“Giving Godhead”: A Bloody Vision of Religion’s Deepest Influence
Dylan Krieger writes of the prophets who eat scrolls and insist the parchment tastes just like the honey of that many-mansioned heaven in the by-and-by sky.
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How “Mindfulness” Lost Its Mind
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You Are Being Organized by Something: 10 Questions for Kathryn Lofton on Consuming Religion
What inspired you to write Consuming Religion? Restlessness. After I finished my first book, I…
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You’ve Been Warned: Reading Philip Roth’s The Plot Against America in the Trump Era
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More Than Big Hair and Money: Jim, Tammy Faye and the Media “Holy Wars” of the 80s
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Why We Stay: What the History of Mormonism Reveals About the Origins of “Race”
Author Max Perry Mueller answers RD’s 10 Questions
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Magic in the Air: How Intellectuals Invented the Myth of a Mythless Society
Author Jason Josephson-Storm answers RD’s 10 Questions
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“The Slut Assumption”: Myths About Jewelry Reveal Diamonds Aren’t Always A Girl’s Best Friend
Author Wendy Doniger answers RD’s 10 Questions
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Feeding on the Faithful: How Supernatural Thinking Empowered the Third Reich
Author Eric Kurlander answers RD’s 10 Questions
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A Whole New Ball Game: New Book Rethinks the History of Religion in Sport
Author Daniel Grano answers RD’s 10 Questions
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