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Bulletin for the study of religion feed- 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
- 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: laïcité
Religious Symbols with a Hipster-Sikh Twist
by Matt Sheedy For those paying attention to Canadian politics these days (beyond the occasional swoon-fest over Justin Trudeau, Canada’s “super hot Prime Minister”) one of the more popular figures to have emerged in recent months is Jagmeet Singh, a … Continue reading
Posted in Matt Sheedy, Politics and Religion, Religion and Society, Religion and Theory, Religion in the News, Theory and Method, Theory in the Real World, Uncategorized
Tagged Bloc Québécois, Jagmeet Singh, Justin Trudeau, laïcité, Martine Ouellet, New Democratic Party, Québec Charter of Secular Values, religious symbols, religious values, Rise Canada, Sikhism
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Feminism and Free Choice in the Burkini Affair
by Matt Sheedy The image of a woman being forced to remove layers of clothing on a beach in Nice last month by four armed police sparked protest from around the world, and is the latest incident in France’s on-going … Continue reading
The Republic Unsettled: Muslim French and the Contradictions of Secularism: An Interview with Mayanthi Fernando, Part 1
Editor’s note: The follow is an interview with Mayanthi Fernando, Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Santa Cruz, on her book, The Republic Unsettled: Muslim French and the Contradictions of Secularism (Duke University Press, 2014). Part two of this interview can … Continue reading
Posted in Interviews, Matt Sheedy, Politics and Religion, Religion and Society, Religion and Theory, Sexuality and Gender, Theory and Method, Uncategorized
Tagged Axel Honneth, Black Skin, Charles Hirschkind, Charles Taylor, Charlie Hebdo, Collective of French Muslims, David Scott, Duke University Press, Esther Benbassa, Frantz Fanon, French Muslims, Gil Anidjar, Je Suis Charlie, laïcité, Louis Althusser, Mayanthi Fernando, Michel-Rolph Trouillot, Muslim French, Paula Hyman, politics of recognition, republican secularism, Saba Mahmood, Santa Cruz, secularism, secularization, Talal Asad, The Republic Unsettled: Muslim French and the Contradictions of Secularism, University of California, White Masks, Will Kymlicka
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The Study of Religion and Responses to Terrorism: Paris, Beirut and Beyond, Part 1
by Stephanie Frank Deeply concerned by events unfolding immediately before the American Academy of Religion’s (AAR) 2015 annual meeting in Atlanta, Todd Green and I put together a panel addressing the terrorist attacks in Beirut and Mali. Despite the necessarily … Continue reading
Posted in Politics and Religion, Religion and Society, Religion and Theory, Religion in the News, Theory and Method
Tagged AAR, American Academy of Religion, Charlie Hebdo, Columbia College Chicago, Edward Curtis, ISIS, Jerusha Lamptey, Joshua Ralston, laïcité, Sarah Rollens, Stephanie Frank, Terrorism, Todd Green, war on terror
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Reflexive Religious Studies: A Note
Jason Ānanda Josephson * This post originally appeared on the author’s blog. I’ve been lecturing about and, even calling for, what I term “Reflexive Religious Studies” for some time. My comments about it will be appearing in print in the … Continue reading
Posted in Religion and Society, Religion and Theory, Theory and Method
Tagged Alvin Gouldner, Anthony Giddens, Buddhism, Heidegger/Derrida, Immanuel Wallerstein, Jason Ānanda Josephson, Karl Popper, Lacanian, laïcité, Niklas Luhmann, Peter Beyer, Pierre Bourdieu, Reflexive Religious Studies, reflexive sociology, Robert Merton, Secular Studies, secularism, social systems theory, The Invention of Religion in Japan, transnational modernity, Ulrich Beck, Western Christendom, world-systems analysis
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On “Religious Symbols” and the Politics of Perception
by Matt Sheedy On September 10, 2013, the government of Québec made international headlines with the proposal of Bill 60, more commonly known as the “Charter of Values.” The Bill would see restrictions on the wearing of “religious symbols,” requiring … Continue reading
Posted in Politics and Religion, 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 Bill 60, Canada, Charter of Secularism, Charter of Values, Classification, cultural identity, Gabrielle Desmarais, Hijab, Human Rights, Islamophobia, laïcité, Manitoba, Parti Québécois, political Islam, Québec, Québec City, Québec Collective Against Islamophobia, racism, religious belief, religious symbols, secularism, secularization, sovereignty, Supreme Court of Canada, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, yarmulke
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