Divided by Faith?
by Craig Martin It seems to be a common sense notion that people fight over differing religious beliefs. Consider the following paragraph from an NPR news story, which I take to be typical: When Osama...
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“Sacred” and “the Sacred”: False Cognates
by Craig Martin “Sacred” is an adjective; “the Sacred” is a noun. In The Ideology of Religious Studies, Tim Fitzgerald discusses the adjectival use: If by ‘sacred’ we mean those things, ideas,...
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by Craig Martin * This post originally appeared on the author’s blog. Some would have it that the work of scholars such as Don Wiebe in The Politics of Religious Studies, Tim Fitzgerald in The Ideology...
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Religion Snapshots: Capitalism and/as Religion, Part 1
Religion Snapshots is a feature with the Bulletin for the Study of Religion blog, where a number of contributors are asked to briefly comment on popular news items or pressing theoretical issues in the...
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Differentiating Fields
by Craig MartinS. Brent Plate’s recent post at Religion Dispatches suggests that when it comes to religious studies, scholars are, in a sense, both insiders and outsiders at the same time. He comes to...
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Now Published – Bulletin for the Study of Religion 43.1 (February 2014)
The February issue of the Bulletin has been published and is available in both print and electronic versions. Below is the table of contents of this issue, which includes a set of papers marking the...
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The Politics of Choice
by Craig Martin* This post originally appeared on the Culture on the Edge blog.George Washington’s Sacred Fire—in which Peter A. Lillback argues that “founding father” George Washington was a Christian...
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Israel and Palestine: Tit for Tat?
by Craig MartinI originally wrote the following post in October 2012. While I think much of the news coverage on Israel and Palestine still ignores the disparities of power between the two, we might be...
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The Problem of the Mystic East
The following post originally appeared in a slightly different form on the author’s personal blog, which can be found here.After having read Robert Orsi’s rather odd essay on “The Problem of the Holy”...
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My Inherited Elephant
by Adam T. Miller* This piece originally appeared on the author’s blog.On August 13th, Matt Sheedy’s “Teaching Ethics and/in the World Religions Paradigm” (originally posted here) appeared on the...
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“Your class is hard.”
by Craig MartinStudents often complain that my class is hard. My short answer is simple: “Someone has got to be your hardest professor—it might as well be me.” My longer response has more substance....
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Juggling It All: Tips on Research and Writing, Part 1
Craig Martin: I find myself to be a creature of habit when it comes to the spaces in which I do work: I write on my couch at home, read on the back porch, grade papers in the dining room, write...
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Almighty God Created the Races
by Craig MartinLast semester I taught Fay Botham’s Almighty God Created the Races: Christianity, Interracial Marriage, and American Law (University of North Carolina Press, 2009). I enjoyed teaching...
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North American Association for the Study of Religion (NAASR): An Interview...
1. For readers unfamiliar with NAASR, could you briefly outline its history and its general aims?Russell McCutcheon: The North American Association for the Study of Religion—of which the Bulletin and...
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Creating History
by Steven Ramey* This post originally appeared on the Culture on the Edge blog.History-making involves the creation of connections between events that generate meaning and order. It is really the same...
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On The Politics of Spirit: An Interview with Tim Murphy (Part 1)
Tim Murphy (1956-2013) was Associate Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Alabama. He received his Ph.D. in the History of Consciousness Program at the University of California, Santa...
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On The Politics of Spirit: An Interview with Tim Murphy (Part 2)
This is part 2 of a two-part interview with Tim Murphy about his new book, The Politics of Spirit; see part 1 here.Tim Murphy (1956-2013) was Associate Professor of Religious Studies at the University...
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Better get to know Practicum: Critical Theory, Religion, and Pedagogy
Ipsita Chatterjea: Brad, Craig, thank you for taking the time to talk to the Bulletin for the Study of Religion Blog about your group and its work! Practicum observed its 1 year anniversary on April 26...
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Now Published – Bulletin for the Study of Religion 44.4 (December 2015)
The December issue of the Bulletin has now been published and is available. Below is the table of contents of this issue, which includes an Open Letter to the AAR on the challenges facing...
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Who Gets to Play in the Sandbox? Debating Identities, Methodologies, and...
The following is the editorial introduction to the December 2015 issue of the Bulletin for the Study of Religion (the full table of contents having already been posted). We offer this editorial here on...
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