Fake Titles I'd Like to See
Randall Stephens
Sometimes I'm at a conference or hearing a lecture--time dragging on--and my mind begins to wander. Happens to everyone. As I daydream, I occasionally think of fake book titles and wonder what the content of those not-ready-for-prime-time volumes might entail. This is also just a good general way to waste time. I include here some recent ones. (This may, in fact, be one of the all-time most useless posts on RiAH. So be it.)
From Scatology to Eschatology
Seventh-day Advantageous
The Devil is in the Retails
Rentacostals and Holy Home Ownership
Jesus Christ Superstore
Why I'm Not a Nazarene
Why I'm Not a Baptist
Why I'm not a Lutheran
From Jim Crow to Jim Croce
Wiccan Awesome
Apocalypse Row!
Interstitial Trope-a-dopery and the Landscape of Rococo Marxism
The Kung-Fu Husserl
Proof Text Poker and Bible Roulette (got half of this from Peggy Bendroth)
Deliver Us from Evel Knievel
Sometimes I'm at a conference or hearing a lecture--time dragging on--and my mind begins to wander. Happens to everyone. As I daydream, I occasionally think of fake book titles and wonder what the content of those not-ready-for-prime-time volumes might entail. This is also just a good general way to waste time. I include here some recent ones. (This may, in fact, be one of the all-time most useless posts on RiAH. So be it.)
From Scatology to Eschatology
Seventh-day Advantageous
The Devil is in the Retails
Rentacostals and Holy Home Ownership
Jesus Christ Superstore
Why I'm Not a Nazarene
Why I'm Not a Baptist
Why I'm not a Lutheran
From Jim Crow to Jim Croce
Wiccan Awesome
Apocalypse Row!
Interstitial Trope-a-dopery and the Landscape of Rococo Marxism
The Kung-Fu Husserl
Proof Text Poker and Bible Roulette (got half of this from Peggy Bendroth)
Deliver Us from Evel Knievel
Comments
Jonathan Edwards and the Goblet of Hellfire
For content to fill the pages try going to this new-ish Univ of Chicago site, which generates academic material. Paul pointed me to this treasure:
http://writing-program.uchicago.edu/toys/randomsentence/write-sentence.htm
"The fiction of normative value(s) recapitulates the authentication of the gendered body."
"The eroticization of civil society may be parsed as the discourse of power/knowledge."
Bill Gaither's Gospel Music and Other Things That Have Made Me Vomit When I Have Encountered Them
(forthcoming, Eerdmans)
The same scholar who made me think of that also made this insightful (serious here--not sarcastic) observation: it is extremely possible to overanalyze the attempt to define the individuals who make up one's subjects to the point where one creates a centrifugal force in one's scholarship to essentially cause the definition to "go splat!" Classic stuff!
Seriously though, I hope you will be doing a writeup on the "new" evangelical historiography panel soon for those who weren't able to make the panel because it was some really interesting (and historiographically important) stuff.