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The dismissal of Weber’s worth as a theorist of historical and contemporary religion is premature. The so-called secularization thesis — the notion that
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One Nation Under God Forum: How Corporate America Invented Christian America
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MRBlog | When Prayer Is Not Enough
By Thomas J. Whitley It was “just another day in the United States of America. Another day of gunfire, panic and fear.” This
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Impolite Conversation #6: Climate Change as a Religious Issue
In this month’s episode, we talk to the Rev. Kim Morrow, whose ministry is focused on issues of climate change and sustainability, about
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First Impressions #61: Neil J. Young
American politics makes strange bedfellows — the unlikely coalition of Mormons, Catholics, and Evangelicals. Art Remillard talks with Neil J. Young about his
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An Ex-Soviet Jew Looks at Syrian Refugees and America – by Margaret Litvin
Margaret Litvin on why there are no chosen peoples, only people making choices. If you embrace neither religion nor nationalism, you aren’t left
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MRBlog | Muslims and Republican Mythmaking
By Thomas J. Whitley Move out of the way, Red Scare, we’re on to a new enemy. Communism is no longer a
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First Impressions #60: John Wilsey
The idea of American exceptionalism in its best and worst forms. Art Remillard talks with theologian and historian John Wilsey about his new
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A First Impressions New Book Guide for #AARSBL2015
First Impressions is a Marginalia Review of Books podcast featuring authors of some of the most important new books in religion, history, and
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First Impressions #59: The Study Qur’an
Kristian Petersen talks with Caner Dagli of College of the Holy Cross, Maria Dakake of George Mason University, and Joseph Lumbard of American
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