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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
Tag Archives: Islam
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
Posted in Announcements, Editorial, Philip L. Tite, Politics and Religion, Religion and Society, Religion and Theory, Theory and Method, Theory in the Real World, Uncategorized
Tagged Bulletin for the Study of Religion, Craig Martin, Critical Theory, Darlene Juschka, feminist theory, Gnosticism, Islam, Islamophobia, Julianne Hammer, Matt Sheedy, Michael Kaler, Nag Hammadi, Religious Experience, Risto Uro, Stephen Bush, Women's Studies
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SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS: “The Impact of the Arab Spring on the Study of Islam”
The Bulletin for the Study of Religion invites submissions of 3,000 to 4,000 words for a special issue addressing the impact of the Arab Spring on the academic study of Islam. We are particularly interested in articles that reflect on … Continue reading
Posted in Academy, Announcements, Call for papers, Pedagogy, Politics and Religion, Religion and Society, Religion and Theory, Scholarship on the Road, Theory and Method, Theory in the Real World
Tagged Bulletin for the Study of Religion, Islam, Muslims, politics, Religion, religious studies, Sociology of Religion, teaching
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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
CALL FOR PAPERS: “The Impact of the Arab Spring on the Study of Islam”
The Bulletin for the Study of Religion invites submissions of 3,000 to 4,000 words for a special issue addressing the impact of the Arab Spring on the academic study of Islam. We are particularly interested in articles that reflect on … Continue reading
Posted in Academy, Announcements, Call for papers, Pedagogy, Politics and Religion, Religion and Society, Religion and Theory, Religion in the News, Theory and Method, Theory in the Real World
Tagged Bulletin for the Study of Religion, Islam, Muslims, politics, Religion, religious studies, scholarship
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Implicit Orthodoxy in Academic Descriptions
By Steven Ramey The Ahmadiyya movement, whose followers (Ahmadis) identify themselves as renewing Islam, has faced opposition from other self-identified Muslims. Recently in Indonesia, for example, a group attacked an Ahmadiyya mosque because Ahmadiyya teachings did not match their understanding … Continue reading
What’s in a Name?
By Steven Ramey Discussing the enforcement of shariah in Aceh, Indonesia, a student (at my home institution, the University of Alabama) asked how police would know if the rule-breaker was Muslim, since some claimed the law only applied to Muslims. … Continue reading
Posted in Pedagogy, South Asian Studies, Steven Ramey
Tagged Arya Samaj, India, Indoneia, Islam, Muslim, University of Alabama
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