How AIDS Changed the Way American Christians Talk About Sex
A Q&A with Anthony Petro on his new book, the first history of religion and the AIDS crisis in the U.S.
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My Childhood Hobby Was Satanic, Or So They Told Me
The moral panic around Dungeons and Dragons and other role-playing games—and what it tells us about religion.
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God is a Terrifying Monster, and Other Takeaways from the Study of Vampires in Pop Culture
A Q&A with Jess Peacock, author of Such a Dark Thing.
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Fake, Evil, Spiritual, Commodified; What’s the Truth About Popular Yoga?
What inspired you to write Selling Yoga? Near the beginning of my graduate school career, I…
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From The Virgin Mary to a Housewife in Queens: Inside The Seer of Bayside
Every June 18 for more than 25 years, Veronica Lueken—a Catholic housewife from Bayside, Queens—gathered…
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Jewishness Per Square Inch, Medieval Edition
Who doesn’t love a hairy naked ape-man?
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His Own Received Him Not: Jimmy Carter, First Evangelical President
Randall Balmer on Jimmy Carter, the role of the president’s faith, and the real reason for the rise of the Religious Right.
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No Zombies Here, Just a Bunch of Women Talking to the Dead
What inspired you to write Talking to the Dead? I vividly recall the experiences that…
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How Hell Has Shaped America
What inspired you to write Damned Nation? When I was an undergraduate, I was stunned…
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If Bad-Ass Nuns Ruled the World
What inspired you to write If Nuns Ruled the World? Around 2009 I started spending a…
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