Religion Studies Notes

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Materialreligion includes the things people wear, eat, sing, touch, look at, create, and avoid. It also encompasses the places where religion and the social realities of everyday life, including gender, class, and race, intersect in physical ways. This interdisciplinary approach brings religious studies into conversation with art history, anthropology, and other fields. In the book, Morgan lays out a range of theories, terms, and concepts and shows how they work together to center materiality in the study of religion. Integrating carefully curated visual evidence, Morgan then applies these ideas and methods to case studies across a variety of religious traditions, modeling step-by-step analysis and emphasizing the importance of historical context. The Thing about Religion will be an essential tool for experts and students alike. Two free, downloadable course syllabi created by the author are available online. About the Author David Morgan is professor of religious studies and art, art history, and visual studies at Duke University. His most recent book is Images at Work: The Material Culture of Enchantment.

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The aim of this paper is to discuss on the main methodological procedures used in Anthropology and Sociology and applied in studies of Latin American religions, particularly in the context of diasporic Brazilian Protestantism-Pentecostalism. After introduce the two principal categories (quantitative...

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[Access article in PDF] Notes on Contributors Jennifer Beste is a theological ethics professor at Xavier University in Cincinnati, Ohio. She is currently working on a book exploring the intersection between trauma theory and Christian theology, especially as it relates to issues of human freedom and God's grace. Virginia Burrus, professor of early church history at Drew University, teaches and writes about gender, sexuality, and the body; martyrdom and asceticism; ancient novels and hagiography; constructions of orthodoxy and heresy; and histories of theology and historical theologies. Her publications include The Making of a Heretic: Gender, Authority, and the Priscillianist Controversy (1995), "Begotten, Not Made": Conceiving Manhood in Late Antiquity (2000), and The Sex Lives of Saints: An Erotics of Ancient Hagiography (2004). Katie G. Cannon is the Annie Scales Rogers Professor of Christian Social Ethics at Union Theological Seminary and Presbyterian School of Christian Education, in Richmond, Virginia, and the author of several books, including, most recently, Teaching Preaching: Isaac R. Clark and Black Sacred Rhetoric (2002). Monica A. Coleman is the director of Womanist Religious Studies and assistant professor of religion at Bennett College for Women in Greensboro, NC. A committed process theologian, Coleman earned her doctorate in Philosophy of Religion and Theology from Claremont Graduate University in 2004. Author of The Dinah Project: A Handbook for Congregational Response to Sexual Violence (2004), she is currently working on a postmodern womanist theology. Other research interests include theological reflections on mental illnesses. Rita M. Gross is a scholar-practitioner who teaches Buddhism both in academic contexts and at Buddhist meditation centers. She has written extensively on religion and gender. Professor emerita at the University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire, she is the author of Buddhism after Patriarchy: A Feminist History, Analysis, and Reconstruction of Buddhism (1993) and Feminism and Religion: An Introduction (1996). [End Page 155] Beverley Haddad is senior lecturer in the Theology and Development Programme, School of Religion and Theology, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. She is a member of the Circle of Concerned African Theologians and an ordained Anglican priest. She has published widely in the fields of HIV and AIDS, gender and development, and the role of the church in social transformation, and she is a coeditor of African women, HIV/AIDS, and Faith Communities (2003). Jill Hammer is the director of Tel Shemesh ( ), a Web site and community celebrating and creating Jewish earth-based traditions, and also the codirector of Kohenet: The Hebrew Priestess Institute ( ). She is a poet, author, and essayist, whose work has been published in journals such as Lilith, Bridges, Response, Jewish Spectator, and Nashim: A Journal of Jewish Women's Studies and Gender Issues, and in anthologies such as Biblical Women in the Midrash (1997) and The Women's Torah Commentary (2000). She conducts workshops around the country on contemporary midrashic writing, bibliodrama, creative ritual, and archetypes of the Divine feminine. Her first book is titled Sisters at Sinai: New Tales of Biblical Women (2001), and her forthcoming book is titled The Jewish Book of Days: Legends for Every Day and Season of the Jewish Year. Tazim R. Kassam, a historian of religions specializing in the Islamic tradition, is associate professor of religion at Syracuse University. Her book Songs of Wisdom and Circles of Dance (1995) explores the origins and creative synthesis of Hindu-Muslim ideas expressed in the devotional tradition of the Ismaili Muslims in the Indian Subcontinent. Her interests include music, ritual, literature, gender, and the intellectual and cultural heritage of Muslims, particularly those of South Asia. She is general editor of Spotlight on Teaching, a biannual supplement to Religious Studies News published by the American Academy of Religion, and she currently cochairs the AAR's Religions of South Asia section. Debra Mubashshir Majeed, associate professor of philosophy and religious studies at Beloit College, is a historian of religion who has made the interconnection between religion, gender, and culture central to her life's work. She is the first African American female and first Muslim to be tenured...

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religious studies notes IM BACK FROM HOLIDAY i'm sorry for the lack of posts and i have exams in the next week or 2 so i will be studying lots, however because i want to revise fully, i probably won't be active on here again :(

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