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Bulletin for the study of religion feed- Society for Pentecostal Studies , Tulsa, OK, 16-18 March 2023
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- 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: Nag Hammadi
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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A Shared, Yet Strangely Comforting Delusion: Cognizing Minds, Theorizing Exegesis, and Scholarship as Readerly Constructed Intentionality
By Philip L. Tite I have recently been working through Hugo Lundhaug’s wonderful book, Images of Rebirth: Cognitive Poetics and Transformational Soteriology in the Gospel of Philip and the Exegesis on the Soul (NHMS, 73; Leiden: Brill, 2010). In this … Continue reading
Posted in Academy, Philip L. Tite, Religion and Theory, Theory and Method, Theory in the Real World
Tagged author-function, authorial intention, Bertrand Russell, blending theory, Catherine Caufield, Christianity, cognitive science of religion, cognitive studies, exegesis, Genealogies of Religion, George Lakoff, Gilles Fauconnier, Hermeneutics, Hugo Lundhaug, ICMs, idealized cognitive models, Interpretation, interpretative communities, intertextuality, J.Z. Smith, Jonathan Z. Smith, Julia Kristeva, literary analysis, Margaret Freeman, Mark Turner, Michel Foucault, Nag Hammadi, Paul Ricoeur, Randi Warne, Raymond Gibbs, Reader Response Theory, reception history, Religion, religious studies, scholarship, Stanley Fish, understanding vs. explanation
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Rethinking Gnostic Intellectuals? Categories as Weapons and History as Construct
By Philip L. Tite A few weeks ago, Larry Hurtado posted on the question as to whether the ancient Gnostics were or were not intellectuals. Hurtado claimed that they were not, that what the Gnostics wrote was not intelligent discourse, … Continue reading
Posted in Philip L. Tite, Religion and Theory, Uncategorized
Tagged ancient intellectuals, April DeConick, Christianity, Classification, Clement of Alexandria, Dan Brown, early Christianity, Einar Thomassen, Elizabeth Claman, Epiphanius, Gnosticism, Gospel of Jesus' Wife, Gospel of Judas, Gospel of Philip, Gospel of Truth, Irenaeus, Jacques Le Goff, John Turner, Karen King, Larry Hurtado, Michael Williams, Michel Desjardins, Nag Hammadi, Neoplatonic, Neopythagorean, Origen, Ptolemy, Pythagorean, Religion, religious studies, Steven Rendall, Tertullian, The DaVinci Code, Valentinus
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Now Published – Bulletin for the Study of Religion 42.1 (February 2013)
The February issue of the Bulletin has been published and is available in both print and electronic versions. Below is the table of contents of this issue, which includes a set of papers emerging from the 2011 Society of Biblical … Continue reading
Posted in Announcements, Editorial, Philip L. Tite, Politics and Religion, Religion and Society, Religion and Theory, Theory and Method, Theory in the Real World, Uncategorized
Tagged Bulletin for the Study of Religion, Craig Martin, Critical Theory, Darlene Juschka, feminist theory, Gnosticism, Islam, Islamophobia, Julianne Hammer, Matt Sheedy, Michael Kaler, Nag Hammadi, Religious Experience, Risto Uro, Stephen Bush, Women's Studies
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