“The Archive” brings you selections from the Bulletin’s history to give you perspective on the history of currents in the field. In this edition, we bring you a piece from CSSR Bulletin (1991: 20.2) by the late Ira H. Peak, Jr. (d. 1915), an ethicist who worked at a number of North American universities throughout his career. While teaching at the University of Missouri—Columbia, Peak experimented with what he described as “the Evaluation Menu,” a pedagogical framework for empowering students to participate in the whole of the learning experience—even its grading.
“档案”为您带来简报历史的选择，让您对该领域的潮流历史有一个视角。在这个版本中，我们为您带来一篇来自CSSR公报(1991:20.2)的文章，作者是已故的Ira H. Peak, Jr.(生于1915年)，他是一位伦理学家，在他的职业生涯中在许多北美大学工作过。在密苏里-哥伦比亚大学教书期间，匹克尝试了他所描述的“评估菜单”，这是一种让学生参与整个学习过程的教学框架，甚至包括评分。
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The Guild introduces you to the various associations, societies, and organizations where scholars carry out their work. In this issue, we learn about the Centre for Studies in Religion and Society at the Unviersity of Victoria. Throughout its thirty-year history, the CSRS has creatively developed space to further the academic study of religion. Special thanks to Paul Bramadat, Director and Professor, for his insights on the Centre’s history.
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The Buzz examines scholarly topics in light of present-day concerns and challenges. This edition centers on the unique challenges of graduate education as a result of the restrictions of COVD-19. In issue 50.1 we heard from scholars working within the context of the US. In this issue, Suzanne Owen of Leeds Trinity University and the Bulletin Advisory Board offers a brief look at the situation in the UK.
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This article illustrates the value of computer modeling and simulation (CMS) for linking theory and data in the academic study of religion, focusing on ways in which scholars in religious studies and the humanities can benefit by collaboratively engaging in this relatively new and radically transdisciplinary methodology. I begin by briefly introducing CMS and describing some of its recent uses in analyses of religious phenomena. The second part provides a case study – an agent-based model (ABM) designed to simulate and forecast changes in religiosity and existential security in Europe (Gore et al. 2018). The main research question guiding the construction and validation of this model was: What are some of the conditions under which – and mechanisms by which – religiosity declines in contemporary European populations? I highlight one of the main research findings from the simulation experiments on the model. Finally, I briefly explore some of the material and methodological implications of the development and deployment of such models for the academic study of religion.
本文阐述了计算机建模和模拟(CMS)在宗教学术研究中将理论和数据联系起来的价值，重点介绍了宗教研究和人文学科的学者如何通过合作参与这种相对较新的跨学科方法而受益。我首先简要介绍CMS，并描述它最近在分析宗教现象中的一些应用。第二部分提供了一个案例研究——一个基于主体的模型(ABM)，旨在模拟和预测欧洲宗教信仰和存在安全的变化(Gore et al. 2018)。指导该模型构建和验证的主要研究问题是:当代欧洲人口中宗教信仰下降的一些条件和机制是什么?我强调了对该模型进行仿真实验的主要研究成果之一。最后，我简要地探讨了宗教学术研究中这些模型的发展和部署的一些材料和方法含义。
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Academic conferences are among the most energizing gatherings of scholars and scholarship. When the North American Association for the Study of Religion pivoted to an online format for their 2020 Annual Meeting, a broader audience was able to enjoy the sophisticated social analysis for which NAASR is known. In this issue, NAASR joins the Bulletin as a content-partner in publishing some of the research featured during the meeting. Wesley J. Wildman (Boston University) shares his bibliometric research of social scientific publications in the field. F. LeRon Schults (Boston University) highlights how computational modeling and simulations can be used to examine religious phenomena as well as forecast sociological dynamics. And Daniel D. Miller (Landmark College) posits a framework he calls “queer democracy” to help readers historicize, complicate, and confound the articulation of Christian nationalist politics. Together these contributions speak to currents in theory and method being explored in the North American field.
学术会议是学者和学者最具活力的聚会之一。当北美宗教研究协会(North American Association for the Study of Religion)将其2020年年会转向在线形式时，更广泛的受众能够享受到NAASR以其闻名的复杂的社会分析。在这一期中，NAASR作为内容合作伙伴加入了公报，发表了会议期间的一些研究成果。韦斯利J.怀尔德曼(波士顿大学)分享了他对该领域社会科学出版物的文献计量学研究。F. LeRon Schults(波士顿大学)强调了如何利用计算模型和模拟来检验宗教现象以及预测社会动态。丹尼尔·d·米勒(地标学院)提出了一个框架，他称之为“酷儿民主”，以帮助读者将基督教民族主义政治的表述历史化、复杂化和混淆。这些贡献共同说明了北美领域正在探索的理论和方法的潮流。
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This essay utilizes a theory of social embodiment as an analytical frame for the consideration of contemporary Christian nationalists’ near obsession with criminalizing trans and gender nonconforming (TGNC) embodiment and denying fundamental legal protections to TGNC individuals. It first presents a brief overview of Christian nationalism, understood as an expression of populist and nationalist identity, and Christian nationalists’ anti-TGNC efforts. Utilizing a constructive theoretical account of the metaphor of society as a kind of body, the paper goes on to argue that Christian nationalism takes shape as the expression of a desire for the imposition and maintenance of a very particular social and political order, grounded in the social body’s imagined normative shape or morphology. Within this theoretical frame, the essay argues that, in trans and gender nonconforming individuals, Christian nationalists are confronted with queer forms of embodiment that fundamentally undermine the imagined normative or “natural” embodiment, both individual and social, around which their social and political identity has taken shape. Considered from this theoretical perspective, Christian nationalist efforts aimed at criminalizing trans and gender nonconforming embodiment and denying the rights of trans and gender nonconforming individuals represent visceral, dysphoric responses toward individuals whose presence disfigures or transmogrifies the social body.
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For this edition of The Interview, the Bulletin is proud to bring you an exchange that was originally part of the John Albert Hall Lectures and Values for a New World lecture series, hosted by the Centre for Studies in Religion & Society at the University of Victoria. To see video of this and additional CSRS programming, please visit http://vimeo. com/csrs.
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The practice of yoga is on the rise, as much as its academic scrutiny. Scholars, especially within the disciplinary boundaries of religious studies, South Asian studies, Indology, anthropology, and sociology, have recently started to critically inquire into the birth and transnational developments of modern forms of yoga, tracing their genealogies and textual roots. This expanding literature has in turn contributed to the constitution of the emergent and multidisciplinary field of modern yoga research, or yoga studies. The primary aim of this article is thus to analyze the field of modern yoga research as a ‘discursive formation’ (Foucault [1971]1972), that is, an ensemble of texts constituting – or contributing to the constitution of – a specific object of analysis, namely modern yoga. In so doing, it also aims to contribute to the advancement of the discursive study of religion more in general. The article relies on a ‘discursive study of religion’ approach (e.g., von Stockrad 2003, 2010, 2013) with a focus on its archaeological leaning (e.g., Foucault 1965, 1972, [1963] 1973, [1966] 2002). More specifically, I underline the affinity that modern yoga research’s discursive references have with a number of discursive currents that characterize the disciplines it emerged from, such as radical historicism, cultural relativism, modernism, Orientalism and neo-colonialism. Finally, I conclude by summarizing the main results of this contribution and exploring their relevance to the self-reflexive development of the overlapping fields of cultural analyses and the study of religion.
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The Archive is a feature of the Bulletin in which previous publications are reprinted to reinforce the modern relevance of archived arguments. “Neutrality in the Study of Religion,” originally published in 1981, comes from Dr. John H. Whittaker (1945-2019), who was the Department Chair of Philosophy and Religious Studies at Louisiana State University until 2006. This article is relevant 30 years after its original publication, as it explores an ongoing debate in the field: the limits of objectivity in religious studies. Whittaker critiques a claim made by sociologist Robert Bellah in order to argue that religion can and should be taught from what he terms a “neutral” standpoint that encourages critical inquiry. The role of the scholar of religion as a researcher, observer, and teacher is one that remains contended across the field of religious studies today.
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