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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: Spirituality
Genealogies of Religion, Twenty Years On: An Interview with Talal Asad
The following is part of an interview conducted by Craig Martin with Talal Asad, which appears in the February issue of the Bulletin for the Study of Religion, Vol. 43, No. 1 (2014). To read the full interview, please follow … Continue reading
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Tagged anthropology, beliefs, Bernard of Clairvaux, Christianity, City University of New York, Craig Martin, empiricism, functionalism, Genealogies of Religion, Hugh of St. Victor, ideological formations, Islam, Marxist ideology, political studies, Religious language, religious studies, sacrality, science and technology, secularism, sociology, Spirituality, Talal Asad, Wittgenstein
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Association for the Sociology of Religion Call For Papers: San Francisco, Aug 13-15, 2014
CALL FOR PAPERS ASSOCIATION FOR THE SOCIOLOGY OF RELIGION 76th Annual Meeting: RELIGION AS A SOCIAL FORCE San Francisco, CA, August 13-15, 2014 J.W. Marriott Union Square DEADLINES: Session Proposals are due by March 31, 2014 (submit to the ASR Program … Continue reading
Posted in Call for papers, Politics and Religion, Religion and Society, Religion and Theory, Theory in the Real World
Tagged "strong program", ASR, Association for the Sociology of Religion, beliefs, crime and deviance, education, ethnicity, Gender, Globalization, immigration, Jeremy Uecker, politics, practices, Race, Religion, Religion as a Social Force, San Francisco, sexualities, social movements, social stratification, sociology, Sociology of Religion, Spirituality, Terrorism, violence
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Sociology of Religion Group Call for Papers for the 2014 AAR in San Diego
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
Religion Snapshots: Religion and/as Capitalism, Part 2
Religion Snapshots is a feature with the Bulletin for the Study of Religion blog, where a number of contributors are asked to briefly comment on popular news items or pressing theoretical issues in the field, especially those topics relating to definitions, classification … Continue reading
Posted in Brad Stoddard, Charles McCrary, Politics and Religion, Religion and Society, Religion and Theory, Religion Snapshots, Theory and Method, Theory in the Real World
Tagged Bruce Lincoln, Capitalism, corporations, Craig Martin, evangelicalism, George W. Bush, Gospel of Progress, Individualism, James Block, liberal, Loīc Wacquant, modernism, moral, salvation, Spirituality
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Methodological Failures
I’m currently reading Matthew Wood’s Possession, Power, and the New Age, and I’ve found an extremely provocative passage in the conclusion to his second chapter (a summary of “The field of New Age studies”): The transmission of the New Age motif … Continue reading
Religion and Spirit at The Huffington Post
In a recent piece for Religion Nerd (“The Nonpocalypse as Postmodern Ritual”), I mistook Ben Ritz’s snarky Huffington Post satire of the Family Radio preacher, Harold Camping (“Rapture Occurs, But No One Worth Saving”), for actual news coverage. Given the … Continue reading