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Mark Hulsether

Mark Hulsether is Emeritus Professor of Religious Studies and American Studies at the University of Tennessee. He is the author of many books and articles on religion, culture, and society in the twentieth century United States.

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Religion Dispatches

Is Obama Satan’s Warm-up Act?

The co-authors of the eschatological Left Behind series appeared on the Rachel Maddow show to offer a variation on the theory that Obama may be the Antichrist.
Mark Hulsether
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Religion Dispatches

School of (Patriotic) Rock

A professor of religious studies, challenged to write a patriotic song that isn’t militaristic, is inspired by texts on our democratic project.
Mark Hulsether
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Religion Dispatches

A Scholar Responds to John McCain: No God But Country

Did Lofton’s critique go far enough? Was it too measured and neutral? Scholar Mark Hulsether writes that “given the issues at stake in the current election and the huge gap in scholarly persuasiveness between some articulations of Christianity and others, this is a place where my own inclination would be to draw more critics out of the shadows and to give them space to twist their knives harder.”
Mark Hulsether
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