{"id":25561,"date":"2014-08-09T09:22:21","date_gmt":"2014-08-09T13:22:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/exploringourmatrix\/?p=25561"},"modified":"2014-08-09T09:22:21","modified_gmt":"2014-08-09T13:22:21","slug":"how-do-you-define-loonie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2014\/08\/how-do-you-define-loonie.html","title":{"rendered":"How Do You Define \u201c@%!#*! Loonie\u201d?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

Jim Linville will be giving a conference paper in November with what may be the most amusing title on the program at SBL:<\/p>\n

May Contain Nuts and B.S. (Biblical Studies): The Politics of Academic Legitimacy Online and the Need to Properly Theorize the Category \u201c@%!#*! Loonie\u201d<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

He has now put out an appeal for help<\/a> in defining (and properly theorizing) the category he mentions.<\/p>\n

Since his paper will be about scholarly blogging and the way(s) that scholarly bloggers identify, define, and interact with those viewpoints that might be deemed fringe, crackpot, and\/or pseudoscholarly, and since these sorts of views are discussed frequently here, it seemed natural to\u00a0link to his post<\/a>, as well as to raise the question here. What makes a viewpoint\u00a0utter bunk? What if anything\u00a0differentiates a view\u00a0beyond the fringe of scholarship from one at the fringe of scholarship? And how have you seen scholarly bloggers deal with comments that reflect such views? How do you think we\u00a0should<\/em> deal with comments\u00a0from people promoting views that seem to us to be not merely unscholarly but fundamentally opposed to the endeavor that is\u00a0scholarship?<\/p>\n

\"Grumpy<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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