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A week with Professor Naomi Goldenberg
This week the Critical Religion Research Group has hosted Prof. Naomi Goldenberg from the University of Ottawa. We have organised a staff/postgraduate seminar for her in Stirling, taken her to Aberdeen for a conference organised by Dr Trevor Stack (of … Continue reading
Female Genius
“Women today are far better off than women in the past. It’s time they shut up and stopped making so much fuss!” Many things have changed for the better over the last couple of centuries, but the evidence that women … Continue reading
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Tagged Bible, Critical Religion, female genius, feminism, Julia Kristeva, patriarchy, women
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Gender and the Vestigial State of Religion
This is a guest posting by Prof. Naomi Goldenberg, introducing some of the themes she will be addressing when she visits the UK in late April 2012. My interest in critical religion originates in my wish to restart the … Continue reading
Media representations of ‘religion’ in the Middle East
It is almost a truism to note that if the mainstream media is our only source of news regarding anything to do with religion (however that might be conceived) in the Middle East, or even the Middle East in general, … Continue reading
The Archbishop Resigns
What seems to have crystallised as the key to Archbishop Rowan Williams’ somewhat early resignation from his job as head of the global Anglican Communion is the issue of sexuality. Over the last ten years a great deal of heat … Continue reading
An Argument for Thinking of Religions as Vestigial States
This is a guest posting by Prof. Naomi Goldenberg, introducing some of the themes she will be addressing when she visits the UK in late April 2012. My work at present is focused on developing the hypothesis that religions … Continue reading
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Tagged Critical Religion, James Crawford, law, religion, religion-secular binary, secular
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Simone de Beauvoir and Mary Daly: Impact or ‘Impact statements’?
In the run up to the next round of assessment in UK Universities (the ‘Research Excellence Framework’ or REF, 2014) research is routinely being framed in terms of its ‘excellent impact’ as well as its academic value and viability. Impact … Continue reading
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Tagged Critical Religion, feminism, gender, impact, Mary Daly, REF, Simone de Beauvoir, university, woman
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The myth of religion and the tyranny of Richard Dawkins’ discontinuous mind
In his New Statesman article “The tyranny of the discontinuous mind” [NS 19 Dec 2011 – 1 Jan 2012] Richard Dawkins suggests how arbitrary our classificatory dividing lines are. And yet the substance of his arguments rests on precisely such … Continue reading
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Tagged Christopher Hitchens, Critical Religion, nature, religion, religion-secular binary, Richard Dawkins
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The Coming of Nothing
“Nothing will come of nothing.” We have all heard this phrase before. It takes many forms, and has a history that precedes Plato. But we know it most familiarly as the words of Shakespeare’s Lear, that king who foolishly turned … Continue reading
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Tagged Critical Religion, nihilism, nothing
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Mission studies, mission history, and the language of religious conversion
For those of us researching mission history, as much of my own research could appropriately be characterised, there are recurring questions about how to approach the issues raised. Coming as I do from a liberal Enlightenment university tradition, it is … Continue reading
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Tagged conversion, Critical Religion, culture change, language of Christianisation, liberal education, mission, mission history, power, university
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