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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: October 2011
Occupy Wall Street: Between “Church” and “Sect”
By Ben Brazil A month ago, when the Occupy movement was beginning to gain traction, Matt Stoller penned an influential response to criticism about the movement’s lack of a clear, concise message. The critics, he wrote, had failed to notice … Continue reading
Durkheim Disappoints
Upon rereading the main body of Durkheim’s Division of Labor in Society I was struck at how subtle and sophisticated he is. I thought I had remembered—from my previous experience with this material—that he used a superficial freedom/constraint binary. However, as … Continue reading
The Bhagavad Gita, The Time Machine, and Monty Python
In the Bhagavad Gita, the god Krishna tells a hesitant Arjuna that—as a member of the warrior class—he must fight a battle despite the fact that he will, in the commission of this action, kill some of his family members. … Continue reading
Laptops and theory in the Religious Studies classroom
Do you let your students bring their laptops to class? Personally, I’m torn. I love gadgets and hate to sound like a Luddite, but most of the research I’ve seen — not to mention my own experience — suggests that … Continue reading
Posted in Nathan Rein, Pedagogy
Tagged internet, J.Z. Smith, laptops, pedagogy, teaching, technology, theory
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Hitler’s Mythographer
By Kate Daley-Bailey Goring, Goebbels, Hitler, Himmler, Hess, and… Rosenberg? The first five men listed here might easily be recognized as the architects of the infamous Third Reich, whose atrocities still haunt European history. Rosenberg, however, is less well known. … Continue reading
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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Material Remnants as Cultural Signifiers: A Roman Lamp – Practical or Sacral Object?
By Philip L. Tite As an historian who studies ancient religious traditions, I am constantly concerned about how we evaluate and use our sources. Although source analysis tends to be seen as a key component in first order data collection … Continue reading
Posted in Philip L. Tite
Tagged archaeology, late antiquity, material culture, religious studies, scholarship, textual analysis
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“Because he is Jewish he can talk smack about other Jews”
I’m going to go out on a limb here and guess that the weirdest religion news story you missed last month was the so-called ”Jewish scandal that wasn’t” (as it was labeled by the National Post of Toronto). Here’s the scenario: … Continue reading
“New Religious Movements” as an Interpretive Category
Typically, when we think of New Religious Movements (NRMs), our gaze is directed to the relatively small number of traditions that cluster at the fringes of the contemporary religious landscape (e.g., the Church of Scientology, International Raelian Religion, Heaven’s Gate, … Continue reading