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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: Max Weber
Critical Theory and Discourses on Religion Group: Call for Papers, 2017 AAR/SBL
Critical Theory and Discourses on Religion Group: Deadline March 1, 2017 Call for Papers For 2017 AAR/SBL Annual Meetings in Boston 2017 is the anniversary of several key works in critical theory. The Critical Theory and Discourses on Religion Group … Continue reading
Posted in Call for papers, Politics and Religion, Religion and Society, Religion and Theory, Theory and Method
Tagged & Emotion Group, affect, alt right, Critical Theory and Discourses on Religion Group, David Walker, eleuze & Guattari, Horkheimer & Adorno, Max Weber, New York Times, Religion, Religion & Economy Group, Sean McCloud, Secularism & Secularity Group
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Teaching Theory in the Introductory Classroom
This is part of 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 grad students to more … Continue reading
If I Only Knew Then … Tenured Scholars on Professionalization: Kocku von Stuckrad
On the heels of a successful series based on Russell McCutcheon’s Theses on Professionalization, where 21 early career scholars weighed-in on a separate thesis, we at the Bulletin would like to continue with the theme of professionalization as it relates to mid-to-late career scholars, asking … Continue reading
Violence, Religion, and the Death of René Girard
By Philip L. Tite On November 4, 2015 the renowned literary theorist, René Girard (Stanford University) passed away at the age of 91. In an online announcement on the Stanford News, Cynthia Haven offers a comprehensive and glowing overview of … Continue reading
Posted in Academy, Announcements, Pedagogy, Philip L. Tite, Politics and Religion, Reflections on Islamic Studies, Religion and Society, Religion and Theory, Religion in the News, Theory and Method, Theory in the Real World
Tagged Aaron Hughes, affect theory, Bruce Lincoln, Carl Jung, Christianity, collective unconsciousness, Cynthia Haven, Daniel Pals, Desire, Emile Durkheim, functionalism, Genealogy of Religion, Girardian theory, grand theories, Islam, James Frazer, Judaism, Karl Marx, literar, Lord Raglan, Mark Juergensmeyer, Max Weber, methodological reduction, mimetic violence, Myth, obiturary, Reductionism, Religion, religious studies, Rene Girard, Robert Jewett, sacrifice, scapegoating, Sigmund Freud, violence, William Cavanaugh, world religions
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NASSR Notes: Robert Yelle
NAASR Notes is a feature with the Bulletin where we invite members of the North American Association for the Study of Religion to describe books they are reading and/or research and writing projects that will be of interests to scholars … Continue reading
Posted in NAASR Notes, Politics and Religion, Religion and Society, Religion and Theory, Theory and Method
Tagged Anne Koch, Carl Schmitt, Georges Bataille, Giorgio Agamben, Greg Alles, Gustavo Benavides, Heinrich Meier, Ian Cuthbertson, John Spencer, Jubilee, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Matthew Tindal, Max Weber, Michael Saler, NAASR, NYU, overeignty and the Sacred: The Political Economy of Religion, Robert Yelle, social contract theory, sovereignty, Talal Asad, Thomas Morgan, Tikvah Center for Law and Jewish Civilization, utilitarianism, Victor Turner
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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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NAASR Notes: Ian Cuthbertson
by Ian Cuthbertson I suppose I had better just come out and say it: I’m interested in lucky charms. My research in Montréal, Québec involves an online survey and in-depth semi-structured interviews with individuals who possess and use lucky or … Continue reading
Posted in NAASR Notes, Religion and Popular Culture, Religion and Society, Religion and Theory, Theory and Method, Uncategorized
Tagged Bronislaw Malinowski, Christopher Partridge, E.E Evans-Prichard, Emile Durkheim, Ian Cuthbertson, James George Frazer, Keith Thomas, Magic, Marcel Mauss, Max Weber, Randall Styers, Simon During
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