Tag: cultural studies
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Gathering While Not Gathering
We had an abbreviated Sunday morning worship service online, via Facebook Live, at our usual gathering time on Sunday morning. Here’s what I noticed: I don’t know what I’m doing. [How does Facebook Live work? What page do I have to be on? OK, how do I make a comment? Wait, what … ? Etc.]…
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Not the Best Argument Against Abrahamicism
Hughes, Aaron W. Abrahamic Religions: On the Uses and Abuses of History. Oxford University Press, 2012. [An Installment of the “Read Me” Project.] I agreed with this book as soon as I heard about it. According to the description on the website, the author, Aaron W. Hughes, argues that the notion of the “Abrahamic religions”…
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Orientalism At Last
Reflections on reading Edward W. Said. Orientalism. 25th Anniversary Edition with a New Preface by the Author. New York: Vintage, 2003 (originally 1978, Afterword 1994). [An installment of the Read Me Project.] In some sense, Orientalism has been on the Read Me shelf for decades. Everyone has their unread classics – there are English majors…
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Classic Piety
Here’s a quote from Russell McCutcheon et al.’s terrific website Studying Religion: As already noted, in Ancient Greek, the term eusebia, or in Latin pietas, signified reverence, honor, and esteem–notably as expressed in social and legal relationships. Examples would include the “proper” relations between husband and wife, parent and child, master and slave, soldiers and…
Matters of Interpretation 