Talking Fieldwork with Rebekka King
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1558/bsor.28318Keywords:
religious studies, anthropology, naasr, fieldworkAbstract
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).
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Eaghll, Tenzan and Rebekka King (Eds.). 2022. Representing Religion in Film. New York: Bloomsbury.
Gray-Hildenbrand, Jenna and Rebekka King. 2019. “Teaching in Contexts: Designing a Competency-Based Religious Studies Program.” Teaching Theology & Religion 22: 191–204. https://doi.org/10.1111/teth.12495.
Lincoln, Bruce. 1999. Theorizing Myth: Narrative Ideology and Scholarship. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
King, Rebekka. 2022. “Imagining an Ethnic Ecumene: Evangelical Landscapes as Gentile, Jewish, and Native American.” Landscapes of Christianity: Destination, Temporality, and Transformation. Edited by James Bielo and Amos Ron. New York: Bloomsbury.
King, Rebekka. 2023. The New Heretics: Skepticism, Secularism, and Progressive Christianity. New York: New York University Press.
Martin, Craig. 2014. Capitalizing Religion: Ideology and the Opiate of the Bourgeoisie. New York: Bloomsbury.
———. 2023. A Critical Introduction to the Study of Religion, Third Edition. New Brunswick, Routledge.
Newton, Richard. 2020. Identifying Roots: Alex Haley and the Anthropology of Scriptures. Equinox 2020.
