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Eric C. Miller

Eric C. Miller is a Professor of Communication Studies at Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania. He is editor of The Rhetoric of Religious Freedom in the United States (Lexington, 2017).

Eric C. Miller, OMFG, Politics/Law, RD BlogOctober 28, 2014

If By “American” and “Religious” You Mean “Republican” and “Conservative Christian,” Then Yes…

By Eric C. Miller

Last month, RD’s Diane Winston commented on the overhyping of a recent Pew survey suggesting that Americans have a…

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Eric C. Miller, OMFG, RD BlogOctober 23, 2014

Visit From Conservative Sex Educator Divides a Town

By Eric C. Miller

In the late culture war era, communities are sometimes riven by fierce and needless debates….

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(A)theologies, Eric C. Miller, RD BlogOctober 15, 2014

Evangelical Disability Activist Condemns Brittany Maynard’s “Death-With-Dignity Agenda”

By Eric C. Miller

Brittany Maynard was on the cover of People magazine this week under the banner, “My Decision…

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Archive, Books, Sexuality/Gender, StoriesOctober 7, 2014

What 19th-Century Marriage Controversies Can Tell Us About The Fight Over Gay Marriage

By Eric C. Miller

The Supreme Court declined to hear five same-sex marriage cases on Monday, thus opening the…

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Books, OMFGSeptember 18, 2014

Rejecting the Binary: Why Left v. Right Doesn’t Work

By Eric C. Miller

It is easy to say that the “religious right” opposes the “secular left,” but what…

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(A)theologies, Archive, Eric C. Miller, Sexuality/Gender, StoriesSeptember 11, 2014

What Does Proper Christian Womanhood Have to do with the Ray Rice Story?

By Eric C. Miller

In 1882, the state of Maryland adopted an “Act to inflict Corporal Punishment upon Persons…

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Eric C. Miller, OMFG, RD BlogAugust 22, 2014

Never Mind the Libertarians, Here’s the ‘Pragmatist Moment’

By Eric C. Miller

By the third paragraph of Robert Draper’s recent New York Times Magazine cover story, “Has the ‘Libertarian Moment’…

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Eric C. Miller, OMFG, Politics/Law, RD Blog, Sexuality/GenderJuly 25, 2014

The Irony in the “Religious Liberty” Argument

By Eric C. Miller

  The nine most terrifying words in the English language, are ‘I’m from the government,…

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(A)theologies, Archive, BooksJuly 16, 2014

How Conservative Christian Women Came to Claim “True” Feminism

By Eric C. Miller

An interview with Leslie Dorrough Smith on her new book, “Righteous Rhetoric: Sex, Speech, and the Politics of Concerned Women for America.”

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Eric C. Miller, RD BlogMay 6, 2014

Al Mohler Wishes We Could Have Death Penalty Under Perfect Conditions…

By Eric C. Miller

Following last week’s botched execution in Oklahoma, religious leaders began to weigh in on the moral quality…

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