This new book, Authentic Fakes: Religion in American Popular Culture (University of California Press, forthcoming 2005), must also be regarded as a perversion. After all, I tried to get it published under the title
Holy Shit, a "perverse" title, as anyone can see, but I was diverted by reluctant publishers and in the process I was arguably perverted myself to conform to the demands of the market. So, we find ourselves in the midst of perversions upon multiple perversions. I plead guilty. I am implicated.
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W.F. Marion, "Sketch of a Phenomenological Concept of Sacrifice," via the Religion and Culture Web Forum at the Martin Marty Center, U. of Chicago Divinity School
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Rethinking Religion in India - a five-year conference cluster, New Delhi
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The Associated Press: Study: Peers, not profs, influence student views
A study finds that, while college faculty tend to be more liberal than the general population, college students' political beliefs are more strongly influenced by their peers than by their teachers. Intuitively this makes a lot of sense to me given my sense of a culture gap between faculty and students at many institutions.
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Religion & the Public Sphere (Social Science Research Council)
A massive source of information on the SSRC's current programs on religion.
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Interview with R. Scott Appleby, from BeyondIntractability.org (2005)
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"Religion in the News," web publication from Tirnity College (Hartford, CT)
Infrequently updated, but high-quality publication. No RSS feeds or anything like that.
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Vergangenheitsbewältigung – Wikipedia (in German)
The German-language Wikipedia entry on Vergangenheitsbewältigung, roughly, "coming to terms with the past," usually used in reference to efforts by historians and others to find a way to deal with the legacy of the Nazi period in contemporary German life.
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Paul Courtright, "Studying Religion in an Age of Terror: Internet death threats and scholarship as a moral practice," The Academic Exchange (April/May 2004)
Paul Courtright's reflections after receiving threats from Hindu groups related to his book, Ganesa, Lord of Obstacles and Beginnings (orig. pub. 1985, rept. Delhi: 2001).
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Stephen Prothero, "Belief Unbracketed," Harvard Divinity Bulletin (Winter / Spring 2004), pp. 10f.
Stephen Prothero argues that scholars of religion should be less reticent in talking about their own views. Specifically he compares his own experience in promoting American Jesus with Bob Orsi's comments in the "snake-handling" chapter of Between Heaven and Earth where he critics Covington's rejection of preacher Punkin Brown. Responses from Orsi and others: http://snipr.com/3hlzb
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R. Orsi, D. Chidester, P.E. Klassen, and R.M. Smith, responses to Stephen Prothero, "Belief Unbracketed," Harvard Divinity Bulletin (Summer 2004), pp. 16-18
Responses to Steven Prothero's commentary, "Belief Unbracketed," in Harvard Divinity Bulletin (http://snipr.com/3hlwr) by Robert A. Orsi, David Chidester, Pamela E. Klassen, and R. Marie Griffith.
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Bruce Lincoln, "Words matter," Boston Globe (Sept. 12, 2004) (on George Bush's religious language and American evangelicals)
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Bruce Lincoln, "Bush's God talk: to a born-again theology of individual salvation, Bush has added a providential view of America's role in world history," in Christian Century (Oct. 5, 2004)
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The Institute for Intercultural Studies: Gregory Bateson: Biography
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Russell T. McCutcheon, "'The Common Ground On Which Students of Religion Meet': Methodology and Theory Within the IAHR," Marburg Journal of Religion 1/2 (July 1996)
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The Immanent Frame » Blog Archive » Medical materialism revisited (Wayne Proudfoot)
Proudfoot's critique of the attempt to understand Buddhist (and other) meditative states in terms of their neurobiological manifestations, without reference to their historical and cultural meanings
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