June 13th 2018 UTC
An interdisciplinary team of researchers (headed up by the Brain, Belief, and Behavior Lab at Coventry University) is launching a new 10-year study that will examine how a number of human individual-difference characteristics vary over time, and how these variations predict change or stability in certain aspects of individual identity. The Coventry University Ethics committee has approved this study (#P65835). Eligibility is limited to any member of the general United States population (U.S. citizen) who is at least 18 ...Continue Reading
June 5th 2018 UTC
Congratulations!On Tue, Jun 5, 2018 at 3:55 PM, Warren S. Goldstein goldstein@PROTECTED [Center for Critical Research on Religion Listserve] <ccrr_listserve@PROTECTED> wrote: Center for Critical Research on Religion Listserve (ccrr_listserve@criticaltheoryofreligion.org) is not on your Guest List | Approve sender | Approve domain __ From: goldstein@criticaltheoryofreligion.org /*Critical Research on Religion*/, launched in 2013, is very pleased to announce that in its first year (2017) of being includin ...Continue Reading
June 5th 2018 UTC
/*Critical Research on Religion*/, launched in 2013, is very pleased to announce that in its first year (2017) of being including in the SCImago rankings of journals in Religious Studies, it made the top tier ranking #16 out of 432 journals! https://www.scimagojr.com/journalrank.php…We would like to thank all those who made this possible including members of our editorial and advisory boards, our authors and reviewers, and not least the editorial staff at SAGE Publications./Critical Research on Religion/, which has ...Continue Reading
May 3rd 2018 UTC
***Stratis Psaltou**The elders of Mount Athos and the discourse of charisma in modern Greece **/Critical Research on Religion/*Volume 6, Issue 1 (April 2018) is now posted for discussion:http://www.criticaltheoryofreligion.org/stratis-psaltou-the-elders-of-mount-athos-and-the-discourse-of-charisma-in-modern-greece——————————————————-*Warren S. Goldstein*, Ph.D.Center for Critical Research on Religion47 Cotton StreetNewton, MA 02458 USA1(617) 678-2180goldstein@PROTECTEDwww.criticaltheoryofreligion.orgEditor/Crit ...Continue Reading
April 30th 2018 UTC
***Emmanuel Ifeanyi Ani**“Theistic humanism and a critique of Wiredu’s notion of supernaturalism” **/Critical Research on Religion/*Volume 6, Issue 1 (April 2018) /is now posted for discussion:http://www.criticaltheoryofreligion.org/emmanuel-ifeanyi-ani-theistic-humanism-and-a-critique-of-wiredus-notion-of-supernaturalism/——————————————————-*Warren S. Goldstein*, Ph.D.Center for Critical Research on Religion47 Cotton StreetNewton, MA 02458 USA1(617) 678-2180goldstein@PROTECTEDwww.criticaltheoryofreligion.orgEd ...Continue Reading
April 25th 2018 UTC
*****Eric Chalfant**"Forgetting souls: Lyotard, Adorno, and the Trope of the Jews"* in the April 2018 issue of */Critical Research on Religion/* is now posted for discussion:http://www.criticaltheoryofreligion.org/eric-chalfant-forgetting-souls-lyotard-adorno-and-the-trope-of-the-jews/——————————————————-*Warren S. Goldstein*, Ph.D.Center for Critical Research on Religion47 Cotton StreetNewton, MA 02458 USA1(617) 678-2180goldstein@PROTECTEDwww.criticaltheoryofreligion.orgEditor/Critical Research ...Continue Reading
April 23rd 2018 UTC
***Anna-Verena Nosthoff* "*Beckett, Adorno, and the hope for nothingness as something:**Meditations on theology in the age of its impossibility*" in the April 2018 issue of /*Critical Research on Religion*/ is now posted for discussion:http://www.criticaltheoryofreligion.org/anna-verena-nosthoff-beckett-adorno-and-the-hope-for-nothingness-as-something/——————————————————-*Warren S. Goldstein*, Ph.D.Center for Critical Research on Religion47 Cotton StreetNewton, MA 02458 USA1(617) 678-2180gol ...Continue Reading
April 18th 2018 UTC
The symposium on a critical anthropology of religion in the April 2018 issue of /Critical Research on Religion/ with contributions from Jon Bialecki, Courtney Handman, Rebekka King, and James Bielo is now posted for discussion:http://www.criticaltheoryofreligion.org/bialecki-handman-king-and-bielo-symposium-towards-a-critical-anthropology-of-religion/——————————————————-*Warren S. Goldstein*, Ph.D.Center for Critical Research on Religion47 Cotton StreetNewton, MA 02458 USA1(617) 678-2180goldstein@PROTECTEDwww.criticalthe ...Continue Reading
April 16th 2018 UTC
The editorial in the April 2018 issue of /Critical Research on Religion/Rebekka King, Warren S. Goldstein and Jonathan Boyarin"Critical trajectories and the timing of critique"which is open access has now been posted to the CCRR blog for discussion:http://www.criticaltheoryofreligion.org/king-goldstein-and-boyarin-critical-trajectories-and-the-timing-of-critique/——————————————————-*Warren S. Goldstein*, Ph.D.Center for Critical Research on Religion47 Cotton StreetNewton, MA 02458 USA1(617) 678-2180goldstein@PR ...Continue Reading
April 9th 2018 UTC
Critical Research on ReligionTable of Contents AlertCritical Research on Religion- Volume: 6, Number: 1 (April 2018) *Editorial*Critical trajectories and the timing of critiqueRebekka King, Warren S Goldstein, and Jonathan Boyarin*Symposium: “Towards a Critical Anthropology of Religion”*IntroductionJudgment and critique, anthropology and religionJon BialeckiCritical failuresCourtney HandmanSpecter and horizon: Critique in ethnographies of North American ChristianityRebekka KingAnthropology, theology, critiqueJames S ...Continue Reading
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