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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: Mary Douglas
Something I Learned from J.Z. Smith: Mitsutoshi Horii
This is part of a new series where scholars reflect on something they’ve learned from the influential work of Jonathan Z. Smith, who died on December 30, 2017. For other posts in the series see here. by Mitsutoshi Horii My disciplinary … Continue reading
Posted in Religion and Society, Religion and Theory, Southeast Asian Studies, Theory and Method, Uncategorized
Tagged Chaucer College Canterbury, Emile Durkheim, he Category of ‘Religion’ in Contemporary Japan, Imagining Religion, Map Is Not Territory, Mary Douglas, Mitsutoshi Horii, Shumei University, Something I Learned From J.Z. Smith, Timothy Fitzgerald
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“Gender” in/and the Study of Religion: Cameron Montgomery
In this series, the Bulletin asks scholars if and how they critically engage “gender” in the study of religion. Contributors consider how gender intersects with method & theory, pedagogy, professional practices, or matters of … Continue reading
Posted in "Gender" in/and the Study of Religion, Academy, Guest Contributor, Pedagogy, Politics and Religion, Religion and Popular Culture, Religion and Society, Religion and Theory, Ruminations, Sexuality and Gender, Theory and Method, Theory in the Real World, Uncategorized
Tagged Activism, and Pedagogy, Beyond God the Father, Bulletin for the Study of Religion, Christianity, ethnography, Faith, Feminism, feminist theory, Gender, Goddess, Helen Keller, Maria Birnbaum, Mary Daly, Mary Douglas, Methodolatry, Pamela Dickey Young, pedagogy, politics, Religion, Religion and Gender Network, religious studies, Sara Borillo, scholarship, secularism, slavery, teaching, women, worship
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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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Some Thoughts on Navigating the “Normative/Descriptive” Divide: Reflections on Islamic Studies
by Vernon Schubel Editor’s note: This post is part of a broader conversation on scholarship in Islamic Studies that was sparked by two recent articles, one by Omid Safi and one by Aaron Hughes. The Bulletin will be hosting a series of scholars in Islamic … Continue reading
Posted in Politics and Religion, Religion and Society, Religion and Theory, Theory and Method, Theory in the Real World, Uncategorized
Tagged AAR, Aaron Hughes, Alevi, Claude Levi-Strauss, Clifford Geertz, Emile Durkheim, J.G. Frazer, J.Z. Smith, Jadaliyyah, Kenyon College, Mary Douglas, Max Weber, Mircea Eliade, Omid Safi, Paul Courtright, Robert Orsi, Rudolph Otto, Russell McCutcheon, Shi`i, Sufi, Sunni, Talal Asad, Turkish Alevi, Victor Turner
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