Monday, November 30, 2015

What do you think of first?

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I was reading in Psalms this morning, specifically Psalm 51, and it occurred to me: What is the first thing you think of when someone mentio...
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But are we really one?

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Ritualization both implies and demonstrates a relatively unified corporate body, often leading participants to assume that there is more con...
Saturday, November 28, 2015

Refried brains

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Remember those old public service announcement from the late 20th century? You know, the ones with the hot frying pan and they would say, ...

Musings on exercise rooms

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As you know, I recently returned from the annual AAR/SBL meetings, this year in Atlanta (you can read about my trip there and back again )...
Wednesday, November 25, 2015

And the road home from Atlanta is paved with...delays!

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For those of you just tuning in, the record of my trip to Altanta is here . I arrived in Atlanta safely, late last Thursday, after a 13 hou...
Sunday, November 22, 2015

The Christian and violence

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Great post by Preston Sprinkle —actually it's a paper he recently presented at ETS—entitled "A Case for Christocentric Nonviolence...
Thursday, November 19, 2015

And he made it!

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I just rolled in from Indiana with a van load of goodies! Tomorrow we set up. My luggage was indeed waiting for me when I got to the airport...

The road to Atlanta is paved with . . . delays!

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Well, I finally got into Warsaw, coming via South Bend airport. But my luggage went to Fort Wayne! I'll have to pick it up tomorrow on m...
Wednesday, November 18, 2015

But it doesn't count

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Wuthnow has explored what he calls the "ritual aspects" of left-hand turn signals and the mass viewing of the television series ...

Musings on ten years of blogging

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I've been blogging for over 10 years now; I started in October, 2005. In those days, blogs were still considered controversial for acade...
Tuesday, November 17, 2015

How it does what it does

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[R]itualization involves the differentiation and privileging of particular activities. Theoretically, these activities may differentiate the...
Monday, November 16, 2015

A bit of Tozer for a Monday

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Life has settled down a bit, so I'm getting some time to read again, consequently, I think I'll start posting some Tozer. Let's ...

Not necessarily

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Any ideology is always in dialogue with, and thus shaped and constrained by, the voices it is suppressing, manipulating, echoing. In other w...
Thursday, November 12, 2015

Broken record

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Despite the evidence for the ambiguous, unstable, and inconsistent nature of belief systems, recent literature persists in the view that rit...
Wednesday, November 11, 2015

The limits of ritual, or how I launch into a rant

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These studies give evidence for the ambiguity and instability of beliefs and symbols as well as the inability of ritual to control by virtue...
Tuesday, November 10, 2015

Illogical? Yep!

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Hinduism for Hindus is not a coherent belief system but, first and foremost, a collection of practices. It is the collection of practices as...
Monday, November 09, 2015

Don't expect consistency or coherence

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In addition to the evidence for the fundamental ambiguity of symbols, there is also evidence that religious beliefs are relatively unstable ...
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Friday, November 06, 2015

We hide it

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In brief, it is my general thesis here that ritualization, as a strategic mode of action effective within certain social orders, does not, i...
Thursday, November 05, 2015

What happened to my Character viewer?

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I upgraded to OS X El Capitan the other day. Ever since, I haven't been able to get the Character Viewer (they renamed it Emoji & Sy...

Two weeks

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Actually, 13 days. Thirteen days until I leave the glorious promised land of the North Shore for the delightful experience of wallowing in a...