On the Erasure of Whiteness in Responses to Convicted Pedophile Jan Joosten, a White Man
In her now classic paper titled White Fragility, Robin DiAngelo writes about the many ways…
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Love the Scholarship But Hate the Scholar’s Sin?: ‘Himpathy’ for an Academic Pedophile Enables a Culture of Abuse
In her excellent book Down Girl: The Logic of Misogyny, the philosopher Kate Manne coined…
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Teaching World Religion in the Dumpster Fire
How different might this election cycle have been had more voters been willing to be curious about, understand, accept, or even embrace a pluralist nation, rather than panic in the face of the other?
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Filling the Awkward Silence: A Response to Laura Levitt on the Passing of Jacob Neusner
I had met Jack at an Association of Jewish Studies conference while I was in my first year as a professor and, after a brief talk, he invited me to apply for the position at Brown.
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U. of Colorado Appoints “Scholar of Conservative Thought”
The irony is that the hire seems a mirror-image mimicking of what conservatives typically allege of the university hiring process: that only liberals/radicals, regardless of scholarly accomplishment, need apply.
Read MoreAuditor Calls ‘Gay Parenting’ Study ‘Bullshit’
The religious right inaccurately portrays study to give them a weapon in the marriage wars.
Read MoreThe Quixotic Task of Debunking David Barton
A pair of evangelical professors have written a point-by-point refutation of the religious right’s favorite historian. The question remains: does it matter?
Read MoreWhat Get Religion Doesn’t Get About “Monk” Class
AP’s Kathy Matheson 1, conservative blogger Terry Mattingly 0.
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Pentecostal Scholars Call for Academic Freedom
A scholar of Pentecostalism tells how an academic conference became a culture war battleground, and what she plans to do about it.
Read MoreWhat Can Academics Do About Islamophobia?
Quite a bit, as it turns out. Whether as public figures or educators, academics can, for example, help refute the work of high profile Islamophobes whose expertise lies outside of Islam.
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