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
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6 comments:
I can proudly relate that I saw this list spring into being ... seated next to Randall in a conference session that was dragging on. Great work, Randall.
Coming to a Borders near you:
Jonathan Edwards and the Goblet of Hellfire
Todd: I like it! I see a videogame tie-in.
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."
In keeping with your Pentecostal studies, how about Glossolalia for Dummies?
Randall: Just came back from a panel session where I thought of a new title for the list:
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.
If I did New Testament I would definitely find a way to title a paper "Pauline Perils."
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