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Donovan Schaefer

Donovan Schaefer is an associate professor in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of Religious Affects: Animality, Evolution, and Power (Duke UP, 2015) and the award-winning Wild Experiment: Feeling Science and Secularism after Darwin (Duke UP, 2022). His current research considers the affects and politics of public material culture, especially Confederate commemoration.

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Religion Dispatches
Pundits rely far too much on what we say and they miss the deeper picture.
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Religion Dispatches
It’s unclear what kind of political impact Laudato si, the first encyclical of Francis’ papacy will have, but from a scholarly perspective it’s already doing something significant: scrambling one of…
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