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August 2019
August 02, 2019
Announcing the Theology, Religion and Popular Culture Review #CFP
The Theology, Religion and Popular Culture Network will be starting the TRPC Review, a short online...
July 2019
July 19, 2019
I thought I should share this chart which is more fitting and better in so...
June 2019
June 30, 2019
Echo Chambers and Polarization
Here's a round-up of some recent pieces addressing political and other forms of ideological polarization....
June 18, 2019
Science Fiction and Religion #CFP
This call for papers just came to my attention from the Journal of Religion, Film,...
June 04, 2019
A. David Lewis shared this call for papers for a volume on "Marveling Religion" (with...
April 2019
April 25, 2019
Anyone who makes a sweeping generalization about the inability of technology to being a means...
April 23, 2019
This is another of those posts that started as a link dump and grew until...
April 02, 2019
Fantastic Religions and Where to Find Them Deities, Myths and Rites in Science Fiction and...
February 2019
February 25, 2019
Science Fiction and Religion #CFP
Another call for papers connected with the Journal for Religion, Film, and Media: CFP: SCIENCE...
February 23, 2019
2019 International Conference on Religion & Film #CFP
A call for papers that I should have passed on before now... 2019 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE...
January 2019
January 13, 2019
Religious Backgrounds and University Educations
From Eboo Patel’s recent article in Inside Higher Education: My larger point is this: in...
December 2018
December 19, 2018
ReligionProf Podcast Episode 17 with Brent Hege (plus the new Faith and Vocation Podcast!)
In this week's ReligionProf Podcast my guest is my Butler University colleague, Brent Hege. Brent...
November 2018
November 30, 2018
Doctor Who: The Stones of Blood
The Doctor Who episode The Stones of Blood is part of the Key to Time...
November 04, 2018
In a conversation not long ago with colleagues and friends connected with the study of...
September 2018
September 15, 2018
Close Encounters of the God Kind #RNA2018 Panel
Here is the video from the panel I was on at the Religion News Association...
September 12, 2018
I think this is going to be the rhythm of my weekly blogging for the...
August 2018
August 23, 2018
Sacred Places: Intersections of Religion and Ecology
This should be of interest to readers of my blog within driving distance of Butler...
July 2018
July 16, 2018
#CFP The Good Place and Philosophy
Yes! So exciting to see this call for abstracts on the Popular Culture and Philosophy...
June 2018
June 26, 2018
Somehow I've managed not to blog about Westworld, despite having found both seasons incredibly engaging,...
June 14, 2018
Representation in Scholarship #womenalsoknowbible #womenalsoknowreligion #readwomen
Seeing the Inside Higher Ed piece about the Twitter hashtag #womenalsoknowhistory, which then led me to...
May 2018
May 14, 2018
The above was made and shared by Zeba Crook last year. As some pointed out...
May 05, 2018
#CFP Special Issue on Apocalypticism in the 21st Century
Here's a natural follow-up to yesterday's post, one not inappropriate for the "Revenge of the...
May 04, 2018
#CFP Special Issue of Religions “So Say We All: Religion and Society in Science Fiction”
For Star Wars Day (May the Fourth Be With You!) I thought that I should...
March 2018
March 28, 2018
Below are a bunch of calls for papers that have come to my attention, all...
March 03, 2018
Kerry Connelly writes: One of the things that’s most surprising about my seminary journey is...
February 2018
February 11, 2018
#CFP Worldbuilding and Religion at #AARSBL18
This call for papers for the AAR annual meeting in November is worth sharing here, falling...
January 2018
January 31, 2018
#CFP Religious Perspectives and Alternative Futures in an Age of Humans
I wasn't aware until just recently about this conference in the summer here in Indiana,...
January 28, 2018
#CFP The Voice of One Crying in the Wilderness: Religion, Activism, and Protest
This looks like a really interesting call for papers! The Voice of One Crying in...
January 07, 2018
Yale Journal of Music and Religion #cfp
Special Issue CFP: Music, Sound, and the Aurality of the Environment in the Anthropocene:...
January 06, 2018
Can an AI Write a Better Bible?
The author of a recent article was much more impressed than I was with an AI's vaguely...
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