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Joseph Laycock

Joseph Laycock is an assistant professor of religious studies at Texas State University. In addition to Speak of the Devil (Oxford University Press, 2020), his books include The Seer of Bayside: Veronica Lueken and the Struggle for Catholic Tradition (Oxford University Press, 2014) and Dangerous Games: What the Moral Panic Over Role-Playing Games Says About Religion, Play, and Imagined Worlds (University of California Press, 2015).

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Religion Dispatches
Last week a story broke about a middle-school teacher in Dublin, Georgia, sharing an “inappropriate opinion” in the classroom. Nancy Perry allegedly told her students that President Obama is not a…
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Religion Dispatches
Although it seems like a late April Fool’s prank, a press release from the Raelian movement on April 2 announced that they were delivering a project file to the White House with plans to construct an…
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Religion Dispatches
The moral panic around Dungeons and Dragons and other role-playing games—and what it tells us about religion.
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