NAASR**DEADLINE EXTENDED TO MARCH 13TH** CALL FOR PAPERS Exploring the Transdisciplinary “Ecology” of scholarship in the study of religion The North American Association for the Study of Religion describes itself as an organization committed to “the...
affecognitiveBetween Merleau-Ponty (MMP) and Michel Foucault (MF), my graduate seminar this spring read a large chunk of Simone de Beauvoir’s …Continue reading →
affecognitiveI recently took my graduate students through Discipline and Punish (DP), a text often cataloged as Foucault’s “genealogy of the …Continue reading →
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NAASRNAASR 2023 Annual Meeting CALL FOR PAPERS Exploring the Transdisciplinary “Ecology” of scholarship in the study of religion The North American Association for the Study of Religion describes itself as an organization committed to “the historical,...
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Feminists Studies in ReligionBy Alejandro Escalante. A loca (“madwoman”) named Willian danced and sang boisterously as she swept the ground and lead the procession of sacred images of Santiago Apóstol in Loíza, Puerto Rico. As she swept, she blew kisses and twerked...
Feminists Studies in ReligionBy Meghan R. Henning. In her 2010 Ted talk, Brené Brown talked about how she returned to the church amidst a period of turmoil as an academic and how she found a progressive faith that was different from what she expected. A quote from that talk...
Feminists Studies in ReligionBy Midori Hartman. I write this reflection having recently returned from participating in the International Society of Biblical Literature meeting in Salzburg, Austria (July 16th – 21st). After two years of virtual conferences, it was quite a...
Feminists Studies in ReligionBy Sharon Jacob. “When a Hindu man marries a Muslim woman, it is always portrayed as romance and love by Hindu organizations, while when the reverse happens it is depicted as coercion.” Charu Gupta, Historian at University of Delhi Genesis 34 is...