The Christian faith is about redemption – or at least, it is supposed to be. But in our era, the word Christian itself is in need of redemption. As Miguel De La Torre wrote recently, “We are a nation that has made humanitarian aid a crime, and has made fidelity to the Bible a felony.” But those who have done that have done so not thinking it is an attack on Christianity, but in the name of Christianity, thinking that they are... Read more
Matt Brake shared the call for submissions for ΘeoCon 2019, and I want to do likewise, not least so as to remind myself to submit something! Here’s what he shared: Hello All Theology (and Religion in general) and Pop Culture Lovers! There is no doubt that pop culture mediums have challenged and inspired us in the best of ways. ΘeoCon welcomes you to the place where theology and morality meet pop culture and where faith meets fiction. In a comic-con style... Read more
Call for Papers: Undergraduate and Graduate Student Showcase Special showcase featuring undergraduate and graduate student work Due date for consideration: June 30, 2019 Publish date: October 2019 The Popular Culture Studies Journal is an open-access academic, peer-reviewed, refereed journal for scholars, academics, and students from the many disciplines that study popular culture, as well as the fans and general public with an interest in popular culture texts, practices, and industries. The journal serves the MPCA/ACA membership, as well as scholars globally who... Read more
I have known Cătălin Mosoia for many years. If any of you know my CV well…well, that’s kind of weird. But if it is nonetheless true, you may recognize his name as it appears on it, as a result of an interview I gave which was published as: “Entuziasmul fără cunoştiinţe este o problemă serioasă pentru religie”, in Cătălin Mosoia, În dialog cu…despre ştiinţă şi religie (Bucharest: Curtea Veche, 2007) 129-139. Cătălin asked me if I would be willing to participate in a... Read more
It was ironic but highly interesting to have two things pop up in my feed reader related to Twitter and conferences. One is a Twitter conference (about popular culture and pedagogy). The other is advice about tweeting decorum at face to face conferences. Here is the information about the Twitter conference: The first annual Popular Culture and Pedagogy Conference (http://popularcultureandpedagogy.org) will take place on November 11th, 2019. The theme of the conference will be: Using Popular Culture As A Tool... Read more
Chris Keith shared this call for papers: CALL FOR PAPERS: “The Cultures of Reading in the Ancient Mediterranean World: Jews, Christians, Greeks, Romans” Deadline for Abstracts: June 7, 2019 (note the update) Date of Workshop/Conference: October 28, 2019 Location: Duke University Ahmadieh Family Lecture Hall, Franklin Humanities Institute, Bay 4, Smith Warehouse Durham, NC 27708 Organizers: William A. Johnson (Duke University) Chris Keith (St Mary’s University, Twickenham) Rebecca Scharbach Wollenberg (University of Michigan) Confirmed Presenters and Participants: Kendra Eshleman... Read more
The 40th episode of the ReligionProf Podcast features Emily Swan, who is a minister, an author, a Butler graduate, and a Doctor Who fan. And so you can see why we thought we should have a conversation! In the podcast we talk about those topics and many more, with particular focus on Pentecostalism and René Girard in places, as we get started by talking about the book Emily authored together with Ken Wilson, Solus Jesus: A Theology of Resistance. Some... Read more
A. David Lewis shared this call for papers for a volume on “Marveling Religion” (with a pun that will hopefully be clear to all fans of comic books and superhero movies): Call for Papers: Marveling Religion: Critical Discourse and the Marvel Cinematic Universe Lexington Books (Initial Interest) Editors: Jennifer Baldwin and Daniel White Hodge Marveling Religion: Critical Discourse of the Marvel Cinematic Universe is an edited volume with interest in contracting and publishing from Lexington Books. It aims to explore central... Read more
The latest issue of the Indianapolis Business Journal is dedicated to the theme of innovation, and includes an interview with me about the work that Ankur Gupta and I are doing on the subject of artificial wisdom. In it I say things such as “There are some more present-day and near-future questions that I think fans of science fiction may be missing out on, that ethicists and computer scientists are not talking about quite as often as you might’ve expected.” I hope... Read more
This special issue of the International Journal of Islamic Architecture focuses on the spatial forms and urban consequences of forced migration. According to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, the number of displaced persons has reached 70 million, the highest it has been since the end of World War II. The popular term ‘refugee crisis’ itself conceives of the refugee as a problem: an objectified person that is denied active agency and subjected to incarceration in various types of spaces of... Read more
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