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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: Muslims
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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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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Devotional Islamic Anti-Terrorism
By Summar Shoaib After Taliban militants kidnapped three Sikh men and beheaded one of them in Pakistan in 2010, Muhammad Khurshid Khan, the deputy attorney general of Pakistan, has taken up shining the shoes of worshipers at the Sikh Golden … Continue reading
Posted in Southeast Asian Studies, Summar Shoaib
Tagged devotion, Islam, Muslims, Pakistan, penance, Religious Violence, Sikhs
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The Complexities of Tebowing
While Denver Broncos’ quarterback, Tim Tebow, has drawn increasingly sharp criticism, satirical imitation, and downright scorn for his public displays of faith, as well as the emergent movement he has inspired (note the picture of a young women “Tebowing” beside … Continue reading
Posted in Kenny Paul Smith, Religion and Popular Culture
Tagged atheists, Denver Broncos, Eric Ball, Evangelicals, football, Fox News, Jews, Muslims, NFL, Tim Tebow
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The Weight of “Ordinary”
Lowe’s has recently come under fire for withdrawing its advertising from the TLC show, “All-American Muslim.” Apparently the withdrawal of advertising came following the prompting of an anti-Muslim advocacy group. According to his group, The Learning Channel’s new show All-American … Continue reading
Posted in Craig Martin, Religion and Society, Religion in the News
Tagged Assimilation, Ethnocentrism, Islam, Muslims
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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
Two Maps
I came across two maps today. The first one is a joke; it’s titled “Europe according to the United States of America”: As far as I can tell this map is designed to poke fun at and expose American stereotypes … Continue reading