Tag: Asdiwal


All the While Sipping Small Cups of Good Coffee

Back in December 2014 I received an unexpected email from Switzerland: We would like to invite you to a master class with PhD candidates and Post-Docs in 2015. These master classes are a main element of our program: For two or three days, we would like to discuss your work, approaches to the study of religion and give the participants the chance to discuss their projects with you. I agreed and am just back from three intensive days working with […]

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Charlie and Us: Religious Violence and the History of Religions

The following guest post is an English translation of the editorial from the current issue of Asdiwal (vol. 9 [2014]), reproduced here with the kind permission of the journal.  It is currently among the very few systematic statements on this topic from within our field and therefore deserves to be read and discussed more widely in North America. Learn more about this academic periodical in the study of religion, published in Geneva, Switzerland, here. As we were preparing this edition […]

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