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Bulletin for the study of religion feed- Society for Pentecostal Studies , Tulsa, OK, 16-18 March 2023
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- 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: Weber
When We Forget Our Roots
by Aaron Hughes I have been asked to respond to Rachel Fulton Brown’s piece at the University of Chicago Divinity’s School Sightings. I’ll leave it to others to adjudicate her political leanings or apparent support for Milo Yiannopoulos’ cross-country speaking … Continue reading
Posted in Academy, Politics and Religion, Reflections on Islamic Studies, Religion and Popular Culture, Religion and Society, Religion and Theory, Religion in the News, Theory and Method, Theory in the Real World
Tagged Christianity, Durkheim, Eliade, Islam, J.Z. Smith, Judaism, Lincoln, Marx, Middle Ages, Milo Yiannopoulos, Otto, Rachel Fulton Brown, University of Chicago, Weber
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Death by Area Studies
by Aaron W. Hughes and Randi R. Warne A worrying trend is gaining momentum in the academic study of religion. There appears to us to be an increasing tendency toward filling professorial vacancies with individuals with PhDs in area studies … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged Alan Watts, Arabist, Christian studies, Durkheim, Erikson, Esalen, Freud, Islam, Islamic studies, Islamicist, Jewish studies, Jung, Liberation Theology, Marxism, Mircea Eliade, religionists, religious studies, Weber
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Taking a Stab at Explaining Weber
I started my lecture yesterday by scanning the faces in the classroom and scrutinizing a few as a I panned across. Then I declared, “Wow. Someone in this room is going to be really, really embarrassed when they discover the … Continue reading
Posted in Craig Martin
Tagged pedagogy, Predestination, Protestantism, Weber, work ethic
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More than Belief: An Interview with Manuel A. Vásquez (Part 2)
(This is part 2 of a 3 part interview with Manuel A. Vásquez about his recent book, More than Belief; see part 1 here.) Craig Martin: As someone who is similarly theory-minded, I want to introduce theory at the undergraduate … Continue reading
Posted in Craig Martin, Interviews, Religion and Theory, Theory and Method
Tagged Agnosticism, Anti-essentialism, Charles Taylor, Civil Religion in America, Deleuze, Descartes, Durkheim, Elementary Forms of Religious Life, Embodiment, Essentialism, Freud, Graduate Education, Immanent Frame, Joseph Margolis, Manuel Vásquez, Methodological Agnosticism, More than Belief: A Materialist Theory of Religion, Nietzsche, Ontology, Race, Reductionism, Reductionist Theories, Robert Bellah, The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, Totem and Taboo, University of Florida, Weber
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