Dana Logan
Biographic Data
| ID | 3681064 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Dana Logan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Dana |
| FAMILY NAME | Logan |
| SIGNATURE | LOGAN D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Assistant Professor, Department of Religious Studies, University of North Carolina (UNC) Greensboro https://dx.doi.org/14616 Greensboro, NC USA |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Swole Asceticism
By tracing the history of asceticism through female weightlifting, this essay shows that bodybuilding has long provided a path to gender liberation. It explores how bodybuilding intersects with various religious traditions of body modification, including religious nationalist projects of body reform and New Thought ideas about exerting the mind over matter. Central to this discussion is the intersection of gender liberation and religious bodily d…
Exceptionally Queer: Mormon Peculiarity and U.S. Nationalism
k. mohrman's history of mormonism from the nineteenth century through the present takes Mormon peculiarity and puts it in conversation with American studies’ work on American exceptionalism. American studies, Mohrman's home field, has come a long way from celebrating or attempting to neutrally describe American exceptionalism; instead, American studies now deconstructs this concept, puts it into conversation with Native American studies, ethnic s…
Historicizing Sects
Stewart Davenport's Sex and Sects is not a Mormon studies book, but then again why is there a Mormon Studies but no Oneida Studies or Shaker Studies? We all know the answer (there are zero Oneida Perfectionists or Shakers living today), but rehashing this question in the context of a book that compares followers of John Humphrey Noyes, the Shakers, and the Mormons helped me think about several adjacent fields: communal studies, American religious…
“I Suppose” and What it Feels like to Hold Religious Feelings Sincerely
SINCERELY HELD: AMERICAN SECULARISM AND ITS BELIEVERS. By Charles McCrary. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2022. Pp. [xiii] + 300. Hardcover, $95. Paper, $30. Sincerely Held's contribution to Religious Studies are many, but I want to focus on the book's special place at the intersection of affect studies and religious studies. When I think of scholarship that shows how the state instills feelings in its citizens, this principle is the commo…
The End of Public Execution: Race, Religion, and Punishment in the American South by Michael Ayers Trotti (review)
Reviewed by: The End of Public Execution: Race, Religion, and Punishment in the American South by Michael Ayers Trotti Dana Logan Michael Ayers Trotti, The End of Public Execution: Race, Religion, and Punishment in the American South (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2022) Between the end of the Civil War and the 1890s, public executions in the South were a distinctly religious affair, Michael Ayers Trotti argues in The End of Pub…
Response to Symposium on Awkward Rituals
In this response to the symposium on Awkward Rituals, Logan responds to questions such as “do her subjects know that they are awkward?” “are awkward rituals effective?” “is this a theoretical or a historical intervention?” and “what is the role of American exceptionalism in this argument?” In response to these questions the author looks towards a future of ritual studies in which we might take seriously the limits of a scholars’ temporal and geog…
It Was Never About the Snakes: Synanon, Cult, and the Devil in Religious Studies
Against historians of religion who have argued that "cult" is just a term for a religion that people do not like, this article argues that "cult" has historical definitions in addition to its normative dimensions. The term's meaning as a group that "brainwashes" stems in part from the post-World War II rise of groups that blend religion and recovery, and which are promoted by the American judicial system and federal dollars. Synanon, a group that…
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The End of Public Execution: Race, Religion, and Punishment in the American South by Michael Ayers Trotti (review)
Reviewed by: The End of Public Execution: Race, Religion, and Punishment in the American South by Michael Ayers Trotti Dana Logan Michael Ayers Trotti, The End of Public Execution: Race, Religion, and Punishment in the American South (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2022) Between the end of the Civil War and the 1890s, public executions in the South were a distinctly religious affair, Michael Ayers Trotti argues in The End of Pub…
Response to Symposium on Awkward Rituals
In this response to the symposium on Awkward Rituals, Logan responds to questions such as “do her subjects know that they are awkward?” “are awkward rituals effective?” “is this a theoretical or a historical intervention?” and “what is the role of American exceptionalism in this argument?” In response to these questions the author looks towards a future of ritual studies in which we might take seriously the limits of a scholars’ temporal and geog…
It Was Never About the Snakes: Synanon, Cult, and the Devil in Religious Studies
Against historians of religion who have argued that "cult" is just a term for a religion that people do not like, this article argues that "cult" has historical definitions in addition to its normative dimensions. The term's meaning as a group that "brainwashes" stems in part from the post-World War II rise of groups that blend religion and recovery, and which are promoted by the American judicial system and federal dollars. Synanon, a group that…
Exceptionally Queer: Mormon Peculiarity and U.S. Nationalism
k. mohrman's history of mormonism from the nineteenth century through the present takes Mormon peculiarity and puts it in conversation with American studies’ work on American exceptionalism. American studies, Mohrman's home field, has come a long way from celebrating or attempting to neutrally describe American exceptionalism; instead, American studies now deconstructs this concept, puts it into conversation with Native American studies, ethnic s…
Historicizing Sects
Stewart Davenport's Sex and Sects is not a Mormon studies book, but then again why is there a Mormon Studies but no Oneida Studies or Shaker Studies? We all know the answer (there are zero Oneida Perfectionists or Shakers living today), but rehashing this question in the context of a book that compares followers of John Humphrey Noyes, the Shakers, and the Mormons helped me think about several adjacent fields: communal studies, American religious…
“I Suppose” and What it Feels like to Hold Religious Feelings Sincerely
SINCERELY HELD: AMERICAN SECULARISM AND ITS BELIEVERS. By Charles McCrary. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2022. Pp. [xiii] + 300. Hardcover, $95. Paper, $30. Sincerely Held's contribution to Religious Studies are many, but I want to focus on the book's special place at the intersection of affect studies and religious studies. When I think of scholarship that shows how the state instills feelings in its citizens, this principle is the commo…
Swole Asceticism
By tracing the history of asceticism through female weightlifting, this essay shows that bodybuilding has long provided a path to gender liberation. It explores how bodybuilding intersects with various religious traditions of body modification, including religious nationalist projects of body reform and New Thought ideas about exerting the mind over matter. Central to this discussion is the intersection of gender liberation and religious bodily d…
Philosophy (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · History (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · American Constitutional Law and Politics (2 works) · Anthropology (2 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works)