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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
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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 Questions Series 2: Hussein Rashid
Hussein Rashid is an adjunct professor at Fordham and Hofstra Universities and is an associate editor at Religion Dispatches. His specialties include Islam in America, Shi’ism, Islamicate literatures, South Asia, Persianate world (including Central Asia). * Image courtesy of Ali Ansary, … 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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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, BookNotes, 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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