Did you catch this Forbes online post? They’re so frustrating for so many different reasons (I commented on one a while back), but for now, just consider the name in the bottom right corner of the photo: Mark Scott is a professional photographer whose stock image was licensed from Getty Images by Forbes for this webpage. […]
Did you attend the inaugural Hidden Humanities Lecture last night in Gorgas Library (sponsored by the College and Arts & Sciences)? No? Well, you missed quite an event — it was filmed so watch for that in the coming weeks. And don’t forget, the second lecture is coming up in late February, with a new speaker. In the meantime, check out this video of Prof. Ferris, last evening’s lecturer, talking about the Humanities… the gateway to success, it’s the gateway […]
A yesterday a colleague posted a blog with three hypotheses on the topic of studying a thing called American Religious History — concerning how it may very well be a nationalist project, from start to finish (no matter how it is done), and that it is a discourse that may have historical continuities with (and practical effects akin to) the world religious discourse that so many in our field now claim to critique. His point, as I read him, was […]
Are you following the labor situation at the Episcopal General Theological Seminary in New York? No? Then you may want to at least read this first. […]
Did you catch this story making the rounds on social media? […]
We have Kelly Baker on campus, here to give the second annual Day Lecture. On the ride to Tuscaloosa form the Birmingham airport the other day, we got talking about the issue of contingent faculty in academia (a topic on which she has blogged) or, more specifically, about how the issue plays out in the academic study of religion. We talked about the American Academy of Religion’s current forays into the issue (e.g., a task force she is herself involved […]
Relativism, and criticisms of it — “Oh, you’re a relativist!” — strike me as similar to claims of reductionism: the problem isn’t (as critics of reductionism claim) that one reduces one’s object of study to something other than what it already is, but that someone else reduces it to something different than what you want to boil it down to. That not a lot of so-called religious people are walking around spontaneously reporting that they’ve experienced a hierophany of a […]
Zombie apocalypses are no laughing matter. Learn more about the annual Day Lecture here. Learn more about this year’s lecturer here. Follow the live tweets this Tuesday at 7 pm @StudyReligion […]
When the zombie apocalypse comes, where are you going to go? Get more helpful tips Tuesday night at #Day2014 Learn more about the annual Day Lecture here. Learn more about this year’s lecturer here. […]
Pop culture’s preoccupation with zombie’s goes back a long ways…. Learn more about the annual Day Lecture here. Learn more about this year’s lecturer here. […]