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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
A struggle between two modern and intertwined mythologies of evil, True Detective ultimately fell back on the easiest of formulas.
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Religion Dispatches
Severed animal parts are probably less religious than just freaky.
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Religion Dispatches
Bonus points for why.
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