Buddhism And Politics in Myanmar: An Author Interview
What inspired you to write Buddhism, Politics and Political Thought in Myanmar? My interest in the…
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Fox News Controversy on Yoga and White Supremacy Reveals Problem of Yoga Discussion
A recent Fox News headline, “Americans who Practice Yoga Contribute to White Supremacy, Michigan State…
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Christians of Color Are Rejecting “Colonial Christianity” and Reclaiming Ancestral Spiritualities
This is how quickly it happened. One moment we were passing sumptuous kebob platters around…
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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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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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It looks like Megyn Kelly’s interview with Alex Jones will go forward on NBC this…
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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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Gay Men Detained and Killed in Chechnya, and More in the Global LGBT Recap
Gilbert Baker, who created the rainbow flag design that has become a symbol of the…
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Let’s Get Lost: Mapping Religion in the 21st Century
Maps allow for a kind of immersive wandering, yet at the same time reminding us of our distance from that which we contemplate—this is an essential caution for considering any maps of American religion
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