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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: Marx
When We Forget Our Roots
by Aaron Hughes I have been asked to respond to Rachel Fulton Brown’s piece at the University of Chicago Divinity’s School Sightings. I’ll leave it to others to adjudicate her political leanings or apparent support for Milo Yiannopoulos’ cross-country speaking … Continue reading
Posted in Academy, Politics and Religion, Reflections on Islamic Studies, Religion and Popular Culture, Religion and Society, Religion and Theory, Religion in the News, Theory and Method, Theory in the Real World
Tagged Christianity, Durkheim, Eliade, Islam, J.Z. Smith, Judaism, Lincoln, Marx, Middle Ages, Milo Yiannopoulos, Otto, Rachel Fulton Brown, University of Chicago, Weber
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On the Nature and Ends of Critique in the Study of Religion: Part Two
Edited by Craig Martin Recently Critical Research in Religion (CRR) posted an editorial titled “How Can Mainstream Approaches Become More Critical,” written by editors Warren S. Goldstein, Roland Boer, Rebekka King, and Jonathan Boyarin. The editorial identified four sites where critique could … Continue reading
Posted in Religion and Society, Religion and Theory, Theory and Method, Uncategorized
Tagged 11th Thesis on Feuerbach, biblical criticism, bill o'reilly, Capitalism, Craig Martin, cultural relativism, Emile Durkheim, Ernst Troeltsch, Facebook, Feminism, Frankfurt School, Friedrich Nietzsche, Gandhi, Ian Wilson, Jonathan Boyarin, Karl Kautsky, Liberation Theology, Martin Luther King, Marx, Matthew Baldwin, Max Weber, Per Smith, post-structuralist, postmodern, Raymond Geuss, Rebekka King, Richard Niebuhr, Roland Boer, Russell McCutcheon, Socialism, Sociology of Religion, The German Ideology, value neutrality, Warren Goldstein, William Arnal
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God’s Not Dead: A Film Review Essay
by Matt Sheedy The Pure Flix Entertainment production God’s Not Dead has done remarkably well at the box office for a “Christian drama film,” ranking 4th in the U.S. on its opening weekend and turning an approximately $2 million budget … Continue reading
Posted in Matt Sheedy, Politics and Religion, Religion and Popular Culture, Religion and Society, Religion and Theory, Theory and Method, Uncategorized
Tagged Abortion, atheist, Bertrand Russell, Captain America, Chick Tract, cognitive anthropology, Darren Aronofsky, David A.R. White, Dean Kane, Dropped Chalk, Duck Dynasty, evangelical Christianity, evolution, Franklin Graham, Freud, Friedrich Nietzsche, gay rights, God's Not Dead, GQ magazine, Guide to the Study of Religion, Hercules, History Channel, Hollywood, Johnny Depp, Kevin Sorbo, Korie Robertson, liberals, Luke 12:48, Malice of Absence, Marx, Matthew 10:32-33, Mulisms, Newsboys, Noah, Noam Chomsky, Pandora, Phil Robertson, Pure Flix Entertainment, Richard Dawkins, Russell McCutcheon, sociologists, Son of God, Superman, veiling, Willi Braun, Willie Robertson
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Religion Snapshots: Deconstructing Caputo, Part Two
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 those topics relating to definitions, classification … Continue reading
Posted in Donovan Schaefer, Politics and Religion, Religion and Popular Culture, Religion and Society, Religion and Theory, Religion in the News, Religion Snapshots, Theory and Method, Uncategorized
Tagged Drudgery Divine, J.Z. Smith, Jacques Derrida, John D. Caputo, Kant, Marx, Michel Foucault, Mother Theresa, New York Times, post-secular, Protestant, Russell McCutcheon, Talal Asad, To Take Place
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Critical Questions Series: Marsha Aileen Hewitt
This is part of an on-going series with the Bulletin, where critical questions are posed to a variety of scholars on the same topic. Other posts in this series can be found here, here here, and here. It is well known, at least amongst … Continue reading
Picture Book: Demystifying Commodity Fetishism
When I was in South Africa this fall for a conference at Unisa (sponsored by the Department of New Testament and Early Christian Studies), the conference organizers took several of us international visitors to the Apartheid Museum. It was an … Continue reading
Posted in Craig Martin, Pedagogy, Picture Book
Tagged Apartheid, Capital, Commodity Fetishism, Demystification, Marx, Mystification, Propaganda, South Africa
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More than Belief: An Interview with Manuel A. Vásquez (Part 1)
Manuel A. Vásquez is Associate Professor in the Department of Religion at the University of Florida and author and editor of several books, including the award-winning The Brazilian Popular Church and the Crisis of Modernity (Cambridge University Press, 1998), Globalizing … Continue reading
Posted in Craig Martin, Interviews, Religion and Theory, Theory and Method
Tagged Bourdieu, Cultural Studies, Daniel Pals, Eight Theories of Religion, El Salvador, Feminism, Frankfurt School, Globalization, Globalizing the Sacred, Gramsci, Hegel, Heidegger, Husserl, Jesuits, Kant, Latin America, Living "Illegal": The Human Face of Unauthorized Immigration, Manuel A. Vásquez, Marx, Mircea Eliade, More than Belief: A Materialist Theory of Religion, Phenomenology, Postcolonialism, Postmodernism, Poststructuralism, Rudolph Otto, The Brazilian Popular Church and the Crisis of Modernity, Theories of Religion, van der Leeuw
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