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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: Sunni
Scripture Made Me Do It: On Images of Mohammad and Scholarly Offence
by Matt Sheedy A recent article from CNN on the shootings in Garland, Texas outside an event sponsored by the American Freedom Defense Initiative on May 3, 2015, provides a useful example of some of the pitfalls that often occur … Continue reading
Posted in Matt Sheedy, Politics and Religion, Religion and Society, Religion and Theory, Religion in the News, Theory and Method
Tagged American Freedom Defense Initiative, Charlie Hebdo, CNN, Danish Cartoons, Evelyn Alsultany, Garland, hadith, ISIS, Jack Shaheen, Judith Butler, Mahmood Mamdani, Mohammad, Saba Mahmood, Shiite, Sunni, Talal Asad, Texas, war on terror, Wendy Brown
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Charlie Hebdo, “Free Speech,” and Critique
by Matt Sheedy It should go without saying that the massacre of journalists and police officers in Paris this past Wednesday is abhorrent, that the perpetrators should be brought to justice, and that measures should be taken to reduce the … Continue reading
Posted in Matt Sheedy, Politics and Religion, Religion and Society, Religion in the News, Theory and Method
Tagged Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, Al Qaeda, Catholic Church, Charlie Hebdo, Daesh, Danish Cartoons, Front National, ISIL, ISIS, Je Suis Charlie, Juan Cole, Judith Butler, Karl Marx, Marine Le Pen, PEGIDA, Prophet Mohammad, Saba Mahmood, Shiite, Stephane Charbonnier, Sunni, Talal Asad, Ted Cruz, The Onion, Webb Keane, Wendy Brown
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Some Thoughts on Navigating the “Normative/Descriptive” Divide: Reflections on Islamic Studies
by Vernon Schubel Editor’s note: This post is part of a broader conversation on scholarship in Islamic Studies that was sparked by two recent articles, one by Omid Safi and one by Aaron Hughes. The Bulletin will be hosting a series of scholars in Islamic … Continue reading
Posted in Politics and Religion, Religion and Society, Religion and Theory, Theory and Method, Theory in the Real World, Uncategorized
Tagged AAR, Aaron Hughes, Alevi, Claude Levi-Strauss, Clifford Geertz, Emile Durkheim, J.G. Frazer, J.Z. Smith, Jadaliyyah, Kenyon College, Mary Douglas, Max Weber, Mircea Eliade, Omid Safi, Paul Courtright, Robert Orsi, Rudolph Otto, Russell McCutcheon, Shi`i, Sufi, Sunni, Talal Asad, Turkish Alevi, Victor Turner
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