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Bulletin for the study of religion feed- Bulletin 41.2
- Reed M. N. Weep Retirement
- Field Notes: News and Announcements in the Discipline
- Divinity Manifest in a Female Body: Guglielma of Milan as the Holy Spirit, Female Deity and Female Leadership in the Later Middle Ages
- Sexual Liberality as Othering: The Case of Islam in Late Antiquity and Modernity
- SORAAAD Book Notes with the Bulletin
- Romania’s Saving Angels: ”New Men”, Orthodoxy and Blood Mysticism in the Legionary Movement
- Christus Virgo: Representations of Christ as a Virgin in Early Christianity and Late Antiquity
- Editorial: New Challenges, New Directions
- 'The Stars Down to Earth' - Why Educated Women in the Western World Use Astrology
Monthly Archives: August 2011
Call For Papers! Special Issue: “Histories of the End”
In 2012 Relegere: Studies in Religion and Reception will publish a special issue dedicated to reception histories of the end times, however they might be imagined, in religious contexts. We welcome reception histories not only of Christian imaginaries of the … Continue reading
Posted in Call for papers
Tagged Bible, Call, Christian, End Times, Esoteric, History, imaginaries, New Age, Papers, reception, Relegere
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Hollywood Images as Religious Resources
Towards the end of her fine essay in Mark C. Taylor’s Critical Terms for Religious Studies, Margaret R. Miles distinguishes between icons used in some Christian traditions (e.g., Eastern Orthodox) and the images of contemporary film. The latter, she argues, … Continue reading
The Nature and Function of the Religious Studies Book Review (Part 1 of 3): Writing the Book Review
By Philip L. Tite The following essay engages the religious studies book review from a structural, functional, and pedagogical perspective. Due to the size of this essay, it has been divided into three entries for the Bulletin Blog (to be … Continue reading
Almighty God Created the Races
Last semester I taught Fay Botham’s Almighty God Created the Races: Christianity, Interracial Marriage, and American Law (University of North Carolina Press, 2009). I enjoyed teaching the book, and the students reported liking it as well. However, as I organized my … Continue reading
Posted in Craig Martin, Religion and Society, Religion and Theory, Theory and Method
Tagged Almighty God Created the Races, Andrea Perez, Anti-miscegenation, Base, Bible, Daniel Marshall, Fay Botham, Hermeneutics, Ideology, Interpretation, Marriage Law, Perez v. Lippold, Superstructure, Sylvester Davis
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Methodological Failures
I’m currently reading Matthew Wood’s Possession, Power, and the New Age, and I’ve found an extremely provocative passage in the conclusion to his second chapter (a summary of “The field of New Age studies”): The transmission of the New Age motif … Continue reading