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Michael J. Altman

Michael J. Altman is professor of religious studies at the University of Alabama. He is currently writing a new book, Wrestling with Religion: Working Theories of Culture

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Religion Dispatches
Jason Kirk’s first novel, Hell is a World Without You , tells the coming-of-age story of a grieving teenager in the American evangelical subculture of the 2000s. The details that make it feel…
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Religion Dispatches
I lie a lot on airplanes. Not in any way that should upset the TSA or anything like that—just to the question “What do you do?” I don’t like admitting to strangers what it is I do. I’m a Ph.D. student…
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Religion Dispatches
A roundup of the week’s religion headlines.
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