New Books on “Fieldnotes in the Critical Study of Religion: Revisiting Classical Theorists”

Fieldnotes in the Critical Study of Religion: Revisiting Classical Theorists, edited by Vaia Touna & Richard Newton. Published by Bloomsbury. Part of the Critiquing Religion: Discourse, Culture, Power Series. The spine is a teal color and the cover design is a purple marble.

Have you heard about Fieldnotes...?It's not about fidelity to the field's history; it's about telling and tilling it in a critical way. These scholars help us to do that in a promising way.

Playing With Texts: Pedagogies of Scriptures

I'm on the way home from the meeting of the Institute for Signifying Scriptures. My brain is on rapid -fire mode with all sorts of ideas and questions. In the midst of it all, I just learned that a podcast episode I was on just dropped. Jacqueline Hidalgo, Vincent Wimbush, and I were on Nothing … Continue reading Playing With Texts: Pedagogies of Scriptures

Statistics and Essentialism: More to the Story

Everyone loves a good statistic...until they don't. We love the convenience of having statistical data readily available in order to defend our arguments. But if you've ever been on the side of being someone else's statistic, then you probably know that there's more to the story then just the numbers. Here's a thought experiment: Go … Continue reading Statistics and Essentialism: More to the Story