So, did you catch that Prof. Altman‘s recent post on Mircea Eliade (which was linked here) was just quoted on Andrew Sullivan’s blog. Maybe you’ve seen Sullivan on TV as a political commentator or maybe you follow his blog — he’s certainly got a national media profile. But did you read Mike’s original post? If so, what do you think of the particular quote from it that appeared on The Dish? Is this what Mike’s article was about…? Was it […]
Month: October 2013
“The Shiny Thing Out the Corner of Your Eye”
Heard Tim Minchin‘s recent address at the University of Western Australia…? […]
Inspired?
Have you heard of FOX News host, Bill O’Reilly’s new book, Killing Jesus: A History? Seen the “60 Minutes” interview? […]
Time for an Eternal Return?
It’s Eliade day here at the REL faculty blog… Did you see Prof. Altman’s post? […]
Eliade Has Not Left the Building
There’s been lots of buzz, over the past decade or so, about material religion or embodied religion, as if this apparent emphasis on the empirical, the contingent, the historical, somehow gets us out of what many now see as the old rut of studying disembodied beliefs alone. […]
The Messy Ephemera of Day-to-Day Life
By Melanie Williams Melanie printed her diploma on sheepskin using an HP OfficeJet 6500, the beast of home printers. The diploma states that she graduated in 2006, with a B.A. in Anthropology and Religious Studies. Since then she has been a cook, server, deckhand, goat milker, office assistant, and general itinerant laborer. Tomorrow she will mend the fence (it makes the neighbors better.) I don’t know what it’s like to be a college freshman today but I still like to […]
The Narrative Remains the Same
Have you read Mike Altman’s post on the recent controversy surrounding the Miss America contest? No? You should. He concludes: […]