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“We’re here to talk about religion”: A Few Examples for Teaching Classification

Posted on March 23, 2015 by mattsheedy

by Charles McCrary This post’s titular sentence was spoken Friday morning by a student during first lecture of the semester. It was a protest, playful but betraying frustration. She was sitting in the front row of a packed classroom, spending … Continue reading →

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Sociology of Religion Group Call for Papers for the 2014 AAR in San Diego

Posted on January 24, 2014 by mattsheedy

Sociology of Religion Group The AAR and SBL Meeting San Diego California  November 22-25 Deadline: Monday, March 3, 2014, 5:00 PM EST through PAPERS Call for Papers (PDF):  The Sociology of Religion Group (SOR) provides a forum for the discussion of empirical … Continue reading →

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“Sacred” and “the Sacred”: False Cognates

Posted on June 3, 2013 by Craig Martin

by Craig Martin “Sacred” is an adjective; “the Sacred” is a noun.  In The Ideology of Religious Studies, Tim Fitzgerald discusses the adjectival use: If by ‘sacred’ we mean those things, ideas, places, people, stories, procedures and principles that empirical groups … Continue reading →

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