SORAAAD Book Club

Bruce Lincoln's Secrets, Lies and Consequences
Religion, Authoritarianism and Public Narratives, Part 2
Sunday - June 9, 2024 - Online
10:30 AM - 1:00 PM CST US.

Join Alana Vincent, Ipsita Chatterjea, and Seth Sanders for SORAAAD's  first ever Book Club. Grounded in the book, we will discuss Eliade, his antisemitism and embrace of fascism,  his history with Couliano, and fascism in the study of religion. After a discussion of the book, we will turn our attention to the study of religion after the apex of essentialism.

Bruce Lincoln's Secrets, Lies and Consequences is available at the Seminary Coop Bookstore and other independent bookstores.

An Audio Book version of Secrets, Lies and Consequences is also available narrated by Tom Beyer, with running time of 6 hours and 11 minutes.

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SORAAAD is sponsored by Department of Gender, Religion, and Critical Studies, University of Regina and the Edward Bailey Centre for the Study of Implicit Religion.

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The Schedule

10:30-10:40 am
Welcome & Announcements
10:40 - 11:40 am
Secrets, Lies & Consequences
11:40 am-12:00 pm
Break
12:00-12:50 pm
Secrets, Lies & Consequences
The Study of Religion after "peak Essentialism"

Representation 2023 (2021)

SORAAAD’s 10th year of workshops, with the theme, "Representation and the Analytical Study of Religion" was interrupted by the COVID surge of early 2021, after talks by Richard Newton and Alana Vincent.

The workshop's events have been on hiatus and will, for now, continue online. SORAAAD will resume its focus on representation over the course of at least 2023-24 academic year.

Attention to representation in research design, including what factors into how we understand religion and conceive of what we should study, were among the workshop’s originating concerns. In its most basic terms, representation is a means of characterizing and accounting for elements in “a sample” from which we generalize in order to characterize phenomena.

Representation conjures simultaneously the need to address the manufacture and designation of alterity and normativity (SORAAAD, 2012 PDF) , to cultivate a capacity to chart arrays of human expression and activity, to recognize and rectify voids, and to allow this work to change how we compare, explain, and conceptualize (Long, 1995; Moultrie, 2017, Compton et. al, 2017, Garland-Thomson, 2015)
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