I wrote this history of transformations in the academic study of religion at the University of Tennessee: both macro changes in the...

In the first and second sections of this three-part post—introduced here and expanded from an article in the Encyclopedia of American...

In the first section of this three-part post—introduced here and based on my article in the Encyclopedia of American Religion—I broached...

I am so old that I can remember when people used hard copies of encyclopedias! I read the World Book Encyclopedia as a kid, and later I...

As discussed in this introductory post, MBE is republishing a piece I wrote for the Encyclopedia of American Religions about the academic...

I've built up several cheesy but memorable “mottos” for the academic study of religion, to use in teaching. The focus today is “this...

Recently I visited a UT class that was discussing Judith Butler. It provoked the perennial complaints about Butler’s prose—leading toward...

Before I began my previous post, I imagined an introduction to set up a lightly edited version of some notes I prepared for a reporter....

A reporter for the University of Tennessee student newspaper interviewed me for a special issue on religion. In this resulting article I...