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      White Smoke, Black Pope? Pope Leo XIV, first US pontiff, has African roots
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      HABEMUS PAPAM: New Pope Selection Signals Church’s Concerns about Spread of US, Global Authoritarianism
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    • EXPERTS AGREE: what Trump is doing is fascism
      EXPERTS AGREE: what Trump is doing is fascism
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      What The Roman Catholic Church needs is a wholesale reset, not a new Pope
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      Catholic Right Support isn’t the Only Reason Trump Believes He Can Get Away with Mockery of Catholicism
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      EXPERTS AGREE: what Trump is doing is fascism
    • My Book on The Legacy of White Supremacy in American Christianity Was One of Hundreds Just Banned by the Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth
      My Book on The Legacy of White Supremacy in American Christianity Was One of Hundreds Just Banned by the Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth
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      Remembering ‘MOVE’ as American religion on the 40th anniversary of Philadelphia bombing its own residents
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      Catholic Right Support isn’t the Only Reason Trump Believes He Can Get Away with Mockery of Catholicism
    • EXPERTS AGREE: what Trump is doing is fascism
      EXPERTS AGREE: what Trump is doing is fascism
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Ben Brazil

Ben Brazil is a graduate student in Emory University's Graduate Division of Religion. He is working on a dissertation about religion and travel in the 1960s and 1970s.

CultureAugust 24, 2010

Eat, Pray, Trash: What the Critics Don’t See

By Ben Brazil

if you are a true devotee, you can follow Gilbert’s steps to to Italy, India, and Indonesia—as a solo pilgrim, as some have done, or as a member of a tour costing a cool $19,795. Or, alternatively, you could do what seems just as rewarding: savage the movie and book on the Internet.

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(A)theologies, Politics/LawSeptember 11, 2009

“You Lie!”: Messing with American Mass

By Ben Brazil

Does Rep. Wilson’s outburst before the president signal something deeper about the state of our national rituals?

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Politics/LawNovember 5, 2008

Freedom’s Just Another Word…

By Ben Brazil

If my mom didn’t love Jesus enough for the fundamentalists, I apparently didn’t love freedom enough for the neo-cons…

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CultureOctober 14, 2008

Aliens To Arrive in Alabama Today!

By Ben Brazil

Australian medium Blossom Goodchild wants to distract us from our problems with a prophecy that cosmic beings are going to arrive on October 14…

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