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      Racialization Meets Purity Culture: Abortion Criminalization Cases Confirm That It’s Always Been About Controlling Women’s Bodies And Protecting the ‘Ideal’ American Family
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      Embryo Men — Decades of Conspiracy, Christian Nationalism, and Fear Led Us to The End of Roe v. Wade
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      The Right is Using the FBI’s Mar-a-Lago Search to Martyr Trump and Maintain the Violent Myth of the Big Lie
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      New Apostolic Reformation Faces Profound Rift Due to Trump Prophecies and ‘Spiritual Manipulation of the Prophetic Gift’
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      Despite Vastly Different Values, Evangelical ‘Hamilton’ Connects Secular Left and Christian Right
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      What a Turn-of-the-Century Anti-Abortion and Contraception Crusader Reveals About GOP Efforts to Ban Abortion Pills by Mail
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      Orthodox Church’s Authoritarian Anti-LGBTQ Statement Poses Serious Threat to Academic Freedom
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      Crossing the Rubicon? Mar-a-Lago Raid Enflames Right Wing Fantasies of Christian Caesarism
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      The Right is Using the FBI’s Mar-a-Lago Search to Martyr Trump and Maintain the Violent Myth of the Big Lie
    • New Apostolic Reformation Faces Profound Rift Due to Trump Prophecies and ‘Spiritual Manipulation of the Prophetic Gift’
      New Apostolic Reformation Faces Profound Rift Due to Trump Prophecies and ‘Spiritual Manipulation of the Prophetic Gift’
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      Unprecedented Anti-LGBTQ Statement By Orthodox Church in America Should Be Christian Nationalist Warning Sign to US Orthodoxy
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      With This Largely Overlooked Shakeup is the Russian Orthodox Church Looking to Westernize? Yes and No
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      Moscow Suffers its Most High Profile Defection Yet
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Andrew Aghapour and Megan Goodwin

Andrew Aghapour is a PhD Student at UNC Chapel Hill and co-producer of The Cubit and Megan Goodwin is a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Creative and Innovative Pedagogy in the Humanities and a Lecturer in Religious Studies at Bates College. Her work focuses on gender and sexuality in contemporary American minority religions.

Andrew Aghapour, Archive, Culture, It's Your Fault, Sexuality/Gender, Stories, The CubitJuly 9, 2015

Defending Minority Religions, Despite Some Bad Practitioners

By Andrew Aghapour and Megan Goodwin

In the latest addition to It’s Your Fault, The Cubit’s series on blame in contemporary society, RD associate editor…

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