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Bulletin for the study of religion feed- British Forum for Ethnomusicology, University of Edinburgh, 13-16 April 2023
- 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
Tag Archives: Rudolph Otto
Free Speech, Precious Snowflakes, and Religious Experience
We do not blame such an one, when he tries for himself to advance as far as he can with the help of such principles of explanation as he knows, interpreting “aesthetics” in terms of sensuous pleasure, and “religion” … Continue reading
Posted in Matt Sheedy, Politics and Religion, Religion and Society, Religion and Theory, Religion in the News, Theory and Method, Theory in the Real World
Tagged Ann Coulter, Auburn University, Berkeley, Bill Maher, Charles Murray, free speech, Jean-Francois Lyotard, Middlebury College, Milo Yiannopoulos, New York Times, Richard Spencer, Rudolph Otto, Russell McCutcheon, Ulrich Baer, Winnifred Fallers Sullivan
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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
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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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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