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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: world religions
Name it and Disclaim it: A Tool for Better Discussion in Religious Studies
by Joseph P. Laycock and Natasha L. Mikles Anyone who has led discussion in an introductory undergraduate Religious Studies class has experienced frustrating comments from students such as, “Jews practice empty ritual,” or “Buddhists are more spiritual than other religions.” … Continue reading
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Tagged Bertrand Russell, Dan Brown Syndrome, Elie Wiesel, Franklin Graham, hermeneutics of suspicion, Jeffrey Kripal, John Dominic Crossan, Joseph P. Laycock, Natasha L. Mikles, No Good Scotsman, Robert Orsi, School of Thought International, William Cantwell Smith, William James, world religions
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World Religions, American Religions, the Object of Study, and an Ode to Bruce Lincoln
by Charles McCrary This post originally appeared, in a slightly different version, at the group blog Religion in American History. This year I’ve been teaching “world religions” for the first time. I knew I would be required to do it … Continue reading
Posted in Charles McCrary, Pedagogy, Religion and Society, Religion and Theory, Theory and Method
Tagged Andy McKee, Bruce Lincoln, David Chidester, Karl Marx, Matt Day, Michel Foucault, Mike Altman, Mike Graziano, Nicole Kelley, Religion in American History, Russell McCutcheon, Tomoko Masuzawa, Wendy Brown, world religions
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Theses on Professionalization: Sarah Kleeb
In this series with the Bulletin, we have asked 21 early career scholars to weigh in on Russell McCutcheon’s Theses on Professionalization, first published in 2007. In his 21 theses, McCutcheon offers advice to young scholars entering (or soon to enter) the job … Continue reading
Posted in Pedagogy, Theses on Professionalization, Uncategorized
Tagged Sarah Lynn Kleeb, world religions
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Violence, Religion, and the Death of René Girard
By Philip L. Tite On November 4, 2015 the renowned literary theorist, René Girard (Stanford University) passed away at the age of 91. In an online announcement on the Stanford News, Cynthia Haven offers a comprehensive and glowing overview of … Continue reading
Posted in Academy, Announcements, Pedagogy, Philip L. Tite, Politics and Religion, Reflections on Islamic Studies, Religion and Society, Religion and Theory, Religion in the News, Theory and Method, Theory in the Real World
Tagged Aaron Hughes, affect theory, Bruce Lincoln, Carl Jung, Christianity, collective unconsciousness, Cynthia Haven, Daniel Pals, Desire, Emile Durkheim, functionalism, Genealogy of Religion, Girardian theory, grand theories, Islam, James Frazer, Judaism, Karl Marx, literar, Lord Raglan, Mark Juergensmeyer, Max Weber, methodological reduction, mimetic violence, Myth, obiturary, Reductionism, Religion, religious studies, Rene Girard, Robert Jewett, sacrifice, scapegoating, Sigmund Freud, violence, William Cavanaugh, world religions
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Texts and Their Scholars: The Co-Production of Texts, Audiences, and Communities
The following is the editorial introduction to the September 2015 issue of the Bulletin for the Study of Religion (the full table of contents having already been posted), written by our managing editor Arlene Macdonald (University of Texas Medical Branch). … Continue reading
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Tagged Academy, American Academy of Religion, Announcements, Annual Meeting, Arlene Macdonald, Bulletin for the Study of Religion, Caretakers, Christianity, Critics, De indolentia, Editor's Corner, Feurbach, Field notes, Galen, Hebrew Bible scholarship, Klaus Peter Adam, NAASR, New Testament scholarship, North American Association for the Study of Religion, Paul Ricoeur, pedagogy, Philip L. Tite, Philosophy of Religion, Religion, religion and popular culture, Religion and Society, Religion and Theory, Religion Past and Present, religious studies, Richard Newton, Ricoeur, Robert A. Segal, Robert Saler, Russell McCutcheon, SBL, scholarship, Sociology of Religion, teaching, Theory and Method and tagged AAR, Trevor Wade Thompson, world religions, world religions paradigm
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Now Published – Bulletin for the Study of Religion 44.3 (September 2015)
The September issue of the Bulletin has now been published and is available. Below is the table of contents of this issue, which includes a panel of papers emerging from an AAR/SBL Panel on Religion Past and Present. This issue … Continue reading
Posted in Announcements, Pedagogy, Philip L. Tite, Religion and Popular Culture, Religion and Society, Religion and Theory, Theory and Method
Tagged AAR, American Academy of Religion, Annual Meeting, Arlene Macdonald, Bulletin for the Study of Religion, Caretakers, Christianity, Critics, De indolentia, Editor's Corner, Feurbach, Field notes, Galen, Hebrew Bible scholarship, Klaus Peter Adam, NAASR, New Testament scholarship, North American Association for the Study of Religion, Paul Ricoeur, pedagogy, Philosophy of Religion, Religion, Religion Past and Present, religious studies, Richard Newton, Ricoeur, Robert A. Segal, Robert Saler, Russell McCutcheon, SBL, scholarship, Sociology of Religion, teaching, Trevor Wade Thompson, world religions, world religions paradigm
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