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Outlawed Violation of Human Rights or Protected Religious Practice?
Given the prominence of debates over classification in my classes I’m always on the look-out for a good e.g., something useful in getting us thinking about the interests driving classification systems...
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Loving India Back? Routine Violence and Rewriting History in a British...
Parker Evans is a junior majoring in English and Religious Studies, with a minor in the Blount Scholars Program. This post was written for Dr. Ramey’s class on Religion and Identity in South Asia....
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A Purpose Driven Label
Groups often want to claim that their practices and beliefs constitute a religion. The label religion provides certain benefits, such as a protected legal status, respect in certain contexts, and often...
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“The Personal Faith of Each Individual”
Recently, my friend, Jack Llewellyn, sent me the following email, with some very useful observations on just how widely used the rhetorical of personal faith has been. With his permission, I copy it...
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Kashmir Confusion
Gate at Wagah border post between India and PakistanCredit: “The border” by Sheep’R’Us is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 Daniel W. Lee is a Marketing major with a Religious Studies minor from the...
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Science and Religion
The relationship between the categories “science” and “religion” retains great significance within contemporary society. Exactly what that significance is, though, depends on the person’s conceptions...
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“You don’t know what that means!”
By Andie Alexander Andie Alexander earned her B.A. in Religious Studies and History in 2012 and is working on her MA in Religious Studies at CU Boulder. Andie also works as the online Curator for the...
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Classroom to Conference: REL Majors Presenting Their Research
REL is very happy to announce that two of our students have been accepted to present their research at the Southeastern regional meeting of the American Academy of Religion in March. OLYMPUS DIGITAL...
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Unnatural Groups and Protests in India
Group identifications are not something inherent or automatic; they require work to construct and maintain, and that work only makes sense when those group identifications serve some interests, such as...
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The Politics of Parody
Do you know anything about the new religion called Dinkoism, based on the cartoon character Dinkan? Is it a parody? Click the image below to hear a short, recent BBC news story on how Dinkosim is now...
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