Theorizing Awkwardness, with Style, in the Study of Religion: A Forum on Dana W. Logan’s Awkward Rituals (2022)

Abstract The 2022 meeting of the American Academy Religion in Denver featured a book panel on Dana W. Logan’s Awkward Rituals: Sensations Governance Protestant America (University Chicago Press, 2022). This essay introduces forum based panel, featuring four scholars representing diverse subfields religious studies: Ian MacCormack, Charles McCrary, Constance Furey, and Marko Geslani. It argues that Rituals , though embedded ritual studies historiography religion, is generative theoretical text for many areas inquiry wider study religion: disjunctures incoherences religions; practical applications mind/body dualism; uses personal experiences scholar; endurance comparison as method.