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Bulletin for the study of religion feed- The Questions Remain the Same
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- Jesus in an Age of Neoliberalism: An Interview with James G. Crossley
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- 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
Tag Archives: Durkheim
On the Return of the Savages
by Craig Martin The New York Times recently reviewed Jared Diamond’s new book on “tribal” societies, The World Until Yesterday. Among other things—according to the review—we learn: The people Diamond describes seem immersed in the collective. We generally don’t see them … Continue reading
Religion and Cartoons: Nina Paley, Durkheim, Politics
By Donovan Schaefer Nina Paley, who first came to my attention with her 2008 film Sita Sings the Blues, has released an animated short entitled “This Land Is Mine,” a prelude to a possible new feature length work tentatively called … Continue reading
On the Myth of Religious Violence: An Interview with William T. Cavanaugh
William T. Cavanaugh is Professor of Catholic Studies at DePaul University in Chicago, Illinois. Cavanaugh is a well-published theologian; his works include Torture and Eucharist (1998), Theopolitical Imagination (2003), and Being Consumed: Economics and Christian Desire (2008). His most recent … Continue reading
Nationalist Hierophanies
One semester in REL 101 I told students that I would perform a “ritual” with them, whereby I would make “the Sacred” manifest itself. My ritual supplies included a bowl of water, a glue stick, a lighter, and some square, rectangular, … Continue reading
Posted in Craig Martin, Pedagogy, Politics and Religion
Tagged Durkheim, Elieade, Hierophany, July 4th, Nationalism, pedagogy, ritual, satire, The Sacred
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Rhetoric, Rites and Repentance: Some Thoughts on the Chris Hayes Affair
By Matt Sheedy On the Memorial Day Weekend edition of his show, Up with Chris Hayes, the MSNBC host posed a question that is rarely asked on mainstream television: when speaking of war and remembrance, what does the word “hero” … Continue reading
More than Belief: An Interview with Manuel A. Vásquez (Part 2)
(This is part 2 of a 3 part interview with Manuel A. Vásquez about his recent book, More than Belief; see part 1 here.) Craig Martin: As someone who is similarly theory-minded, I want to introduce theory at the undergraduate … Continue reading
Posted in Craig Martin, Interviews, Religion and Theory, Theory and Method
Tagged Agnosticism, Anti-essentialism, Charles Taylor, Civil Religion in America, Deleuze, Descartes, Durkheim, Elementary Forms of Religious Life, Embodiment, Essentialism, Freud, Graduate Education, Immanent Frame, Joseph Margolis, Manuel Vásquez, Methodological Agnosticism, More than Belief: A Materialist Theory of Religion, Nietzsche, Ontology, Race, Reductionism, Reductionist Theories, Robert Bellah, The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, Totem and Taboo, University of Florida, Weber
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