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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: February 2012
SORAAD BookNotes with the Bulletin: Randall Styers, Making Magic
This week’s book note looks at another discussion of magic, Randall Styers’ Making Magic: Religion, Magic, and Science in the Modern World (New York: Oxford University Press, 2004). Styers is an Associate Professor of Religious Studies at the University of … Continue reading
Right Reverend: Sex, Contraception, and the Episcopal Body
Since January of this year, the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops has been one of the most vocal critics of the Obama administration’s mandate that all non-church institutions (including Catholic-run hospitals and universities) must make contraception available as part … Continue reading
Posted in Donovan Schaefer, Politics and Religion, Religion and Society, Religion and Theory, Sexuality and Gender, Theory in the Real World
Tagged Catholic Church, contraception, kimerer lamothe, Michel Foucault, Obama administration, religion and embodiment, religion and sexuality, Saba Mahmood, Timothy Dolan, United States Conference of Catholic Bishops
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From the Anterior to the Posterior Focus in Studying Religious Texts: Rhetorical Arrangement and Ancient Letters Revisited
By Philip L. Tite As an historian of early Christianity, I love reading written works from late antiquity. I have a particular fascination with ancient letters, be they communications between ordinary people doing their daily business or personal interactions with … Continue reading
SORAAAD BookNotes with the Bulletin: Allison P. Courdet, Religion, Magic, and Science in Early Modern Europe and America
This week’s “book note” looks at a very recent attempt to locate the comparative category “magic” in larger historical and discursive contexts, Allison P. Courdet, Religion, Magic, and Science in Early Modern Europe and America (Santa Barbara: Praeger, 2011). Courdet … Continue reading
Posted in Book Reviews, Kenny Paul Smith
Tagged Allison Courdet, Magic, Modernity, Religion, Science
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Yogis and the Politics of Offense
By Matt Sheedy In a recent exchange over the “Shit Yogis Say”meme, I disagreed with a friend who argued that the clip was offensive to those who dabble in popular forms of Western yoga. My basic argument was as follows. … Continue reading
Posted in Matt Sheedy, Religion and Popular Culture
Tagged offense, politics, Shit Girls Say, Shit Yogis Say
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The Legacy of Structuralism: An Interview with Paul-François Tremlett (Part 3)
I interviewed Paul-François Tremlett in early 2012, hoping to draw out some of the links between his 2008 book Lévi-Strauss on Religion: The Structuring Mind (Equinox Publishing) and the relevance of the anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss for the contemporary study of … Continue reading
Picture Book: Impervious Ideology
I found the following image at LOL god: This image more or less speaks for itself, so I don’t have much to say about it. It illustrates what I call an impervious ideology—it can’t be dented or contradicted by any … Continue reading
Posted in Craig Martin, Picture Book
Tagged Falsifiable, Logical Positivism, Nonfalsifiable, Prayer
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The Religious Studies Project: Podcasts and Resources on the Contemporary Social-Scientific Study of Religion
The Religious Studies Project, in association with the British Association for the Study of Religions and with some support from the University of Edinburgh, was launched in January 2012. This is a website and podcasting project featuring a weekly audio … Continue reading
The Legacy of Structuralism: An Interview with Paul-François Tremlett (Part 2)
I interviewed Paul-François Tremlett in early 2012, hoping to draw out some of the links between his 2008 book Lévi-Strauss on Religion: The Structuring Mind (Equinox Publishing) and the relevance of the anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss for the contemporary study of … Continue reading