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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: Phenomenology
Critical Research on Religion: An Interview with Warren S. Goldstein, Part 2
Warren S. Goldstein, Executive Director of the Center for Critical Research on Religion (http://www.criticaltheoryofreligion.org), is a Visiting Fellow of the Committee on the Study of Religion at Harvard University and a Religion Fellow at Boston University’s School of Theology. His Ph.D. is … Continue reading
Posted in Interviews, Matt Sheedy, Politics and Religion, Religion and Society, Religion and Theory, Theory and Method, Uncategorized
Tagged Alain Badiou, Alison Robertson, Alwyn Lau, Brannon Ingram, Bruno Bauer, Capitalism, Carl Schmitt, Cass Fischer, China, Craig Martin, Critical Sociology, Emile Durkheim, Eric Bugyis, Ernst Bloch, Ernst Troeltsch, functionalism, Hanan Ibrahim, Iran, Jeremy Stolow, José Casanova, K. Merinda Simmons, Kenpa Chin, Lee Kuhnle, Left Hegelians, Leslie Dorrough Smith, Ludger Viefhues-Bailey, Ludwig Feuerbach, M. Christian Green, Mads Karlsen, Marxism, Matthew Chrulew, Matthew Engelke, Matthew Recla, Max Weber, Messianism, MIT Press, Monica R. Miller, New School for Social Research, Pamela Klassen, Phenomenology, Randall Reed, rational choice theory, Rhys Williams, Richard Horsley, Roland Boer, Russell T. McCutcheon, sacralization, Sadia Saeed, Samta P. Padya, secularization, Shuangli Zhang, Social Constructionism, Socialism, Steven Ramey, Tilahun Bejitual Zellelew, Tom Boylston, University of Sterling, Vaia Touna, Vincent Lloyd, Walter Benjamin
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A Duck, A Giraffe, and A Package Called “Religion”
by Philip L. Tite A data-driven giraffe walks into a store run by a theory-driven duck. The giraffe turns to the duck and orders an object for purchase as a present for her research assistant. “We only deal in discourses … Continue reading
Posted in Academy, Philip L. Tite, Religion and Society, Religion and Theory, Theory and Method
Tagged Ann Taves, categories, Craig Martin, Data, Discourse, J.Z. Smith, Neo-Paganism, Phenomenology, reified objects, Religion, religious studies, Russell McCutcheon, sui generis, world religions paradigm
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The Fox and the Trap: A Lesson From Hannah Arendt on Theory
by Tenzan Eaghll In 1953, Hannah Arendt wrote an allegorical critique of Heidegger called “Heidegger the fox.” In this allegory, Arendt points out the danger of becoming trapped in a theoretical construction: Once upon a time there was a fox … Continue reading
An Unsettled Discipline: Reflections and Suggestions in the Study of Religion
By Philip L. Tite The following is the editor’s introduction to the Bulletin for the Study of Religion 41.3 (September 2012), written by Philip Tite. In order to offer our blog readers a sense of what is appearing in the … Continue reading
Posted in Academy, Announcements, Editorial, Pedagogy, Philip L. Tite, Theory and Method
Tagged Ann Taves, Bulletin for the Study of Religion, Burton Mack, Christian Apocrypha, Goddess, Hinduism, J. Aaron Simmons, levi-strauss, martyrdom, Paul-François Tremlett, Phenomenology, Religion, Religious Experience, religious studies, scholarship
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“West Virginia is one big portal!” Reflections on the Eleventh Annual Mothman Festival – Part 2
By Joseph Laycock When my partner and I crossed the border into West Virginia, the first thing I noticed were the billboards and radio attack ads. Both parties, it seemed, supported coal and hated the EPA. An ad for Senator … Continue reading
More than Belief: An Interview with Manuel A. Vásquez (Part 1)
Manuel A. Vásquez is Associate Professor in the Department of Religion at the University of Florida and author and editor of several books, including the award-winning The Brazilian Popular Church and the Crisis of Modernity (Cambridge University Press, 1998), Globalizing … Continue reading
Posted in Craig Martin, Interviews, Religion and Theory, Theory and Method
Tagged Bourdieu, Cultural Studies, Daniel Pals, Eight Theories of Religion, El Salvador, Feminism, Frankfurt School, Globalization, Globalizing the Sacred, Gramsci, Hegel, Heidegger, Husserl, Jesuits, Kant, Latin America, Living "Illegal": The Human Face of Unauthorized Immigration, Manuel A. Vásquez, Marx, Mircea Eliade, More than Belief: A Materialist Theory of Religion, Phenomenology, Postcolonialism, Postmodernism, Poststructuralism, Rudolph Otto, The Brazilian Popular Church and the Crisis of Modernity, Theories of Religion, van der Leeuw
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