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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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Teaching the Inaccessible Nature of Subjective Experience: A Look Behind “Heterophenomenology as Self-Knowledge”
Editor’s Note: In the recent issue of the Bulletin for the Study of Religion, Bryan Rennie published his reflections on a theoretical and pedagogical approach, which he calls “heterophenomenology” (“Heterophenomenology as Self-Knowledge”, pp. 6-11), a new take on the classic … Continue reading
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
Tagged pedagogy, Race, racism, teaching, white privilege
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Identity or Affiliation: To Share or Not to Share?
I want to pose a question to professors in religious studies: do you share your “religious” identity or affiliation (or disaffiliation) with students? Why or why not? Have you had positive of negative experiences as a result of sharing? I … Continue reading
Posted in Craig Martin, Pedagogy
Tagged pedagogy, Religious Affiliation, Religious Identity, teaching
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Klansmen, Zombie Apocalypses, and End Times Narratives: Or, an Afternoon with Kelly J. Baker
Kelly Baker is a Lecturer of Religious Studies and American Studies at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. In the following interview, Baker discusses her recent book, Gospel According to the Klan (University Press of Kansas, 2011), which, as her UT … Continue reading
Posted in Interviews, Kenny Paul Smith
Tagged Alien abduction, conspiracy theory, Gospel, Kelly Baker, Klan, Knoxville, New York Times, Religion, teaching, University of Tennessee, zombies
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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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Laptops and theory in the Religious Studies classroom
Do you let your students bring their laptops to class? Personally, I’m torn. I love gadgets and hate to sound like a Luddite, but most of the research I’ve seen — not to mention my own experience — suggests that … Continue reading
Posted in Nathan Rein, Pedagogy
Tagged internet, J.Z. Smith, laptops, pedagogy, teaching, technology, theory
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