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Bulletin for the study of religion feed- Rock, Rattle, and Roll: Rattling Cages and Challenging the Study of Religion
- On Theory (as Pedagogy) in a Time of Excess: Asking Questions in 2017
- Philosophy for Religious Studies: An Interview with Kevin Schilbrack
- On Finding Common Ground: A (Very Brief) Reflection on a So What? Question
- Some More Delightful Iconoclasm: A Response to Andrew Kunze
- “They Were Talking about Themselves”: Michael Altman, American Hinduism, and Critique from the Inside of Religious Studies
- If Discourse Is All There Is: On Studying Religion in the Ancient Context
- The Insularity of the Study of Ancient Religions and “Religion”
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Scripting Acts of Violence: Intersectionality and the Orlando Shooting
By Philip L. Tite At 2 a.m. this past Sunday morning in the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Florida gunshots were heard by patrons. The nightmare that they experienced did not end until 5 a.m. when police killed Omar Mateen, … Continue reading
Posted in Pedagogy, Philip L. Tite, Politics and Religion, Reflections on Islamic Studies, Religion and Society, Religion and Theory, Religion in the News, Sexuality and Gender, Theory and Method, Theory in the Real World
Tagged "radical Islam, american religion, Bruce Lincoln, cultural geography, domestic terrorism, domestic violence, ethnic identity, Feminism, feminist theory, foreign terrorism, gay rights, homonegativity, homophobia, intersectional violence, intertextuality, ISIL, ISIS, Islamophobia, Latin Americans, LGBTQ, Mark Juergensmeyer, media, mental health, narrative scripts, Omar Mateen, Orlando, pathology, pedagogy, performative violence, politics, Pulse nightclub, racism, Religion, religion and media, religious studies, Rhetoric, scholarship, secularism, shooting, social capital, Sociology of Religion, symbolic capital, teaching, Terrorism, violence, William Cavanaugh
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On “Religious Symbols” and the Politics of Perception
by Matt Sheedy On September 10, 2013, the government of Québec made international headlines with the proposal of Bill 60, more commonly known as the “Charter of Values.” The Bill would see restrictions on the wearing of “religious symbols,” requiring … Continue reading
Posted in Politics and Religion, Religion and Popular Culture, Religion and Society, Religion and Theory, Religion in the News, Scholarship on the Road, Theory and Method, Theory in the Real World, Uncategorized
Tagged Bill 60, Canada, Charter of Secularism, Charter of Values, Classification, cultural identity, Gabrielle Desmarais, Hijab, Human Rights, Islamophobia, laïcité, Manitoba, Parti Québécois, political Islam, Québec, Québec City, Québec Collective Against Islamophobia, racism, religious belief, religious symbols, secularism, secularization, sovereignty, Supreme Court of Canada, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, yarmulke
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Our Peculiar Institution: American Protestantism, Shame, and McQueen’s 12 Years a Slave (film review essay)
by Donovan Schaefer Warning: Spoilers but you kind of already know what happens Steve McQueen’s 12 Years a Slave is mandatory viewing for Americans, unblinkingly revisiting a crucial and painful chapter in US history and helping to flesh out the … Continue reading
Posted in Donovan Schaefer, Film Reviews, Politics and Religion, Religion and Popular Culture, Religion and Society, Religion and Theory
Tagged 12 years a slave, affect, american religion, american south, chiwetel ejiofor, Protestantism, Race, racism, shame, sharon patricia holland, slavery, steve mcqueen, whiteness
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Profile Me: The Confederate Flag, Shame, and White Male Terror
In spring of 2011, Asra Nomani suggested that ethnic profiling of Muslim Americans was a legal and moral imperative given her community’s failure to adequately police itself. A year later, she stepped forward and called for expanded surveillance inside her … Continue reading
Priming Students for Seeing White Privilege
Here’s a trick I use—which seems to work—in order to prime students to be predisposed to looking for rather than dismissing white privilege when I talk about race in my REL 101 course. I introduce the topic by pointing out … Continue reading
Posted in Craig Martin, Pedagogy, Theory and Method
Tagged pedagogy, Race, racism, teaching, white privilege
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How It Works: Shirley Sherrod, Park51, and the Big Mistake in American Culture
Two stories in the news that had me riveted this summer. First, the so-called “Ground Zero Mosque,” the Park51 Islamic community center (Jon Stewart labeled it the “Community Center of Death”) that a few Muslim New Yorkers applied for permission … Continue reading
Posted in Donovan Schaefer, Religion in the News
Tagged ADL, Big Mistake, forgiveness, Frans de Waal, grief, healing, Islamophobia, Muslims in America, Park51, racism, Shirley Sherrod, tolerance, white privilege
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