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Category Archives: Steven Ramey
Disciplining the Violent
by Steven Ramey Monks in Myanmar encouraging violence, while that image challenges common assumptions about those who identify as Buddhists, accounts of such events often actually reinforce those assumptions. On April 30 people identified as Buddhists burned mosques and homes … Continue reading
Creatio Ex Nihilo: Pew Forum and the “Nones”
Earlier this week, Sean McCloud posted on the phenomenon of the “Nones,” referring to a relatively new and increasingly popular classification of those who are supposedly without any “religion.” We at the Bulletin thought that it would be useful to … Continue reading
Critical Theory and the Importance of Religious Studies
by Steven Ramey A common response to critical theory’s critiques of categories related to “religion” is that it undermines the rationale for the academic study of religion. If the categories do not exist, then what is the point of the … Continue reading
Fiction, Ethnography and the New York Times
by Steven Ramey Mark Oppenheimer’s account of the annual AAR/SBL meeting in the New York Times, which Matt Sheedy already dissected in a recent post, is an ethnography of religious studies scholars that provides insight into the nature of ethnography. … Continue reading
Creatio Ex Nihilo: Pew Forum and the “Nones”
By Steven Ramey New analysis suggests that almost 1 in 5 people in the United States have no religious affiliation! Media coverage has sensationalized the publication of this analysis from the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life, and various … Continue reading
Pluralism and the Outrage in Libya and Egypt
By Steven Ramey The deadly attack in Benghazi and protests in Cairo on September 11, 2012, reportedly over a video depiction of Muhammad produced in the United States, suggest a common understanding of the category “religion” between protestors and the … Continue reading
Well-intentioned Descriptions
By Steven Ramey The recent attack on the Sikh gurdwara in Wisconsin brought to mind the hospitality that I have enjoyed over the past decade from communities across the Southeast who identify as Sikh. This notion of hospitality has been … Continue reading