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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: Hermeneutics
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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Picture Book: Tears of the Damned
I recently saw this image at Graph Jam: What I found interesting about the image is its ambivalence—it’s genuinely unclear to me how this image is supposed to be read. Consider these two options: The image is recommending that we … Continue reading
Posted in Craig Martin, Picture Book
Tagged Bottled Water, Hermeneutics, Interpretation, Reading Images
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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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Romanticizing the Qur’an
I recently saw this TED video over at Sociological Images. Although Sociological Images is one of my favorite blogs, there are serious problems with it, and I wish there had been some critical commentary in the post. Here are just … Continue reading