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Tag Archives: Pierre Bourdieu
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
Relating Religion in the New York Times
by Matt Sheedy Appearing in the Beliefs section of the New York Times on November 23, 2012, was an article about the recent SBL/AAR conference in Chicago, entitled, “A Scholarly Affair with a Side of Activism.” Putting aside the problematic … Continue reading
Imagining Identity
by Craig Martin What if we, as scholars, told the following narrative? In the first century there was a man named Jesus who invented a magical spool of invisible thread. He carried the spool with him everywhere he traveled as … Continue reading
Social Magic
By Craig Martin Each semester in my introductory course I teach Pierre Bourdieu’s little essay, “Rites of Institution” in Language and Symbolic Power (1991). One of Bourdieu’s claims is that with rites of institution, identities are assigned to subjects—and with such … Continue reading
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Tagged Pierre Bourdieu, social magic
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Academic Habits
I don’t think that my job as a teacher is to give students “facts” for them to evaluate; more likely, my job is to teach them how historically variable frameworks of understanding both make facts come into existence and make … Continue reading
Why Does It Have to Be So Complicated?
People often complain about the difficulty level of readings in the humanities and social sciences, especially when it comes to critical theory. Why does it have to be so complicated? Why so technical? Why so many neologisms? Why doesn’t the … Continue reading
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Tagged Critical Theory, Pascalian Meditations, Pierre Bourdieu
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Painted Nails: Sexism, Privilege, and Desire
Every semester my students execute a deviance project in my “Introduction to Religion” course. I lecture on Pierre Bourdieu’s social theory and the concept of “habitus,” and we talk at length about how social codes are linked with social positions. … Continue reading