For Love of the Prophet argues that in moving beyond the institutional life of the Sudanese state, we are able…
For Love of the Prophet—An Introduction
ethnography
Is ISIS Islamic? Why it matters for the study of Islam
Recent months have witnessed considerable angst in the academy over what is and isn’t Islam(ic). Spurred by events from the…
The Post-Secular in Question and What Matters? reviewed
Over at The Revealer, James S. Bielo reviews What Matters? Ethnographies of Value in a Not So Secular Age and…
Encountering the archive
Where on earth to begin with the rich but deeply disturbing material presented to us on BishopAccountability.org? (For an example,…
What Matters? Ethnographies of Value in a Not So Secular Age
Columbia University Press has just released What Matters?: Ethnographies of Value in a Not So Secular Age, edited by Courtney Bender…
Methods for the study of religion
The Centre for Religion and Contemporary Society at the University of Kent in the UK recently launched an online training resource on research methods in…
The Help, ethnography, and ickiness
This is a post about the politics of representation, postcolonial theory, and the Hollywood movie, The Help. And it begins…
Forthcoming SSRC book: What Matters?
Edited by Courtney Bender and Ann Taves, and forthcoming from Columbia University Press, What Matters? Ethnographies of Value in a (not so)…
Pushing the genocide button?
In a recent issue on Ethnography and Theology in the online multimedia journal Practical Matters, Dr. Todd Whitmore, of the…
History and the historyless
Buried in the middle of William James’s chapter on “The Sick Soul” in The Varieties of Religious Experience is the…