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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: November 2011
The 26%
Blake Ellis’ piece at CNN, “Want Cheaper Tuition? Find Religion,” raises a fascinating question. “With church membership dwindling and more families struggling to afford the cost of college,” he writes, “many private religiously-affiliated colleges and universities are slashing tuition and … Continue reading
Posted in Kenny Paul Smith, Religion in the News
Tagged Blake Ellis, CNN, cost of college tuition, Religious Colleges, the 26%
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“Authentic Religion”: Meta-Narratives of Orthodoxy at the AAR/SBL Meeting
By Philip L. Tite This year’s annual meeting of the American Academy of Religion (AAR) and the Society of Biblical Literature (SBL) was a fun experience. I went through the typical routine of attending a smattering of sessions, connecting up … Continue reading
Religious Outsiders & the Air Force Academy
In this weekend’s Los Angeles Times, we learned that earlier this year, the United States Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colorado “dedicated an $80,000 outdoor worship center [the Cadet Chapel Falcon Circle worship center] — a small Stonehenge-like circle … Continue reading
Semiotics and Subjectivity in the Tibetan Buddhist Sand Painting Ritual
By Tim Murphy What is this? Among other things, it is a semiotic system that structures and defines subjectivity, experience, and agency. If we read what we may call the “mandala situation” by means of the heuristic of semiotic theory, … Continue reading
Posted in Tim Murphy
Tagged agency, mandalas, self, Semiotics, subjectivity, Tibetan Buddhism
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Picture Book: No Room at the Inn
I recently found the following image on the Fail Blog: I don’t know it’s provenance—it might have been photoshopped by an anti-Christian group. My guess, however, is that it is genuine. This is a provocative image. I don’t know quite … Continue reading
Hitler, Religion, and the Bible
By Philip L. Tite In her recent blog on “The Curious Case of Gerhard Kittel,” Kate Daley-Bailey offers an important overview of the involvement of biblical scholars in promoting Nazi Germany’s anti-Jewish policies. Kate’s blog has inspired me to write … Continue reading
The Curious Case of Gerhard Kittel
By Kate Daley-Bailey On June 1st, 1933, New Testament Professor and Christian theologian, Dr. Gerhard Kittel (picture to the left) delivered a speech entitled Die Judenfrage, “The Jewish Question,” which was later published in a 78 page booklet. In Die … Continue reading
Women at the Society of Biblical Literature (SBL) Annual Meeting 2011
Michael F. Bird (Evangelion) notes that, of 700 papers to be presented at this month’s Evangelical Theological Society Conference, he recognises that only 8 are by women. There may be a few other women’s names that Michael acknowledges he does … Continue reading
“There is no honor in handbooks,” or is there?
By Cathy Gutierrez Achilles may have measured his kleos—his fame—through both noble and treacherous displays of bravery on the battlefield, but for modern day academics I think it can be measured in the degree of one’s handbook ennui. Being asked … Continue reading
Posted in Cathy Gutierrez, Pedagogy
Tagged Achilles, Brill, Cambridge, fame, handbook ennui, handbooks, honor, Oxford, Routledge, student resources
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Picture Book: Demystifying Commodity Fetishism
When I was in South Africa this fall for a conference at Unisa (sponsored by the Department of New Testament and Early Christian Studies), the conference organizers took several of us international visitors to the Apartheid Museum. It was an … Continue reading
Posted in Craig Martin, Pedagogy, Picture Book
Tagged Apartheid, Capital, Commodity Fetishism, Demystification, Marx, Mystification, Propaganda, South Africa
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