Browsing by Author "Religious Studies, School of Liberal Arts"

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    Brazilian mystics say they’re sent by aliens to ‘jump-start human evolution’ – but their vision for a more just society is not totally crazy
    (The Conversation US, Inc., 2020-04-29) Hayes, Kelly E.; Religious Studies, School of Liberal Arts
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    Can yoga be Christian?
    (The Conversation US, Inc., 2017-06-21) Jain, Andrea; Religious Studies, School of Liberal Arts
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    The Canonical Black Body: Alternative African American Religions and the Disruptive Politics of Sacrality
    (MDPI, 2018-01) Edmonds, Joseph L. Tucker; Religious Studies, School of Liberal Arts
    “The Canonical Black Body” argues that central to the study of African American religions is a focus on the black body and the production and engagement of canons on the sacred black body within the black public sphere. Furthermore, this essay suggests that, by paying attention to alternative African American religions in the twentieth century, we can better engage the relationship between African American religion and the long history of creating these canons on the black body, debating their relationship to black freedom, and circulating the canons to contest the oppressive, exclusive practices of modern democracy. Through a critical engagement of the fields of Black Theology and New Religious Movements and using the resources offered by Delores Williams’ accounts of variety and experience and Vincent Wimbush’s category of signifying, this essay will argue for how a return to the body provides resources and tools for not only theorizing African American religions but thinking about the production and creation of competing black publics, including the important role of alternative black sacred publics. View Full-Text
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    The Canonical Black Body: Alternative African American Religions and the Disruptive Politics of Sacrality
    (MDPI, 2018-01-09) Tucker Edmonds, Joseph Lennis; Religious Studies, School of Liberal Arts
    “The Canonical Black Body” argues that central to the study of African American religions is a focus on the black body and the production and engagement of canons on the sacred black body within the black public sphere. Furthermore, this essay suggests that, by paying attention to alternative African American religions in the twentieth century, we can better engage the relationship between African American religion and the long history of creating these canons on the black body, debating their relationship to black freedom, and circulating the canons to contest the oppressive, exclusive practices of modern democracy. Through a critical engagement of the fields of Black Theology and New Religious Movements and using the resources offered by Delores Williams’ accounts of variety and experience and Vincent Wimbush’s category of signifying, this essay will argue for how a return to the body provides resources and tools for not only theorizing African American religions but thinking about the production and creation of competing black publics, including the important role of alternative black sacred publics.
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    Commentary: Pain, Stigma, and the Politics of Self-Management
    (Oxford, 2020-05) Jain, Andrea R.; Religious Studies, School of Liberal Arts
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    Daniel Boone and Joshua, the Mohican: American Lives and American Myths
    (The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2021-11) Wheeler, Rachel; Religious Studies, School of Liberal Arts
    This article compares the life and legend of Daniel Boone (1734–1820) with that of his obscure contemporary, Joshua (1742–1806), a Mohican man whose life unfolded along a remarkably parallel, yet dramatically different course. Both men were born in the East, and moved steadily westward during their lifetimes, on roughly parallel routes. Both men were adept in Native and White ways. Yet Boone died of old age, while Joshua went to a fiery death as an accused witch at the hands of Tenskwatawa, the Shawnee Prophet. Boone became a legend during his own lifetime, while Joshua has remained consigned to a few footnotes. This article asks what narratives of America are possible with Joshua's story at the fore.
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    Early American Music and the Construction of Race
    (University of California Press, 2021-12) Barnes, Rhae L.; Goodman, Glenda; Gordon, Bonnie; Ryan, Maria; Bailey, Candace; Garcia, David F.; Ramsey, Guthrie P., Jr.; Marshall, Caitlin; Eyerly, Sarah; Wheeler, Rachel; Religious Studies, School of Liberal Arts
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    Fatal Convergence in the Kingdom of God: The Mountain Meadows Massacre in American History
    (2017) Gordon, Sarah Barringer; Shipps, Jan; Religious Studies, School of Liberal Arts
    This article examines religion, violence, and westward migration in early national and antebellum America. In treating the Mountain Meadows Massacre of 1857, the authors demonstrate how recognition of religion enriches understanding of the event and its roots in culture and geography. Close attention to and careful interpretation of the lives of the leaders of Methodist migrants (who were killed at Mountain Meadows) and the local Mormon militia (who did the killing) yield vitally connected strands of personal and spiritual history. Placing both men in their religious communities and probing their family strategies reveals how much they had in common. These shared beliefs and practices affected Mormons’and Methodists’ understanding of the meaning of migration, as well as the role and nature of the Kingdom of God in American expansion. The approach taken here takes a panoramic view of the fatal convergence in southern Utah, and integrates religious history with scholarship on empire, slavery, patriarchy, Native dispossession, westward migration, and their reverberations in history. In light of these overlapping beliefs and histories, the massacre is revealed as more intimate, a fratricide among white men who imagined that their religious identities were locked in fatal conflict, but many of whose basic assumptions were shared. This article also engages with the challenges presented by an incomplete archive (all records of the train were lost – likely destroyed by the perpetrators), and the rewards as well as perils of using family histories and survivors’ accounts, as well as more traditional archival materials.
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    ‘Namaste All Day’: Containing Dissent in Commercial Spirituality
    (Harvard Divinity School, 2019) Jain, Andrea R.; Religious Studies, School of Liberal Arts
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    Religious Dimensions of Pandemics
    (School of Liberal Arts, IUPUI, 2020) Wheeler, Rachel; Religious Studies, School of Liberal Arts