Religion Dispatches
This book is my own effort to equip myself to talk about and engage with the nation’s fastest growing religion, to offer a snapshot of one of its most influential institutions, and to tell the stories of the students and scholars who have taken up the challenge of this experiment in American education.
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Much of the hullabaloo surrounding Rick Santorum’s comment that President Obama is a “snob” for pushing college is missing the bigger picture: that Santorum is a cosmic conspiracy theorist, and higher education sits at the heart of the imagined conspiracy.
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The premise that Religious Studies was a weak blend of esotericism and elitism prior to recent years—but is reviving through putting all that in the past—is wrong on factual grounds. More perniciously, if this analysis informs institutional strategies in an era of downsizing, it could be downright dangerous for the future of the discipline.
Read MoreThe latest way to cheat both the poor and the taxpayer…
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At the same time as this year’s Soulforce Equality Ride hit the road carrying busloads of young adults to confront anti-gay school policies at campuses nationwide, the Oklahoma State Senate considered a bill that would have denied the legal protection of hate crimes law to victims of gay bashing. One step forward, two steps back.
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A recent study is making headlines with the finding that certain college majors, most notably those in the humanities and social sciences, are likely to turn students into godless nihilists. Why is this such a big deal?
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College Democrats deface crosses intended for anti-abortion protest and get nailed. Not nice to vandalize someone else’s property, but in political activism, kind of de rigueur.
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