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Tag Archives: ritual
Political Bodies and a Touch of Pain: An Interview with Darlene Juschka, Part 1
Darlene Juschka is a cross-appointed Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies and Religious Studies at the University of Regina, in Saskatchewan Canada. Juschka is well-published in both fields; her works include Feminism in the Study of Religion: A Reader, (ed. … Continue reading
Posted in Interviews, Religion and Theory, Sexuality and Gender, Theory and Method, Uncategorized
Tagged Darlene Juschka, gender/sex, Myth, ritual, symbol
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Co-opting Categories: It’s the Cats’ Meow
By Deeksha Sivakumar Pulivesham (“Tiger Disguise”), a well-known dancing ritual in Southern India, resurfaced in the news forcing me to question what we name ‘religious ritual’ and what we tend to call ‘folk’ or ‘popular’ practices. What is even more … Continue reading
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
A Funeral for Canada, the Occupy Movement and Social Formations in General
By Matt Sheedy On June 3, 2011, a young woman named Brigette De Pape walked onto the floor of the Senate in Ottawa, where she worked as a parliamentary page, and held up a handmade stop sign that read “Stop … Continue reading
Posted in Matt Sheedy, Theory and Method, Uncategorized
Tagged authority, Funeral for Canada, Nationalism, Occupy Movement, ritual, social formations, Stop Harper, symbols
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Scholarship From The Road: Belief, Practice and the Story of Andal
By Deeksha Sivakumar “The women of Ayodhya run eagerly to see the procession to Sita’s house… their hair fell loose, open on all sides, their waist girdles come undone, they do not even stop to cover their breasts… as they … Continue reading
Posted in Deeksha Sivakumar, South Asian Studies
Tagged Allah, Andal, Belief, Brahman, India, practice, Protestantism, Rama, ritual, Siva, Vishnu
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Nationalist Hierophanies
One semester in REL 101 I told students that I would perform a “ritual” with them, whereby I would make “the Sacred” manifest itself. My ritual supplies included a bowl of water, a glue stick, a lighter, and some square, rectangular, … Continue reading
Posted in Craig Martin, Pedagogy, Politics and Religion
Tagged Durkheim, Elieade, Hierophany, July 4th, Nationalism, pedagogy, ritual, satire, The Sacred
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Scholarship From The Road: Southern India
By Deeksha Sivakumar I am currently in South India, conducting pre-dissertation fieldwork on some of the dolls commonly used in Bommai Golu. Golu is a tiered arrangement of dolls used to commemorate the South Indian version of the an annual … Continue reading
Posted in Deeksha Sivakumar, Scholarship on the Road, South Asian Studies
Tagged Bommai Golu, Brahmin, dolls, Navaratiri, ritual, South India, TamilNadu
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