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The Dhammakaya Code
The following is a guest post from Cris, a Ph.D. student in Anthropology at the University of Colorado-Boulder. This post originally appeared on Cris’ blog, Genealogy of Religion (which is well worth...
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Trans-species Aesthetics: Religion and Ivory
An article by Brian Christy in the October issue of National Geographic on illegal ivory harvest and the massacre of African elephants explores the religious dimensions of the ivory trade. In January...
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Religion Conferencing: It’s an “Experience”
by Matt Sheedy In his essay entitled “Experience,” which is one of several pieces contained in Religious Experience: A Reader, Robert H. Sharf notes the following: Critical analysis shows that modern...
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Critical Questions Series 3: Category Formation and “Eastern” Traditions
by James Mark Shields This is the third instalment of the Critical Questions Series 3. The first post by Steven Ramey can be found here and the second by Nicole Goulet here. Question: The varieties of...
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Kids Drink Pop, So What?
by Russell McCutcheon * This article has been re-posted from the blog Culture on the Edge: Studies in Identity Formation. I think it’s worth pausing for a moment to ask why the above photo, recently...
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Considering Orgasmic Meditation: It’s not ‘Diddling’ when it’s a Ritual
by Natasha L. Mikles While perusing the blogs recently, I came across an article describing one woman’s visit to the San Francisco OMXperience—a three-day, $795-a-head event in August 2013 designed to...
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Definitive Descriptions in the Study of Religion and the Doniger Controversy
by Steven RameyThe responses to Wendy Doniger’s book, The Hindus: An Alternative History, whose publisher (Penguin, India) is withdrawing the book in India to settle a criminal lawsuit over offending...
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Reflexive Religious Studies: A Note
Jason Ānanda Josephson* This post originally appeared on the author’s blog.I’ve been lecturing about and, even calling for, what I term “Reflexive Religious Studies” for some time. My comments about it...
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Offerings for the Loch Ness Monster—a Sign of Buddhism’s Arrival in the West
By Joseph P. Laycock and Natasha L. MiklesWhile discussing construction of the upcoming Karma Kagyu Tibetan Buddhist practice center near Loch Ness, Lama Gelongma Zangmo of Scotland has suggested that...
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Now Published – Bulletin for the Study of Religion 43.4 (November 2014)
The November issue of the Bulletin has been published and is available. Below is the table of contents of this issue, which includes a panel of papers on the current state and future of Islamic studies...
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Debating a Discipline, Contesting Identities, and the Future of Islamic Studies
The following is the editorial introduction to the November 2014 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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What’s in Your Religion Syllabus?: Sarah F. Haynes
In this new series with the Bulletin, we ask scholars of religion to share with our readers what’s in their religion syllabus, from a new class or a class they’ve taught for years, reflecting on what...
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European Association for the Study of Religions (EASR) Conference in Leuven,...
by Teemu Taira and Suzanne Owen The annual conference of the European Association for the Study of Religions (EASR) took place in Leuven, Belgium, in September 2017. It was organized by BABEL, the...
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