Jason C Bivins
Biographic Data
| ID | 1637222 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jason C Bivins |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jason C |
| FAMILY NAME | Bivins |
| SIGNATURE | BIVINS J C |
| AFFILIATIONS | North Carolina State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 22 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Response to Allyson F. Shortle, Irfan Nooruddin, and Eric L. McDaniel’s Review of Embattled America
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Spirits rejoice!
"Bivins explores the relationship between American religion and American music, and the places where religion and jazz have overlapped" --Dust jacket flap.
Urban Magic
The history of American religions is overrun with intentional communities and religious utopian experiments, many of which have a strongly pedagogical and/or social critical dimension. Jazz has nurtured a number of significant counter-academies, community organizations, and experimental societies focused on musical and religious development simultaneously. This chapter examines several such endeavors—Chicago’s Association for the Advancement of C…
“Spirits Rejoice!”
The conclusion assesses the overall implications of jazz for studies of American religion. It does so in three interlocking ways. First, it examines jazz’s resistance to the field of racial constraint and misrepresentation Anthony Braxton calls “the reality of the sweating brow” in light of old traditions of reducing and essentializing African American religions. We learn that jazz is a strategy of evasion and religious self-creation alike. Secon…
Ubiquity Scorned
This paper attempts not to continue the methodological interrogation of “belief” as a category central to Religious Studies, but to problematize and analyze the ubiquity of such interrogations. Investigations of “belief,” I argue, are also occasions to explore the discipline’s less obvious investments in intellectual and institutional traditions still shackled to the very category under scrutiny. The stand-alone category “religion” that is so cen…
Tri-Faith America
American culture has recently seen long-standing battles over religiosity in public life acquire renewed urgency. Kevin M. Schultz's important book seeks to document a history of the cultural and discursive formations he calls “Tri-Faith America,” which elude conventional pluralist histories. His study follows a succession of public events or debates through which Tri-Faith is produced as a civic good. By looking to debates shaping religious coop…
Only one repertory
This paper assesses American Religious Studies by attending to its institutional lineages, its tone and genre, and its sometimes unconscious methodological presumptions. Exploring the implications of Zora Neale Hurston's 'lying up a narrative,' this piece suggests that a series of narrative, curricular, and theoretical commitments produce a particular kind of 'religion' as normative in the study of American religions. As the narrative of post-den…
Witnessing Suburbia
Luhr, an Assistant Professor of history at California State Long Beach, has written an important contribution to studies of evangelical culture and politics entitled Witnessing Suburbia: Conservatives and Christian Youth Culture. Her ambitious book examines the resonances among political evangelicalisms, suburban conservatism, post-1960's youth (sub-)cultures, and identities crafted through resistance. Part of a growing literature that takes into…
The Family
Journal Article The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power. By Jeff Sharlet. (New York: HarperCollins, 2008. x, 454 pp. $25.95, ISBN 978-0-06-055979-3.) Get access Jason C. Bivins Jason C. Bivins North Carolina State UniversityRaleigh, North Carolina Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 96, Issue 1, June 2009, Page 179, https://doi.org/10.2307/276947…
Religion of Fear
This book investigates American political religions by studying how conservative evangelical political orientations are shaped and spread by pop cultural narratives of fear and horror. This book takes an interdisciplinary approach to what it calls the “religion of fear”, a form of religious social criticism produced and sustained in evangelical engagements with pop culture. The book's cases include Jack Chick's cartoon tracts, anti‐metal and anti…
Beautiful Women Dig Graves
There is little reckoning with the development of religions in the United States without confronting the related processes of importation and appropriation. This article explores these processes specifically as reflected in the story of the San Francisco Zen Center. Partaking of an interpretative ethos established by the nineteenth-century Transcendentalists and refined during the 1950s "Zen boom," the architects of the SFZC's communalism shaped …
Religious and Legal Others
Conservative Evangelicals and Neopagans in the United States have long engaged each other in public struggles over religious authority and power. This paper argues that these struggles are defined by their competing, and often fluid, interpretations of legal and constitutional norms concerning religious freedom. The result of these processes is a ‘polymorphous discourse’ whereby each religious community seeks to establish command over this range …
The Fracture of Good Order
American Religious Multitudes
Book Review| April 01 2002 American Religious Multitudes Public Religion and Urban Transformation: Faith in the City, Lowell Livezy.Pluralism Comes of Age: American Religious Culture in the Twentieth Century, Charles H. Lippy. Jason C. Bivins Jason C. Bivins Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Ethnic History (2002) 21 (3): 63–66. https://doi.org/10.2307/27502848 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook T…
The Family
Journal Article The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power. By Jeff Sharlet. (New York: HarperCollins, 2008. x, 454 pp. $25.95, ISBN 978-0-06-055979-3.) Get access Jason C. Bivins Jason C. Bivins North Carolina State UniversityRaleigh, North Carolina Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 96, Issue 1, June 2009, Page 179, https://doi.org/10.2307/276947…
Tri-Faith America
American culture has recently seen long-standing battles over religiosity in public life acquire renewed urgency. Kevin M. Schultz's important book seeks to document a history of the cultural and discursive formations he calls “Tri-Faith America,” which elude conventional pluralist histories. His study follows a succession of public events or debates through which Tri-Faith is produced as a civic good. By looking to debates shaping religious coop…
Ubiquity Scorned
This paper attempts not to continue the methodological interrogation of “belief” as a category central to Religious Studies, but to problematize and analyze the ubiquity of such interrogations. Investigations of “belief,” I argue, are also occasions to explore the discipline’s less obvious investments in intellectual and institutional traditions still shackled to the very category under scrutiny. The stand-alone category “religion” that is so cen…
Only one repertory
This paper assesses American Religious Studies by attending to its institutional lineages, its tone and genre, and its sometimes unconscious methodological presumptions. Exploring the implications of Zora Neale Hurston's 'lying up a narrative,' this piece suggests that a series of narrative, curricular, and theoretical commitments produce a particular kind of 'religion' as normative in the study of American religions. As the narrative of post-den…
American Religious Multitudes
Book Review| April 01 2002 American Religious Multitudes Public Religion and Urban Transformation: Faith in the City, Lowell Livezy.Pluralism Comes of Age: American Religious Culture in the Twentieth Century, Charles H. Lippy. Jason C. Bivins Jason C. Bivins Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Ethnic History (2002) 21 (3): 63–66. https://doi.org/10.2307/27502848 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook T…
The Fracture of Good Order
Religious and Legal Others
Conservative Evangelicals and Neopagans in the United States have long engaged each other in public struggles over religious authority and power. This paper argues that these struggles are defined by their competing, and often fluid, interpretations of legal and constitutional norms concerning religious freedom. The result of these processes is a ‘polymorphous discourse’ whereby each religious community seeks to establish command over this range …
Beautiful Women Dig Graves
There is little reckoning with the development of religions in the United States without confronting the related processes of importation and appropriation. This article explores these processes specifically as reflected in the story of the San Francisco Zen Center. Partaking of an interpretative ethos established by the nineteenth-century Transcendentalists and refined during the 1950s "Zen boom," the architects of the SFZC's communalism shaped …
Religion of Fear
This book investigates American political religions by studying how conservative evangelical political orientations are shaped and spread by pop cultural narratives of fear and horror. This book takes an interdisciplinary approach to what it calls the “religion of fear”, a form of religious social criticism produced and sustained in evangelical engagements with pop culture. The book's cases include Jack Chick's cartoon tracts, anti‐metal and anti…
The Family
Journal Article The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power. By Jeff Sharlet. (New York: HarperCollins, 2008. x, 454 pp. $25.95, ISBN 978-0-06-055979-3.) Get access Jason C. Bivins Jason C. Bivins North Carolina State UniversityRaleigh, North Carolina Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 96, Issue 1, June 2009, Page 179, https://doi.org/10.2307/276947…
Witnessing Suburbia
Luhr, an Assistant Professor of history at California State Long Beach, has written an important contribution to studies of evangelical culture and politics entitled Witnessing Suburbia: Conservatives and Christian Youth Culture. Her ambitious book examines the resonances among political evangelicalisms, suburban conservatism, post-1960's youth (sub-)cultures, and identities crafted through resistance. Part of a growing literature that takes into…
Ubiquity Scorned
This paper attempts not to continue the methodological interrogation of “belief” as a category central to Religious Studies, but to problematize and analyze the ubiquity of such interrogations. Investigations of “belief,” I argue, are also occasions to explore the discipline’s less obvious investments in intellectual and institutional traditions still shackled to the very category under scrutiny. The stand-alone category “religion” that is so cen…
Tri-Faith America
American culture has recently seen long-standing battles over religiosity in public life acquire renewed urgency. Kevin M. Schultz's important book seeks to document a history of the cultural and discursive formations he calls “Tri-Faith America,” which elude conventional pluralist histories. His study follows a succession of public events or debates through which Tri-Faith is produced as a civic good. By looking to debates shaping religious coop…
Only one repertory
This paper assesses American Religious Studies by attending to its institutional lineages, its tone and genre, and its sometimes unconscious methodological presumptions. Exploring the implications of Zora Neale Hurston's 'lying up a narrative,' this piece suggests that a series of narrative, curricular, and theoretical commitments produce a particular kind of 'religion' as normative in the study of American religions. As the narrative of post-den…
Spirits rejoice!
"Bivins explores the relationship between American religion and American music, and the places where religion and jazz have overlapped" --Dust jacket flap.
Urban Magic
The history of American religions is overrun with intentional communities and religious utopian experiments, many of which have a strongly pedagogical and/or social critical dimension. Jazz has nurtured a number of significant counter-academies, community organizations, and experimental societies focused on musical and religious development simultaneously. This chapter examines several such endeavors—Chicago’s Association for the Advancement of C…
“Spirits Rejoice!”
The conclusion assesses the overall implications of jazz for studies of American religion. It does so in three interlocking ways. First, it examines jazz’s resistance to the field of racial constraint and misrepresentation Anthony Braxton calls “the reality of the sweating brow” in light of old traditions of reducing and essentializing African American religions. We learn that jazz is a strategy of evasion and religious self-creation alike. Secon…
Response to Allyson F. Shortle, Irfan Nooruddin, and Eric L. McDaniel’s Review of Embattled America
An abstract is not available for this content. As you have access to this content, full HTML content is provided on this page. A PDF of this content is also available in through the 'Save PDF' action button
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