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Tolerating Muslims at Ground Zero: No thanks!
In recent weeks I have observed U.S. liberals protesting against Terry Jones’ proposal to burn the Qur’an, and countering the pastor’s none-too-subtle violent posture towards Muslims. I’ve also...
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Tolerance Discourse and the Democratic Party
By Matt SheedyIn her book Regulating Aversion, Wendy Brown argues,[T]olerance discourse reduces conflict to an inherent friction among identities and makes religious, ethnic, or cultural difference...
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Thus Spake Hercules: On Atheism and the Uses of Critical Theory
by Matt SheedyIn a Raw Story article from this past Wednesday, entitled “Kevin Sorbo: Atheists are angry because they secretly know God exists and is judging them,” Scott Kaufman discusses a recent...
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Thus Spake Matt Sheedy: Analytic Philosophy, Critical Theory, and the...
by Dan LinfordNote: A version of this article originally appeared on Dan Linford’s blog Libere.Matt Sheedy recently wrote an article for the Bulletin blog, in which he addresses Kevin Sorbo’s statement...
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Charlie Hebdo, “Free Speech,” and Critique
by Matt SheedyIt should go without saying that the massacre of journalists and police officers in Paris this past Wednesday is abhorrent, that the perpetrators should be brought to justice, and that...
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World Religions, American Religions, the Object of Study, and an Ode to Bruce...
by Charles McCraryThis post originally appeared, in a slightly different version, at the group blog Religion in American History.This year I’ve been teaching “world religions” for the first time. I...
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Unmasking Liberal Ideology
by Matt SheedyA recent controversy has erupted in Canada over the case Zunera Ishaq of Mississauga, Ontario, (a suburb of Toronto) who sought to challenge a prohibition against wearing a niqab during...
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Scripture Made Me Do It: On Images of Mohammad and Scholarly Offence
by Matt SheedyA recent article from CNN on the shootings in Garland, Texas outside an event sponsored by the American Freedom Defense Initiative on May 3, 2015, provides a useful example of some of the...
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How to Organize the World Religions Survey (?)
by Charles McCraryEarlier this year, during the spring semester, I wrote a post about my teaching world religions and the possibility of using a tentative definition of “religion.” In the post I...
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For the Good or the Guild? Scholars Respond to Kate Daley-Bailey: Charles...
In this series, a number of scholars respond to Kate Daley-Bailey’s provocative essay, “For the Good or the ‘Guild’: An Open Letter to the American Academy of Religion,” which appears in the most...
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What’s in Your Syllabus? Michael Graziano
In this new series with the Bulletin, we ask scholars of religion to share with our readers what’s in their religion syllabus, from a new class or a class they’ve taught for years, reflecting on what...
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