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Anthropology of Christianity bibliographic blog

10/11/2011 FYI No comments

There’s a new resource being put together by James Bielo (Miami University, Ohio) and Jon Bialecki (UCSD): AnthroCyBib, the “Anthropology of Christianity Bibliographic blog.” According to an announce­ment on The Society for the Anthropology of Religion email list:

This ‘blog’ is intended to be a resource for those who wish to keep track of arti­cles, book chap­ters, and mono­graphs that are a part of, in dia­logue with, or of inter­est to, the Anthropology of Christianity, which is one of the fastest grow­ing sub-disciplines in con­tem­po­rary anthro­pol­ogy. Because Christianity is attract­ing so much ethno­graphic and the­o­ret­i­cal atten­tion, keep­ing track of what is hap­pen­ing is becom­ing increas­ingly dif­fi­cult. For this rea­son we thought it would be of value to have a sin­gle site where rel­e­vant mate­r­ial could be announced as it came out, and searched via sev­eral tags (author, geo­graphic area, vari­ant of Christianity, and the­o­ret­i­cal focus).

In essence, this is akin to a tmblr style blog where we’ll post new mate­r­ial as we become aware of it. With time, we hope­fully will work on cre­at­ing a back cat­a­log of mate­r­ial pub­lished prior to 2011 as well.

If you’d like to con­tact either of us directly in order to alert us to new pub­li­ca­tions, pro­vide feed­back, or for any other rea­son, feel free to send us an email. Jon Bialecki can be con­tacted at jbialecki@​ucsd.​edu; James Bielo can be reached at bielojs@​muohio.​edu.

Research methods for the study of religion

09/27/2011 Research No comments

Folks at the University of Kent have put together a great online resource for Research Methods for the Study of Religion.

‘Research Methods for the Study of Religion’ is an on-line resource, cov­er­ing a wide range of key top­ics in this field, from research design, and the pol­i­tics and ethics of research, to issues in the use of var­i­ous quan­ti­ta­tive and qual­i­ta­tive meth­ods. Developed from the expe­ri­ence of an inten­sive train­ing work­shop for doc­toral stu­dents run in con­junc­tion with the AHRC/ESRC Religion and Society pro­gramme, the con­tent on the site includes dis­cus­sion papers, exer­cises, bib­li­ogra­phies, dis­cus­sion ques­tions and links to other rel­e­vant on-line mate­r­ial. We hope that the site will meet the need both of indi­vid­ual researchers look­ing for resources on par­tic­u­larly method­olog­i­cal issues, and lec­tur­ers want­ing source mate­r­ial to use in teach­ing meth­ods courses.

Reacting to the Past

03/18/2011 FYI No comments

I found out about this through an email announc­ing a Korean stud­ies mod­ule cur­rently in devel­op­ment: “Korea at the Crossroads of Civilizations: Confucianism, Westernization, and the 1894 Kabo Reforms.” It’s part of a much larger project called Reacting to the Past.

I haven’t checked it out, but it seems like there are instructor’s man­u­als and cur­ricu­lum mate­ri­als avail­able for down­load, as well as dis­cus­sion boards to share thoughts and new course mate­ri­als with the “entire Reacting com­mu­nity.” I won­der if I can incor­po­rate some of this in my teaching.

The “Reacting to the Past” (RTTP) con­sor­tium, a group of 40 col­leges and uni­ver­si­ties that have devel­oped the RTTP ped­a­gogy, invites other insti­tu­tions to join them.

“Reacting to the Past” (RTTP) con­sists of elab­o­rate games, set in the past, in which stu­dents are assigned roles informed by clas­sic texts in the his­tory of ideas. Class ses­sions are run entirely by stu­dents; instruc­tors advise and guide stu­dents and grade their oral and writ­ten work. It seeks to draw stu­dents into the past, pro­mote engage­ment with big ideas, and improve intel­lec­tual and aca­d­e­mic skills.