Teemu Taira is Senior Lecturer in the Study of Religion, University of Helsinki. His publications include Media Portrayals of Religion and the Secular Sacred (Ashgate 2013, co-authored with Kim Knott & Elizabeth Poole), Taking ‘Religion’ Seriously: Essays on the Discursive Study of Religion (Brill 2022) and more than 70 articles in journals and edited volumes.

• Table of Contents1 University in Flames: An Introduction 1Teemu Taira2 A Different Type of Climate Crisis: Thinking and Teaching with Critical Interdisciplinarity When the University is on Fire 11Leslie Dorrough SmithInstitutional Climate3 Religious Studies is Not Natural; or, Climate Changes for the “Critical” Study of “Religion” 31Matthew C. Baldwin4 Imagining Religion: From Chicago to Topeka 58Chris Jones5 Navigating Shaky Ground: An Environmental Survey of the Study of Religion in Canada 70Chris Miller6 Religious Studies in the Built Environment of Higher Education in North America 86Rita M. LesterResearch Environment7 In and of the Research Environment: Mennonites, Latin America, and Religious Studies 93Rebecca Janzen8 Whither the Settler in the Transdisciplinary Study of Religion? 100Stacie Swain9 Historical Sites and Memory: Physical Sites as Research Environments 112Allison Isidore10 The Scholarly Built Environment 120Sarah DeesDissemination Platform11 Predatory Journals and the Middle Eastern Academy: Orientalism in Disguise? 127Edith Szantovi • University in Flames12 “Anticapitalist Manifesto” or “Social-Democratic Bedtime Story”? Diverse Platforms and Diverging Interpretations of Karl Polanyi’sThe Great Transformation 138Thomas J. Carrico, Jr.13 On Ghosts and Trees: The Supreme Court as an Arborescent, Haunted Dissemination Platform 148Jacob Barrett14 Displaying Religion: History, Holy, or Religion? 160Trevor Linn15 Platform Capitalism, Subjugated Knowledges, and the Myth of Pre-Mediated Scholarship 170Lauren Horn GriffinSociocultural Location16 Can We Be Self-Reflexive? Scrutinizing Our Sociocultural Position 179Vaia Touna17 Ethnography in a Fishbowl: Reflections on Scholarly Embeddedness 188Mary Hamner18 When Life Happens: An Exploration into Bandura’s Self-Efficacy Concept and Graduate Research 195Xochiquetzal Luna Morales19 Reflexivity, the Religious Studies Habitus, and Institutional Constraints 203Sean McCloudIndex 207

Teemu Taira is Senior Lecturer in the Study of Religion, University of Helsinki. His publications include Media Portrayals of Religion and the Secular Sacred (Ashgate 2013, co-authored with Kim Knott & Elizabeth Poole), Taking ‘Religion’ Seriously: Essays on the Discursive Study of Religion (Brill 2022) and more than 70 articles in journals and edited volumes.

• Table of Contents1 University in Flames: An Introduction 1Teemu Taira2 A Different Type of Climate Crisis: Thinking and Teaching with Critical Interdisciplinarity When the University is on Fire 11Leslie Dorrough SmithInstitutional Climate3 Religious Studies is Not Natural; or, Climate Changes for the “Critical” Study of “Religion” 31Matthew C. Baldwin4 Imagining Religion: From Chicago to Topeka 58Chris Jones5 Navigating Shaky Ground: An Environmental Survey of the Study of Religion in Canada 70Chris Miller6 Religious Studies in the Built Environment of Higher Education in North America 86Rita M. LesterResearch Environment7 In and of the Research Environment: Mennonites, Latin America, and Religious Studies 93Rebecca Janzen8 Whither the Settler in the Transdisciplinary Study of Religion? 100Stacie Swain9 Historical Sites and Memory: Physical Sites as Research Environments 112Allison Isidore10 The Scholarly Built Environment 120Sarah DeesDissemination Platform11 Predatory Journals and the Middle Eastern Academy: Orientalism in Disguise? 127Edith Szantovi • University in Flames12 “Anticapitalist Manifesto” or “Social-Democratic Bedtime Story”? Diverse Platforms and Diverging Interpretations of Karl Polanyi’sThe Great Transformation 138Thomas J. Carrico, Jr.13 On Ghosts and Trees: The Supreme Court as an Arborescent, Haunted Dissemination Platform 148Jacob Barrett14 Displaying Religion: History, Holy, or Religion? 160Trevor Linn15 Platform Capitalism, Subjugated Knowledges, and the Myth of Pre-Mediated Scholarship 170Lauren Horn GriffinSociocultural Location16 Can We Be Self-Reflexive? Scrutinizing Our Sociocultural Position 179Vaia Touna17 Ethnography in a Fishbowl: Reflections on Scholarly Embeddedness 188Mary Hamner18 When Life Happens: An Exploration into Bandura’s Self-Efficacy Concept and Graduate Research 195Xochiquetzal Luna Morales19 Reflexivity, the Religious Studies Habitus, and Institutional Constraints 203Sean McCloudIndex 207

Teemu Taira is Senior Lecturer in the Study of Religion, University of Helsinki. His publications include Media Portrayals of Religion and the Secular Sacred (Ashgate 2013, co-authored with Kim Knott & Elizabeth Poole), Taking ‘Religion’ Seriously: Essays on the Discursive Study of Religion (Brill 2022) and more than 70 articles in journals and edited volumes.

• Table of Contents1 University in Flames: An Introduction 1Teemu Taira2 A Different Type of Climate Crisis: Thinking and Teaching with Critical Interdisciplinarity When the University is on Fire 11Leslie Dorrough SmithInstitutional Climate3 Religious Studies is Not Natural; or, Climate Changes for the “Critical” Study of “Religion” 31Matthew C. Baldwin4 Imagining Religion: From Chicago to Topeka 58Chris Jones5 Navigating Shaky Ground: An Environmental Survey of the Study of Religion in Canada 70Chris Miller6 Religious Studies in the Built Environment of Higher Education in North America 86Rita M. LesterResearch Environment7 In and of the Research Environment: Mennonites, Latin America, and Religious Studies 93Rebecca Janzen8 Whither the Settler in the Transdisciplinary Study of Religion? 100Stacie Swain9 Historical Sites and Memory: Physical Sites as Research Environments 112Allison Isidore10 The Scholarly Built Environment 120Sarah DeesDissemination Platform11 Predatory Journals and the Middle Eastern Academy: Orientalism in Disguise? 127Edith Szantovi • University in Flames12 “Anticapitalist Manifesto” or “Social-Democratic Bedtime Story”? Diverse Platforms and Diverging Interpretations of Karl Polanyi’sThe Great Transformation 138Thomas J. Carrico, Jr.13 On Ghosts and Trees: The Supreme Court as an Arborescent, Haunted Dissemination Platform 148Jacob Barrett14 Displaying Religion: History, Holy, or Religion? 160Trevor Linn15 Platform Capitalism, Subjugated Knowledges, and the Myth of Pre-Mediated Scholarship 170Lauren Horn GriffinSociocultural Location16 Can We Be Self-Reflexive? Scrutinizing Our Sociocultural Position 179Vaia Touna17 Ethnography in a Fishbowl: Reflections on Scholarly Embeddedness 188Mary Hamner18 When Life Happens: An Exploration into Bandura’s Self-Efficacy Concept and Graduate Research 195Xochiquetzal Luna Morales19 Reflexivity, the Religious Studies Habitus, and Institutional Constraints 203Sean McCloudIndex 207