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Religion Dispatches
Pushback against Beck’s social justice comments only fuel Beck.
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Religion Dispatches
Whether Dobson was forced out or not, a “new face” has been in the cards.
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Political Research Associates
Jessica Johnson has taught classes in Anthropology; Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies; and Religious Studies throughout the United States. Her book on the rise and fall of Mars Hill Church…
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Religion Dispatches
With his new Faith and Freedom Coalition, Ralph Reed hopes to simultaneously bury his past and to make the connection he’s been yearning for: to “address a wider range agenda, social issues plus economic issues.” Will that connection and mutual cries of socialism be enough to wed the two most energetic right-wing movements?
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Political Research Associates
David Walker is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. His recent publications treat ritual innovations in spiritualism and stage magic (a subject…
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Political Research Associates
LeRhonda S. Manigault-Bryant is Associate Professor of Africana Studies at Williams College where she teaches a variety of courses on religion and popular culture, ethnographic methods, African…
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Religion Dispatches
She didn’t need to go to Mecca to learn about Islam.
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Religion Dispatches
In the ever more dystopian world of Syfy Channel’s Caprica, teenage girls inhabit robot bodies, or live eternally without bodies at all, human bodies are marked by memories, and all the while there is blood flowing in the virtual streets.
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Religion Dispatches
Avatar had audiences rooting for nature, against the destruction of marauding tanks—but the Oscar went to the film that offered a soldier’s-eye view.
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Religion Dispatches
Because women aren’t permitted to be rabbis in the Orthodox Jewish tradition, Sara Hurwitz was given the made-up title Mahara”t upon her ordination. A little while later, after she was quietly given the title rabba, the Orthodox Jewish world responded with condemnations.
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