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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: Saba Mahmood
The Republic Unsettled: Muslim French and the Contradictions of Secularism: An Interview with Mayanthi Fernando, Part 1
Editor’s note: The follow is an interview with Mayanthi Fernando, Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Santa Cruz, on her book, The Republic Unsettled: Muslim French and the Contradictions of Secularism (Duke University Press, 2014). Part two of this interview can … Continue reading
Posted in Interviews, Matt Sheedy, Politics and Religion, Religion and Society, Religion and Theory, Sexuality and Gender, Theory and Method, Uncategorized
Tagged Axel Honneth, Black Skin, Charles Hirschkind, Charles Taylor, Charlie Hebdo, Collective of French Muslims, David Scott, Duke University Press, Esther Benbassa, Frantz Fanon, French Muslims, Gil Anidjar, Je Suis Charlie, laïcité, Louis Althusser, Mayanthi Fernando, Michel-Rolph Trouillot, Muslim French, Paula Hyman, politics of recognition, republican secularism, Saba Mahmood, Santa Cruz, secularism, secularization, Talal Asad, The Republic Unsettled: Muslim French and the Contradictions of Secularism, University of California, White Masks, Will Kymlicka
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Scripture Made Me Do It: On Images of Mohammad and Scholarly Offence
by Matt Sheedy A recent article from CNN on the shootings in Garland, Texas outside an event sponsored by the American Freedom Defense Initiative on May 3, 2015, provides a useful example of some of the pitfalls that often occur … Continue reading
Posted in Matt Sheedy, Politics and Religion, Religion and Society, Religion and Theory, Religion in the News, Theory and Method
Tagged American Freedom Defense Initiative, Charlie Hebdo, CNN, Danish Cartoons, Evelyn Alsultany, Garland, hadith, ISIS, Jack Shaheen, Judith Butler, Mahmood Mamdani, Mohammad, Saba Mahmood, Shiite, Sunni, Talal Asad, Texas, war on terror, Wendy Brown
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Why Paris Matters but Peshawar Does not: Moderate Muslims and the Invention of Disaster
by Sher Afgan Tareen On December 16th, nine members of the Pakistan Tehreek-e- Taliban killed one hundred and thirty-two students attending Army Public School at Peshawar, wiping out the entire 9th grade except one boy who overslept and fortuitously skipped … Continue reading
Posted in Politics and Religion, Religion and Society, Religion and Theory, Religion in the News, Theory and Method, Uncategorized
Tagged Army Public School at Peshawar, Charlie Hebdo, Je Suis Charlie, Kevin Rozario, Newsweek, Pakistan, Saba Mahmood, secularism, Sher Afgan Tareen, Tehreek-e- Taliban
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Charlie Hebdo, “Free Speech,” and Critique
by Matt Sheedy It should go without saying that the massacre of journalists and police officers in Paris this past Wednesday is abhorrent, that the perpetrators should be brought to justice, and that measures should be taken to reduce the … Continue reading
Posted in Matt Sheedy, Politics and Religion, Religion and Society, Religion in the News, Theory and Method
Tagged Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, Al Qaeda, Catholic Church, Charlie Hebdo, Daesh, Danish Cartoons, Front National, ISIL, ISIS, Je Suis Charlie, Juan Cole, Judith Butler, Karl Marx, Marine Le Pen, PEGIDA, Prophet Mohammad, Saba Mahmood, Shiite, Stephane Charbonnier, Sunni, Talal Asad, Ted Cruz, The Onion, Webb Keane, Wendy Brown
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Teaching Theory in the Introductory Classroom
This is another installment in an ongoing series of posts in a collaborative effort between the Practicum: Critical Theory, Religion, and Pedagogy and the Bulletin for the Study of Religion blogs. On November 23, 2014, approximately 20 scholars of religion, from … Continue reading
Posted in Pedagogy, Religion and Theory, Theory and Method
Tagged and Pedagogy, Brent Nongbri, Bruce Lincoln, Carolyn Chen, Clifford Geertz, Craig Martin, Daniel Pals, Deal and Beal, J.Z. Smith, Judith Butler, Kathryn Lofton, Mary Douglas, NAASR, Pat McCullough, Practicum: Critical Theory, Religion, Richard Madsen, Russell McCutcheon, Saba Mahmood, Tala Asad, Winnifred Sullivan
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A Report from the 2014 NEH Summer Institute “Problems in the Study of Religion,” July 7th – July 25th, 2014
by Natasha Mikles This summer I had the pleasure of working with Professors Kurtis Schaeffer and Charles Mathewes to run the National Endowment for the Humanities-funded Summer Institute “Problems in the Study of Religion.” Each year, the National Endowment for … Continue reading
Posted in Natasha Mikles, Religion and Theory, Scholarship on the Road, Theory and Method, Uncategorized
Tagged Ann Taves, Brent Nongbri, Charles Mathewes, Christopher Lehrich, Edward Slingerland, Heather Ohaneson, J.Z. Smith, Kathryn Lofton, Kevin Schilbrack, Kurtis Schaeffer, National Endowment for the Humanities, Robert Bellah, Russell McCutcheon, Saba Mahmood, Talal Asad, Tyler Roberts, University of Virginia
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Ways of Seeing: On the Role of Images in “Religious” Violence
By A.T. Coates Haven’t we seen this before? When the so-called “Danish Cartoon Controversy” sparked protests around the world in 2005, American media outlets spoke vaguely and often about how the image offended “Muslim beliefs.” Seven years later, and again … Continue reading
Posted in A.T. Coates, Politics and Religion, Religion and Popular Culture, Religion and Society, Religion and Theory, Religion in the News, Theory and Method
Tagged "Innocence of Muslims", blasphemy, Danish Cartoons, fundamentalism, Habitus, material culture, material religion, Saba Mahmood
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