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      Since You’ve Been Gone: The Politics of Hysterectomy and the Impossibility of ‘Choice’
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    • Since You’ve Been Gone: The Politics of Hysterectomy and the Impossibility of ‘Choice’
      Since You’ve Been Gone: The Politics of Hysterectomy and the Impossibility of ‘Choice’
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      Capitalism’s Violence calls for Collective Wrath, not Luigi Mangione’s Privatized Rage
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      HABEMUS PAPAM: New Pope Selection Signals Church’s Concerns about Spread of US, Global Authoritarianism
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    • The Billionaires Selling School Vouchers to Buy the Soul of a Nation
      The Billionaires Selling School Vouchers to Buy the Soul of a Nation
    • The US Right’s Campaign to Make More ‘Babies of a Certain Kind’
      The US Right’s Campaign to Make More ‘Babies of a Certain Kind’
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      Against American Exceptionalism? Pope Leo XIV v. US Christian Nationalism
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    • Capitalism’s Violence calls for Collective Wrath, not Luigi Mangione’s Privatized Rage
      Capitalism’s Violence calls for Collective Wrath, not Luigi Mangione’s Privatized Rage
    • Remembering ‘MOVE’ as American religion on the 40th anniversary of Philadelphia bombing its own residents
      Remembering ‘MOVE’ as American religion on the 40th anniversary of Philadelphia bombing its own residents
    • Catholic Right Support isn’t the Only Reason Trump Believes He Can Get Away with Mockery of Catholicism
      Catholic Right Support isn’t the Only Reason Trump Believes He Can Get Away with Mockery of Catholicism

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UncategorizedAugust 18, 2011

Moses on Facebook, Christian Pro Soccer, Televangelist Breakfast Cereal, Child Preachers

By Michael J. Altman

A roundup of the week’s religion headlines.

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Sexuality/GenderJune 16, 2011

Irony of the Iranian Women’s Burqa Ban

By Shabana Mir

Don’t we in the West laugh at authoritarian states that control women’s clothes and sex lives?

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UncategorizedNovember 29, 2010

Think Yoga is a Religion? Try Youth Soccer!

By Joanna Brooks

Controversy over who owns yoga simmers at 105 degrees.


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UncategorizedJune 29, 2010

Sacred Dimensions of the World Cup: State of Belief Radio

By The Editors

RD Director Gary Laderman discusses the sacred dimensions of World Cup soccer.

 

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UncategorizedJune 23, 2010

Religion Reporting as Therapy? Praying for Help with Budget Crisis…

By Michael J. Altman

The week in religion, poetically.

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