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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
Tag Archives: Bible
J.Z. Smith on the Study of Canons
I was recently rereading J.Z. Smith’s 2008 presidential address to the Society of Biblical Literature, titled “Religion and the Bible” (published in the Journal of Biblical Literature and available online here), and I found two provocative passages worth sharing: [W]hat … Continue reading
Posted in Craig Martin, Theory and Method
Tagged Bible, Canon, Hermeneutics, Interpretation, J.Z. Smith, Sacred Text
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Hitler, Religion, and the Bible
By Philip L. Tite In her recent blog on “The Curious Case of Gerhard Kittel,” Kate Daley-Bailey offers an important overview of the involvement of biblical scholars in promoting Nazi Germany’s anti-Jewish policies. Kate’s blog has inspired me to write … Continue reading
What’s In Your Bible?
In a recent piece for CNN’s religion blog, “Actually, that’s not in the Bible,” John Blake examines the ubiquity of “phantom scripture” in American Christian communities. By “phantom scripture” he means ideas, teachings, and passages that sound like they belong in the Bible–e.g., … Continue reading
Call For Papers! Special Issue: “Histories of the End”
In 2012 Relegere: Studies in Religion and Reception will publish a special issue dedicated to reception histories of the end times, however they might be imagined, in religious contexts. We welcome reception histories not only of Christian imaginaries of the … Continue reading
Posted in Call for papers
Tagged Bible, Call, Christian, End Times, Esoteric, History, imaginaries, New Age, Papers, reception, Relegere
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Almighty God Created the Races
Last semester I taught Fay Botham’s Almighty God Created the Races: Christianity, Interracial Marriage, and American Law (University of North Carolina Press, 2009). I enjoyed teaching the book, and the students reported liking it as well. However, as I organized my … Continue reading
Posted in Craig Martin, Religion and Society, Religion and Theory, Theory and Method
Tagged Almighty God Created the Races, Andrea Perez, Anti-miscegenation, Base, Bible, Daniel Marshall, Fay Botham, Hermeneutics, Ideology, Interpretation, Marriage Law, Perez v. Lippold, Superstructure, Sylvester Davis
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Giants of the Bible and their Reception – A new blog
I confess that I have a bit of an odd hobby on the side - monitoring the reception and effect of biblical Giants in contemporary culture. It’s a bigger topic than you might at first imagine. For all those with similar interests, I’m … Continue reading
Posted in Deane Galbraith, Religion and Popular Culture, Religion and Society
Tagged Anakim, Bible, Giants, Goliath, Nephilim, Og, Remnant of Giants, Rephaim, Scott Derrickson
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Religious Essentialism
I spend a good bit of time in my courses trying to disrupt religious essentialism: the idea that all practitioners in a religious tradition share some essence, that such an essence determines their behavior, or that their beliefs are the … Continue reading
Posted in Craig Martin, Pedagogy
Tagged Belief, Bible, Christianity, Idolatry, Islam, Murder, Qur'an, Religion and Violence, Religious Essentialism
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