First Impressions #87: Christopher Driscoll on White Lies, Race, and American Religion
The distinctions that we pose between ourselves and others, such as white and black, end up having a wide array of consequences. Kristian
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Directions in the Study of Religion: Sarah Dees on The Materialization of Native American Religions
Nineteenth-century anthropological research on Native Americans communities still shapes how we understand them today. Kristian Petersen talks with Sarah Dees, Lecturer in Religious
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Impolite Conversation #13: Using the Bible in Political Debate
In this month’s episode we talk with Frances Flannery, co-editor of the forthcoming book, The Bible in Political Debate: What Does It Really
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For All That Is Good and Holy: Reclaiming Religion for the Black and Latinx Victims of the #PulseOrlando Massacre by Elizabeth Pérez
What happened in Orlando was an act of desecration no less than terror. There has been no avoiding the stories, even for those
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MRBlog | DISPATCHES. NEH Summer Institute on Problems in the Study of Religion (pt. 3) by Sarah E. Rollens
By Sarah E. Rollens On July 17, the NEH Summer Institute on Problems in the Study of Religion at UVa wrapped up. I
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Impolite Conversation #12: Politics and Theology at the Cinema
Alyssa Rosenberg of the Washington Post talks to us about the political and religious messages that may (or may not) be lurking in
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Impolite Conversation #11: Fracturing of the Christian Right and the Religious “Gender Gap”
This month we talk to Carin Robinson, co-author of Onward Christian Soldiers:? The Religious Right in American Politics, about the current state of the
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Onward Christian Strangers – By Omri Elisha
Omri Elisha on Anna Strhan’s Aliens and Strangers? Nearly a generation has passed since a time when anyone would be surprised to learn
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Meredith Warren on Transformational Eating in Ancient Literature
Divine food can give people access to privileged knowledge, supernatural realms, or transform them completely. Kristian Petersen talks with Meredith Warren, Lecturer
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Impolite Conversation #10: Islamophobia and What to Do About It
In this month’s episode, Tim Hill and Dan Clanton speak with Todd Green of Luther College about his new book, The Fear of Islam: An
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