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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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Religion Dispatches

Barack's “My Plan for Iraq” a Missed Opportunity

The current mess in Iraq provides Obama with an opportunity to demonstrate his knowledge about the conflict and difference between Sunni and Shi’ite…
Louis A. Ruprecht
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Terminal 5 is a Product of the New Post-9/11 Realities

We simply took a page from the Israeli anti-terror playbook (“hit them ten times as hard as they hit you”), and we now live in a world as permanently destabilized as the world most Israelis so grimly inhabit.
Louis A. Ruprecht
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The Byzantine Bush Tell-All

The original insider memoir, by Procopius of Caesarea, gave the word ‘byzantine’ its current meaning…
Louis A. Ruprecht
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