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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: kathleen stewart
Profile Me: The Confederate Flag, Shame, and White Male Terror
by Donovan Schaefer Editor’s note: This post initially came out in response to the mass shooting at the Sikh Temple of Wisconsin in 2012. We are reposting it in the light of recent discussions about white terrorism, racism, and the … Continue reading
Religion as Little Something: Kathleen Stewart’s Ordinary Affects (Theory & Religion Series)
by Donovan Schaefer * This post is the first in a new feature with the Bulletin where contributors are asked to discuss a book or essay by a particular theorist that they have found useful in their teaching and research … Continue reading
Posted in Donovan Schaefer, Religion and Theory, Theory and Method
Tagged affect theory, american religion, Ann Pellegrini, Appalachia, Duke University Press, Feminism, kathleen stewart, Kevin O'Neill, Manuel Vásquez, ordinary affects, Queer theory, Theory & Religion Series, William Connolly
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Casual Apocalypticism: Conspiracy Theory, Masculinity, and American Religion
by Donovan Schaefer Conspiracy theory follows power’s secret moves through the telltale signs inscribed on banal surfaces. It takes the vaguely lived sense that something isn’t quite right and then snaps it into a puzzle form, a search for underlying … Continue reading
Posted in Donovan Schaefer, Politics and Religion, Religion and Popular Culture, Religion and Society, Religion and Theory, Religion in the News, Sexuality and Gender, Theory in the Real World
Tagged affect theory, affects, american religion, apocalyptic, conspiracy theory, eve kosofsky sedgwick, gun, kathleen stewart, masculinity, paranoia
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“The Zombies Are Coming!” An Interview with Kelly J. Baker on the Zombie Apocalypse
By Philip L. Tite Recently, our colleague here at the Bulletin, Kelly Baker, published a short ebook entitled, The Zombies Are Coming! The Realities of the Zombie Apocalypse in American Culture (Bondfire Books, 2013). In this readable and engaging book, … Continue reading
Posted in Kelly J. Baker, Philip L. Tite, Religion and Popular Culture, Religion and Society, Religion and Theory, Theory and Method, Theory in the Real World
Tagged Apocalypse, Avery Gordon, Edward Ingebretsen, Gospel According to the Klan, gun shows, J.Z. Smith, Jason Bivins, John Morehead, Julia Kristeva, kathleen stewart, Kim Paffenroth, Ku Klux Klan, Preppers, Timothy Beal, voodoo, W. Scott Poole, world religions paradigm, zombies
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Profile Me: The Confederate Flag, Shame, and White Male Terror
In spring of 2011, Asra Nomani suggested that ethnic profiling of Muslim Americans was a legal and moral imperative given her community’s failure to adequately police itself. A year later, she stepped forward and called for expanded surveillance inside her … Continue reading