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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
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- 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: Robert Orsi
Name it and Disclaim it: A Tool for Better Discussion in Religious Studies
by Joseph P. Laycock and Natasha L. Mikles Anyone who has led discussion in an introductory undergraduate Religious Studies class has experienced frustrating comments from students such as, “Jews practice empty ritual,” or “Buddhists are more spiritual than other religions.” … Continue reading
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Tagged Bertrand Russell, Dan Brown Syndrome, Elie Wiesel, Franklin Graham, hermeneutics of suspicion, Jeffrey Kripal, John Dominic Crossan, Joseph P. Laycock, Natasha L. Mikles, No Good Scotsman, Robert Orsi, School of Thought International, William Cantwell Smith, William James, world religions
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The Problem of the Mystic East
The following post originally appeared in a slightly different form on the author’s personal blog, which can be found here. After having read Robert Orsi’s rather odd essay on “The Problem of the Holy” (in The Cambridge Companion to Religious Studies, ed. … Continue reading
The First Day in Orientation to the Study of Religion
by Sean McCloud * This post originally appeared on the Practicum: Critical Theory, Religion, and Pedagogy blog. “Let’s start at the very beginning (a very good place to start).” “Everything seems to be up in the air at this time.” … Continue reading
Posted in Pedagogy, Religion and Society, Religion and Theory, Theory and Method, Uncategorized
Tagged Bruce Lincoln, Camper van Beethoven, J.Z. Smith, Judith Richardson, Karl Marx, Meredith McGuire, Pierre Bourdieu, Practicum: Critical Theory, Robert Orsi, Sarah Pike, Sean McCloud, Sigmund Freud, Victor Turner
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Serpents, Novelty, and Academic Fetish
by Travis Cooper * This is a revised version of a post originally found on the author’s personal blog. Novelty draws academics. This is no controversial claim. We cluster around the odd, the uncanny, and the strange. We gather around scenes … Continue reading
Posted in Religion and Society, Religion and Theory, Theory and Method, Travis Cooper
Tagged J.Z. Smith, Pierre Bourdieu, Robert Orsi
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Some Thoughts on Navigating the “Normative/Descriptive” Divide: Reflections on Islamic Studies
by Vernon Schubel Editor’s note: This post is part of a broader conversation on scholarship in Islamic Studies that was sparked by two recent articles, one by Omid Safi and one by Aaron Hughes. The Bulletin will be hosting a series of scholars in Islamic … Continue reading
Posted in Politics and Religion, Religion and Society, Religion and Theory, Theory and Method, Theory in the Real World, Uncategorized
Tagged AAR, Aaron Hughes, Alevi, Claude Levi-Strauss, Clifford Geertz, Emile Durkheim, J.G. Frazer, J.Z. Smith, Jadaliyyah, Kenyon College, Mary Douglas, Max Weber, Mircea Eliade, Omid Safi, Paul Courtright, Robert Orsi, Rudolph Otto, Russell McCutcheon, Shi`i, Sufi, Sunni, Talal Asad, Turkish Alevi, Victor Turner
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Let’s Talk “Religion”: A Politically and Culturally Embedded Product
By Philip L. Tite The following is the editorial introduction to the most recent issue of the Bulletin for the Study of Religion (43.1, February 2014). We offer this introduction here in order to give readers of the Bulletin’s blog a sense … Continue reading
Posted in Academy, Announcements, Editorial, Philip L. Tite, Politics and Religion, Religion and Popular Culture, Religion and Society, Religion and Theory, Religion Snapshots, Theory and Method, Theory in the Real World
Tagged 12 years a slave, Bulletin for the Study of Religion, Clifford Geertz, Craig Martin, Data, Donovan Shaefer, Educational Technology, Genealogies of Religion, James Dennis LoRusso, Matt Sheedy, Max Weber, Occupy Movement, Paul Ricoeur, Religion, religious studies, Richard Amesbury, Robert A. Segal, Robert Orsi, Robert Segal, scholarship, Sociology of Religion, Talal Asad
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