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Timothy Gutmann

Timothy Gutmann is a PhD candidate in religion focusing on Islam and East Asian thought at the University of Chicago. His dissertation is titled “Conscripting Tradition: Islam, Confucianism, Modernity” about how modernizing processes make traditions intelligible and useable through mass education.

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Religion Dispatches
To call Aziz Ansari’s Netflix series Master of None “peak TV” is not to do it justice. It has a lightness to it that makes it a relief from the overwrought self-importance of shows that define the…
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