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método y teoría: September 2008
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Sunday, September 28, 2008. 3 2009-2010 SSHRC Proposal. In her article “Praying for a Godly Fumigation: Disgust and the New Christian Right,” Lynne Arnault points to two waves of conservative Christian political activism as the catalysts for the current neo-conservative state of the American evangelical movement [1]. One area in which the effect of this reclamation of tradition values is seen, is in that of gender roles. Today, Purity Balls are prominent in 48 states in the. I have the opportunity to wor...
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método y teoría: 9. Emoción
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Sunday, November 9, 2008. Dr Eric Jensen, in his book 'The Learning Brain' defines 'emotions' as " biologically driven, cross-cultural responses to environmental stimuli [.] Emotions are cross-cultural - the same all over the world. Feeling are a subset of all of our mind-body states (disappointment, hunger, hope, etc. There are hundreds of them! Feelings are a learned response in the culture in which you grow up (the family, the peers, the community, etc.). I supposed I’ve gone off a wee bit. ...I'm int...
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método y teoría: 7. Mito
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Saturday, October 25, 2008. It might be fair to say that Wendy Doinger’s The Implied Spider. Is a survey in mythological methodology. Doniger asserts that the cross-cultural comparison of myths is “pragmatically possible, intellectually plausible, and politically productive” (4-5). However, this comparison comes with a caveat that I find most problematic – Doniger proposes to do all this mythological comparison sans methodological structure! This bottom-up method of careful (albeit random) selection is a...
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método y teoría: 13 - El Dr. Simon Coleman
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Sunday, December 7, 2008. 13 - El Dr. Simon Coleman. I thoroughly related to, and enjoyed, Dr. Coleman’s article ‘ But Are They Really Christian? 8217; Often I am left wondering what about the phenomenon of purity balls is based in Christianity, because there are only so many so many references to female purity that the Apostle Paul makes in his letters! Can one truly evaluate with some modicum of objectivity the subject, if they are in fact part of the subject itself? On a personal note, within my own f...
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método y teoría: 12. Comentario
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Sunday, November 30, 2008. Having read over my opus of Method and Theory blog entries in an attempt formulate a response to this week’s entry, I can safely say that I am more educated in the varied theoretical approaches to the study of Religion. Interestingly, I view this course now as more of an “Introduction to Religion” course than I ever thought I would! Or is it the coming together of these semantics that makes religion what it is essentially? I think the best part of this class was that it was a s...
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método y teoría: October 2008
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Saturday, October 25, 2008. It might be fair to say that Wendy Doinger’s The Implied Spider. Is a survey in mythological methodology. Doniger asserts that the cross-cultural comparison of myths is “pragmatically possible, intellectually plausible, and politically productive” (4-5). However, this comparison comes with a caveat that I find most problematic – Doniger proposes to do all this mythological comparison sans methodological structure! This bottom-up method of careful (albeit random) selection is a...
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método y teoría: 10. Tradición
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Sunday, November 16, 2008. I read the topic for this week’s discussion and groaned internally. Nothing about Purity Balls, the ritual, is traditional – my academic work has nothing to do with traditional anything! After succumbing to the inevitable what-am-I-doing-in-grad-school malaise for a wee bit, I snapped right back and began really thinking about the act of tradition-inventing (sounds like an Olympic event doesn’t it? Than to rules that are newly set out. If as Hobsbawm suggests, tradition trickle...
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método y teoría: 5. Género
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Sunday, October 12, 2008. Elizabeth Clark writes that “‘[w]omen’s studies in religion,’ […] has appropriated the social history model, while ‘gender studies in religion’ has begun to adopt the hermeneutic paradigm” (Clark, 217). Ultimately, however, she holds that it is important to keep both models working together in order to produce an enriched picture in the historical study of religion. Isn’t this simply going back to the discussion on context that arose in class last week? Rather, Kinsley proposes ...
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método y teoría: 8 - Exécution
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Sunday, November 2, 2008. Ritual and belief are two sides of the same, semi-permeable, coin. One influences the other, and the other in turn influences the one. However, neither is the other’s sole affector. Grimes answers this through a Goffmanian perspective when he states that all social interaction is performance because it is not only done, but also done to be seen (Grimes 112). How, I wonder, does this engagement in a visually perceivable, socially engaging action impinge upon religious belief?
