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- 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
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- Open Space Technology and the Study of Religion: A Report on an Experiment in Pedagogy
Category Archives: Humor
Zombie Jesus Day: When Labels (Re-)Make Reality
By Philip L. Tite Over the Easter weekend, I heard a story of a young child at a local school discussing the Easter holidays with her friends. The holiday that her family celebrates, she said, is actually called Zombie Jesus … Continue reading
Religion as Commodity and the Deification of Beer
By Philip L. Tite I must admit that beyond the beautiful mountains, lush green forests, and interwoven water ways, one of the things I love most about the Pacific Northwest is the plethora of amazing beers. Being raised on the … Continue reading
Social Magic
By Craig Martin Each semester in my introductory course I teach Pierre Bourdieu’s little essay, “Rites of Institution” in Language and Symbolic Power (1991). One of Bourdieu’s claims is that with rites of institution, identities are assigned to subjects—and with such … Continue reading
Posted in Craig Martin, Humor, Pedagogy, Religion and Theory, Theory and Method, Uncategorized
Tagged Pierre Bourdieu, social magic
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Pissing on Walls and Feminine German Men
Please see the following guest post from Nicholas Dion, a doctoral candidate at the University of Toronto and regular contributor over at The Religion Beat. ********** I really can’t take the credit—or the blame, depending on your perspective—for what’s about … Continue reading
Lucian’s Satires and the Discursive Role of the Charlatan
By Philip L. Tite I am continually fascinated with the discursive techniques that people use to discredit competing religious groups or cultic practices (especially as such language tends to reinforce the polemicist’s own group or worldview). Recently, while working on … Continue reading
Posted in Humor, Philip L. Tite
Tagged Glycon, Ideology, Lucian, polemic, Religion, Rhetoric, satire
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Don’t Be Lemmings!
Lemmings: small rodents whose migratory practices lead them to follow each other in mass suicide by walking off cliffs, into the ocean, and thereby drowning. I regularly tell my students: “Don’t be lemmings!” By this I mean something like “don’t … Continue reading