Judith Weisenfeld is the Agate Brown and George L. Collord Professor of Religion at Princeton University. In addition to New World A-Coming: Black Religion and Racial Identity during the Great…
John O’Brien is assistant professor of sociology in the social sciences division at NYU Abu Dhabi, where he teaches classes on ethnographic field methods, religion, culture, and Islam and Muslims. His…
“God has given sooo much information in the Bible about [the end of the world],” Camping said, “and so many proofs, and so many signs, that we know it is absolutely going to happen without any question at all.”
Families invite the elves into their homes for the explicit purpose of monitoring children. Yes, this might ensure good behavior between Thanksgiving and Christmas (child psychologists worry about what happens when parents farm out discipline to Santa). More importantly, these elves teach children that they should expect to be watched even in their own homes.
Detractors maintained that their opposition to McDonald’s Mother Abbess was not driven by racial bigotry but instead by a desire for “accurate” history.