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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: tolerance
Again with the Elephants…
by Adam T. Miller A few years ago, I started teaching an introductory religious studies course online. While I have since had the opportunity to redevelop the course, initially it was just something I inherited—syllabus, textbook, assignments, all of it. … Continue reading
The Meaning of Islam and the Politics of Multicultural Identity, Part 1
by Matt Sheedy The term firestorm would not be overstating the media reaction to the recent debate between Ben Affleck, Sam Harris, and Bill Maher on Maher’s HBO program, Real Time. In part one of this series of posts, I … Continue reading
Posted in Matt Sheedy, Politics and Religion, Religion and Popular Culture, Religion and Society, Religion and Theory, Theory & Religion Series, Theory and Method, Theory in the Real World
Tagged Ben Affleck, Bill Maher, ISIS, Islamists, Jihadists, malala yousafzai, Michael Steel, Michael Steele, Nabil Echchaibi, Nicolas Kristof, Real Time, sam harris, tolerance
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The Problem of “Social Justice Elitism”
by Joseph Laycock A recent piece by Amer F. Ahmed outlines a phenomenon he calls “social justice elitism.” Ahmed is the associate director of multi-ethnic student affairs at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He notes a tendency among certain students … Continue reading
Posted in Joseph Laycock, Pedagogy, Politics and Religion, Religion and Popular Culture, Religion and Society
Tagged Aaron Hughes, Amer F. Ahmed, Ann Arbor, Beckwith Circle, gay rights, Harvard Divinity School, identity politics, kyriarchy, Neo-Nazi, Omid Safi, Sanskrit, social justice elitism, social justice warriors, the Holocaust, the study of religion, tolerance, University of Michigan, Urban Dictionary, white supremacists
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Pluralism and the Outrage in Libya and Egypt
By Steven Ramey The deadly attack in Benghazi and protests in Cairo on September 11, 2012, reportedly over a video depiction of Muhammad produced in the United States, suggest a common understanding of the category “religion” between protestors and the … Continue reading
Tolerance Discourse and the Democratic Party
By Matt Sheedy In her book Regulating Aversion, Wendy Brown argues, [T]olerance discourse reduces conflict to an inherent friction among identities and makes religious, ethnic, or cultural difference itself an inherent site of conflict, one that calls for and is … Continue reading
How It Works: Shirley Sherrod, Park51, and the Big Mistake in American Culture
Two stories in the news that had me riveted this summer. First, the so-called “Ground Zero Mosque,” the Park51 Islamic community center (Jon Stewart labeled it the “Community Center of Death”) that a few Muslim New Yorkers applied for permission … Continue reading
Posted in Donovan Schaefer, Religion in the News
Tagged ADL, Big Mistake, forgiveness, Frans de Waal, grief, healing, Islamophobia, Muslims in America, Park51, racism, Shirley Sherrod, tolerance, white privilege
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