Templeton and the Dalai Lama
By Craig Martin The AAR just announced that the Dalai Lama will be speaking at their 2012 Annual Meeting in Chicago as part of a Templeton event: His Holiness, the Dalai Lama, the Tibetan Buddhist...
View ArticleCritical Questions Series: Clayton Crockett
This is part of an on-going Series with the Bulletin, where Critical Questions are posed to a variety of scholars on the same topic. Other posts in this series can be found here. Clayton Crockett is...
View ArticleReligious Studies, Politics, Theology
by Matt Sheedy In discussing the myth-ritual system of medieval Christianity in his book Myth and the Christian Nation, (2008) Burton Mack notes the following: It was interested only in the church...
View ArticleCritical Questions Series 1: Summary
by Matt Sheedy In this first installment of the Critical Question Series, six scholars of religion were asked to respond to the following question: It is well known, at least amongst insiders, that...
View ArticleWill it Ever Be “Just about Bad Scholarship?”: A Response to Aaron Hughes and...
by Carl J. StonehamAs a PhD student in a U.S. Religious Studies program (now entering the dissertation phase), I am struck by the ‘emic-etic tension’ in the field of Islamic Studies. While hashing out...
View ArticleReligion, Affect, and Emotion Group Call for Papers: AAR Annual Meeting, San...
Religion, Affect, and Emotion GroupThe AAR and SBL Meeting San Diego California, November 22-25Deadline: Monday, March 3, 2014, 5:00 PM EST, through http://papers.aarweb.org/Statement of Purpose:This...
View ArticlePost-Atheism and Deconstruction: Postsecular Atheisms, Part 2
by Donovan SchaeferGary Gutting: So the distinction that saves you from contradiction is this: Beliefs contain faith in the sense that, in the world, beliefs are where we find faith concretely...
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