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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
The old mainline market theology may yet be seen for what it is: a heresy.
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Religion Dispatches
RD opened the week with a poignant and saddening description of how hate seems actually to have become a dominant emotional trope in latter-day electoral campaigning. While there is much cause for concern in what his essay captured so well about this especially…
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Religion Dispatches
In more ways than have been understood to date, Greece has become Ground Zero of the global meltdown, the epicenter of a shock wave that will yet reveal to us the surprising extent, not just of corporate excess, but of corporations themselves, corporations that now include governments and congregations. We have yet to think through this new way of seeing some very old things: and thus what it means for the Catholic Church or the Orthodox Church to be a transnational corporation today.
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