Dr. James Bielo looks at what the secondhand sacred market can tell us about how people trade in religion and more.
The Secondhand Sacred with Dr. James Bielo
Come Learn About SCRIPT!
The Society for Comparative Research on Iconic and Performative Texts (SCRIPT) has provided a welcoming space for scholars and academics seeking to explore scriptures from diverse perspectives. Through events and publications, SCRIPT aims to promote critical discourse on the multifaceted roles of texts beyond their literal interpretation. Come to Off-Script this Friday to learn more about their work.
New Books on “Fieldnotes in the Critical Study of Religion: Revisiting Classical Theorists”
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
25 Years On… African Americans and the Bible: Sacred Texts and Social Textures
It wasn't a quest to find Black people within the canon or a liberative hermeneutic for Black people. African Americans and the Bible laid out an agenda for critically studying, as the accompanying anthology's subtitle states, "sacred texts and social textures."
