The Institute for Signifying Scriptures is celebrating the 20th Anniversary of the ISS and the 25th Anniversary of the African Americans and the Bible Project. To help you get ready, I'm sharing some media reflections by Jacqueline Hidalgo and Lalruatkima to get ready.
What I immediately saw in Payne's approach was a recognition that (1) CCM is a more complex phenomenon than many realize and (2) that it's prime material for a microhistory of Evangelicalism.
For your summative assessment, you will create a digital presentation of your social theorizing about an issue in the study of religion in culture. This issue may be thought of as a keyword in the vein of entries in Raymond Williams or Russell T. McCutcheon & Aaron W. Hughes volumes. The issue provides you an … Continue reading REL 501 Final Project- Social Theory Position Poster
The paradox of being a scholar is that even when we are complicating matters, our job is always to clarify. ...When I use these terms in my scholarship, I tend to be thinking about the meanings presented here.
One of the standard skills in a university education is the reading of a historical text. Traditionally this learning objective is explained in terms of two competencies--the engagement of primary sources and the use of secondary sources to assist in the interpretation of those primary sources. In fact, the very design of historical curricula is … Continue reading You’re a historian; Get the Memo?
