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Bulletin for the study of religion feed- The Questions Remain the Same
- Field Notes: News and Announcements in the Discipline
- Jesus in an Age of Neoliberalism: An Interview with James G. Crossley
- Bruce Lincoln’s “How to Read a Religious Text”: An Experiment of Application.
- Scholars Are Demons, Not Gods: Meta-Theoretical Reflections Sparked by Bruce Lincoln’s Gods and Demons, Priests and Scholars
- Scary Scholarship: A Response to Bruce Lincoln’s Gods and Demons, Priests and Scholars
- Ideology, Ideology-Critique, and the Critical Study of Religion in Bruce Lincoln’s Gods and Demons, Priests and Scholars: Critical Explorations in the History of Religions
- Open Space Technology and the Study of Religion: A Report on an Experiment in Pedagogy
Author Archives: Kenny Paul Smith
The Potent Instability of Religion & Magic
In November 2007, during one of the worst droughts in Georgia history, then-Governor Sonny Purdue “stepped up to a podium outside the state Capitol… and led a solemn crowd of several hundred people in a prayer for rain on his … Continue reading
Posted in Kenny Paul Smith, Religion and Popular Culture
Tagged 700 Club, drought, Flunking Sainthood, Georgia, Jana Reiss, Magic, Pat Roberston, Religion, Sonny Purdue, tornadoes
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Scholarship From The Road: Social Stuctures and Temple Ornaments
By Deeksha Sivakumar When we do ethnography on the road, we constantly encounter visual evidence that bears upon so much of the theoretical jargon we wrestle with in seminars, be it challenging or reinforcing. Take, for example, the iconic Tamil … Continue reading
Posted in Deeksha Sivakumar, South Asian Studies
Tagged architectual ornaments, ethnography, Gopurams, Seligman, Tamil temples, TamilNadu
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Scholarship From The Road: “Being Someone”
by Deeksha Sivakumar Who would have thought that one of the hardest questions I ask myself every morning during fieldwork is “what to wear?” In order to be remembered or valued in society we all lay somewhere on a spectrum … Continue reading
Posted in Deeksha Sivakumar, South Asian Studies
Tagged American, cultural capital, ethnography, identity, India, Kirin Narayan
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Can an Atheist Believe in God?
By Steven Ramey My last post generated an extended exchange with a colleague who has rightly pushed me concerning my disavowal of judging identity claims. My colleague suggested, for example, that someone who believes that Jesus is the Son of … Continue reading
Posted in Steven Ramey, Theory in the Real World
Tagged Atheism, belief in God, Christians, Jesus, Orthodoxy, practice, Religion, religious identification
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Commands of the Blood
By Kate Daley-Bailey At the subconscious level, whether in cult or in life, man obeys the commands of the blood, as if in dreams or, according to natural insight, as a happy expression describes this harmony between nature and culture. … Continue reading
Posted in Kate Daley-Bailey, Religion and Society
Tagged Alfred Rosenberg, genocide, Germany, Hitler, Judaism, Myth, Nazis, Race, Religion, WWII
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Scholarship From The Road: Belief, Practice and the Story of Andal
By Deeksha Sivakumar “The women of Ayodhya run eagerly to see the procession to Sita’s house… their hair fell loose, open on all sides, their waist girdles come undone, they do not even stop to cover their breasts… as they … Continue reading
Posted in Deeksha Sivakumar, South Asian Studies
Tagged Allah, Andal, Belief, Brahman, India, practice, Protestantism, Rama, ritual, Siva, Vishnu
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Scholarship From The Road: Archaeology and Vandalism at the Sea of Galilee
By Alyssa Beall Earlier this summer, I had the unexpected opportunity of participating in an archaeological dig on the Sea of Galilee. Before two weeks of early, early mornings and hot days on our dig site, we had about a … Continue reading
Posted in Alyssa Beall, Politics and Religion, Religion and Society
Tagged archaeology, Armageddon, Galilee, Israel, Palestine, Tiberius, vandalism
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