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Jan. 29th, 2009 10:21 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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lord_of_smoking's door, all. Damn. Morning. Then the damn neighbour kids were running around my fucking yard, making a Shit Tonne of noise, at like 6.45am. Why? Because this house, my house, is apparently the bus stop.
Joyous. Day.
[Down] On the upside, I am reading an article, in the most recent Journal of the American Academy of Religion (Volume 76, Number 4, December 2008), entitled: "The 'Magical' Language of Mantra." I haven't finished it, yet, as I only started reading it, lat night, before bed, but, thus far, the author, Patton E. Burchett, seems to take the same view of the treatment of the category of "magic," as I do, in my thesis, down to specific phrases used and authors cited. Page 811: "...is a chief example of how modern scholars have used the concept of magic (and the occult) as a foil, an oppositionary tool with which to more clearly define and advocate modern rational conceptions of identity, science, religion, and social order." Emphasis mine.
Hell, looking at the reference list, I half-expected to see my thesis cited, there. But he takes this disappointment in the category's usage in a different direction; rather than using this to say that the category needs refinement, reclimation, and re-investigation, he seeks to drop it, entirely, much like JZ Smith. Again, I want to finish reading this, but I think I could do some fruitful work in the areas of my disagreement with him, and I'm seriously considering sending him my thesis, to start a conversation.
Thoughts?
I have to go get ready for work.
lord_of_smoking's door, all. Damn. Morning. Then the damn neighbour kids were running around my fucking yard, making a Shit Tonne of noise, at like 6.45am. Why? Because this house, my house, is apparently the bus stop.Joyous. Day.
[Down] On the upside, I am reading an article, in the most recent Journal of the American Academy of Religion (Volume 76, Number 4, December 2008), entitled: "The 'Magical' Language of Mantra." I haven't finished it, yet, as I only started reading it, lat night, before bed, but, thus far, the author, Patton E. Burchett, seems to take the same view of the treatment of the category of "magic," as I do, in my thesis, down to specific phrases used and authors cited. Page 811: "...is a chief example of how modern scholars have used the concept of magic (and the occult) as a foil, an oppositionary tool with which to more clearly define and advocate modern rational conceptions of identity, science, religion, and social order." Emphasis mine.
Hell, looking at the reference list, I half-expected to see my thesis cited, there. But he takes this disappointment in the category's usage in a different direction; rather than using this to say that the category needs refinement, reclimation, and re-investigation, he seeks to drop it, entirely, much like JZ Smith. Again, I want to finish reading this, but I think I could do some fruitful work in the areas of my disagreement with him, and I'm seriously considering sending him my thesis, to start a conversation.
Thoughts?
I have to go get ready for work.
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Date: 2009-01-29 11:13 pm (UTC)Also, my former graduate adviser seems to think it may not be a good plan. I'll see why, then see where I stand.
And hello, here.