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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: New York Times
Studying Religion in the Age of a ‘White-Lash’
by Tenzan Eaghll On the evening of November 9, 2016, as Trump’s victory over Clinton seemed inevitable, CNN commentator Van Jones made a statement that would prove true not only about the results at the polls, but the many things … Continue reading
Posted in Politics and Religion, Religion and Popular Culture, Religion and Society, Religion and Theory, Tenzan Eaghll, Theory and Method, Theory in the Real World, Uncategorized
Tagged 12 Rules for Life, alt right, deconstruction, Donald Trump, Hilary Clinton, Implicit Religion, Jordan Peterson, MAGA, Malory Nye, Mircea Eliade, New York Times, Russell McCutcheon, Van Jones, white nationalism, white-lash
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Free Speech, Precious Snowflakes, and Religious Experience
We do not blame such an one, when he tries for himself to advance as far as he can with the help of such principles of explanation as he knows, interpreting “aesthetics” in terms of sensuous pleasure, and “religion” … Continue reading
Posted in Matt Sheedy, Politics and Religion, Religion and Society, Religion and Theory, Religion in the News, Theory and Method, Theory in the Real World
Tagged Ann Coulter, Auburn University, Berkeley, Bill Maher, Charles Murray, free speech, Jean-Francois Lyotard, Middlebury College, Milo Yiannopoulos, New York Times, Richard Spencer, Rudolph Otto, Russell McCutcheon, Ulrich Baer, Winnifred Fallers Sullivan
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Theorizing Religion in the Age of Trump: Matthew Baldwin
The election of Donald Trump has given rise to new kind of politics that has already increased tensions between competing groups, including religious groups over issues such as public education, science funding, and a proposed travel ban impacting several Muslim … Continue reading
Posted in Politics and Religion, Religion and Society, Religion and Theory, Religion in the News, Theory and Method, Theory in the Real World, Uncategorized
Tagged Alison Stanger, Andrew Sullivan, Anna Carastathis, Arthur Miller, Charles Murray, Charles Sanders Peirce, Columbia University, Edward O’Brien, Frank Bruni, John Warner, Matthew Baldwin, McCarthyism, Middlebury College, New York Magazine, New York Times, public reason, Rachel Fulton Brown, Richard Rorty, Roger Williams, secularism, Stephen L. Carter, The Crucible, Theorizing Religion in the Age of Trump, Thomas Jefferson, Time Magazine, Wil DiGravio
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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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Heaven Is For Real: A Film Review Essay
by Matt Sheedy Heaven Is For Real is the fourth religion-themed film to appear in mainstream cinemas in 2014. Emerging in the still-frothy wake of Son of God, Noah and God’s Not Dead, it earned 22.5 million on its opening … Continue reading
Posted in Matt Sheedy, Religion and Popular Culture, Religion and Society, Religion and Theory, Religion in the News, Theory and Method, Uncategorized
Tagged Baton Rouge, Biblicism, Captain America, Christian drama film, Colton Burpo, Crossroads Wesleyan Church, Darren Aronofsky, Exodus 20:4-5, God's Not Dead, Greg Kinear, Heaven Is for Real, John 3:13, New York Times, Noah, Randall Wallace, Son of God, Todd Burpo
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Post-Atheism and Deconstruction: Postsecular Atheisms, Part 2
by Donovan Schaefer Gary Gutting: So the distinction that saves you from contradiction is this: Beliefs contain faith in the sense that, in the world, beliefs are where we find faith concretely expressed; but any given faith can be expressed … Continue reading
Posted in Donovan Schaefer, Politics and Religion, Religion and Society, Religion and Theory, Religion in the News, Theory and Method
Tagged affect, agnostic, analytic philosophy, Atheism, Belief, Circumfession, continental philosophy of religion, deconstruction, Gary Gutting, Jacques Derrida, John D. Caputo, Michael Norton, Neil deGrasse Tyson, New Materialist, New York Times, post-atheism, Poststructuralism, Theology
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Religion Snapshots: Deconstructing Caputo, Part Two
Religion Snapshots is a feature with the Bulletin for the Study of Religion blog, where a number of contributors are asked to briefly comment on popular news items or pressing theoretical issues in the field, especially those topics relating to definitions, classification … Continue reading
Posted in Donovan Schaefer, Politics and Religion, Religion and Popular Culture, Religion and Society, Religion and Theory, Religion in the News, Religion Snapshots, Theory and Method, Uncategorized
Tagged Drudgery Divine, J.Z. Smith, Jacques Derrida, John D. Caputo, Kant, Marx, Michel Foucault, Mother Theresa, New York Times, post-secular, Protestant, Russell McCutcheon, Talal Asad, To Take Place
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