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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
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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
- 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: secularization
A Review of Emily Ogden’s Credulity: A Cultural History of US Mesmerism
Editor’s note: Bulletin Book Reviews is the newly developed book review portal for the Bulletin for the Study of Religion, associated with NAASR and published by Equinox. We are interested in reviewing titles of wide relevance to the academic study of religion, … Continue reading
Posted in Bulletin Book Reviews, Politics and Religion, Religion and Society, Religion and Theory, Theory and Method, Uncategorized
Tagged Ann Braude, antebellum secularism, Benjamin Franklin, Bruno Latour, Bulletin Book Reviews, Charles McCrary, Charles Poyen, Emily Ogden, enchantment, Franz Anton Mesmer, Herman Melville, John Modern, Loraina Brackett, Mesmerism, Nathaniel Hawthorne, secularization, somnambulists, Spiritualism, Talal Asad, William Leete Stone
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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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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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Call for Papers: Secularism and Secularity Group, the AAR and SBL Meeting in Atlanta, GA, November 21-24
Secularism and Secularity Group CFP Deadline: Monday, March 2nd, 2015, 5:00PM EST, via https://papers.aarweb.org/ Statement of Purpose: This Group seeks to explore a set of questions associated with secularism, secularity, and secularization — questions that pertain to the shifting relationship … Continue reading
Theory & Religion Series: Talal Asad’s Formations of the Secular
by Eoin O’Mahony * This post is part of the Theory & Religion Series, where contributors are asked to discuss a book or essay by a particular theorist that they have found useful in their teaching and research in the study … Continue reading
Reflections on RELS 161: Contemporary Problems in Religion and Culture
by Ian Alexander Cuthbertson Note: This post originally appeared on the Practicum: Critical Theory, Religion, and Pedagogy blog. Last year I redesigned a first-year religious studies course at Queen’s University in Kingston Ontario. The course is one of two full-year … Continue reading
Posted in Pedagogy, Religion and Popular Culture, Religion and Theory, Theory and Method
Tagged and Pedagogy, fundamentalism, Ian Alexander Cuthbertson, J.Z. Smith, Malory Nye, neopaganism, new atheism, new religious movements, Practicum: Critical Theory, Queen’s University, Religion, Russell McCutcheon, Satanism, Scientology, secularization, Talal Asad
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“are they a religious band or not at all?”: On Pluralism, Nones, and Identification
by Charles McCrary Last month the band Being as an Ocean released their second album, How We Both Wondrously Perish, which reached the second-highest spot on Billboard’s “Hard Rock” chart. The band was formed only three years ago, yet they now have released two albums … Continue reading
Posted in Charles McCrary, Religion and Society, Religion and Theory, Theory and Method
Tagged Being as an Ocean, Brad Gregory, David Campbell, How We Both Wondrously Perish, Joel Quartuccio, Lauren Berlant, Michael Warner, Mohandas Gandhi, Religion News Service, Rilke, Robert Putnam, secularization, Steven Ramey, the Nones, Tumblr
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