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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: Stephen Prothero
So You’re Not a Priest? Scholars Explain What They Do to Outsiders: Matt Sheedy
In this series with the Bulletin, we ask scholars to talk about how they describe what they do to outsiders by sharing a story or two, and reflect on how this has affected their identity as scholars of religion. For other … Continue reading
Create Your Own Religion (Out of Someone Else’s): A Class Exercise
by Jospeh Laycock This semester I had the pleasure of conducting a grand experiment with my students that I have wanted to do for several years. My class ran a simulation in which we created eleven imaginary religious traditions and … Continue reading
Posted in Joseph Laycock, Pedagogy, Religion and Society, Religion and Theory, Uncategorized
Tagged Anthony Wallace, Boston University, Catherine Wessinger, David Eckel, Laurence R. Iannaccone, Max Weber, Rodney Stark, Roger Finke, Sid Meier, Stephen Prothero, The Interior Castle, The Life Milarepa, Westboro Baptist Church, William James
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Do you believe in god? Like, god that isn’t Kanye West?
By Joseph Laycock 2014 is shaping up to be the year of dubious new hip-hop religions. In January, a movement called “Yeezianity” that reveres Kanye West gained headlines. Now a movement called “Beyism” or “The Church of Bey” has arisen, … Continue reading
Posted in Joseph Laycock, Religion and Popular Culture, Religion and Society, Religion and Theory, Theory and Method, Theory in the Real World
Tagged At Boston University, Beybles, Beyism, Beyoncé, Brian David Liebman, celebrity cults, David Eckel, Duke University, Euhemerism, Gary Laderman, Gregory Bateson, Gucchi Mane, humanism, John Crow, Kanye West, NewsNerd, Pauline John Andrews, Sheliaism, Stephen Prothero, The Church of Bey, Tumblr, Vice, Yeezianity
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How much Tebowing is too much?
As Stephen Prothero’s sharp piece in last week’s CNN Belief Blog, “Is Tim Tebow Performing Miracles?,” notes, despite his mediocre individual performance, the Denver Broncos religiously outspoken quarterback is, at least for many evangelical Christian football fans, like “the Second … Continue reading
Posted in Kenny Paul Smith, Religion in the News
Tagged Belief Blog, Christianity Today, CNN, Denver Broncos, Evangelicals, Kurt Warner, NFL, Stephen Prothero, Tim Tebow
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