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      Phoning It In: (Re)making Race and Religion in Zora Neale Hurston’s New Orleans Underworld
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      ‘Remigration’ is American for ‘Ethnic Cleansing’
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      Since You’ve Been Gone: The Politics of Hysterectomy and the Impossibility of ‘Choice’
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      Capitalism’s Violence calls for Collective Wrath, not Luigi Mangione’s Privatized Rage
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      ‘Remigration’ is American for ‘Ethnic Cleansing’
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      The Billionaires Selling School Vouchers to Buy the Soul of a Nation
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      The US Right’s Campaign to Make More ‘Babies of a Certain Kind’
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      ‘Remigration’ is American for ‘Ethnic Cleansing’
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      Capitalism’s Violence calls for Collective Wrath, not Luigi Mangione’s Privatized Rage
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David Krueger

David Krueger is an independent scholar, author, and educator based in Philadelphia who writes about American religious history, violence, myths of origin, and popular religious culture. He received a ThM from Princeton Theological Seminary and a PhD in religion from Temple University. He is the author of Myths of the Rune Stone: Viking Martyrs and the Birthplace of America (University of Minnesota Press, 2015). He is also a radio host with Marginalia Review of Books and serves as a deacon at the Arch Street United Methodist Church in Philadelphia.

Archive, Sexuality/GenderAugust 12, 2016

Why Build a Mormon Complex in Philly?

By David Krueger

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is in the midst of a massive…

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Beyond Belief: Election 2016July 29, 2016

The Irony of Trumpism: A Turning Point for Muslims in American Politics

By David Krueger

The 2016 Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia came to an end last night with Hillary…

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(A)theologies, Archive, Culture, StoriesMarch 17, 2016

History Channel’s “Vikings” Subverts and Supports the Violent Heathen Trope

By David Krueger

From Blood Eagle to Blood Libel to “Wilding,” myths of the violent Other have underwritten violence across centuries.

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Archive, Culture, Politics/LawDecember 11, 2015

Trump, Islamophobia, and the Philly Pig’s Head Incident

By David Krueger

Shortly after November’s horrific terrorist attacks in Paris, Al-Aqsa mosque in Philadelphia received a phone…

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(A)theologies, Archive, Beyond Belief: Election 2016, Israel-Palestine, Politics/Law, StoriesNovember 16, 2015

What Ben Carson’s Pyramid Theory Might Say About His Foreign Policy

By David Krueger

Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson’s theory about the origins of the Egyptian pyramids has been…

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