Categories: Anthropology of Religion, Materiality, Modernity, Theories of Religion – Posted on December 9, 2012 Marx, “Theses on Feuerbach” (1845) Karl Marx, “Theses on Feuerbach” (1845). Online version. Marx’s Theses on Feuerbach offers eleven short critiques of Feuerbach’s dialectical materialism. … Continue reading >Marx, “Theses on Feuerbach” (1845)
Categories: Anthropology of Christianity, Anthropology of Religion, Materiality, Modernity, Religion/media, Theories of Religion – Posted on December 7, 2012 Bruno Latour, “Fetish-Factish” and “What is Iconoclash?” Latour seems to be having a moment in religious studies right now. It is easy to see why: for Latour, … Continue reading >Bruno Latour, “Fetish-Factish” and “What is Iconoclash?”
Categories: American Religion, Religion/culture, Religion/media, Theories of Religion – Posted on December 1, 2012 Kathryn Lofton, “Oprah: The Gospel of an Icon” (2011) Kathryn Lofton, Oprah: The Gospel of an Icon (2011) by A.T. Coates Katie Lofton’s Oprah: Gospel of an Icon is … Continue reading >Kathryn Lofton, “Oprah: The Gospel of an Icon” (2011)
Categories: American Religion, Fundamentalism, Religion/media, Theories of Religion – Posted on November 5, 2012 Selections from Martin Marty’s “Fundamentalism Project” Martin Marty and R. Scott Appleby, “Introduction” and “Conclusion” in Fundamentalisms Observed (1991) and Marty, “Fundamentalism as a Social Phenomenon” … Continue reading >Selections from Martin Marty’s “Fundamentalism Project”
Categories: American Religion, Evangelicalism, Religion/media, Theories of Religion – Posted on October 23, 2012 John Lardas Modern, “Secularism in Antebellum America” Steam engines. Conversions. Inmates. Tracts. Networks. Vibrations. A white whale. Modern’s exciting book on antebellum secularism wends through Moby-Dick, evangelical … Continue reading >John Lardas Modern, “Secularism in Antebellum America”
Categories: American Religion, Dispensationalism, Fundamentalism, Theories of Religion, Visual Culture – Posted on September 21, 2012 Find A.T. Coates all over the internet… I’m A.T. Coates, a Duke PhD student in American Religion. You can find me all over the internet. When my … Continue reading >Find A.T. Coates all over the internet…
Categories: Fundamentalism, Theories of Religion, Visual Culture – Posted on September 20, 2012 Ways of Seeing: On the Role of Images in “Religious” Violence (repost) Haven’t we seen this before? When the so-called “Danish Cartoon Controversy” sparked protests around the world in 2005, American media … Continue reading >Ways of Seeing: On the Role of Images in “Religious” Violence (repost)