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Hail Santa! War-on-Christmas Outrage Over Satanic Tree Reveals the Self-Serving Ambiguity of ‘Religion’

By Joseph Laycock

…I) hysterically called the tree “an attack on the religious freedom of all Americans.” This year’s crop of outrage was a master class in the rhetorical gymnastics deployed in cases like this: Participating in a public forum is an attack; Christmas is a secular holiday to be celebrated in government offices, yet simultaneously so sacred that celebrating it “incorrectly” is an affront to Christianity; and “Religion” is a vague category deployed in i…

7 Women Scholars On the Gender Divide in Religious Studies, the Power of Mentors, and Leading While Female

By Rebecca Barrett-Fox

…ld care about diversity in the authors we read. It helps that the seminary classroom at Boston University, where I teach, is probably the most diverse classroom I’ve ever encountered—so there is almost nothing you can say that won’t offend someone. It’s a very difficult place to teach, but mostly it’s fun, and that diversity is a great thing. “THE MOTHERHOOD PENALTY” Laurie Maffly-Kipp: My first suggestion is to stop seeing childbearing as a woman…