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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
- 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: J.Z. Smith
Agonistic Respect in the Study of Religion
by Jack Tsonis As many will be aware, the upcoming AAR meeting in Baltimore will see an experiment in format with the creation of program “Clusters.” Larger than Units, Groups, and Sections, the aim of the Cluster approach is to … Continue reading
Serpents, Novelty, and Academic Fetish
by Travis Cooper * This is a revised version of a post originally found on the author’s personal blog. Novelty draws academics. This is no controversial claim. We cluster around the odd, the uncanny, and the strange. We gather around scenes … Continue reading
Cartoons, Violence, and Matters of Class
By Matt Sheedy The discourse surrounding media events like the “Danish Cartoons” and Innocence of Muslims has largely focused on the issue of freedom of expression–at least in the “West,” where such putative categories prevail. For example, with the recent … Continue reading
Immodest Proposals, Unquestioned Answers
By Ian Brown In a recent and provocative essay entitled, “An Immodest Proposal for Biblical Studies,” James Crossley notes, Biblical Studies has not really generated unique methods and ought rather to be conceived as a field of study which utilizes methods … Continue reading
Posted in Ian Brown, Ruminations, Theory and Method
Tagged biblical studies, J.Z. Smith, James Crossley
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SORAAAD BookNotes with the Bulletin: Violence as Worship: Religious Wars in the Age of Globalization, by Hans G. Kippenberg (Stanford University Press, 2011)
By Ipsita Chatterjea In his latest book, Kippenberg argues analysis of religious violence should not seek to sanction the purity, authenticity or legitimacy of religious groups and deem others aberrant as this distorts our capacity to observe. For Kippenberg, the mis-handling of … Continue reading
Posted in Book Reviews, BookNotes, Ipsita Chatterjea
Tagged 9/11, Christianity, Hans G. Kippenburg, J.Z. Smith, Jonestown, Religious Violence, Waco
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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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