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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
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Ritual Studies Group Call for Papers: AAR Annual Confernce in San Diego, CA, Nov. 22-25, 2014
Ritual Studies Group The AAR and SBL Meeting San Diego California, November 22-25 Deadline: Monday, March 3, 2014, 5:00 PM EST, through http://papers.aarweb.org/ Statement of Purpose: This Group provides a unique venue for the interdisciplinary exploration of ritual — broadly understood … Continue reading
Posted in Call for papers, Religion and Popular Culture, Religion and Society, Religion and Theory, Uncategorized
Tagged AAR, Animism, ceremonies, Contemporary Pagan Studies Group, Grant H. Potts, Jens Kreinath, material culture, Mysticism Group, performance, Religion and Ecology Group, rites, ritual, ritual and democracy, ritual and poverty, Ritual Studies Group, San Diego, SBL, Sociology of Religion Group, Victor Turner, Western Esotericism Group, Women and Religion Section
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Field Notes: Colloquium on Material Culture and Ancient Religion (COMCAR) 2013
This year’s Colloquium on Material Culture and Ancient Religion (COMCAR) will focus on sites in the north Aegean region, with consideration also of broader temporal and cultural contexts. The theme for 2013 is, “Navigating Roman Macedonia: Intersections of Empires Along … Continue reading
Ways of Seeing: On the Role of Images in “Religious” Violence
By A.T. Coates Haven’t we seen this before? When the so-called “Danish Cartoon Controversy” sparked protests around the world in 2005, American media outlets spoke vaguely and often about how the image offended “Muslim beliefs.” Seven years later, and again … Continue reading
Posted in A.T. Coates, Politics and Religion, Religion and Popular Culture, Religion and Society, Religion and Theory, Religion in the News, Theory and Method
Tagged "Innocence of Muslims", blasphemy, Danish Cartoons, fundamentalism, Habitus, material culture, material religion, Saba Mahmood
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Material Remnants as Cultural Signifiers: A Roman Lamp – Practical or Sacral Object?
By Philip L. Tite As an historian who studies ancient religious traditions, I am constantly concerned about how we evaluate and use our sources. Although source analysis tends to be seen as a key component in first order data collection … Continue reading
Posted in Philip L. Tite
Tagged archaeology, late antiquity, material culture, religious studies, scholarship, textual analysis
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