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Fighting 21st Century Fascism

Louis A. Ruprecht

Louis A. Ruprecht Jr. is William M. Suttles Chair of Religious Studies at Georgia State University in Atlanta. He is the author of  seven books, most recently: JJ Winckelmann andd the Vatican’s First Profane Museum (Palgrave, 2011).

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Cronus, Chronos, and Christ

On the conflation of deities.
Louis A. Ruprecht
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For Saturn’s Sake, Remember the Dead

So what is the connection between devouring children and a superabundance of grain?
Louis A. Ruprecht
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The British (Bible) Invasion: KJV 400-Year Anniversary Rolls On

To the chagrin of Britain’s Secular Society, which has protested, as the Guardian reports this week, that schools are “awash in Bibles,” every state school in England is going to get a new copy of the 1611 King James Version by the spring.
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