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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: Willi Braun
Searching for Method in a Sea of Theory; Or, How I Do I Even “Do” This?
by Stacie Swain My first experience at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Religion (AAR) really got me thinking (edit: obsessing) about my own ‘method’ and ‘theory’ as a graduate student in a Religious Studies department, especially since … Continue reading
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Tagged AAR, American Academy of Religion, Craig Martin, Louis Althusser, Maria Birnbaum, NAASR, Naomi Goldenberg, North American Association for the Study of Religion, Russell McCutcheon, Savannah Finver, St. Thomas Aquinas College, Talal Asad, Teemu Taira, The Religious Studies Project, Timothy Fitzgerald, University of Ottawa, Willi Braun
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North American Association for the Study of Religion (NAASR): An Interview with Russell McCutcheon
1. For readers unfamiliar with NAASR, could you briefly outline its history and its general aims? Russell McCutcheon: The North American Association for the Study of Religion—of which the Bulletin and thus this blog are representative publications, along with Brill’s quarterly … Continue reading
Posted in Craig Martin, Interviews, Religion and Theory, Theory and Method, Uncategorized
Tagged AAR, Aaron Hughes, American Academy of Religion, Council of Societies for the Study of Religion, Daniel Pals, Donald Wiebe, E. Thomas Lawson, Equinox Publishers, International Association for the History of Religions, Luther H. Martin, Method & Theory in the Study of Religion, Mircea Eliade, NAASR, Robert Segal, Russell McCutcheon, SBL, University of Toronto, W. W. Norton, Willi Braun, William James
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Dominant Ideologies, Neoliberal Jesuses, and the Academic Study of Religion
The following is the editorial introduction to the September 2014 issue of the Bulletin for the Study of Religion (the full table of contents having already been posted). We offer this editorial here on the blog in order to give … Continue reading
Posted in Call for papers, Editorial, Pedagogy, Philip L. Tite, Politics and Religion, Religion and Theory, Theory and Method, Theory in the Real World
Tagged authorship, Bulletin for the Study of Religion, classroom, Cognitive Science, Conference announcement, Erica L. Martin, extroverted students, geography, Gregory P. Fewster, Guide to the Study of Religion, historical jesus research, Ian H. Henderson, introverted students, James Crossley, Jesus in an Age of Neoliberalism, Justin K. H. Tse, learning, Marxist ideology, NAASR, neoliberalism, New Testament studies, Pauline studies, pseudepigraphy, Religion, religious studies, Roland Boer, Russell T. McCutcheon, scholarship, SORAAAD, teaching, Willi Braun
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God’s Not Dead: A Film Review Essay
by Matt Sheedy The Pure Flix Entertainment production God’s Not Dead has done remarkably well at the box office for a “Christian drama film,” ranking 4th in the U.S. on its opening weekend and turning an approximately $2 million budget … Continue reading
Posted in Matt Sheedy, Politics and Religion, Religion and Popular Culture, Religion and Society, Religion and Theory, Theory and Method, Uncategorized
Tagged Abortion, atheist, Bertrand Russell, Captain America, Chick Tract, cognitive anthropology, Darren Aronofsky, David A.R. White, Dean Kane, Dropped Chalk, Duck Dynasty, evangelical Christianity, evolution, Franklin Graham, Freud, Friedrich Nietzsche, gay rights, God's Not Dead, GQ magazine, Guide to the Study of Religion, Hercules, History Channel, Hollywood, Johnny Depp, Kevin Sorbo, Korie Robertson, liberals, Luke 12:48, Malice of Absence, Marx, Matthew 10:32-33, Mulisms, Newsboys, Noah, Noam Chomsky, Pandora, Phil Robertson, Pure Flix Entertainment, Richard Dawkins, Russell McCutcheon, sociologists, Son of God, Superman, veiling, Willi Braun, Willie Robertson
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Secularization After the Invention of Religion
By Kenneth G. MacKendrick Supporters of theories of secularization have fallen on hard times. Three criticisms of secularization are commonplace. First, secularization did not occur, with the refutation of theories of secularization relying on empirical observations. Second, the very notion of … Continue reading