Brian Collins
Biographic Data
| ID | 3725320 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Brian Collins |
| GIVEN NAMES | Brian |
| FAMILY NAME | Collins |
| SIGNATURE | COLLINS B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Ohio University |
| ORCID | 0009-0006-5635-9452 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 33 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 33 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Regional Transportation Planning Through Intergovernmental Collective Action: Does Planning Conformity With Federal Regulations Improve Regional Air Quality
This study examines whether metropolitan planning organizations’ (MPOs) planning conformity, which is the degree to which regional transportation planning language aligns with federal air-quality requirements, is associated with regional attainment of the National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS). MPOs operate at the intersection of transportation and environmental regulation, coordinating across multiple governments to address cross-jurisdi…
Water scarcity assessment in Iran’s agricultural sector using the water footprint concept
Lightning Bugs and Fireflies: Can Metamodernism Help Us Do Better Comparative Mythology
The appalling ignorance among anthropologists and others concerning such standard folk narrative genre distinctions as myth and folktale might account for why ... no one seems to have noticed that Lévi-Strauss was analyzing folktales more often than myths. (46) Said a lightning bug to a firefly, “Look at the lightning bugs fly by!” “Silly dunce!” said the fly. “What bug ever flew? Those are fireflies. And so are you.” Maxine Kumin, “The Quarrel” …
Metamodernism and the Study of Religion: An Introduction
Starting in the late 1980s, discussions of “postmodernism” and “postmodernity” were often seen as crucial to the study of religion. Aside from the manifold explicitly “postmodern” theological projects of philosophers of religion and theologians such as John D. Caputo, works like Ernest Gellner's Postmodernism, Reason and Religion (Routledge, 1992) and David Lyon's Jesus in Disneyland: Religion in Postmodern Times (Polity Press, 2000) traced and e…
A Response to Sovereignty and the Sacred in Three Parts
SOVEREIGNTY AND THE SACRED: SECULARISM AND THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF RELIGIONBy Robert Yelle. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2019 Pp. x + 270. $35.00. I am glad to have the opportunity to respond to Robert Yelle's noteworthy new book Sovereignty and the Sacred, especially since I have thought a lot recently about the subject matter, having published in 2020 a book about the mythology of the Hindu god Paraśurāma. Paraśurāma is a divine hero …
Of Demons and Disciplines
Methodology to assess the changing risk of yield failure due to heat and drought stress under climate change
While the understanding of average impacts of climate change on crop yields is improving, few assessments have quantified expected impacts on yield distributions and the risk of yield failures. Here we present the relative distribution as a method to assess how the risk of yield failure due to heat and drought stress (measured in terms of return period between yields falling 15% below previous five year Olympic average yield) responds to changes …
The social media commons: Public sphere, agonism, and algorithmic obligation
This paper takes a unique approach to framing the political obligation social media companies like Twitter and Facebook have in a democratic society by casting the public sphere as a common-pool resource. Over the last decade or so much of our civic discourse has moved to social media platforms such as Facebook and Twitter. This paper argues that just as citizens have an obligation to one another, social media companies have an obligation to prom…
Sacred Games: Season One. Directed by Anurag Kashyap and Vikramaditya Motwane. Based on the novel by Vikram Chandra. Netflix, 2018
Hereditary. Film. Directed by Ari Aster. A24, 2018. 127 minutes
Opedipal God: The Chinese Nezha and his I ndian Origins , by Meir Shahar
Oedipal God: The Chinese Nezha and his Indian Origins, by Meir Shahar. Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 2015. 312 pp., £49.95 (hb). ISBN 9-780-824-847609
From Middlemarch to The Da Vinci Code: Portrayals of Religious Studies in Popular Culture
The Killing of a Sacred Deer. Film. Directed by YorgosLanthimos. Element Pictures, 2017
The Path. Television. Created by JessicaGoldberg. Season One. Hulu, 2016
Arrival. Film. Directed by Denis Villeneuve. 21 Laps Entertainment, 2016
The OA. Television. Created by BritMarling and ZalBatmanglij. Netflix, 2016
The Young Pope. Television. Created by PaoloSorrentino. Sky Atlantic/HBO/Canal+, 2016
Burning Desires, Burning Corpses: Girardian Reflections on Fire in Hinduism and Buddhism
By Post or by Ghost: Ruminations on Visions and Epistolary Archives
By Post or by Ghost:Ruminations on Visions and Epistolary Archives Brian Collins I have no doubt that this letter will reach you, either by post or by ghost. Georges Dumézil, The Riddle of Nostradamus: A Critical Dialogue At any moment the reader is ready to turn into a writer. Walter Benjamin, "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction" I Who was Robert Eisler? He was, among other things, a tragically hilarious pedant, raconteur, dub…
Martyrs Film. Directed by Kevin and Michael Goetz. Blumhouse Productions. 2015
The Witch Film. Directed by Robert Eggers. Parts and Labor Productions, 2015
Annabelle. Film. Directed by John R.Leonetti. New Line Cinema, 2014
True Detective: Season One. Television. Created by NicPizzolatto. Directed by Cary Joji Fukunaga. HBO, 2014
Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief. Documentary movie. Directed by AlexGibney. HBO, 2015
Orange is the New Black. Television. Season 3. Created by JenjiKohan. Netflix, 2015
The social media commons: Public sphere, agonism, and algorithmic obligation
This paper takes a unique approach to framing the political obligation social media companies like Twitter and Facebook have in a democratic society by casting the public sphere as a common-pool resource. Over the last decade or so much of our civic discourse has moved to social media platforms such as Facebook and Twitter. This paper argues that just as citizens have an obligation to one another, social media companies have an obligation to prom…
Sociology
Enlightened: Season One . Television. Directed by MikeWhite. HBO, 2011
The Conjuring. Film. Directed by JamesWan. New Line Cinema, 2013
The Sacrificial Ram and the Swan Queen: Mimetic Theory Fades to Black
Noah. Film. Directed by DarrenAranofsky. Paramount Pictures, 2014
Nymphomaniac: Volume I and Nymphomaniac: Volume II. Film. Directed by LarsVon Trier. Zentropa, 2013
Annabelle. Film. Directed by John R.Leonetti. New Line Cinema, 2014
True Detective: Season One. Television. Created by NicPizzolatto. Directed by Cary Joji Fukunaga. HBO, 2014
Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief. Documentary movie. Directed by AlexGibney. HBO, 2015
Orange is the New Black. Television. Season 3. Created by JenjiKohan. Netflix, 2015
Ouija. Film. Directed by StilesWhite. Universal Pictures, 2014
Game of Thrones. Television. Season 5. Created by DavidBenioff and D. B.Weiss. HBO, 2013
Martyrs Film. Directed by Kevin and Michael Goetz. Blumhouse Productions. 2015
The Witch Film. Directed by Robert Eggers. Parts and Labor Productions, 2015
The Path. Television. Created by JessicaGoldberg. Season One. Hulu, 2016
Arrival. Film. Directed by Denis Villeneuve. 21 Laps Entertainment, 2016
The OA. Television. Created by BritMarling and ZalBatmanglij. Netflix, 2016
The Young Pope. Television. Created by PaoloSorrentino. Sky Atlantic/HBO/Canal+, 2016
Burning Desires, Burning Corpses: Girardian Reflections on Fire in Hinduism and Buddhism
By Post or by Ghost: Ruminations on Visions and Epistolary Archives
By Post or by Ghost:Ruminations on Visions and Epistolary Archives Brian Collins I have no doubt that this letter will reach you, either by post or by ghost. Georges Dumézil, The Riddle of Nostradamus: A Critical Dialogue At any moment the reader is ready to turn into a writer. Walter Benjamin, "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction" I Who was Robert Eisler? He was, among other things, a tragically hilarious pedant, raconteur, dub…
From Middlemarch to The Da Vinci Code: Portrayals of Religious Studies in Popular Culture
The Killing of a Sacred Deer. Film. Directed by YorgosLanthimos. Element Pictures, 2017
Sacred Games: Season One. Directed by Anurag Kashyap and Vikramaditya Motwane. Based on the novel by Vikram Chandra. Netflix, 2018
Hereditary. Film. Directed by Ari Aster. A24, 2018. 127 minutes
Opedipal God: The Chinese Nezha and his I ndian Origins , by Meir Shahar
Oedipal God: The Chinese Nezha and his Indian Origins, by Meir Shahar. Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 2015. 312 pp., £49.95 (hb). ISBN 9-780-824-847609
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