North American Association for the Study of Religion

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Veikko Anttonen, "Toward a Cognitive Theory of the Sacred: An Anthropological Approach"

William Arnal, Article on Arnal joining the University of Regina's Department of Religious Studies

William Arnal, "Black Holes, Theory, and the Study of Religion"

Steven Engler, "Constructionism Versus What?"

Steven Engler, "Modern Times: Religion, Consecration, and the State in Bourdieu" (PDF)

Tim Fitzgerald, "Religious Studies as Cultural Studies: A Philosophical and Anthropological Critique of the Concept of Religion"

Tim Fitzgerald, "'Religion' and 'the Secular' in Japan"; see Ian Reader's response, "Ideology, Academic Inventions, and Mystical Anthropology"; see also Tim Fitzgerald's reply, "The Religion-Secular Dichotomy"

Paul Griffiths reviews books by Tim Fitzgerald and Donald Wiebe, "The Very Idea of Religion"

Jeppe Sinding Jensen, "The Complex Worlds of Religion: Connecting Cultural and Cognitive Analysis"

Jeppe Sinding Jensen, "Meaning and Religion: On Semantics in the Study of Religion"

Jeppe Sinding Jensen, "Phenomenology of Religion as a Project in Cultural Analysis"

Jeppe Sinding Jensen, "Why Magic? It's Just Comparison"

Darlene Juschka, "The Construction of Pedagogical Spaces: Religious Studies in the University"

Darlene Juschka, "A Nod in the General Direction of...: Taking Gender Seriously in the Study of Religion"

Darlene Juschka, "The Writing of Ethnography: Magical Realism and Michael Taussig"

Ken MacKendrick, "The Study of Religion: An Introduction and Provocation"

Luther H. Martin, "History, Historiography, and Christian Origins"

Luther H. Martin and Donald Wiebe, "Establishing a Beachhead: NAASR, Twenty Years Later" (PDF)

Russell T. McCutcheon, "Just Follow the Money: The Cold War, The Humanistic Study of Religion, and the Fallacy of Insufficient Cynicism" (PDF)

Russell T. McCutcheon, "'Like Small Bumps on the Neck': The Problem of Evil as Something Ordinary"

Russell T. McCutcheon, "The Perfect Past and the Jargon of Authenticity: Bruce Lincoln's Theorizing Myth"

Russell T. McCutcheon, "Religion, Ire, and Dangerous Things" (PDF)

Tim Murphy, "Elements of a Semiotic Theory of Religion" (PDF)

Daniel Pals, "The Faith of the Scholars," review of Donald Wiebe's The Politics of Religious Studies

Michael Pye, "Global Society and the Study of Religions: Academic Responsibilities in an Uneasy World" (a web streaming video lecture in Japanese with English PowerPoint Slides)

Bryan Rennie, the Introduction from his edited book, Changing Religious Worlds: The Meaning and End of Mirce Eliade (2001).

Bryan Rennie, "Mircea Eliade, 1907-1986"

Bryan Rennie, an excerpt from Reconstructing Eliade

Benson Saler, "E. B. Tylor and the Anthropology of Religion"

Jonathan Z. Smith, "God Save this Honorable Court: Religion and Civic Discourse the 2003 Ninian Smart Lecture, University of California, Santa Barbara (see the sixty minute, Real Player video file)

Jonathan Z. Smith, "The Necessary Lie: Duplicity in the Disciplines"

Philip L. Tite, "Naming or Redefining: On the Necessity of Reduction in Religious Studies" (PDF)

Matthew Waggoner, "Ivan Strenski's Phantom Menace: Toward a Film Noir of Religious Studies"

Donald Wiebe, "The Reinvention of Degradation of Religious Studies: Tales from the Tuscaloosa Woods" (PDF)

Johannes C. Wolfart, Becoming Answerable for What We Say: Colonialism and the Pax AAR

Johannes C. Wolfart, "Secular Responsibility and the Public Intellectual in the Study of Religion"