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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: Sociology of Religion
Zombie Jesus Day: When Labels (Re-)Make Reality
By Philip L. Tite Over the Easter weekend, I heard a story of a young child at a local school discussing the Easter holidays with her friends. The holiday that her family celebrates, she said, is actually called Zombie Jesus … Continue reading
FIELD NOTES: “Religion, Migration, Mutation” – Call for Panels and Papers is Now Open
European Association for the Study of Religions Annual Conference, Liverpool Hope University. 3rd-6th September 2013 The 12th EASR Annual Conference will be hosted by the British Association for the Study of Religions at Liverpool Hope University, 3-6 September 2013. The … Continue reading
Posted in Academy, Announcements, Call for papers, Religion and Society, Religion and Theory, Theory and Method, Theory in the Real World
Tagged anthropology of religon, BASR, British Association for the Study of Religions, EASR, European Association for the Study of Religions, migration, Religion, religious studies, Sociology of Religion
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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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FIELD NOTES: New AAR Group Announcement: Comparative Approaches to Religion and Violence
We are pleased to announce AAR approval for a new program unit on Comparative Approaches to Religion and Violence, beginning in 2013 and continuing for five years. Current chairs are Michael Jerryson (Eckerd College) and Margo Kitts (Hawai’i Pacific University), … Continue reading
Jürgen Habermas and the Study of Religion – Part 2
By Matt Sheedy In my previous post I noted: In case it is not painfully clear, Habermas is not a scholar of “religion.” He does not take up the term critically, examine its uses in various contexts, nor ask what … Continue reading
On the “Softening of Religiosity” and “Invisible Religion”
Nathan’s post yesterday reminded me of a passage in Thomas Luckmann’s The Invisible Religion (1967), in which Luckmann excoriates middle-twentieth century sociology of religion for falling down on the job. His comments are worth consideration: The new sociology of religion … Continue reading
Posted in Craig Martin, Theory in the Real World
Tagged secularism, Sociology of Religion, Thomas Luckmann
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Methodological Failures
I’m currently reading Matthew Wood’s Possession, Power, and the New Age, and I’ve found an extremely provocative passage in the conclusion to his second chapter (a summary of “The field of New Age studies”): The transmission of the New Age motif … Continue reading