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Ann Taves

Ann Taves is a professor of religious studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is a former President of the American Academy of Religion and the author of, among other books, "Religious Experience Reconsidered: A Building Block Approach to the Study of Religion and Other Special Things” (Princeton, 2009).

(A)theologies, ArchiveDecember 3, 2015

Is It the Job of Religion Journalists to Define “Religion”?

By Ann Taves

Weighing in on historian Damon Linker’s suggestion that the Times’ Mark Oppenheimer has just written himself out of a job.

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