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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Can Religion Professors Save the Planet?
Prof. Zoloth’s proposal tells us everything we need to know about the malaise poisoning the study of religion.
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Reza Aslan’s Viral Fox News Interview Reveals More Than Just Christian Privilege
When FoxNews.com’s Lauren Green repeatedly pressed Reza Aslan, a Muslim, on why he wrote a book on Jesus, she was, without knowing it, putting the role of religious studies scholarship on a grand stage.
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Reza Aslan’s Missed Opportunity
With apologies to Reza Aslan, he is not an unbiased scholar of the historical Jesus, or of the history of Islam, or of any other phenomenon in the study of religion. Nor is any Christian or Jewish scholar, or any liberal or conservative scholar. I just wish he had said so.
Read MoreUpdate: Fox News Tries Gotcha Game with Reza Aslan
In which the author of a new Jesus bio repeatedly addresses his Muslim background.
Read MoreBush Era to Blame for Renewed Interest in Mainline?
From the Transcendentalists to Alcoholics Anonymous, yoga and “the gospel of Oprah.”
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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 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?
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Satanic or Silly: Does Yale Press Censorship of Cartoons Insult Muslims?
While the rioting over the Danish cartoons seems to be well behind us, Yale University Press recently removed the images from a new scholarly work on the topic. Do Muslim extremists need a scholarly book as pretext with two wars being fought in Muslim nations and an ongoing crisis in Gaza? The problem isn’t with these images, but with the ubiquitous Islamophobia in the United States.
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