Kevin Schilbrack, “A metaphysics for the study of religion: A critical reading of Russell McCutcheon”
Mitsutoshi Horii, “Historicizing the category of ‘religion’ in sociological theories: Max Weber and Emile Durkheim
Kenneth MacKendrick, “Does past religion have a past? Habermas, religion, and the sacred complex”
Timothy Fitzgerald, “Joel Harrison on Facts and Values, Critical Religion and on Bruno Latour”
I recently (22 Nov 2017) found the text for Joel Harrison’s podcast “Facts v. Values: Can Religious Studies Be More Critical?”[i] when I wandered onto Facebook. I think my cursor inadvertently hovered over a small region of e-territory and the article jumped out at me.
I was glad I saw the text and would like to contribute some discussion. Harrison’s piece is a defence of an editorial written by Warren Goldstein, Rebekka King and Jonathan Boyarin published in Critical Research on Religion (April 2016). This defence is turned against ‘critical religion’. I already responded to the CRR editorial several months ago, and I don’t know whether or not Harrison or Lucas Scott Wright has seen that (see CRR, vol. 4, 3: pp. 307-313, 2016).
Harrison’s article is also a discussion and advocacy of an essay by Bruno Latour, “Why Has Critique Run out of Steam? From Matters of Fact to Matters of Concern,” [Critical Inquiry 30, no. 2 (Winter 2004): 225-248. [https://doi.org/10.1086/421123]. Harrison thinks that ‘critical religion’ has valuable things to learn from Bruno Latour, and I think he is probably right. But I need to be clear what is being suggested. (more…)
Timothy Fitzgerald, “Critical religion and critical research on religion: A response to the April 2016 editorial”
Steven Engler, “Why be critical? Introducing a symposium on Capitalizing Religion”
The debate over the CRR Editorials continues…
Steven Engler, Review Symposium on Craig Martin’s Capitalizing Religion (2014)
Why be critical? Introducing a symposium on Capitalizing Religion
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/0048721X.2016.1192831
Harrison and Wright, “Facts vs. Values: Can Religious Studies Be More Critical?”
Joel Harrison and Lucas Scott Wright
discuss April 2016 CRR Editorial
“Critical Theory of Religion vs. Critical Religion”
in a podcast:
Stacie Swain, “What’s in a name, a name rearranged?”
Stacie Swain on CRR Editorials:
http://practicumreligionblog.blogspot.ca/2016/04/whats-in-name-name-rearranged-part-1.html
Goldstein, King, and Boyarin, “Critical Theory of Religion vs. Critical Religion”
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Critical Research on Religion- Volume: 9, Number: 2 (August 2021)
Special Issue: Enlightening Religion
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Table of Contents
Introduction:
“Enlightening religion: Light and darkness in religious knowledge and knowledge about religion”
Jeremy Stolow and Birgit Meyer
Articles:
“Offshoring the invisible world? American ghosts, witches, and demons in the early enlightenment”
Craig Koslofsky
“Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind: Light and luminous being in Islamic theology”
Christian Lange
“Visualizing the soul: Diagrams and the subtle body of light (jism laṭīf) in Shams al-Dīn al-Daylamī’s The Mirror of Souls (Mirʿāt al-arwāḥ)”
Eyad Abuali
“When silence is “yeelen” (light): Exploring the corporeality of the mind in a nocturnal solo zikr practice (Odienné, Ivory Coast)”
André Chappatte
“Japanese divine light in Kinshasa: transcultural resonance and critique in the religiously multiple city”
Peter Lambertz
“Electric light and the visualization of Catholic power in Spain during the Restoration Era (1874–1931)”
Daniel Pérez-Zapico
Book Reviews:
Review of Mubashar Hasan, Islam and Politics in Bangladesh: The Followers of Ummah”
by Md Mizanur Rahman
Review of M. A. Muqtedar Khan, Islam and Good Governance: A Political Philosophy of Ihsan
by Ömer Faruk Koç
Review of Tad DeLay, Against: What does the White Evangelical Want?
by SJ Cowan
Review of Oliver Freiberger, Considering Comparison: A Method for Religious Studies
by Jens Schlieter
Review of Giuseppe Giordan and Adam Possamai (eds), The Social Scientific Study of Exorcism in Christianity
by Richard Cimino
Critical Research on Religion - Volume 9, Number 2, Aug 01, 2021
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Table of contents for Critical Research on Religion, 9, 2, Aug 01, 2021
Timeline PhotosUsing 4 PRRI surveys, researchers investigate how race moderates the relationship between religious beliefs and views of governmental efforts to protect the environment.
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