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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: Matt Sheedy
Something I Learned from J.Z. Smith: Matt Sheedy
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 Matt Sheedy A … Continue reading
Theses on Professionalization: Vincent Burgess
In this series with the Bulletin, we have asked 21 early career scholars to weigh in on Russell McCutcheon’s Theses on Professionalization, first published in 2007. In his 21 theses, McCutcheon offers advice to young scholars entering (or soon to enter) the job … Continue reading
On the Usefulness of Reza Aslan
by Matt Sheedy The launch of Reza Aslan’s Believer on CNN has, not surprisingly, garnered a fair bit of attention since its release earlier this month, from both popular websites as well as from scholars of religion. For example, The Huffington … Continue reading
Windows and Mirrors: Texts, Religions, and Stories of Origins
The following is the introduction to the June 2016 issue of the Bulletin for the Study of Religion (the full table of contents having already been posted). We offer this editorial here on the blog in order to give readers … Continue reading
Posted in Announcements, Book Reviews, Editorial, Interviews, Nathan Rein, Pedagogy, Philip L. Tite, Religion and Society, Religion and Theory, Theory and Method, Theory in the Real World
Tagged affect theory, animality, archaeology, Brent Nongbri, Bulletin for the Study of Religion, Christianity, Coptic Manuscripts, cultural geography, Donovan Schaefer, Dylan Michael Burns, Egyptian antiquities, Eva Mroczek, geography, Gnostic, Gnosticism, Justin Ariel Blount, Justin Tse, Mark Goodacre, Matt Sheedy, Nag Hammadi, Nicola Denzey Lewis, orientalism, Origins, Paul-Hubert Poirier, pedagogy, Religion, religious studies, scholarship, teaching, Tony Burke
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Now Published – Bulletin for the Study of Religion 45.2 (June 2016)
The June issue of the Bulletin has now been published and is available both online and in print. Below is the table of contents of this issue, which includes a panel of papers engaging two seminal articles challenging the standard … Continue reading
Posted in Announcements, Book Reviews, Interviews, Nathan Rein, Pedagogy, Philip L. Tite, Religion and Society, Religion and Theory, Theory and Method, Theory in the Real World
Tagged affect theory, animality, archaeology, Brent Nongbri, Bulletin for the Study of Religion, Christianity, Coptic Manuscripts, cultural geography, Donovan Schaefer, Dylan Michael Burns, Egyptian antiquities, Eva Mroczek, geography, Justin Ariel Blount, Justin Tse, Mark Goodacre, Matt Sheedy, Nag Hammadi, Nicola Denzey Lewis, orientalism, Origins, Paul-Hubert Poirier, pedagogy, Religion, religious studies, scholarship, teaching, Tony Burke
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What are you up to at this year’s AAR/SBL/NAASR Conference in Atlanta?
Tim Langille: I’m going to both of the Religion, Holocaust, Genocide sessions, but am especially looking forward to a Monday session on the centenary of the Armenian Genocide. On Saturday, the Native Traditions in Americas is focusing on the Trail … Continue reading
Posted in Announcements, Religion and Theory, Scholarship on the Road, Theory and Method, Uncategorized
Tagged Adam T. Miller, Andrew Durdin, Anna Cwikla, Dennis LoRusso, Jason Blum, Jeffrey Wheatley, Joseph Blankholm, Matt Sheedy, Merinda Simmons, Rebekka King, Robert Yelle, Sher Afgan Tareen, Stephanie Frank, Tara Baldrick-Morrone, Tim Langille, Zoe Anthony
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Theses on Professionalization: Kelly J. Baker
In this series with the Bulletin, we have asked 21 early career scholars to weigh in on Russell McCutcheon’s Theses on Professionalization, first published in 2007. In his 21 theses, McCutcheon offers advice to young scholars entering (or soon to enter) the job … Continue reading