Matthew C. Baldwin is Professor of Religion and Philosophy at Mars Hill University, where he teaches ancient history, Biblical literature and classical Biblical languages, and method and theory for religious studies. He lives in Asheville, North Carolina. Have you noticed the recent explosion of interest the category of “memory” among scholars of history, culture, and “religion”? A WorldCat search of books published since 2000 in “su:Religion” turns up 522 works with the word “memory” in a title. Looking at peer […]
Month: October 2016
It’s Fall, Y’all!
By Andie Alexander Andie Alexander earned her B.A. in Religious Studies and History in 2012. She is now working on her MA in Religious Studies at CU Boulder. Andie also works as the online Curator for the Culture on the Edge blog. It’s that time of year again: the leaves are turning colors, the air is cooling down (in some places, at least), and pumpkin flavored/scented products are taking over. Growing up in Alabama, I always enjoyed (well, maybe not […]
Ar·ti·facts with Prof. Touna
The next video in our third season of ar·ti·facts features Dr. Touna shedding a new light on some theatre programs she found in her bookshelf. Be sure to check it out! ar·ti·facts: Constructing Meaning with Prof. Vaia Touna from UA Religious Studies. […]
Coming Attractions: REL’s Undergrad Research Symposium 2017
Those who have been here for the past few years might know that REL instituted its own undergraduate research symposium — an annual event that’s now going into its fourth year. (This is quite apart from UA’s campus-wide event — a venue where REL students have also excelled, by the way.) This year it will be organized, once again, by Prof. Bagger, and will take place on March 29, going from about 9:30 am until 12:30 pm, in Gorgas 205. […]
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A Strategic Political Tool
Did you watch the town hall meeting the other night, the second of this season’s Presidential debates? Because scholars of religion are trained in the study of how rhetorics of privacy are used by social actors, I think we might have more to say about what’s going on than we at first realize. […]
Call for Participants “…But What Do You Study?”: A NAASR Workshop on Succeeding in the Job Market
Michael Graziano is an instructor of Religious Studies at the University of Northern Iowa. If the phrase “academic job market” makes you feel like the picture above you’re not alone. There’s no shortage of posts, essays, tweets, and columns dispensing advice on the job market: what to study, how to shape a CV, and what to say in a cover letter. The rules—both written and unwritten—can seem inscrutable. That’s in part why, for the second year in a row, NAASR will […]
The Hegemony of Normalcy and the Academic Study of Religion
Daniel Jones is a graduate student in the Department of Religious Studies at Missouri State University. His research focuses on critical discourse analysis of the intersections of religion, nature, science, and humanity. His research interests also pertain to theories of religion, culture, communication, and anthropology. “The hegemony of normalcy is, like other hegemonic practices, so effective because of its invisibility.”-Lennard Davis “We must… take account of the persistence of a model of interpretation and the inversion of its sense, if […]
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“Shivers Up My Spine”
The series of commentaries begun by a recent Religious Studies Podcast has continued (one of which was my own), with this most recent one being added to the mix. […]
Warm and Cozy Facts
What do you do when approaching an intersection and you see this sign? Well…, do you read Japanese? […]