Sacred MattersWelcome to our series, “Excellent Excerpts,” where we share selections from recently or soon-to-be published books we think you should check out! In this post we are featuring An Ethos of Blackness: Rastafari Cosmology, Culture, and...
NAASR2024 Call for Papers! Interlocutions The 2024 NAASR Annual Meeting will provide a space to explore contemporary theoretical gains that have a bearing on and/or implications for academic studies of religion. Doing so will not only diversify our...
Digital Religion2023 Digital Religion Research Award winner is Dr. Sana Patel for her article: Hybrid Imams: Young Muslims and Religious Authority on...
Reviews of Biblical and Early Christian Studies2024.01.01 | Frazer MacDiarmid. The Memory of Ignatius of Antioch: The Martyr as a Locus of Christian Identity, Remembering and Remembered. Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament 2.581. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2022. Pp. xii + 269....
Sacred MattersWelcome to 7 Questions, our series where we highlight exciting scholars in the field of religion and get to know the person behind the book. For this article, we interviewed Vivaldi Jean-Marie, whose book An Ethos of Blackness: Rastafari Cosmology,...
affecognitiveVerónica Gago spoke at Duke’s feminist theory workshop two years ago (2021), but I’ve only just now scraped away the …Continue reading →
Canadian Society for the Study of ReligionDate Posted: 12/15/2023 Closing Date: 02/01/2024, 11:59PM ET Req ID: 35253 Job Category: Faculty – Contractually Limited Term Appointment Faculty/Division: Faculty of Arts & Science Department: Department for the Study of Religion Campus: St....
Digital ReligionOn the 1st of December, Giulia Evolvi, NMRDC assistant director and board member, launched the project MERGE- Media, religion, and...
Sacred MattersWelcome to 7 Questions, our series where we highlight exciting scholars in the field of religion and get to know the person behind the book. For this article, we interviewed Daniel Shank Cruz, whose book Ethics for Apocalyptic Times: Theapoetics,...
NSRNSamuel D. Stabler, Hunter College | Shai M. Dromi, Harvard University Keywords: Nones, irreligion, secularism, Sunday Assembly, moral repertoires, sociology of religion Social scientists employ a diverse set of moral repertoires to justify their...
Sacred MattersWelcome to our series, “Excellent Excerpts,” where we share selections from recently or soon-to-be published books we think you should check out! In this post we are featuring Rebuilding Community: Rebuilding Community: Displaced Women and the...
Digital ReligionSpecial Issue in the journal “Frontiers in Political Science”, October 2023. CALL FOR PAPERS: Digital religion meets politics: pushing...
Feminists Studies in ReligionBy Emma Cieslik. Gabrielle Cerince, Devotee of the Goddess, smeared period blood across her cheeks, then her forehead, then down her neck before licking her fingers. On July 2nd, 2023, Cerince shared a reel of this Blood Magic and Womb Ritual on...
Indigenous Values Initiative“The Religious Origins of White Supremacy: Johnson v. M’lntosh and the Doctrine of Christian Discovery” will take place on the Syracuse University campus Dec. 8-10. Its main sponsor is the Henry Luce Foundation, which awarded the University...
Sacred MattersWelcome to 7 Questions, our series where we highlight exciting scholars in the field of religion and get to know the person behind the book. For this article, we interviewed Zeynep Korkman, whose book Gendered Fortunes: Divination, Precarity, and...
State of FormationMy concept of Interfaith began to develop long before I joined the BILI Fellowship. Indeed, a diverse range of perspectives and backgrounds has always been at the center of my Sikh faith, our religion’s history, and our holy scriptures. To begin...
Original Free NationsIn our view, the claim of a right of domination, and the behaviors that follow from that claim, are the main cause of the global problems we all face. This is why opposition to that claim is a potentially unifying theme for homo sapiens. The post...
Original Free NationsOur original nation ancestors understood mountains and other geographical areas as living beings imbued with spiritual energy. Our spiritual people knew and still know how to spiritually attune and align themselves with that energy in a ceremonial...
State of FormationNanakacharya, Nanak Rishi, Guru Rimpochiya, Vali Hind, Nanak Peer, Baba Nanak are all names of Guru Nanak Sahib Ji around the world. When it comes to interfaith, the clearest example I can think of is Guru Nanak Sahib Ji’s udasiaa. He traveled on...
affecognitiveLectures on the Will to Know (Leçons sur la volonté de savoir) contains Michel Foucault’s inaugural lectures at the Collège …Continue reading →
Canadian Society for the Study of ReligionGreetings, Certificate of Christian Studies – Fall 2023 Admission Now Open The Certificate in Christian Studies will be offered through Continuing Education as a partnership among the three affiliated/federated Colleges Assumption University,...
Canadian Society for the Study of ReligionGreetings, Assumption University Graduate Diploma in Catholic Studies – Fall 2023 Admission Now Open Please see attachments – Graduate Diploma in Catholic Studies Fall Poster (click to view PDF) Benefits of the Graduate Diploma in Catholic Studies...
NAASRThe Psychology Department at the University of Groningen is seeking a highly motivated candidate for a postdoc position within a project funded by the Templeton Foundation and the Shirley Ryan AbilityLab, granted to Dr. Brian Ostafin and Prof. Dr....
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PRRIOver the past two election cycles, Hispanic voters have been one of the most important voting blocs, with both Republicans and Democrats attempting to win over this constituency. This once reliably-Democratic demographic has seen Republicans make...
State of FormationOver the past few months, the BILI (Building Interfaith Leadership Initiative) fellowship and my campus community at Tufts University have guided me to a new definition of interfaith work. I have learned that the richness of interfaith work emerges...
State of FormationMy interfaith evolution is a lot like the magnificent willow tree: flowing, flexible, and adaptable. I was around eight years old when I began to grasp the concept of organized religion. The momentous occasion took place in a synagogue in Miami,...
Feminists Studies in ReligionBy Oluwatomisin “Tomi” Oredein. “It is a form of struggle and survival, an epistemic existence-based response and practice—most especially by colonial and racialized subjects—against the colonial matrix of power in all of its dimensions, and for...
Original Free NationsThe context begins with the free existence of our Native nations and peoples, extending back to the beginning of our time through our oral histories and traditions, contrasted with the system of domination that was carried by ship across the ocean...
NAASR2023 NAASR Annual Meeting Program Exploring the “Ecologies” of Scholarship in the Study of Religion #naasr2023 ONLINE (PRE-CONFERENCE) Program Saturday, November 11, 2023 (via Zoom link) Register for the online (pre-conference) program here. MEET...
Original Free NationsThe Doctrine of Discovery: Unmasking the Domination Code The film directed by Sheldon Wolfchild, (Dakota) and co-produced by Steven T. Newcomb (Shawnee, Lenape), The Doctrine of Discovery: Unmasking The Domination Code is a compelling presentation...
PRRIThe U.S. Supreme Court’s opinion in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization — which overturned the 1973 landmark decision Roe v. Wade — still looms months after its June 2022 announcement. Abortion is generally seen as a partisan issue, as...
State of FormationGrowing up in a western suburb of Chicago, in a primarily Catholic household, I have always had a deep appreciation and love for my Guatemalan roots and a desire to help the people in my community. My upbringing and culture serve as means of...
State of FormationWhen one thinks of art, it is easy to think of one of the greats – Jean-Michel Basquiat, Nina Simone, or Pablo Picasso. Conversation, however, is also an art through which we exchange our ideas, feelings, and beliefs. Whether great conversations...
State of FormationDuring the 2016 presidential election, as the socio-political climate of the entire nation changed, I observed polarization and the creeping normalization of xenophobia in my own high school. This was the moment when I realized that something...
Original Free NationsPagans explains how Christendom's system of domination continues to be used by the United States government against Original ("Indigenous") Nations and Peoples. The post Pagans in the Promised Land Book appeared first on ORIGINAL FREE NATIONS.
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Te Ture Tāhae Whenua - The Doctrine of Discovery in AotearoaThe Doctrine of Discovery (also known as the Doctrine of Christian Discovery) is an international legal concept and Christian principle, that is borne out a number of catholic laws (called "papal bulls") originating out of the Vatican in the 15th...
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Te Ture Tāhae Whenua - The Doctrine of Discovery in AotearoaWelcome to my new substack!
affecognitive[https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot/francis-bacon-study-of-a-human-body-after-ingres–145-c-51b4795a54] My graduate seminar this spring, “States of (Religious) Bodies,” turned from Beauvoir’s The Second Sex to Foucault’s Discipline and …Continue...
NAASR**DEADLINE EXTENDED TO MARCH 13TH** CALL FOR PAPERS Exploring the Transdisciplinary “Ecology” of scholarship in the study of religion The North American Association for the Study of Religion describes itself as an organization committed to “the...
affecognitiveBetween Merleau-Ponty (MMP) and Michel Foucault (MF), my graduate seminar this spring read a large chunk of Simone de Beauvoir’s …Continue reading →
affecognitiveI recently took my graduate students through Discipline and Punish (DP), a text often cataloged as Foucault’s “genealogy of the …Continue reading →
NAASRNAASR 2023 Annual Meeting CALL FOR PAPERS Exploring the Transdisciplinary “Ecology” of scholarship in the study of religion The North American Association for the Study of Religion describes itself as an organization committed to “the historical,...
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Feminists Studies in ReligionBy Alejandro Escalante. A loca (“madwoman”) named Willian danced and sang boisterously as she swept the ground and lead the procession of sacred images of Santiago Apóstol in Loíza, Puerto Rico. As she swept, she blew kisses and twerked...