{"title":"The Institute for Signifying Scriptures Presents","authors":"Trevor Linn","doi":"10.1558/bsor.28088","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1558/bsor.28088","url":null,"abstract":"The Conference fills you in on the meetings you missed or what you have to look forward to at upcoming events. The Institute for Signifying Scriptures is reaching some major milestones, and Editorial Assistant Trevor Linn brings you up to speed about the institute’s history and approaching annual meeting.","PeriodicalId":354875,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin for The Study of Religion","volume":"4 12","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-05-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141018642","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Ethnographic Journalism and the Public Understanding of Religion","authors":"Ken Chitwood","doi":"10.1558/bsor.27392","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1558/bsor.27392","url":null,"abstract":"<jats:p>.</jats:p>","PeriodicalId":354875,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin for The Study of Religion","volume":"27 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-05-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141019754","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Ethnography as Heuristic Experience, Historical Research, and Multiple Method","authors":"Mehmet Orhan","doi":"10.1558/bsor.26835","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1558/bsor.26835","url":null,"abstract":"The Essay is the Bulletin’s peer-review forum for scholarly journal articles. In this issue we are pleased to share Mehmet Orhan’s discussion of ethnography and its intersection with methods in historiography, phenomenology, and narratology. In this essay, Orhan provides a useful primer to ethnographic fieldwork and how it can be used in the academic study of religion. His research features Muslim communities as data for this kind of analysis but, as you will read, illustrates possibilities for study in other data domains.","PeriodicalId":354875,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin for The Study of Religion","volume":"58 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-05-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141019068","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Publishing in Scholarly Journals","authors":"Robert P Scharlemann","doi":"10.1558/bsor.28087","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1558/bsor.28087","url":null,"abstract":"In The Archive, we republish an article that, in hindsight, may have been ahead of its time with its prescience. Our pull for this issue is a 1984 piece by Robert P. Scharlemann. In this paper Scharlemann, the former editor of The Journal of the American Academy of Religion, lends his experience—from being on both sides of the journal publishing divide—to Religious Studies colleagues who are newer to the field.","PeriodicalId":354875,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin for The Study of Religion","volume":"91 6","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-05-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141021944","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Scholarly Stakeout","authors":"Richard Newton","doi":"10.1558/bsor.28086","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1558/bsor.28086","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":354875,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin for The Study of Religion","volume":"7 16","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-05-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141019030","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Dealing with the Media Circus","authors":"Paul Boyer","doi":"10.1558/bsor.28268","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1558/bsor.28268","url":null,"abstract":"In The Archive, we republish an article that, in hindsight, may have been ahead of its time with its prescience. Our pull for this issue is a reflection by the late Paul Boyer (1935-2012) from 1998 on what it is like to work with the media in the wake of the Heavens Gate suicides because they presume his work in contemporary American belief in biblical prophecy makes him a “cult expert.” This piece was originally published in the April 18, 1997 issue of The Chronicle of Higher Education and Bulletin for the Study of Religion 27.1 (1998).","PeriodicalId":354875,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin for The Study of Religion","volume":"12 7","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-05-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141020581","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Testing Interdisciplinarity in the Field","authors":"Suzanne Owen","doi":"10.1558/bsor.28266","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1558/bsor.28266","url":null,"abstract":"The Interview connects Bulletin readers with scholars who have been shaping key aspects of our work in the field. Suzanne Owen at Leeds Trinity University in the UK takes some time to chat with us. Owen will be talking about her experiences in both U.S. and U.K. education systems, her path to the academy through Edinburgh courses, Canadian fieldwork, and the BASR. She and Newton also touch on the issues she sees in the UK Academy and where she hopes Religious Studies can go from here. We thank her for her time and willingness to be part of this issue of the Bulletin.","PeriodicalId":354875,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin for The Study of Religion","volume":"16 1part1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-05-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141022531","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Leslie Smith, Mitsutoshi Horii, Suzanne Owen, Titus Hjelm
{"title":"Critics Not Caretakers...The Public Study of Religion 20+ Years In","authors":"Leslie Smith, Mitsutoshi Horii, Suzanne Owen, Titus Hjelm","doi":"10.1558/bsor.28089","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1558/bsor.28089","url":null,"abstract":"The topic of our conversation is Russell T. McCutcheon’s Critics Not Caretakers: Redescribing the Public Study of Religion (SUNY Press 2001). This provocative volume continues to be discussed and argued within the field, warranting an updated volume. With the release of its expanded second edition (Routledge 2024) release, the Bulletin’s editorial team thought readers would appreciate a broader conversation about the book’s impact, legacy, and potential future in framing the academic study of religion. We are joined by Leslie Smith (Avila University), Mitsutoshi Horii (Chaucer College, UK and Shumei University), Suzanne Owen (Leeds Trinity University), and Titus Hjelm (University of Helsinki) as our discussants.","PeriodicalId":354875,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin for The Study of Religion","volume":"25 54","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-05-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141019922","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Talking Fieldwork with Rebekka King","authors":"Richard Newton, Stephen Heaton, Rebekka King","doi":"10.1558/bsor.28318","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1558/bsor.28318","url":null,"abstract":"In The Interview, we chat with movers and shakers whose contributions help us think about the field. Bulletin Editor, Richard Newton, and Editorial Assistant, Stephen Heaton sat down with Rebekka King. King is Professor of Religious Studies at Middle Tennessee State University and faculty resident at MTSU’s Honors College. We learned about Rebekka’s work in the anthropology of Christianity, her recent book, The New Heretics: Skepticism, Secularism, and Progressive Christianity (NYU Press, 2023), and her tenure as president of the North American Association for the Study of Religion (2021–2023).","PeriodicalId":354875,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin for The Study of Religion","volume":"10 8","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-05-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141018536","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Some Kind of Liberating Effect","authors":"Valerio Severino","doi":"10.1558/bsor.28269","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1558/bsor.28269","url":null,"abstract":"In The Buzz, our editorial team discusses hot topics in the academic study of religion. The Bulletin for the Study of Religion is pleased to have screened scholar and director Valerio Severino’s Some Kind of Liberating Effect, a 2023 documentary on the academic study of religion as it has developed in Central Europe. Bulletin Editor Richard Newton had the privilege of speaking with Severino about the film as well as the craft and historiography behind it. You can see the film at https://youtu.be/A6IRpf_pBaY?si=0Wl4q6pxg4iB5VDe.","PeriodicalId":354875,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin for The Study of Religion","volume":"13 20","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-05-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141021251","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}