The latest episode of Broadcast Seeding is up! Dr. Susan Asbury (Middle Georgia State University) joined me to discuss her new book, Family Game Night: From the Gilded Age to the Roaring Twenties (University Press of Kentucky). You can listen to it on iTunes, SoundCloud, or here on the site.
I have a love-hate relationship with games. I love having a common recreational activity to do with people that involves wits, brains, and a fun theme. I absolutely HATE learning the rules. I am not the kind of person who can just start playing and figure out as they go. I want to understand the … Continue reading Game Prep for Canon: The Card Game
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Tis the season for Call for Papers, or as we sometimes call them, CFPs. I’ll sharing here some of the CFPs coming to my desk and why I think you might consider submitting a proposal. The first one up is for the Society of Comparative Research on Iconic and Performative Texts (aka SCRIPT) for panels at the annual meetings of the Society of Biblical Literature (SBL) and the American Academy of Religion (AAR).
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.
