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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
In May, four girls at a Colombian high school experienced a supernatural encounter so profound they had to be taken to the emergency room in an ambulance. The girls had been playing a game called the…
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Religion Dispatches
Can we be inclusive if we exclude the exclusive?
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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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