Bulletin for the Study of Religion
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<div> <p>The<em> Bulletin</em> began life in 1971 as the <em>CSSR Bulletin</em>. The journal<em> </em>publishes articles that address religion in general, the history of the field of religious studies, method and theory in the study of religion, and pedagogical practices. The Bulletin is unique in that it offers a forum for various academic voices to debate and reflect on the ever-changing state of the field, and insofar as it encourages scholars continually to engage meta-level questions at the leading edge of inquiry. <a href="https://journal.equinoxpub.com/BSOR/about">Read more about the journal.</a></p> </div>Equinox Publishing Ltd.enBulletin for the Study of Religion2041-1863New Semester, New You?
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2023-12-012023-12-01393910.1558/bsor.26801The Use of Folklore in the Study of American Religion
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<p>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 1982 piece by Richard E. Wentz where he discusses the idea that American folk traditions should be used as an introduction to lead students into the realm of American Religion. Wentz believes it is important for students to learn these folk tales in order to have essential knowledge about the religious lives of “everyday people,” knowledge which Wentz believes is not being taught in academia or in American religious institutions.</p>
The ArchiveTheory and MethodThe DisciplineNew ReligionsReligions of the Americasmythfolkloreamerican religious historylived religionfolkloreamerican religious historyamerican historypedagogyPennsylvania dutchreligious studiesamerican historyfolklorecultural anthropologyRichard E Wentz
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2023-12-012023-12-01687310.1558/bsor.26800Orientalist Semiology in World of Interiors
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<p>The Experiment is where scholars work out ideas out loud. In this edition, the Bulletin features an illustration of how Barthesian semiology can provide a useful framework through which to understand the operation of mythic language. Editorial Assistant Sophia Honerkamp performs a Close Reading of the July 2022 issue of interior design magazine The World of Interiors to examine manifestations of Orientalism and myth in everyday life. For Honerkamp, this example is an opportunity to explore the role of the audience in the perpetuation of myth, how mythic language evolves, and how to identify myth in active form.</p>
The ExperimentPolitics and IdeologiesTheory and Methodorientalismbarthesmyththe world of interiorsart criticismclose readingorientalismbarthesreligious studiescultural studiesart criticismSophia Honerkamp
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2023-12-012023-12-01576010.1558/bsor.26796Expanding Career Diversity
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<p>Over the last few issues, the Bulletin has been brining you pieces to help scholars rethink professionalization and academic training in the study of religion. In this issue, William Brown, Senior Technical Editor at Quanta Technology, LLC offers some much-needed insight on this front. He contends that once academic units recognize and normalize nonacademic career pursuits, then these units can put into play proven practices to empower future religious studies trained professionals.</p>
The ProfessionThe Disciplinealt-acprofessionalizationreligious studiescareermentoringdigital humanitiesprofessionalizationacademicareligious studieshigher educationalt-acreligious studiesWilliam Brown
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2023-12-012023-12-01485610.1558/bsor.26792Dr. Jessica Johnson and the Affects of Biblical Porn
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<p>The Interview brings Bulletin readers into contact with scholars whose work signals currents or shifts in the field. In this edition, Bulletin Editor Richard Newton sits down with Jessica Johnson, an ethnographer of religion whose research on Mars Hill Church and Mark Driscoll deepened our understanding of an intriguing site of discourse, affect, media, and biblicism in the North American evangelical context. All the while, Johnson helps us understand the complexities and possibilities for those seeking to do ethnographic research in religious studies.</p>
The InterviewPolitics and IdeologiesTheory and MethodThe DisciplineReligions of the Americasaffectevangelicalismmars hillmark driscollethnographyaffect theoryreligionevangelicalismgay marriagesexualityethnographyhigher edreligious studiesgender studieswomen studieswomen and gender studiesethnographyanthrRichard Newton
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2023-12-012023-12-01404810.1558/bsor.26791“How do I adult professionally?”
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<p>Sometimes wise, sometimes sassy, Sage D’Vice is here to dole out advice in response to The Question. This issue, we learn that one of our Bulletin readers has landed a position as a professor and isn’t quite sure what they need to do to make the most as a new professional. The academics are in the bag, but Sage D’ Vice points to some considerations one would do well not to neglect.</p>
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2023-12-012023-12-01747510.1558/bsor.26790The Methodological Naturalism and Methodological Secularism Scale
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<p>Scholars within and across fields such as the psychology of religion, sociology of religion, cognitive science of religion, religious studies, and theology often argue about the values and norms that ought to guide “academic” research in religion. Is it appropriate in the academy to explain religious phenomena by referring to supernatural forces (such as spirits or gods) as causal agents or to defend one’s scholarly arguments by appealing to the holy texts accepted as authoritative within one’s religious coalition? Debates surrounding such questions have remained intractable for decades in part because they have been based on anecdotal personal experiences rather than clear empirical data. This article presents the Methodological Naturalism-Methodological Secularism scale, a new survey instrument capable of moving forward debates about scholarly values in the academic study of religion. This initial deployment of the MNMS scale in a population of religion scholars (N=284) clarifies extant commitments, challenges common caricatures, and reveals unfamiliar configurations of academic values.</p>
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2023-07-182023-07-189210210.1558/bsor.23700Old Tensions or New Relations
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<p>The Essay provides scholars space to share peer-reviewed research. Scholars are challenged not only to work though advancing the investigations happening a particular subfield, but also to give attention to what such work says to and about the larger field. In this issue, John Cappucci presents an ethnographic analysis of a Canadian Catholic diocese’s perception of Jews and Judaism, examining how it mirrors and diverges from the Roman Catholic Church’s official positions. Additionally, Cappucci thinks through issues of research design for studying and modeling social identity.</p>
The EssayChristianityCatholic-Jewish RelationsNostra AetateInterreligious DialogueCanadian CatholicsDiocese of LondonJewish-Catholic RelationsReligious StudiesJohn Cappucci
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2023-07-182023-07-1810211510.1558/bsor.24901Crossfit, SoulCycle, and Evangelical Christianity with Cody Musselman
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<p>The Interview brings you in-depth exchanges with scholars working to reframe how we carry out the academic study of religion. In this edition, Michael J. Altman at the University of Alabama sat with Cody Musselman (Postdoctoral Research Associate at the John C. Danforth Center on Religion and Politics at Washington University in St. Louis, PhD Yale 2022) to discuss SoulCycle, CrossFit, and evangelical Christianity in the United States. In so doing, these scholars of religion in America open up numerous possibilities for theorizing the intersections of capitalism, neoliberalism, and religion. This exchange has been excerpted from the 2021 Day Lecture at the University of Alabama.</p>
The InterviewPolitics and IdeologiesThe DisciplineNew ReligionsReligions of the AmericasSoulCycleCharismareligionJanuary 6evangelicalismCrossFitSoulCycleCharismareligionJanuary 6religious studiesAmerican religious historyhistorysocial theoryMichael J AltmanCody Musselman
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2023-07-182023-07-18758210.1558/bsor.26012Religious Studies Beyond the Discipline
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<p>Relying on the collaborative input from doctoral graduates in the study of religion who have gone on to successful careers outside of academia, this essay offers a critique of the field for not adapting far quicker to the changing economic conditions of higher education over recent decades but also provides a variety of practical suggestions for how programs in our field can make tactical and substantive changes to better prepare graduate students for a far wider variety of professional futures, inasmuch as we all know that few, at least for the foreseeable future, will ever be hired as tenure-track faculty members.</p>
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2023-07-182023-07-18839210.1558/bsor.26013To Be or Not to Be Scientific Is Not the Question
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<div> <div>In The Archive we republish an article that, in hindsight, may have been ahead of its time with its prescience. Our second pull for this issue is a 2005 piece from Lieve Orye where he discusses the intricacies of categorizing religious studies as an art or a science. He endeavors to find out if the field should be studied with a scientific approach. Orye posits that maybe this is not even a question we should be asking. This piece was originally published in Council for the Societies for the Study of Religion Bulletin 34.1–2, 14–18.</div> </div>
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2023-07-182023-07-1811912510.1558/bsor.26015What is the GCPR?
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<p>The Conversation puts an ear to current discussion in the field. With scholars reevaluating the legacy of every facet of Religious Studies, the team at the Bulletin thought to check in with what is happening in the world of philosophy. In so doing, we learned about an exciting endeavor known as Global Critical Philosophy of Religion. Philosophers Nathan Loewen University of Alabama), Tim Knepper (Drake University), and Gereon Kopf (Luther College) were kind enough to answer our questions about GCPR.</p>
The ConversationPolitics and IdeologiesTheory and MethodThe Disciplinephilosophyglobal philosopyreligious studiespostcolonialismepistemologyphilosophyreligious studiesphilosophy of religionphilosophy of religionreligious studiestheologyNathan LoewenTim KnepperGereon Kopf
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2023-09-072023-09-0781310.1558/bsor.26657“Do I have to Leave my Family and Give up my Possessions for Graduate School?”
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<p>In The Question, our very own Sage D’Vice shares his wisdom with Bulletin readers who are struggling with some issue in their fieldwork. Whether it’s job woes, school blues, or an awkward social situation, Sage D’ Vice has thoughts on how to navigate your situation. Have a question for Sage? Email the editor, taking care to keep names of people discussed anonymous. The Bulletin team makes sure to redact them to keep things copacetic.</p>
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2023-09-072023-09-07363810.1558/bsor.26656Historical Research in Religion
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<p>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 1982 piece from Joseph Fitzer (1939–2017) where he gives his response to two essays, one by John F. Wilson and one by Catherine L. Albanese, on historical studies of religion. Fitzer posits that religious history should not be a separate phenomenon but included in general history. In Fitzer’s opinion religious history needs to shift from theological formalities in a humanistic and aesthetic direction. This was originally published in our predecessor publication, CSR Bulletin 13.4.</p>
The ArchiveThe Disciplinehistorytheologyepistemologyreligious studieshistoryreligious studiestheologyreligious studiestheologyhistoryJoseph Fitzer
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2023-09-072023-09-07222510.1558/bsor.26655Decolonizing Religious Studies
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<p>Knowing that the working scholar cannot be everywhere at once, The Conference fills in readers on what they may have missed from various academic gatherings. In this issue, we are pleased to share a panel discussion from the 2022 Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Religion in Denver, Colorado. On behalf of the Academic Relations Committee, Peter Valdina (Albion College) moderated a conversation on decolonization and the academic study of religion. The panel brought Bulletin Editor Richard Newton (University of Alabama), Natalie Avalos (University of Colorado) together to discuss the matter from their research expertise in this area. Also participating in the discussion was Jessica Albrecht, PhD. candidate at the University of Heidelberg, among other scholars.</p>
The ConferencePedagogical MattersPolitics and IdeologiesTheory and MethodThe DisciplineReligions of the Americasdecolonizationpostcolonialismland backraceethnic studiesreligious studiescolonialismDecolonizationdecolonialitydecolonial theorypostcolonialismracereligious studiesethnic studiesblack studiesNatalie AvalosRichard NewtonPeter Valdina
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2023-09-072023-09-07263610.1558/bsor.26654Teaching and Learning with Dr. Chris Jones
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<p>The Interview connects Bulletin readers with scholars who have been shaping key aspects of our work in the field. Chris Jones of Washburn University in Topeka, KS takes some time to chat with us. Many of you will know his work on Twitter and other social media platforms where he shares what he’s learning and teaching in the classroom. Jones is no stranger to the shifting currents facing the education of scholars and students in the academic study of religion, so we are most pleased he could join us to discuss these and other matters.</p>
The InterviewPedagogical MattersTheory and MethodThe Disciplinepedagogyteaching-learningstudent-centered learninghigher educationundergraduate educationReligious StudiesBiblical Studiespedagogyhigher educationpedagogyreligious studiesbiblical studiesRichard Newton
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2023-09-072023-09-073810.1558/bsor.26653One Note at a Time
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2023-09-072023-09-071210.1558/bsor.26652Queering Gender, Race, Embodiment
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<p>The Essay presents provocative peer-reviewed scholarship that examines the field-wide implications of the latest research queries in Religious Studies. In this edition, Jessica Albrecht, a doctoral student at the University of Heidelberg, stresses the need for scholars to consider the role of the body within the critical study of religion. Albrecht argues that greater attention to material and corporeal relations is necessary for Religious Studies to advance its intellectual and pedagogical goals, goals that in the 21st century are presumably interested in decolonization. The Bulletin is pleased to publish this expanded version of this article, of which the original appeared in the German publication “Geschlecht, Sexualität, Verkörperung verqueert: Ansätze und Leitfragen in religionswissenschaftlicher Forschung und Lehre,” Handbuch der Religionen (forthcoming).</p>
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2023-09-072023-09-07142210.1558/bsor.26104What Do You Do When Students Don’t Do the Reading?
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<p>Sage D’Vice is back with answers, or at least responses, to readers’ questions. If you have something you want to know about working in the field or you’re just looking for a little perspective, send your question to our editorial team. We’ll make sure to make it anonymous.</p> <p>In this installment of The Question, a seasoned teacher is weary of students coming to class having not read. Sage D’Vice can relate and has some thoughts on how to handle this evergreen predicament.</p>
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2023-07-182023-07-1812612710.1558/bsor.26016Unteaching Religious Studies
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<p>In this 1994 article Kenneth Kramer (1941-2019) writes about his approach of “unteaching” to teach introductory religious studies courses, which involves more student engagement and peer to peer learning. Kramer posits that, “by approaching World Religions through sacred texts, and sacred texts through stories, the unteaching dynamic is given a structured content.” Our editorial team found this piece worth considering alongside recent calls for “ungrading” and reflexive reading in the religious studies classroom. This article was originally published in The Council on the Study of Religion Bulletin 15.4.</p>
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2023-07-182023-07-1811511910.1558/bsor.26014“Many Happy Returns”
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2023-07-182023-07-18737410.1558/bsor.26011How to Beat the Machines?
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<p>The Question is a forum for Bulletin readers to get advice about those tricky conundrums, unwritten rules, and nagging issues that can get in the way of doing our work well. Sage D’Vice does their darndest to bring you answers that will help you get the job done. This time, Sage D’Vice tackles how to beat the machines. If you have a question for a future issue, email our editorial staff at rwnewton@ua.edu.</p>
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2023-04-122023-04-12707210.1558/bsor.25447The Challenge of In-Prison Higher Education
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<p>In The Archive we republish articles that, in hindsight, may have been ahead of their time in their prescience or may yet still have something to provoke our thinking in this current moment. Our pull from this issue is a 1992 piece from John Cartwright (1933–2011), former Executive Secretary/Treasurer of the Society of Christian Ethics, which was a constituent society of the Council for the Societies for the Study of Religion. Readers will recall that the CSSR Bulletin was a predecessor to this publication. Cartwright discusses the intersection of higher education and incarceration in a manner well ahead of current initiatives in the United States. You can find the original in CSSR Bulletin 21.4, 99–100).</p>
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2023-04-122023-04-12626510.1558/bsor.25446From Scientific Atheism to Religious Studies
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<p>The Association affords readers of the Bulletin a chance to learn about issues and currents in the guilds wherein we do our work. Oleg Kyselov is a Senior Researcher at the H. S. Skovoroda Institute of Philosophy at the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. He was a 2021–2022 Fulbright Visting Scholar at the University of Alabama, where he currently serves as an Instructor in the Department of Religious Studies. Prof. Kyselov is member of the Workshop for the Academic Study of Religions and the Ukrainian Association of Researchers of Religion, and in this essay, traces the intellectual and political contours of the academic study of religion in Ukraine.</p>
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2023-04-122023-04-12505610.1558/bsor.25445Christian Conservatism as Seen in Florida’s Faith-Based Prisons and the U.S. Debate on Abortion
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<p>The Experiment presents scholars of religion with an opportunity to draw upon their training to reflect upon a contemporary issue. In this edition, Emma Welch engages with Brad Stoddard’s newly released book Spiritual Entrepreneurs: Florida’s Faith-Based Prisons and the American Carceral State (University of North Carolina Press, 2021). Stoddard’s volume examines Florida’s Faith- and Character-Based Institutions (FCBIs) as sites illustrative of the collision of the politics of incarceration, neoliberal economics, and religious freedom in the United States. Drawing from Stoddard’s argument, Emma Welch considers how a similar convergence of U.S. conservative Christian values and political agendas occur around the issue of abortion.</p>
The ExperimentChristianityPolitics and IdeologiesTheory and MethodThe DisciplineReligions of the Americasabortionfaith-based prisonsprisonsconservatismpoliticsreligionchristianityanti-abortionprisonGOPreligious studiesEmma Welch
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2023-04-122023-04-12566110.1558/bsor.25444Excerpts from a Conversation with Noam Chomsky
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<p>While discursive approaches and social theory enjoy some notoriety in the academic study of religion, the so-called critical turn is no stranger to challenges. Some reject it as philosophically apolitical; others, as ignorant of biological and psychological insights. In this edition of The Interview, we turn to an exchange with MIT Professor Emeritus Noam Chomsky, whose work has informed how many scholars of religion approach the sciences and cultural politics. Chomsky sat with retired Canadian Broadcasting Corporation broadcaster and Continuing Senior Fellow of Massey College at the University of Toronto, Ian Alexander, and Chair of the Department of Linguistics at the University of Victoria, Martha McGinnis, as part of the John Albert Hall Lectures’ Values for a New World series at the University of Victoria’s Centre for Studies in Religion and Society. We’ve excerpted this rich exchange from a longer two-part interview which we encourage you to access on the CSRS’s YouTube channel: (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1AZa5z85YY&t=4054s and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDP71Q2-T3s&t=1s).</p>
The InterviewThe Disciplinevalueseducationcreativityfreedomprotestlanguagepoliticsreligionethicshigher educationlinguisticsreligious studiespolitical theoryIan AlexanderMartha McGinnis
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2023-04-122023-04-12435010.1558/bsor.25443Gambling on the Tiny Idea
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2023-04-122023-04-12414210.1558/bsor.25442Decelerating Digital Archives
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<p style="font-weight: 400;">The Download is where we highlight the work scholars are doing with and around digital technology. In this issue, Ph.D. student Jacob Barrett (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill), discusses the benefits and complications that arise when using computational text analysis as a research tool within the social sciences and humanities. Here he focuses specifically on the marginalization of minority communities in digital humanities data and on the benefits of decelerating and being patient in researching.</p>
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2023-04-122023-04-12667010.1558/bsor.25249Signifying Haitian Migration and the Politics of Land
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<p>The Essay brings you peer-reviewed essays that provoke thinking in and about our field. In this issue, Marco Pflanzen examines the legacy of colonialism at the US-Mexico border, specifically the US Border Patrol’s pursuit and detention of Haitian migrants. Pflanzen argues that the images and rhetoric should be understood against the backdrop of vigilante justice against enslaved Africans and that both historical moments have underexamined ecological ramifications. Pflanzen brings an ecological sensitivity to the significations and affections at play in a manner that broadens scholarly understandings of nature and discourse alike.</p>
The EssayAfrican ReligionsPolitics and IdeologiesTheory and MethodMigrationHaitiEcologyFeminist TheoryQueer StudiesBlack StudiesSignificationDiasporaUS immigrationReligion and PoliticsAfrican diaspora religionsecological studiesfeminist theorycritical race theoryanimal studiesblack studiessignificationposthumanism theoryReligious StudiesAnimal StudiesFeminist StudiesQueer StudiesEcological StudiesAfrican American StudiesAmerican StudiesMarco Pflanzen
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2023-12-012023-12-01616710.1558/bsor.25027Mapping the Digital Study of Religion
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<p>The Download is your introduction to the digital humanities. Jeri Wieringa (University of Alabama) brings you up to speed on the history and currents of this enterprise, especially as it takes shape in and around the academic study of religion. In this edition, Wieringa highlights key issues discussed in Christopher D. Cantwell and Kristian Petersen’s edited volume, Digital Humanities and Research Methods in Religious Studies (DeGruyter 2021). This piece expands on a response essay published by our content partners at the Religious Studies Project. We invite you to check out the broader conversation hosted on their website: https://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/podcast/mapping-the-digital-study-of-religion/.</p>
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