Courtney Bender
Biographic Data
| ID | 3676449 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Courtney Bender |
| GIVEN NAMES | Courtney |
| FAMILY NAME | Bender |
| SIGNATURE | BENDER C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Columbia University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Heretical Proportions
This article argues for a replacement of the received orthodoxies concerning charisma with a return to (or perhaps a heretical expansion of) the use of the terms heresy and heretical modes of writing. We advance our argument through a reading of The Books of Jacob by Olga Tokarczuk, translated into English by Jennifer Croft, a novel which has been for us a resource and inspiration for ways that we might better represent and interpret religious au…
Religious Horizons in New York's 1920s
July 01 2022 Religious Horizons in New York's 1920s Courtney Bender Courtney Bender Courtney Bender is Ada Byron Bampton Tremaine Professor of Religion at Columbia University. She is completing a book on twentieth-century modernists' investments in and imaginations of an American religious future. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information Courtney Bender Courtney Bender is Ada Byron Bampton …
Mrs. Rockefeller's Exquisite Corpse
The 'exquisite corpse' in this title refers to a gift book presented to Mrs. Abby Aldrich Rockefeller in December 1931, which contains signed notes from Rockefeller's domestic employees, friends, ministers, art dealers, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) employees, and also a signed painting by Diego Rivera. The book's construction highlights the intersecting social networks and associations among a variety of religious, artistic, philanthropic, and dom…
How and Why to Study Up
Religion on the Edge
The thirteen chapters in this volume offer a challenge to conventional scholarly approaches to the sociology of religion. They urge readers to look beyond congregational settings, beyond the United States, and to religions other than Christianity, and encourage critical engagement with religion's complex social consequences. By expanding conceptual categories, the chapters reveal how aspects of the religious have always been part of allegedly non…
Digital Jesus
The Cambridge Companion to Religious Studies
The Cambridge Companion to Religious Studies is both informative and provocative, introducing readers to key debates in the contemporary study of religion and suggesting future research possibilities. A group of distinguished scholars takes up some of the most pressing theoretical questions in the field. What is a 'religious tradition'? How are religious texts read? What takes place when a religious practitioner stands before a representation of …
The New Metaphysicals
How does God answer back
Thick Moralities, Thin Politics
Heaven's Kitchen
How do people practice religion in their everyday lives? Courtney Bender spent more than a year working as a volunteer for a non-profit organisation called God's Love We Deliver, helping to prepare food for people with AIDs, this volume tells the story of that time
Vanishing Boundaries
Vanishing Boundaries
Heaven's Kitchen
How do people practice religion in their everyday lives? Courtney Bender spent more than a year working as a volunteer for a non-profit organisation called God's Love We Deliver, helping to prepare food for people with AIDs, this volume tells the story of that time
Thick Moralities, Thin Politics
How does God answer back
The New Metaphysicals
The Cambridge Companion to Religious Studies
The Cambridge Companion to Religious Studies is both informative and provocative, introducing readers to key debates in the contemporary study of religion and suggesting future research possibilities. A group of distinguished scholars takes up some of the most pressing theoretical questions in the field. What is a 'religious tradition'? How are religious texts read? What takes place when a religious practitioner stands before a representation of …
Religion on the Edge
The thirteen chapters in this volume offer a challenge to conventional scholarly approaches to the sociology of religion. They urge readers to look beyond congregational settings, beyond the United States, and to religions other than Christianity, and encourage critical engagement with religion's complex social consequences. By expanding conceptual categories, the chapters reveal how aspects of the religious have always been part of allegedly non…
Digital Jesus
How and Why to Study Up
Mrs. Rockefeller's Exquisite Corpse
The 'exquisite corpse' in this title refers to a gift book presented to Mrs. Abby Aldrich Rockefeller in December 1931, which contains signed notes from Rockefeller's domestic employees, friends, ministers, art dealers, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) employees, and also a signed painting by Diego Rivera. The book's construction highlights the intersecting social networks and associations among a variety of religious, artistic, philanthropic, and dom…
Religious Horizons in New York's 1920s
July 01 2022 Religious Horizons in New York's 1920s Courtney Bender Courtney Bender Courtney Bender is Ada Byron Bampton Tremaine Professor of Religion at Columbia University. She is completing a book on twentieth-century modernists' investments in and imaginations of an American religious future. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information Courtney Bender Courtney Bender is Ada Byron Bampton …
Heretical Proportions
This article argues for a replacement of the received orthodoxies concerning charisma with a return to (or perhaps a heretical expansion of) the use of the terms heresy and heretical modes of writing. We advance our argument through a reading of The Books of Jacob by Olga Tokarczuk, translated into English by Jennifer Croft, a novel which has been for us a resource and inspiration for ways that we might better represent and interpret religious au…
Sociology (8 works) · Religion and Society Interactions (7 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Religious studies (5 works) · Art history (4 works) · History (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Religion, Society, and Development (4 works) · Art (3 works)