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14 Dec 09

The Chronicle: Career Network: 12/03/2001

I think this might be Thomas Hart Benton's very first Chronicle Career Network post (Dec. 3, 2001). (That's a pseudonym, of course.) It's quite brilliant.

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23 Nov 09

Grant programs to apply for (my spreadsheet)

In case this may be helpful to anyone else besides me. FPIRI stands for "Fellowship Programs at Independent Research Institutions."

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12 Nov 09

Boris Kachka, "Why Author Mary Karr Struggled Writing Her Third Memoir 'Lit'," New York Magazine (Nov. 8, 2009)

Now here's a bon mot: "Minoring in religious studies and thinking you know about religion is like watching porn, reading gynecology textbooks, and thinking you know something about pussy." Mary Karr, quoted in this piece.

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06 Nov 09

How the Virtual Academic(TM) Works

From Chicago's writing program -- a short, sharp analysis of what makes academicese so maddening. Thank you to Louise for posting. The "toy" -- a random sentence generator which actually produces things that sound authentic -- is at http://j.mp/38VtE

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11 Oct 09

Syllabus: Richard Cohen, Theory of Religion (LTCS 250), UCSD Winter 2005

Another version from archive.org (which seems to be identical): http://sqrl.it/?umc9b

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08 Oct 09

Columbia UP series: Insurrections: Critical Studies in Religion, Politics, and Culture. Slavoj Zizek, Clayton Crockett, Creston Davis, Jeffrey W. Robbins, Editors

  • The series will address a range of religious traditions and political viewpoints in the United States, Europe, and other parts of the world. Without advocating any specific religious or theological stance, the series aims nonetheless to be faithful to the radical emancipatory potential of religion.
01 Oct 09

All NEH funded projects in the field of Religion since 1980

Via iterasi -- an archived search results page showing all NEH-funded projects in religious studies in the NEH database (which goes back to 1980).

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Alexander Tristan Riley, Ph.D.

The sociologist of religion at Bucknell who's been writing on the Flight 93 memorial. I'm interested in meeting him.

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How we remember » GetReligion

The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette has profiled work by sociologist of religion Alexander Riley on the Flight 93 memorial near Shanksville, PA. Here are GetReligion blogger E.E. Evans's comments.

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