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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
Category Archives: Theory in the Real World
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
Creating the Space for god
by Deeksha Sivakumar It is the Tamil new year’s first month Chittirai, where several important festivals take place especially in Tamil Nadu. Madurai, home of the Tamil Sangam (Literary Council) and residence of the Goddess Meenakshi, witnesses a spectacular twenty … Continue reading
The Canadian “Terror Plot”: Same Scripts, Different Heroes (well, sort of)
by Matt Sheedy News broke this past Monday about a “terror plot” that was foiled by Canadian law enforcement and security units, where two men with alleged links to al Qaeda in Iran planned to blow up a passenger train … Continue reading
On the Uses of ‘Native Spirituality’
by Matt Sheedy In his essay appearing in Religious Experience: A Reader (Equinox 2012), Craig Martin discusses how William James’ rhetoric on religion lends itself to a naive empiricism by putting … Continue reading
Now Published – Bulletin for the Study of Religion 42.1 (February 2013)
The February issue of the Bulletin has been published and is available in both print and electronic versions. Below is the table of contents of this issue, which includes a set of papers emerging from the 2011 Society of Biblical … Continue reading
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Critical Questions Series 2: A Reply by James Crossley
In this piece, James Crossley offers a reply to the 11 posts in this second instalment of the Critical Questions Series, dealing with questions of politics and scholarship within the study of religion. Reading through the Critical Questions Series on … Continue reading
Critical Questions Series 2: Monica Miller
In this second instalment of the Critical Questions Series, we ask scholars of religion how they negotiate the difficult line between “politics” and scholarship. The previous responses can be found here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here and here. The line between scholarship and politics or, if you like, … Continue reading