Browsing Scholarly Works, Department of Religion and Culture by Title
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Auctioning Patronage in Northeast Brazil: The Political Value of Money in a Ritual Market
(2010-06)Fundraising auctions help people in a small rural town in Northeast Brazil reckon with the effects that currency stabilization and democratization have had on municipal politics. These simultaneous processes have made ... -
Biblical curses and the displacement of tradition
(Virginia Tech. University Libraries, 2011-12)Brian Britt discusses his book: Biblical Curses and the Displacement of Tradition. Brian Britt offers an intriguing perspective on curses as the focus of debates over the power, pleasure, and danger of words. Biblical ... -
Building Interdisciplinary Partnerships for Community-Engaged Environmental Health Research in Appalachian Virginia
(MDPI, 2020-03-05)This article describes a collaboration among a group of university faculty, undergraduate students, local governments, local residents, and U.S. Army staff to address long-standing concerns about the environmental health ... -
“But the winds will turn against you”: An analysis of wealth forms and the discursive space of development in northeast Brazil
(2009-02)In this article, I explain the unfolding of a participatory development project in northeast Brazil by exploring how local genres of public speech articulate with categories of wealth. Although development resources cannot ... -
Clientelism, Elections, and the Dialectic of Numerical People in Northeast Brazil
(University of Chicago Press, 2018-04-01)This paper explores rural Brazilians’ interpretations of and ethical reflections on political clientelism. Brazilian elites often regard the people of the dry hinterland (sertanejos) as lazy, politically apathetic, and ... -
Death, Social Conflict, and the Barley Harvest in the Hebrew Bible
(Journal of Hebrew Scriptures , 2005)Some recent scholarship characterizes violent biblical narratives, such as the killing of Saul’s descendents in 2 Sam. 21, as evidence of ancient ritual sacrifice. Yet 2 Sam. 21 has more in common with Ruth 1 and Judith ... -
Environmental health disparities in the Central Appalachian region of the United States
(De Gruyter, 2017-09-26)Health disparities that cannot be fully explained by socio-behavioral factors persist in the Central Appalachian region of the United States. A review of available studies of environmental impacts on Appalachian health and ... -
The Highest Poverty: Monastic Rules and Form-of-Life [Book review]
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Imagining Home, Nation, World: Appalachia on the Mall
(Journal of American Folklore, 2008)This article reads the Smithsonian's annual folklife festival as a cultural product buffeted by changing material conditions and funding constraints as the United States transitioned from a Fordist industrial economy to a ... -
In Defense of Literary Dialect: A Response to Dennis R. Preston
(Journal of American Folklore, 1983)If folklorists were to accept Dennis R. Preston's (1982) charges against their attempts to record dialect in print, they might feel embarrassed that their textmaking of the 1970s was so bad. Few folklorists would like to ... -
“Lots of Prayer, Lots of Emotional Coaching, and Pray it Works out the Best”: Tuning in to Kids in a Rural Appalachian Community
(2020-07)Rural Americans face barriers in access to services such as psychoeducation programs. The purpose of this study was to describe how participants in a rural Appalachian community, a geographic location that has been largely ... -
Models of Clientelism and Policy Change: The Case of Conditional Cash Transfer Programmes in Mexico and Brazil
(2011-07)Clientelist systems vary, and this variation influences the adoption and evolution of conditional cash transfer (CCT) programmes. We find that vertically integrated, corporatist clientelism in Mexico and more locally ... -
On Calling Donald Trump 'Corrupt'
(Routledge, 2022-05-31)This chapter advances an eccentric model of corruption both to understand various disturbing features of Donald Trump’s political career, and to explore the risks of using the term “corrupt” as a pejorative label for Trump. ... -
Psalm Recitation and Post-Secular Time: Augustine, the iPod, and Psalm 90
(The Whitestone Foundation, 2012)Psalm 90 accommodates multiple understandings and experiences of time, but its compositional coherence balances this diversity with unity. Practices of recitation, reading, and reflection on the Psalms accommodate this ... -
Recasting Islamic Law: Religion and the Nation State in Egyptian Constitution Making
(Cornell University Press, 2021-03)By examining the intersection of Islamic law, state law, religion, and culture in the Egyptian nation-building process, Recasting Islamic Law highlights how the sharia, when attached to constitutional commitments, is ... -
Review: Don't Go Up Kettle Creek: Verbal Legacy of the Upper Cumberland
(Journal of American Folklore, 1984)In Don't Go Up Kettle Creek, Montell reconstructs the history of the Upper Cumberland River region "as it is perceived from the vernacular point of view, relying on personal reminiscences, oral traditions, balladry and ... -
Review: Traditional American Indian Literatures: Texts and Interpretations
(Journal of American Folklore, 1983)This book is a welcome addition to studies of American Indian folklore and ethnopoetics. Karl Kroeber has compiled five essays by himself, Jarold Ramsey, Dennis Tedlock, Barre Toelken and Tacheeni Scott, and Dell Hymes to ... -
The Schmittian Messiah in Agamben's The Time That Remains
(The University of Chicago Press, 2010)For Giorgio Agamben, Alain Badiou, and Slavoj Zitek the New Testament writings attributed to Paul have much to say on contemporary debates over politics and religious tradition. Taking the measure of this new intellectual ...
