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is the central rite of the story it is reinterpreted within an eschatological context orlov thinks that this reinterpretation represents a transition from jewish apocalyptic thought to the symbols of early jewish mysticism congratulations to professor orlov for the publication of another superb study of early jewish and christian mysticism following up his other recent study dark mirrors 2011 posted by april deconick at 6 35 am 0 comments labels apocalypse of abraham book note early jewish and christian mysticism thursday september 5 2013 the humanities and science this semester i am teaching a course on cognitive science and religion it is called the bible and the brain and i am writing a book under the same title the course is exploring ways that religion can be better understood when we take into consideration the cognitive abilities and limitations of human beings more on these ideas as the semester progresses as i am teaching this course i am aware that there continues to be an uproar about whether the humanities should be in dialogue with the sciences and if so to what degree steven pinker has written for the new republic an impassioned plea for humanities scholars to get with it and engage the sciences here he articulates in this piece a call for humanities scholars to show more interest in science especially in the downward spiral that is strangling us in the wake of post modern critique there have been many responses most like leon wieseltier also published by new republic here the title of his piece summarizes pages of his own impassioned plea which he calls crimes against humanities how science wants to invade the liberal arts don t let it happen there was a time in my life when i was very content to go along teaching and writing what i would call strictly humanities content i saw very little connect between anything scientists did and my own work and interests that is until i married a physicist i realized three things very quickly first the scientific understanding of the world is our reality we live it everyday we have no choice but to engage it second scientists are studying the universe and human beings the same subjects that i study as a humanist and they have information that is essential to how we all understand ourselves and our world today this information is so essential that it will likely alter the way we have been perceiving our academic disciplines i see this particularly in terms of cognitive studies and embodiment which can help us reformulate the way we do history and understand religion third if we as humanists don t jump into the conversation that scientists are engaging in very public ways we will be leaving the interpretation of knowledge about humans and the world to them frankly i think we have been so slow on the uptake that this has already happened in other words scientists and social scientists for that matter are going to continue to run well funded experiments on our subjects subjects that we as humanists hold near and dear and then they are going to control its interpretation when in fact they know very little about the subjects we study like religion for instance a case in point i read a fascinating book this week by drs andrew newberg and eugene d aquili called why god won t go away brain science and the biology of belief i couldn t put it down riveted to the results of their spect scans on tibetan monks and catholic nuns during meditatively induced states of unitary being since i study mysticism their findings really caught my attention but what also caught my attention was the fact that their understanding of religion is under the weather so to speak they equated religion with a form of mysticism that is relatively recent in human history derivative of underhill and james and tried to overlay that on neanderthal burial and cult practices they argue that all religion originates from someone s mystical experience and that the purpose of religion is to perpetuate those experiences of unitary being so here we have scientists with really good experiments but with little knowledge of the field of religious studies in which to make good sense of them but their views are popular and well cited in the literature if we don t engage the sciences as humanists we are not just doing ourselves a disfavor but the public too we are leaving the interpretation and popularization of our field open to scientists like richard dawkins rather than doing it ourselves and doing it better posted by april deconick at 6 51 am 4 comments labels cognitive science and religion humanities science and religion friday august 23 2013 book note who do people say that i am vernon k robbins there is a fantastic new book just published that covers jesus and the gospels canonical as well as extracanonical vernon robbins who do people say i am rewriting gospel in emerging christianity professor robbins book is the best there is on the market in my opinion i highly recommend it to you especially if you are looking for a book to teach this subject robbins sets the more commonly known representations of jesus in the bible alongside lesser well known portraits of him found in texts like the gospel of thomas the gospel of mary the gospel of judas and the acts of john he does this not simply as a rehash of general knowledge but applying all of his years of accumulated knowledge of orality rhetoric cognition and the social fabric of christianity to the material you are face to face with robbins the veteran professor sharing generously his knowledge the book is very accessible in terms of style and yet very careful in terms of historical detail a perfect match for the non specialist reader and specialists from other areas of new testament study who want to get a handle on the extracanonical material posted by april deconick at 6 51 am 6 comments labels apocrypha book note gospels jesus and the gospels textbooks thursday august 22 2013 welcome to our students at rice the academic year for us starts on monday things are different for me this year because i have become the chair of the religious studies department after a year long leave the summer was spent traveling and moving my office which turned out to be a bigger chore than i was prepared for i want to extend a warm welcome to our incoming and returning students into our very special intellectual community here at rice i have taken this opportunity to write more about our program and post it on our departmental website the motto of rice university is strikingly bold unconventional wisdom it is a motto that we love to own because it describes the kind of intellectual community that we create and foster in the department of religious studies to study here means to challenge the status quo to investigate what is not obvious to reimagine what was is and can be when it comes to religion to study here means to enter an intellectual community where critical thought disciplined training and innovation intersect with religion to read the rest of my message click here posted by april deconick at 4 23 pm 3 comments monday june 3 2013 humanities and technology working in the trenches of humanities in face of the rise in the last decades of the internet and the overwhelming belief that knowledge is about information and data and number crunching that everything about being human can be reduced to scientific investigation i have been very concerned about where we are going as a people it is as if utilitarianism and efficiency and speed are all the driving forces behind anything we now consider most valuable everything is short and sweet and public if it doesn t make us richer faster or easier we don t want it we don t think it is worth pursuing we are becoming thin and instant like our devices we are remaking ourselves in the images of our devices we are scattering our attention like our devices we do two or three things at once we watch tv and check our email giving neither full attention while ignoring the other people in the room screens intersect and offset us from others as we type away behind them at restaurants in classrooms in cars we are on the internet uploading pictures to facebook to get instant feedback about where we are or what we are doing nothing seems to wait gaming draws us in and keeps us coming back psychologically preying on our desire for instant feedback and success we mistake computer intelligence for the human mind we are held in the grips of our iphones ipads our facebooks twitters and texts as if they were lifelines that plug our brains into other brains some of us have become so addicted to technology that to unplug even for a day is traumatic i am not against technology i have a laptop iphone ipad a digital camera and all the rest and i love them what i worry about is what this is all doing to us so quickly what are our lives becoming how has it changed the way we think about things interact with others value things where is our humanity in all this what is happening to us spiritually and intellectually as we disengage and devalue the pursuit of knowledge which we have mistaken for information when we are convinced that we can reduce everything about us to scientific answers leon wieselttier gives us something to think about in his commencement address published by republic here he argues that humanities and its pursuit has suddenly become countercultural take a look it is worth the read posted by april deconick at 7 00 am 5 comments wednesday may 29 2013 david capes blog i was just on facebook and noticed that professor capes of houston baptist university has been keeping a blog on all things religion check it out here http davidbcapes com posted by april deconick at 5 20 am 0 comments older posts home subscribe to posts atom april deconick isla carroll and percy e turner professor of biblical studies at rice university followers subscribe to the forbidden gospels posts atom posts all comments atom all comments click image to buy at 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