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Better Know a Religion Blog: Sowing the Seed: Fruitful Conversations in Religion, Culture, and Teaching

In this series with the Bulletin–whose title is a play on Stephen Colbert’s “Better Know a District” segment, we ask blog authors/curators to tell us a bit about their blogs’ history, relationship to other blogs in the blogosphere, and typical focus. Other posts in … Continue reading

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The Hegemony of Normalcy and the Academic Study of Religion

This post originally appeared on the Studying Religion in Culture blog. by Daniel Jones “The hegemony of normalcy is, like other hegemonic practices, so effective because of its invisibility.”-Lennard Davis “We must… take account of the persistence of a model … Continue reading

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The Problem with the Primacy of Primary Sources

by Andie Alexander Note: This post originally appeared on the Studying Religion in Culture blog. Over the past few weeks I have heard repeated talk of primary sources vs. secondary sources, privileging the former over the latter in every case. … Continue reading

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Unnatural Groups and Protests in India

by Steven Ramey Note: This post originally appeared on the Studying Religion in Culture blog at the University of Alabama. Group identifications are not something inherent or automatic; they require work to construct and maintain, and that work only makes … Continue reading

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Caution: Technical Terminology Ahead

by Russell McCutcheon * This post originally appeared on the Studying Religion in Culture blog at the University of Alabama. I see posts like this on social media all the time (click here if you’re dying to find out what … Continue reading

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