disClosure: A Journal of Social Theory Volume 14 Incarnations Article 1 4-15-2005 Editor's Preface Marcia England University of Kentucky DOI: https://doi.org/10.13023/disclosure.14.01 Follow this and additional works at: https://uknowledge.uky.edu/disclosure Part of the Arts and Humanities Commons, and the Social and Behavioral Sciences Commons This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 4.0 License. Recommended Citation England, Marcia (2005) "Editor's Preface," disClosure: A Journal of Social Theory: Vol. 14 , Article 1. DOI: https://doi.org/10.13023/disclosure.14.01 Available at: https://uknowledge.uky.edu/disclosure/vol14/iss1/1 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by disClosure: A Journal of Social Theory. Questions about the journal can be sent to [email protected] editorial collective editorial board 14 Benjamin Agger, Sociology, issue University of Texas, Arlington James Boon, Anthropology, Brandon Absher Princeton University Steve Buttes Matthew Edney, Geography, Rebecca Carey University of South Maine Nancy Fraser, Political Science, Beth Connors-Manke New School for Social Research Sean Dummitt Cynthia Freeland, Philosophy, Annette McGrew University of Houston Dana Nelson Sander Gilman, German/Philosophy, University of Chicago Viva Nordberg Derek Gregory. Geography, Jason Payton University of British Columbia Stephanie Simon Peter-Uwe Hohendahl. German, Cornell University Sarah Tackett Anton Koes, German, Jeff West U.C.-Berkeley Douglas Kellner, Phil. of Education. issue editor: UCLA Dominick LaCapra, History. Marcia England Cornell University Maggie McFadden. Women's Studies. Funding: Appalachian State University Michael Palmer. Poet. 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No part of 213 Patterson Office Tower this work may be reproduced University of Kentucky or reprinted without written Lexington, KY 40506-0027 consent of both the dc-editor@lsv .uky .edu disclosure editorial collec tive disClosure and the author/ artist. www.uky.edu/AS/SocTheo/DisClosure a journal of social theory no. 14 disclosure a journal of social theory no. 14 incarnations contents editor's preface .......................................................................................................... 1 b-Rock Pieta 8 .............................................................................................. 3 P.R. Dyjak Killing Angels ................................................................................. 4 John P. Bartkowski Faithfully Embodied: Religious Identity and the Body .................................................. 8 Jeff West and Thinking Critically about Science and Religious Claims Viva Nordberg to Science: disC/os11re Interviews 1fassimo Pigliucci .............. 38 Mike Newell Smoking Nuns ............................................................................. 60 Untitled ......................................................................................... 61 Terri Ginsberg Balaga11 and the Politics of Israeli/Palestinian "Identity" .................................................... 62 Bob 1vfulligan kneeling on sharpened floors ................................................... 94 Gender Crunching: Parochial Style ......................................... 97 Barry Massoni Mohammad's Mountain ............................................................ 99 Niame Haitian Vodou Possession and Zombification: Desire r and Return of tl1e Repressed .................................................. 100 John 1viartin Invocation .................................................................................. 126 No Safe Words .......................................................................... 127 Elke Streit de Oliveira T he !(now-About-It Trilogy .................................................. 128 Brian Connors-Manke Religious Sex....................................................... 131 Crosses............................................... ...................... 132 list of contributors ········································· Jeff West and Intellectual Independence: JOHN P. BARTKOWSKI is Professor of Sociology at Nfississippi State Annette McGrew Islamism and the Decentering of Europe: University. Nfuch of his work examines the connections between religion, family, and gender. His most recent books include Charitable Choices: &ligio11, disClosure interviews S. Sayyid ................................................. 133 Race, a11d Poverry i11 the Post-I F/elfare Era (New York University Press, 2003) and The Promise Keepers: S eroa11ts, S o/diers, and Godb1 Men (Rutgers University Press, Brotherhood ..... .... ..................................................................... 144 2004). Bartkowski is currently completing a book on Latter-day Saint teen Robert Oscar Lopez A Christian Boy and a Proud Man of Color ........................ 145 religiosity. Ilis published articles have appeared in Sociology ofReligio11,]011malfor the S cie11tific Study of Religion, S ot:ial Fort:es, The Sociological Quarter&, Gender & Society, and Qualitative Sociology, among other journals. James Wren When I Grow Up ..................................................................... 154 book reviews Susan Buck-Morss b-Rock ' Thi~1king Past TetTor: Islamism a11d Critical Theory 011 the Left, STEVE BUTTES is a 11.A./ Ph.D. student in the Department of Hispanic reviewed by] ohn Michael Tilley ............................................ 156 Studies at the University of Kentucky. His main research interests are Dorothee Soelle nineteenth and twentieth century Latin American novels and poetry, with a ' The Silent Cry: Mysticism and &sista11ce focus on stereotypes, politics and the construction of national identity. ' reviewed by Sarah E. Tackett .................. ........................... .... 159 BRIAN CONNORS-MANKE's broadcast journalism degree from The R.S. Sugirtharajah, Ohio State University has allowed him the opportunity of frequent travel, and his camera is usually part of the luggage. T11e last two years he's been a Post~olonial Criticism and Biblical I11tetpretatio11, Computer Stats Coordinator for ABC Sports College Football and he was a reviewed by Stephen M. Buttes ........................... .................. 163 member of the Monda.Ji Night Football production crew prior to that. P.R. DYJAK is a poet who has earned a M.A. in English, a 1v1.F.A. in Poetry, a M.A. in Women's Studies, and is currently working on a Ph.D. in English at the University at Albany (SUNY). Her work has appeared in Kalliope, Di11e1~ Capn·ce, Passages North, and other national literary magazines and anthologies. In 2001, her poem "\Xloman \X/ithout a Counuy" was a finalist in the Sue Saniels Elk.ind Poetry contest of Kalliope: a jo11mal of 1110111e11's literature and 011. Her poem "Zero the Gloryl ess" was selected by Pierre Joris as the local winner of tl1e Phyllis Hurd Liston Poetry Prize, sponsored by tl1e American Academy of Poets 2003. Nfs. Dyjak is very interested in feminist spirituality, the web of life, and tl1e way religion teaches people to grant autl1ority to particular structures of power. Her poetics is driven both by concepts and the music of language. TERRI GINSBERG has taught film, literary and cultural studies at Dartmouth College, Rutgers University, New York University, and the City University of New York. Her published essays appear in journals and editorial MIKE NEWELL is a 24 year old local painter from ~eorget.own, ~entucky, collections such as Violence a11d Amen'ca11 Ci11ema, Imagi11ary Neighbors, "Roma11ci11g who now resides in Lexington. His medium of choice ts acrylic, which he has The Margins?", Journal of Lesbian St11dies, Revie1v of Ed11calio11/Pedagogy/ C11//11ral been working with for approximately seven years. Studies, and I. She is co-editor (with Kirsten 1vfoana Thompson) of the volume, Perspectives 011 Genna11 Ci11ema, and author of a forthcoming VIVA NORDBERG is a Ph.D. candidate in Geography at the University of monograph on the global politics of Holocaust film." Kentucky. Her dissertation examines the history and use ~f life cycle, syste~s, and complexity metaphors in twentieth century geomorphic research, focusm.g ROBERT OSCAR LOPEZ is a professor of American, ethnic, and classical on how these metaphors have constructed and constrained resear~h. This literature at Rutgers University (Camden). Ile writes literary criticism, political project combines her academic interests of geomorphology and the history of columns, and fiction. His first novel, Demagog11e 2037, will be published by the science. Chibcha Press in 2005. His website is http://www.bronzepage.com. MASSIMO PIGLIUCCI is a professor of evolutionary biology a~ SUNY­ JOHN MARTIN is a native of Houston, Texas, where he grew up and Stony Brook on Long Island. I Iis research i.s on genotype-en:ironment