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November is #nanowrimo time in the writing world, and I usually try to do some kind of #AcademicWriting challenge. This year, I have two projects both at the lit review stage. Not conducive to a “producing X words peer day” challenge.
I think my challenge, at least for the first part of November, will be to read and annotate 1 article/chapter per day, including adding the record to #Zotero and putting notes there.
For accountability, and to hopefully find some conversation through hashtags, I’ll also post here.
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November is #nanowrimo time in the writing world, and I usually try to do some kind of #AcademicWriting challenge. This year, I have two projects both at the lit review stage. Not conducive to a “producing X words peer day” challenge.
I think my challenge, at least for the first part of November, will be to read and annotate 1 article/chapter per day, including adding the record to #Zotero and putting notes there.
For accountability, and to hopefully find some conversation through hashtags, I’ll also post here.
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#Acawrimo accountability post 5. Today (Nov. 5), I read Bretton Varga's interview "'I'm a fellow traveler on a #religious journey': A Conversation with Kevin J. Burke" in the 2022.9 special issue of the *Journal of #Folklore in #Education* on #Death, Loss, & Remembrance Across Cultures (41-50).
I'll be honest, I almost skipped this one because it's an interview piece and I scrolled through the table of contents looking for something more likely to be a scholarly article in the format I've been taught to expect. But the whole point of doing folklore is recognizing a diversity of ways of knowing, so i stopped scrolling and started reading it. I'm glad I did because Varga and Burke have some things to say that are pertinent to my research on #DisneyPixar's recent turn to representations of #death and the #afterlife in #animated #films.
In talking about the #classroom, Burke points out that the space is "not inherently a #secular space, nor a #sacred space. Or rather, the space contains, or is contained by both" (44). In other words "because of the people who are in that space, " "the sacred always already exists there" (44). I would argue that the same is true of art generally and film specifically. The creators and enjoyers of art and film bring their #belief systems with them into the co-production of the text, whether those belief systems are Christian, Jewish, Muslim, pagan, Hindu, or secular.
Burke also points out that "secularisms are inherently religious endeavors because of the way they become shaped by the sacred traditions around them" (44). Ultimately, he is issuing a call for teachers to, as part of embedding themselves in their communities, become literate in the religious practices of their students in order to be able to reach them (47). This certainly rings true based on my experiences of how to be successful teaching student populations dominated by Seventh-day Adventists, Muslims, and atheists (at three different unis) while a devout, though frequently heretical and unabashedly progressive, United Methodist.
Running through the conversation as Burke and Varga make connections with the rest of the issue is the conviction that the boundaries between sacred and secular are neither rigid nor fixed. In my monograph, I talk about the way that religions, in the traditional faith in divinity sense, has provided people with some necessary structures for how to live and be in community. As people in the US have moved away from these belief systems, the need for those structures has not disappeared. Fandoms and affinity groups have taken up the many of the social functions that people used to find in their house of worship (Koppy, 2021, p. 21).
Particularly in #Soul, I think the idea of a secularism that reflects its environment is apparent. There is no deity, and the system of the before-and-afterlife seems to be run in an orderly and scientific way, complete with vast server room full of files. But it represents a teleology. Souls move in one direction from the Great Before to the Great Beyond, acquiring individuality through their experience of life on earth.
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https://jfepublications.org/article/im-a-fellow-traveler-on-a-religious-journey/
