by joelabrown | Apr 25, 2013 | Uncategorized
Adopting the Fetish: War Memory and Uncanny Kinship in Modern Japan by Ellen Schattschneider (Brandeis University) With invited responses by: Stephan Feuchtwang (London School of Economics); Robert A. Paul (Emory University). **Click here to see the images referred...
by joelabrown | Mar 25, 2013 | Uncategorized
March 2013 The Macondoization of the World: Global Environmental Governance and Christian Ethics by Noah Toly (Wheaton College; Martin Marty Center Senior Fellow) With invited responses by: Roger S. Gottlieb (Worcester Polytechnic Institute); and Willis Jenkins (Yale...
by joelabrown | Feb 25, 2013 | Uncategorized
Under the Sign of the Cross in the Kingdom of Kongo: Religious Conversion and Visual Correlation in Early Modern Central Africa by Cécile Fromont (University of Chicago) With invited responses by: John Thornton (Boston University); and Robert Young (New York...
by joelabrown | Jan 25, 2013 | Uncategorized
Medicalized Death as a Modus Vivendi by Michelle Harrington (University of Chicago; Martin Marty Center Fellow) With invited responses by: Lydia Dugdale (Yale University); Autumn Alcott Ridenour (Boston College); and Jeffrey Bishop (Saint Louis...
by joelabrown | Dec 29, 2012 | Uncategorized
“My Homosexuality Is Getting Worse Every Day”: Norman Vincent Peale, Psychiatry, and the Liberal Protestant Response to Same-Sex Desires in Mid-Twentieth Century America by Rebecca Davis (University of Delaware) Read the essay (excerpt) and the related...
by joelabrown | Nov 29, 2012 | Uncategorized
Pussy Riot, the Media, and Church-State Relations in Russia Today by Katja Richters (University of Erfurt) With invited responses by: Bryce E. Rich (University of Chicago); and Catherine Wanner (Penn State University).
by joelabrown | Oct 29, 2012 | Uncategorized
“Culture” and “Religion”: Immigration, Islams and Race in 1970s Paris by Naomi Davidson (University of Ottawa) With invited responses by: M. Christian Green (Emory University); M.J.M. (Marcel) Maussen (University of Amsterdam); and Tara...
by joelabrown | Sep 29, 2012 | Uncategorized
Discursive Formation around “Shinto” in Colonial Korea by Isomae Jun’ichi (International Research Center for Japanese Studies, Kyoto) With invited responses by Galen Amstutz (Institute of Buddhist Studies); Klaus Antoni (University of Tübingen);...
by joelabrown | Jul 29, 2012 | Uncategorized
“Give me back my children!” Traumatic Reenactment and Tenuous Democratic Public Spheres by Mark Auslander (Central Washington University) With invited responses by: John Howell (University of Chicago); and Edward Linenthal (Indiana...
by joelabrown | Jun 29, 2012 | Uncategorized
Month without the Gods: Shinto and Authority in Early Modern Japan by Yijiang Zhong (Asia Research Institute; National University of Singapore) With invited responses by: Isomae Jun’ichi (International Research Center for Japanese Studies, Kyoto); Trent E....
