Culture on the Edge

Culture on the Edge is a 16 person scholarly working group focused on identification techniques and the ways that identities are made possible.

[Teemu Taira @TeemuTaira]

Out now! @AndieRay @JWMEllsworth @EQUINOXPUB

[Equinox Publishing @EQUINOXPUB]

Browse our latest books and journals at the ISD stand American Academy of Religion / Society of Biblical Literature, San Diego 23-26 November!

@AARWeb @isdistribution #SBLAAR24

[Equinox Publishing @EQUINOXPUB]

Browse our latest books & journals on the ISD stand at ASOR Annual Meeting, Boston 20-23 Nov!

@ASOResearch @isdistribution #asor24

[Culture on the Edge @idendefying]

New Book Alert — #FabricatingAuthenticity! Learn more about the volume and series here: https://t.co/0pY20GgqfG @EQUINOXPUB

[Vaia Touna @VaiaTouna]

So pleased to see this published!! For anyone interested on what authenticity claims are about! Congrats @JWMEllsworth and @AndieRay

[Culture on the Edge @idendefying]

#FabricatingAuthenticity is the 4th volume in the Working with Culture on the Edge book series, edited by @VaiaTouna. Learn more about the book series here: https://t.co/Nsi1yxeZdJ

[Culture on the Edge @idendefying]

Hot off the press!! #FabricatingAuthenticity, co-edited by @JWMEllsworth & @AndieRay, is now available from @EQUINOXPUB! Get your copy here: https://t.co/yGxyX97s7g

[Culture on the Edge @idendefying]

#FabricatingAuthenticity features 14 main chapters from Edge members paired w/ 14 response chapters from early career scholars engaging and furthering the arguments of the main chpts. The intro & afterword offer a more substantive theoretical analysis of authenticity discourses.

[Equinox Publishing @EQUINOXPUB]

Just published!

Info & order at 25% off quoting code RELIGION:
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@JWMEllsworth @AndieRay @idendefying @ProjectRS @NAASReligion @TheBASR @AARWeb @relpubhannover @DalU_SOSA @StudyReligion

[Culture on the Edge @idendefying]

Learn more here: https://t.co/yGxyX97s7g

[Culture on the Edge @idendefying]

Word on the street is that Edge members @JWMEllsworth & @AndieRay’s forthcoming co-edited volume #FabricatingAuthenticity will soon be published w/ @EQUINOXPUB! This is the 4th volume in our Working with Culture on the Edge book series, edited by @VaiaTouna

[Andie Alexander @AndieRay]

That’s right! #FabricatingAuthenticity will soon be hitting the shelves! Head over to @EQUINOXPUB to check it out. @JWMEllsworth and I are pretty excited! https://t.co/yUqylz09UN

[Teemu Taira @TeemuTaira]

Reading proofs on a Saturday morning.

[Teemu Taira @TeemuTaira]

Insistence on freedom of religion can look ridiculous when it is combined with the denial of other types of freedom. Judith Butler nicely points that out in one sentence, also noting (outside the image) that contradiction does not matter for (what she calls) anti-gender movement.

[Cult Favorite @CultFavoritePod]

JOIN US 7/22! Cult Favorite is the podcast exploring all of those cult documentaries you can’t stop binge watching. Hosted by religion and culture experts @MerindaSimmons & @MichaelJAltman, Cult Favorite asks why we are so fascinated by stories of religious groups that go wrong.

[Culture on the Edge @idendefying]

@JWMEllsworth The bots punched in & are working overtime today

[Culture on the Edge @idendefying]

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[Russell McCutcheon @McCutcheonSays]

@doc_thoughts His work inspired much of what @idendefying was all about--for e.g.:

https://t.co/uyllqXujjR

[David G. Robertson 🍉 @d_g_robertson]

@McCutcheonSays @doc_thoughts under scrutiny are revealed to have little or nothing objective underpinning them. Meanwhile, we are missing the emancapatory power of realising that they are all process, language and power. 3/3

[David G. Robertson 🍉 @d_g_robertson]

@McCutcheonSays @doc_thoughts ...prioritised at any given time and place told us a lot about the norms of those who possess power. Scholars, like the general political discourse atm, still treat identities as though natural categories, even more so as they multiply into meaninglessness and 2/3

[David G. Robertson 🍉 @d_g_robertson]

@McCutcheonSays @doc_thoughts Indeed - despite the frequent connection of critique (usually under its perjorative "postmodernism") and identity politics, the point of deconstruction was not to reify an ever-larger number of categories of identity, but rather to show that the particular set of categories 1/2