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jigmenorbu

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  1. Just heard from Mary Taylor, the admin of the NYU MCC dept., and the letters are already in the mail; also, those admitted have been called (not me...).
  2. What's up with this anthro wait. Makes me wish I'd done sociology if only for the decision times on these apps.
  3. Hey Jacib, That's cool. I think there's a lot to be said about all of this. I'm familiar with Casanova and Jurgensmeyer, recently heard them speak at the annual meetings of the AAR at a pretty good panel discussion on secularism including Charles Taylor and others. I would be very curious to hear more about the advice he gave you. I applied (for Fall 2010) to Divinity at Chicago, Religion and Columbia, anthropology at Princeton and Cornell, and Media, Culture and Communication at NYU. I'm hoping to do cultures of secularism/everyday secularism/practices of secularism, as well as institutions/processes/ideologies of secularism and secular governance-- in America, and potential comparative interest in Europe. So pretty open at this point. What about you? I'm curious about what you mentioned about feeling marginalized in religion departments, and your reference to the NAASR. I am very familiar with the debates on reductionism/anti-reductionism vis a vis theory and method in the study of religion, as represented by McCutcheon, Segal, Fitzgerald, and others. Is this what you're referring to? It seems like over the years, religious studies as a discipline has been able to incorporate many of the reforms proposed by those guys, and their whole argument seems a bit dramatic in the light of this history. That was my impression at least. I think it's (secularism) an essentially interdisciplinary area of study, and I regret not applying to sociology departments, seeing that a lot of the most intelligent and expansive commentary on secularism is issuing from that discipline. Anthropology is more insular than I ever knew, I'm finding. Have you started a programme?
  4. Whoa, that's wild. What are some of the main studies? Ritual theory, as in... Turner, Leach, Gluckmann, Catherine Bell... ish?
  5. Anybody out there applying to religion departments with plans for social scientific projects, methods, approaches? Projects which overlap with other departments? Anthropology, sociology, communications, etc.? If so, what research areas? I'm hoping to do ethnographic research on secularism, an issue tied up with lots of religious histories and questions. I'm sending the same proposal spun in slightly different ways to religion, anthropology, and interdisciplinary departments. Anyone else?
  6. Let's get the details on this Cornell acceptance please!
  7. Any interest in chatting about the NYU program in media, culture and communication?
  8. Anyone applying to a mix of relg and anthropology programmes? If so, what subjects, what are your interests? I'ev applied to two of the former, two of the latter, and one interdisciplinary.
  9. Yo this wait is killing me. Anyone get any nibbles from Princeton or Cornell? Anybody applied to the NYU Steinhardt interdisciplinary program in Media, Culture and Communication?
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