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Nationalist Hierophanies
One semester in REL 101 I told students that I would perform a “ritual” with them, whereby I would make “the Sacred” manifest itself. My ritual supplies included a bowl of water, a glue stick, a...
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“West Virginia is one big portal!” Reflections on the Eleventh Annual Mothman...
By Joseph Laycock When my partner and I crossed the border into West Virginia, the first thing I noticed were the billboards and radio attack ads. Both parties, it seemed, supported coal and hated the...
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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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Call for Papers – Critical Theory and Discourses on Religion Group: AAR, 2014
Critical Theory and Discourses on Religion 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...
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Jesus’ Remains: Teaching Multiple Jesi
by Kate Daley-BaileyMotivated by not a little shameless self-promotion and a pseudo-masochistic desire for undergraduate feedback on my work, I ventured to present my Introduction to Religious Thought...
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The Problem with Belief
by Sean McCloud* This post originally appeared on the Practicum: Critical Theory, Religion and Pedagogy blog.“When that sick old mythology claimed you as its prize, you pulled the arrow out yourself...
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