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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: Race
Shelter in Place: How to Talk about the Alleged Boston Marathon Bombers?
by Donovan Schaefer White. Foreign. Muslim. Young. Traumatized. Conservative. Isolated? Americanized. The Tsarnaev brothers, believed by law enforcement to have been responsible for last Monday’s bombing attack at the Boston Marathon, fit poorly into existing media scripts about the perpetrators … Continue reading
Commands of the Blood
By Kate Daley-Bailey At the subconscious level, whether in cult or in life, man obeys the commands of the blood, as if in dreams or, according to natural insight, as a happy expression describes this harmony between nature and culture. … Continue reading
Posted in Kate Daley-Bailey, Religion and Society
Tagged Alfred Rosenberg, genocide, Germany, Hitler, Judaism, Myth, Nazis, Race, Religion, WWII
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Priming Students for Seeing White Privilege
Here’s a trick I use—which seems to work—in order to prime students to be predisposed to looking for rather than dismissing white privilege when I talk about race in my REL 101 course. I introduce the topic by pointing out … Continue reading
Posted in Craig Martin, Pedagogy, Theory and Method
Tagged pedagogy, Race, racism, teaching, white privilege
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White Privilege in Higher Ed
By Craig Martin Yesterday I was walking down the hall past the two main computer labs at my college. One lab is open to all students; the second is set aside for graphic design majors. When I walked by I … Continue reading
Posted in Craig Martin, Theory and Method
Tagged Race, structural conditions, white privilege
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Embodying Identity: Instructor As Object Lesson
By Kelly J. Baker “I am implicated in the body ideologies analyzed herein.”—R. Marie Griffith, Born Again Bodies In my 300 level Religions in the U.S. course, I combine my scholarly interest in the methods for studying American religions with … Continue reading
Posted in Kelly J. Baker, Pedagogy
Tagged Bourdieu, Embodiment, Erving Goffman, Gender, History, Marie Griffith, Race, Religion, religious studies, Sean McCloud, sexuality, U.S.
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More than Belief: An Interview with Manuel A. Vásquez (Part 2)
(This is part 2 of a 3 part interview with Manuel A. Vásquez about his recent book, More than Belief; see part 1 here.) Craig Martin: As someone who is similarly theory-minded, I want to introduce theory at the undergraduate … Continue reading
Posted in Craig Martin, Interviews, Religion and Theory, Theory and Method
Tagged Agnosticism, Anti-essentialism, Charles Taylor, Civil Religion in America, Deleuze, Descartes, Durkheim, Elementary Forms of Religious Life, Embodiment, Essentialism, Freud, Graduate Education, Immanent Frame, Joseph Margolis, Manuel Vásquez, Methodological Agnosticism, More than Belief: A Materialist Theory of Religion, Nietzsche, Ontology, Race, Reductionism, Reductionist Theories, Robert Bellah, The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, Totem and Taboo, University of Florida, Weber
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