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Bulletin for the study of religion feed- Post-lineage Yoga book launch, SOAS Centre of Yoga Studies, 7 December 2020
- Journal of Skyscape Archaeology/Sophia Centre Lecture, 8 December 2020
- From California to Hollywood: Tracking Sam Larner from the Trawlers to the Silver Screen, 18 December 2020
- Writing About Music, Richmond Literature Festival, 18 November 2020
- 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: Philosophy
Comparative Approaches to Religion and Violence Group, Call for Papers: AAR/SBL Meeting, San Diego, Nov. 22-25, 2014
Comparative Approaches to Religion and Violence Group The AAR and SBL Meeting San Diego California, November 22-25 Deadline: Monday, March 3, 2014, 5:00 PM EST, through: http://papers.aarweb.org/ Statement of Purpose: Since the end of the Cold War, acts of religiously motivated … Continue reading
Posted in Call for papers, Politics and Religion, Religion and Popular Culture, Religion and Society, Religion and Theory
Tagged AAR, activist, African Religion Group, and Genocide Group, and Peace Group, anthropology, anti-colonialism, asceticism, bodily piercings, bodily transformations, Cognitive Science, Cold War, Democratic Republic of Congo, economic justice, economics, evolutionary psychology, Holocaust, humanities, Margo Kitts, Michael Jerryson, Palestinian/Israeli conflict, Philosophy, political science, poverty, psychical sciences, psychology, Religion, Religion and torture, Religion and Violence, Religions, Rwanda, San Diego, SBL, SBL Violence and Representations of Violence program unit, SBL Warfare in Ancient Israel program unit, secular nationalism, self-flagellations, Social Conflict, social sciences, sociology
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Religion, Affect, and Emotion Group Call for Papers: AAR Annual Meeting, San Diego, Nov. 22-25, 2014
Religion, Affect, and Emotion Group The AAR and SBL Meeting San Diego California, November 22-25 Deadline: Monday, March 3, 2014, 5:00 PM EST, through http://papers.aarweb.org/ Statement of Purpose: This Group provides space for theoretically-informed discussion of the relationship between religion, affect, and … Continue reading
Posted in Call for papers, Donovan Schaefer, Religion and Society, Religion and Theory, Theory and Method
Tagged AAR, AAR/SBL Annual Meeting, action-network theory, Affect and Emotion Group, affect theory, agency, and Culture Group, anthropocene, anthropology, Body and Religion Group, Bruno Latour, climate change, comparative religion, consciousness, Cultural Studies, death and aging rituals, decolonial theory, Emotion, Gender, global warming, jane bennett, José Muñoz, M. Gail Hamner, material religion, media, New Materialisms, noncognitive, Philosophy, psychology, Religion, San Diego, sexuality studies, Theology, Timothy Morton, will
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Jürgen Habermas and the Study of Religion – Part 1
by Matt Sheedy In his 2001 essay “Faith and Knowledge,” Habermas quotes the late Max Horkheimer (1895-1973), who wrote, “Knowing there is no God, it nevertheless believes in him.” The “it” in this sentence is in reference to Critical Theory, … Continue reading
Overcoming Cognitive Dissonance in the Classroom
Throughout my undergraduate and masters degrees, and through six years of full-time adjunct teaching in Religious Studies and Philosophy, I had the very good fortune to study with, and serve under, one of the top teachers in the field, Tim … Continue reading
Posted in Kenny Paul Smith, Pedagogy
Tagged Cognitive Dissonance, GSU, NPR, Philosophy, Religion, teaching
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SORAAAD BookNotes with the Bulletin: Jonathan Haidt’s The Righteous Mind
By Matt Sheedy Jonathan Haidt’s, The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion, (2012) offers is a wide-ranging study that blends elements of philosophy and politics, with arguments from his own field of moral, cultural, and … Continue reading
Posted in Book Reviews, BookNotes, Matt Sheedy, Religion and Society
Tagged ethics, Philosophy, politics, Religion
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