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Andrew Aghapour

Andrew Aghapour is a scholar of religion and a comedian. His one-person show Zara: An Autobiography of Monotheism is about religion, immigration, and the history of truth.

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Religion Dispatches
In his most recent piece RD associate editor Andrew Aghapour explores why it’s psychologically difficult, but increasingly important, to blame social institutions for causing harm. The article cites…
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Religion Dispatches
Is Dylann Roof solely to blame for the murder of 9 people in the Emanuel AME church in Charleston? How about our nation’s inadequate gun laws or pervasive racism? Or are we all to blame? Pick just…
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Religion Dispatches
The day before Mayweather fought Pacquiao, New Atheist Sam Harris released an email sparring match he’d had with famed linguist and leftist intellectual Noam Chomsky. In his bestselling book The End…
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