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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

Evangelical Sexperiment

An evangelical minister makes news by urging his congregation to have more sex. Which is theologically bizarre, socially backward, and vaguely pandering.
Louis A. Ruprecht
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Queer [Theory]-Bashing by Georgia Republicans; The New Know-Nothingism Creeps

CNN’s sloppy reporting reignited a controversy seized on by conservative lawmakers who prey on the knee-jerk associations the public has with the word “Queer”
Louis A. Ruprecht
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Partisanship Is The New Civil Religion

Sure we are supposed to pray for our enemies, but for some Christians, Democrats are the enemy you dare not pray for, the party you dare not join. And the prejudice goes both ways.
Louis A. Ruprecht
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