Scholarship

Advent, AAR, and the Diversity in the Academy

Posted on December 10, 2015December 9, 2015 by Laura Brekke

Christians around the world are knee-deep in the season of Advent. Advent is about waiting. Advent is about anticipation. Advent is about the in-breaking of God into the world as the baby Jesus –... Read More

Ethnographic Filmmaking and the Scientific Study of Religion

Posted on July 21, 2015July 20, 2015 by Jenn Lindsay

What happens when a social scientist uses a camera as a tool in ethnographic fieldwork? For a decade prior to pursuing graduate school, I worked as a composer, film editor and documentary filmmaker. W... Read More

Seven Types of Scholarship

Posted on November 27, 2011November 28, 2011 by Mark Randall James

What are scholars for? I offer for your consideration seven types of religious scholarship: priest, scribe, gnostic, revolutionary, rabbi, scientist, and contemplative.... Read More

On Having to Choose: Scholar or Activist

Posted on November 7, 2011November 6, 2011 by Mary Ann Kaiser

This past August, Vanderbilt Divinity School and the Human Rights Campaign hosted a series of workshops on the issue of religion and sexuality. Though I was not actually a part of this event, I was ex... Read More

Response to Fear in the Muslim Tradition

Posted on March 1, 2011March 16, 2011 by Journal of Inter-Religious Studies

This paper explores the role of fear in the Muslim tradition and the religious or historical sources to which Muslim can turn to in order to manage fear on both a communal and individual level. The ... Read More