Networked religion, blurring boundaries and shifts in the field of authority
Central to questions of authority is the ability to define the tradition; to define how scripture should be interpreted, and to tell orthodoxy from heresy. A freehand commentary, published by the...
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At this past year’s meeting of the American Academy of Religion in Baltimore, Maryland, over 70 scholars met to participate in the AAR’s first THATCamp. The Humanities and Technology Camp is an open...
View ArticleThe Blog Assignment: Confronting “Spirituality” in Teaching Religious Studies
Richard Ascough and Sharday Mosurinjohn In this second of a two-part series, Richard Ascough adds his voice to Sharday Mosurinjohn’s reflections on a new blog post assignment used in a course on...
View ArticleThe Inauthenticity of New Media
Everyone seems to have an opinion about the Internet. Sometimes these arguments are positive, but more often they are critical. Survey online news media to sample the width and breadth of these...
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