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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: Victor Turner
NASSR Notes: Robert Yelle
NAASR Notes is a feature with the Bulletin where we invite members of the North American Association for the Study of Religion to describe books they are reading and/or research and writing projects that will be of interests to scholars … Continue reading
Posted in NAASR Notes, Politics and Religion, Religion and Society, Religion and Theory, Theory and Method
Tagged Anne Koch, Carl Schmitt, Georges Bataille, Giorgio Agamben, Greg Alles, Gustavo Benavides, Heinrich Meier, Ian Cuthbertson, John Spencer, Jubilee, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Matthew Tindal, Max Weber, Michael Saler, NAASR, NYU, overeignty and the Sacred: The Political Economy of Religion, Robert Yelle, social contract theory, sovereignty, Talal Asad, Thomas Morgan, Tikvah Center for Law and Jewish Civilization, utilitarianism, Victor Turner
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The First Day in Orientation to the Study of Religion
by Sean McCloud * This post originally appeared on the Practicum: Critical Theory, Religion, and Pedagogy blog. “Let’s start at the very beginning (a very good place to start).” “Everything seems to be up in the air at this time.” … Continue reading
Posted in Pedagogy, Religion and Society, Religion and Theory, Theory and Method, Uncategorized
Tagged Bruce Lincoln, Camper van Beethoven, J.Z. Smith, Judith Richardson, Karl Marx, Meredith McGuire, Pierre Bourdieu, Practicum: Critical Theory, Robert Orsi, Sarah Pike, Sean McCloud, Sigmund Freud, Victor Turner
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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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Ritual Studies Group Call for Papers: AAR Annual Confernce in San Diego, CA, Nov. 22-25, 2014
Ritual Studies 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 a unique venue for the interdisciplinary exploration of ritual — broadly understood … Continue reading
Posted in Call for papers, Religion and Popular Culture, Religion and Society, Religion and Theory, Uncategorized
Tagged AAR, Animism, ceremonies, Contemporary Pagan Studies Group, Grant H. Potts, Jens Kreinath, material culture, Mysticism Group, performance, Religion and Ecology Group, rites, ritual, ritual and democracy, ritual and poverty, Ritual Studies Group, San Diego, SBL, Sociology of Religion Group, Victor Turner, Western Esotericism Group, Women and Religion Section
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