Studying
Religion in
Culture


REL Faculty Publish in the CSSR Bulletin

In the Spring of 2004, issue 33/2 of the Bulletin of the Council of Societies for the Study of Religion was devoted to essays written by the faculty of the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Alabama.

The essays comprise responses to Prof. Martin Jaffee's inaugural Aronov Lecture, delivered at the University of Alabama on November 4, 2002.

The CSSR Bulletin is among the widest circulating professional periodicals in the North American study of religion.

As far as members of the Department know, this is one of the very few times when an entire Department's faculty have engaged in such a collective publishing project. The faculty are therefore grateful to Prof. Craig Prentiss (of Rockhurst University, Kansas City), editor of the CSSR Bulletin, for his interest in this collection of essays. They also appreciate Prof. Jaffee's willingness to let his public lecture stand as the basis for this collective publication.


The above image, as well as the PDF version of the introduction to the issue of the Bulletin, appear with the kind permission of the Council of Societies for the Study of Religion.

If you are interested in obtaining a complimentary copy of this issue of the Bulletin, please contact the Department's main office.

 

In This Issue...

Russell T. McCutcheon

Reinventing the Study of Religion in Alabama: A Symposium (PDF)


Martin S. Jaffee

Personal Self Disclosure, Religious Studies Pedagogy, and the Skeptical Mission of the Public University (PDF)


Steven Leonard Jacobs

Jewish Scholar vs. Scholar of Judaism: Problems, Pitfalls, and Possibilities. A Response to Martin Jaffee (PDF)


Catherine M. Roach

Why Religious Studies Can't Be Religious Studies (But Why I Like It Anyway)...
(PDF)


Theodore Louis Trost

May I Share an Interpretive
Task With You? Religion and
Film in the Introduction to Religion Course
(PDF)


Kurtis R. Schaeffer

Professing Buddhism in
Alabama
(PDF)


Tim Murphy

Postmodernism, Pedagogy, and Religious Studies
(PDF)


Martin Jaffee

Rejoinder
(PDF)