and Society, Religion and Theory, Theory and Method, Uncategorized
Tagged Bruce Lincoln, David Chidester, Florida State University, Karl Marx, Michel Foucault, Russell McCutcheon, Tomoko Masuzawa, Wendy Brown, world religions
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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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Religion Clichés: #1 and #2
by Tenzan Eaghll In 1972 Ninian Smart published an article titled, “Comparative religion clichés: Crushing the clichés about comparative religion and then accentuating the positive value of the New Religious Education.” Smart’s goal was to debunk popular clichés in order … Continue reading
Thus Spake Hercules: On Atheism and the Uses of Critical Theory
by Matt Sheedy In a Raw Story article from this past Wednesday, entitled “Kevin Sorbo: Atheists are angry because they secretly know God exists and is judging them,” Scott Kaufman discusses a recent interview with the actor best known … Continue reading
Posted in Matt Sheedy, Politics and Religion, Religion and Popular Culture, Religion and Society, Religion and Theory, Religion in the News, Theory and Method, Theory in the Real World, Uncategorized
Tagged Atheism, David Hume, Galileo, God's Not Dead, Hercules, Hercules: The Legendary Journeys, historical materialism, Karl Marx, Kevin Sorbo, Max Horkheimer, Raw Story, Rick Wiles, Salon.com, Samuel Preus, Sarah Gray, Scott Kaufman, Trunews, Wendy Brown
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