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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: politics
Acts of Imagination
By Kenneth G. MacKendrick Religion: “While there is a staggering amount of data, of phenomena, of human experiences and expressions that might be characterized in one culture or another, by one criterion or another, as religious – there is no … Continue reading
Posted in Kenneth G. MacKendrick, Religion and Theory
Tagged death, economics, elitism, experience, humor, imagination, intelligence, Meaning, politics, psychology, reality, Religion, sex, stupidity, truth
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SORAAAD BookNotes with the Bulletin: Jonathan Haidt’s The Righteous Mind
By Matt Sheedy Jonathan Haidt’s, The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion, (2012) offers is a wide-ranging study that blends elements of philosophy and politics, with arguments from his own field of moral, cultural, and … Continue reading
Posted in Book Reviews, Matt Sheedy, Religion and Society
Tagged ethics, Philosophy, politics, Religion
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Yogis and the Politics of Offense
By Matt Sheedy In a recent exchange over the “Shit Yogis Say”meme, I disagreed with a friend who argued that the clip was offensive to those who dabble in popular forms of Western yoga. My basic argument was as follows. … Continue reading
Posted in Matt Sheedy, Religion and Popular Culture
Tagged offense, politics, Shit Girls Say, Shit Yogis Say
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Soccer and Revolution
Since we recently had a post by Deane on the idea that sports can serve as the “opium of the masses“—prompted in part by a quote from Terry Eagleton’s 2007 volume The Meaning of Life—I was intrigued when I saw … Continue reading
Posted in Religion and Society
Tagged football, Luke Roelofs, Majestic Equality, Opium of the Masses, politics, Religion, Soccer, Sports, Terry Eagleton
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Žižek’s (atheist) theology, IJŽS, arbitrarily grounded ethics
The International Journal of Žižek Studies has a new edition on Žižek’s (atheist) theology, guest edited by Marcus Pound: Vol 4, No 4 (2010). Jayne Svenungsson’s article caught my attention. She begins by rightly noting the tendency of Badiou and Žižek … Continue reading