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Liz Bucar

Liz Bucar is a Professor of comparative religion at Northeastern University. She has published five books, including the award-winning Pious Fashion: How Muslim Women Dress, and her op-eds have appeared in The Atlantic, The Los Angeles Times, Teen Vogue, Zolaco Public Square, and The Conversation. Her next book on the ethics of religious appropriation will be published by Harvard University Press.

Culture, History/TheologyJanuary 11, 2019

Heavenly Bodies Was the Most Popular Exhibit in the History of the Met—Here’s Why That’s a Problem

By Liz Bucar

A museum’s charge is to educate, so I’m left wondering whether the curators were afraid of offending their Vatican partners or whether they were simply unwilling to take the religious content seriously.

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