Finbarr Curtis
Biographic Data
| ID | 3890701 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Finbarr Curtis |
| GIVEN NAMES | Finbarr |
| FAMILY NAME | Curtis |
| SIGNATURE | CURTIS F |
| AFFILIATIONS | Georgia Southern University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Rights, Nations, and Counterpublics
REPRESENTING GOD: CHRISTIAN LEGAL ACTIVISM IN CONTEMPORARY ENGLAND. By Méadhbh McIvor. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2020. As someone who has spent a lot of time pondering different usages of the word secular, I am especially drawn to Méadhbh McIvor’s account of how Christian activism in England wrestles with and possibly contributes to the secularizing forces it ostensibly seeks to challenge. One of the major contributions of McIvor’s b…
Trying Sincerity
John Lardas Modern's Neuromatic is a Sign of a Global Apocalypse that Will Kill Us All
NEUROMATIC: OR, A PARTICULAR HISTORY OF RELIGION AND THE BRAIN. By John Lardas Modern. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2021Pp. xv + 426. Paper $32.50. I must confess to a bit of autoplagiarism in my title. About a decade ago, I wrote an essay in response to Ann Taves's Religious Experience Reconsidered in which I saw signs of impending global apocalypse (Curtis 2010). I was interested in multiple senses of the apocalyptic, including the pro…
Going Low
Going Low examines how the offensive style of contemporary politics challenges liberal democratic institutions. Considering the rise of illiberal politics and debates about the limits of free speech, Finbarr Curtis draws on the insights of religious studies to rethink provocation and transgression.
Something Wild
Going Low - How Profane Politics Challenges American Democracy
Individuals and their environments
While affirming Craig Martin's analysis of how the language of spiritual freedom celebrates individual agency in a way that deflects attention from the institutional conditions that produce individuals, this essay wonders whether there are useful distinctions to be made among people who Martin reads as sharing uncritical appraisals of capitalist individualism. On the question of the relationship between individuals and social contexts, for exampl…
The study of American religions
This essay introduces a special forum on the study of American religions. The essays in the forum consider what role, if any, the discipline of religious studies plays in shaping work within one area of specialization. This introduction attempts to place the issues raised by the contributors within the context of debates about the status of religious studies in the wake of critiques of sui generis approaches to the study of religion. In different…
The Fundamental Faith of Every True American
Ann Taves'sReligious Experience Reconsideredis a sign of a global apocalypse that will kill us all
According to Ann Taves, many humanist scholars of religion are afraid of science. In particular, they object to scientific reductionism because reductive explanations violate taboos that prohibit reducing religion to something else. This essay will analyze how Taves and other proponents of cognitive approaches to religious studies fashion a kind of secular praxis in which breaking taboos is a crucial attribute of scholarly integrity and intellect…
The study of American religions
This essay introduces a special forum on the study of American religions. The essays in the forum consider what role, if any, the discipline of religious studies plays in shaping work within one area of specialization. This introduction attempts to place the issues raised by the contributors within the context of debates about the status of religious studies in the wake of critiques of sui generis approaches to the study of religion. In different…
Ann Taves'sReligious Experience Reconsideredis a sign of a global apocalypse that will kill us all
According to Ann Taves, many humanist scholars of religion are afraid of science. In particular, they object to scientific reductionism because reductive explanations violate taboos that prohibit reducing religion to something else. This essay will analyze how Taves and other proponents of cognitive approaches to religious studies fashion a kind of secular praxis in which breaking taboos is a crucial attribute of scholarly integrity and intellect…
The Fundamental Faith of Every True American
Ann Taves'sReligious Experience Reconsideredis a sign of a global apocalypse that will kill us all
According to Ann Taves, many humanist scholars of religion are afraid of science. In particular, they object to scientific reductionism because reductive explanations violate taboos that prohibit reducing religion to something else. This essay will analyze how Taves and other proponents of cognitive approaches to religious studies fashion a kind of secular praxis in which breaking taboos is a crucial attribute of scholarly integrity and intellect…
The Fundamental Faith of Every True American
The study of American religions
This essay introduces a special forum on the study of American religions. The essays in the forum consider what role, if any, the discipline of religious studies plays in shaping work within one area of specialization. This introduction attempts to place the issues raised by the contributors within the context of debates about the status of religious studies in the wake of critiques of sui generis approaches to the study of religion. In different…
Individuals and their environments
While affirming Craig Martin's analysis of how the language of spiritual freedom celebrates individual agency in a way that deflects attention from the institutional conditions that produce individuals, this essay wonders whether there are useful distinctions to be made among people who Martin reads as sharing uncritical appraisals of capitalist individualism. On the question of the relationship between individuals and social contexts, for exampl…
Going Low
Going Low examines how the offensive style of contemporary politics challenges liberal democratic institutions. Considering the rise of illiberal politics and debates about the limits of free speech, Finbarr Curtis draws on the insights of religious studies to rethink provocation and transgression.
Something Wild
Going Low - How Profane Politics Challenges American Democracy
John Lardas Modern's Neuromatic is a Sign of a Global Apocalypse that Will Kill Us All
NEUROMATIC: OR, A PARTICULAR HISTORY OF RELIGION AND THE BRAIN. By John Lardas Modern. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2021Pp. xv + 426. Paper $32.50. I must confess to a bit of autoplagiarism in my title. About a decade ago, I wrote an essay in response to Ann Taves's Religious Experience Reconsidered in which I saw signs of impending global apocalypse (Curtis 2010). I was interested in multiple senses of the apocalyptic, including the pro…
Trying Sincerity
Rights, Nations, and Counterpublics
REPRESENTING GOD: CHRISTIAN LEGAL ACTIVISM IN CONTEMPORARY ENGLAND. By Méadhbh McIvor. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2020. As someone who has spent a lot of time pondering different usages of the word secular, I am especially drawn to Méadhbh McIvor’s account of how Christian activism in England wrestles with and possibly contributes to the secularizing forces it ostensibly seeks to challenge. One of the major contributions of McIvor’s b…
Religion and Society Interactions (9 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Religious studies (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Theology (4 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · History (3 works) · Politics (3 works)