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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

Religion Reporting as Therapy? Praying for Help with Budget Crisis...

The week in religion, poetically.
Michael J. Altman
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Mark McGwire Confesses, He Sinned on Baseball’s Sacred Ground

Whether it’s Kobe Bryant, Alex Rodriguez, Michael Vick, or, more recently, Tiger Woods, the confession is the key to repairing moral failure in the world of sports.
Michael J. Altman
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Sotomayor, Evangelicals, and Racism

The logic of Evangelical theology tends to reduce systemic social problems to individual sin — not racism, for example, but racists. How did this play out among Republicans, and their constituencies, during Sotomayor’s confirmation hearings?
Michael J. Altman
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