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: Anthropology of Christianity, Dispensationalism, Religion/culture – Posted on December 5, 2012 Joel Robbins, “Becoming Sinners: Christianity and Moral Torment in a Papua New Guinea Society” (2004). Joel Robbins, Becoming Sinners: Christianity and Moral Torment in a Papua New Guinea Society (2004) Review by A.T. Coates Robbins’s … Continue reading >Joel Robbins, “Becoming Sinners: Christianity and Moral Torment in a Papua New Guinea Society” (2004).
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: 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)