Dispatches From the Rhodian Shore: A (Tough) Love Letter to Religious Studies
When writing as critical scholars of religion about the impacts and role of religion in…
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Status Updates at the End of the World: The Religious Imagination and Our Latest Apocalypse
Revelations abound. Hurricanes, earthquakes, and wildfires crowd the news, alongside genocide, terrorism, and rogue state…
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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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Ainslie Embree’s Gift to Religious Studies
When the preeminent historian, Ainslie Embree, died last week at age 96, he was lauded for…
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Religion in Real Time on CNN’s “Believer”: A Conversation with Reza Aslan
Believer is not your average religion documentary, offering an outsider’s view of the spectacle of…
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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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The Awkward Silence in the Wake of Jacob Neusner’s Passing
In the weeks since Jacob Neusner died earlier this fall, there has been a deafening silence from all of those whose lives he took into his hands, from those whose careers he crafted, whose books he published, whose lives he so fully encompassed.
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Why Kaepernick’s Refusal to Stand Is an Act of Religious Dissent
The American flag represents the nation state as a sacred entity—it serves as symbol for the nation’s self-worship.
Read MoreThe Risk of Teaching Theology in a Public University: A Response
A year ago, the University of California at Berkeley announced that it had been awarded…
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‘Politicized Religion’ Doesn’t Explain Evangelical Support of Donald Trump
Why do so many American evangelicals support the presidential candidacy of Donald Trump? Stephen Prothero,…
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