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Spencer Dew

Spencer Dew is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Religious Studies at Centenary College of Louisiana. He is the author of Learning for Revolution: The Work of Kathy Acker (Hyperbole, 2011), and is currently writing a manuscript on the role of law in three related black ethnic religious movements: the Moorish Science Temple of America, the Yamassee/Nuwaubian movement, and the Washitaw de Dugdahmoundyah.

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Religion Dispatches

How Trump's Assertion of "Power to Pardon" Tramples the American Sacred

Only a tyrant pardons himself.
Spencer Dew
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Martyrdom, Racist Violence, and the Role of Art: Kara Walker’s Religious Turn

In her most recent exhibit, ” The Ecstasy of St. Kara,” the American artist Kara Walker made a turn toward religion, both in terms of imagery and in the understanding of art’s religious function. A…
Spencer Dew
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Kentucky-Fried Christianity: Governor Matt Bevin Wants to Pray Away Violence in Louisville

Over the past few weeks, a conflict has unfolded in Kentucky, revealing a split in American Christian conceptions of the individual and the individual’s role in society. Kentucky’s evangelical…
Spencer Dew
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