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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: Religion
Overcoming Cognitive Dissonance in the Classroom
Throughout my undergraduate and masters degrees, and through six years of full-time adjunct teaching in Religious Studies and Philosophy, I had the very good fortune to study with, and serve under, one of the top teachers in the field, Tim … Continue reading
Posted in Kenny Paul Smith, Pedagogy
Tagged Cognitive Dissonance, GSU, NPR, Philosophy, Religion, teaching
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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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What’s belief got to do with it?
By Kelly Baker “They don’t really believe that, do they?” is a refrain that I find familiar, expected and, frankly, tiring. As someone who researches white supremacists and doomsday prophets, I should be used to it. The query confronts me … Continue reading
Now Published – April Issue of the Bulletin for the Study of Religion
The most recent issue of the Bulletin has been released, both online and in print versions. The April issue brings together a set of articles on the theme of gender and religion, organized by our associate editor Kirstine Munk. Thank … Continue reading
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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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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The Journal of the American Academy of Religion: An Interview with Amir Hussain (Part Three of Three)
Interview by Philip L. Tite This is the third, and final, installment of an interview conducted with Professor Amir Hussain, the new editor of the Journal of the American Academy of Religion. Be sure to read Parts One and Two. … Continue reading
Posted in Academy, Interviews, Philip L. Tite
Tagged AAR, academic journals, American Academy of Religion, Amir Hussain, Religion, religious studies
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Is Religion “Different Enough”?
As I discussed in an earlier Bulletin post, in defending the continued employment of “religion” as analytically distinct interpretive category, scholars such as Ivan Strenski argue that, relative to other modes of human behavior, what we typically identify as religion … Continue reading
The Journal of the American Academy of Religion: An Interview with Amir Hussain (Part Two of Three)
Interview by Philip L. Tite This is part two of a three-part interview with Professor Amir Hussain, the new editor of the Journal of the American Academy of Religion. Do read part one. Part three will appear next week. PHILIP … Continue reading
The Journal of the American Academy of Religion: An Interview with Amir Hussain (Part One of Three)
Interview by Philip L. Tite In 2011 the Journal of the American Academy of Religion, the official journal of the American Academy of Religion, gained a new editor. Professor Amir Hussain was kind enough to be interviewed for the Bulletin … Continue reading