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Intersections in the Cultural Study of Religion: syllabus/reading list (open-access)

Intersections in the Cultural Study of Religion: syllabus/reading l...

This is the outline of a course that I taught in autumn 2017 at the University of Glasgow, to an honours level (years 3 and 4)…
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Malory Nye
I don’t study religion: so what am I doing in the study of religion?

I don’t study religion: so what am I doing in the study of religion?

I have considered myself a student of religion for around 30 years now, particularly since the time I enrolled for a PhD programme on…
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Malory Nye
Some resources for an introductory exploration of religion, religions, and culture

Some resources for an introductory exploration of religion, religio...

by Malory Nye, University of Glasgow
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Trying to understand religion? It’s a matter of finding the right gloves to wear…

Trying to understand religion? It’s a matter of finding the right g...

So, here is a question that is rarely asked in Religion 101 classes:
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Questions to ask in the study of religion

Questions to ask in the study of religion

Some things that can help us to get started on what is religion and what are we trying to do with it
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Race, Modernity, Decolonization, and Religion — some papers by Malory Nye

Race, Modernity, Decolonization, and Religion — some papers by Malo...

Published papers in academic journals:
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Religion is like chocolate

Religion is like chocolate

Forrest Gump famously said: ‘My mom always said life was like a box of chocolates. You never know what you’re gonna get.’ (Forrest Gump…
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Money, power, and religion: exploring ‘belief’ and cultural imagination

Money, power, and religion: exploring ‘belief’ and cultural imagina...

Is it rational to live your life around something that does not really exist?
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Malory Nye
Some thoughts on the Decolonization of Religious Studies

Some thoughts on the Decolonization of Religious Studies

postcolonialism, decoloniality, and the cultural study of religion
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Race and the Study of Religion

Race and the Study of Religion

— a draft chapter of the next edition of Religion the Basics by Malory Nye
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Modernity and the disciplinary formation of religious studies

Modernity and the disciplinary formation of religious studies

If we assume there is such a thing as ‘modernity’, is it something that emerged in a unique form out of Europe? And has modernity…
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On deconstructing the deconstruction of the deconstruction of the category of religion

On deconstructing the deconstruction of the deconstruction of the c...

‘oh (category of) religion, we’re never going to give you up … ’ **
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The analysis of race in the study of religion

The analysis of race in the study of religion

When a young Sikh man called Deep Rai was attacked and shot outside his home near Seattle in Washington on Saturday 4 March 2017, the…
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Call for papers: Decolonisation, Postcolonialism, and Religion/s

Call for papers: Decolonisation, Postcolonialism, and Religion/s

for a special issue of the journal, Culture and Religion
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