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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: Rodney Stark
The Six-Day War and 21st Century Religion in the Public Sphere
by David Tollerton 5-10 June 2017 marks the 50th anniversary of the Six-Day War, a fleeting but crucial conflict in the Middle East which saw Israel militarily defeat its Arab neighbours and the basic contours of the now familiar land-disputes, … Continue reading
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Tagged al-Ahzar Institute, Billy Graham, Christian Caryl, David Tollerton, Eli Lederhendler, Hal Lindsay, Hasan Ma’mun, Iranian Revolution, Israel-Palestine conflict, Jerry Falwell’s, Jonathan Woocher, L. Nelson Bell, Late Great Planet Earth, Margaret Thatcher, Pope John Paul II, Rodney Stark, secularization, Six-Day War, Theodor Herzl, University of Exeter, Yitzhak Yifat
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Ignorance strip’t bare: Rodney Stark and triumphalist historiography
by Richard K. Payne I remember being struck many years ago by the question underlying Joseph Needham’s massive project Science and Civilization in China: Why did China not follow the same line of progress in the development of science that … Continue reading
Create Your Own Religion (Out of Someone Else’s): A Class Exercise
by Jospeh Laycock This semester I had the pleasure of conducting a grand experiment with my students that I have wanted to do for several years. My class ran a simulation in which we created eleven imaginary religious traditions and … Continue reading
Posted in Joseph Laycock, Pedagogy, Religion and Society, Religion and Theory, Uncategorized
Tagged Anthony Wallace, Boston University, Catherine Wessinger, David Eckel, Laurence R. Iannaccone, Max Weber, Rodney Stark, Roger Finke, Sid Meier, Stephen Prothero, The Interior Castle, The Life Milarepa, Westboro Baptist Church, William James
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