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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
- 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
Tag Archives: Theology
Defining Theology (with reference to Jean-Luc Marion)
by Tenzan Eaghll When I went for my first academic interview in a religious studies department after completing my PhD, the first question I was asked by the hiring committee was “what is the difference between religious studies and theology.” … Continue reading
Joint statement on the European Academy of Religion by the European Association for the Study of Religions (EASR) and the International Association for the History of Religions (IAHR)
Editors Note: See below for the European Association for the Study of Religions and the International Association for the History of Religions joint statement regarding the European Academy of Religion, released on May 24th, 2017. You can view the original here. Joint statement on the … Continue reading
Posted in Academy, Announcements, Conference Notes, Housekeeping, Uncategorized
Tagged Bulletin for the Study of Religion, Einar Thomassen, European Academy of Religion, European Association for the Study of Religions, International Association for the History of Religions, Professional Organizations, Religion, religious studies, scholarship, Theology, Tim Jensen
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Post-Atheism and Deconstruction: Postsecular Atheisms, Part 2
by Donovan Schaefer Gary Gutting: So the distinction that saves you from contradiction is this: Beliefs contain faith in the sense that, in the world, beliefs are where we find faith concretely expressed; but any given faith can be expressed … Continue reading
Posted in Donovan Schaefer, Politics and Religion, Religion and Society, Religion and Theory, Religion in the News, Theory and Method
Tagged affect, agnostic, analytic philosophy, Atheism, Belief, Circumfession, continental philosophy of religion, deconstruction, Gary Gutting, Jacques Derrida, John D. Caputo, Michael Norton, Neil deGrasse Tyson, New Materialist, New York Times, post-atheism, Poststructuralism, Theology
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Religion, Affect, and Emotion Group Call for Papers: AAR Annual Meeting, San Diego, Nov. 22-25, 2014
Religion, Affect, and Emotion Group The AAR and SBL Meeting San Diego California, November 22-25 Deadline: Monday, March 3, 2014, 5:00 PM EST, through http://papers.aarweb.org/ Statement of Purpose: This Group provides space for theoretically-informed discussion of the relationship between religion, affect, and … Continue reading
Posted in Call for papers, Donovan Schaefer, Religion and Society, Religion and Theory, Theory and Method
Tagged AAR, AAR/SBL Annual Meeting, action-network theory, Affect and Emotion Group, affect theory, agency, and Culture Group, anthropocene, anthropology, Body and Religion Group, Bruno Latour, climate change, comparative religion, consciousness, Cultural Studies, death and aging rituals, decolonial theory, Emotion, Gender, global warming, jane bennett, José Muñoz, M. Gail Hamner, material religion, media, New Materialisms, noncognitive, Philosophy, psychology, Religion, San Diego, sexuality studies, Theology, Timothy Morton, will
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Will it Ever Be “Just about Bad Scholarship?”: A Response to Aaron Hughes and Omid Safi
by Carl J. Stoneham As a PhD student in a U.S. Religious Studies program (now entering the dissertation phase), I am struck by the ‘emic–etic tension’ in the field of Islamic Studies. While hashing out the particulars of the debate … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged AAR, Aaron Hughes, Albert Schweitzer, apologetics, Carl Stoneham, Christian, emic, etic, historical Muhammad, identity politics, Insider-Outsider Problem, Islamic studies, Islamicists, Islamophobe, Jesus, Muhammad, Muslim, non-Muslim, Omid Safi, polemics, postcolonial, racist, religious studies, Theology
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Critical Questions Series 1: Summary
by Matt Sheedy In this first installment of the Critical Question Series, six scholars of religion were asked to respond to the following question: It is well known, at least amongst insiders, that the study of religion is internally divided in … Continue reading