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The Public Eye, Summer 2020

Public Eye
As COVID-19 shut down much of the world’s economy this spring, a meme spread on social media, declaring humans were “the virus,” and the pandemic “Earth’s vaccine.” While many mocked the idea, as Alex
Magazine
Religion Dispatches

From Original Sin to Flattering Mirror: The Uses and Misuses of Civil Rights History

By the turn of the millennium, the history of the civil rights movement had become a national story. When asked to name a “most famous American” other than a president “from Columbus to today,” high…
Jeanne Theoharis
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Religion Dispatches

Elaine Howard Ecklund Wants to Dispel Myths Surrounding Religious Resistance to Science

Sociologist Elaine Howard Ecklund studies the intersection of religion and science in Houston, a city with Texas-sized helpings of both: Joel Osteen preaches to packed houses in the old Houston…
Sammy Feldblum
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Religion Dispatches

Christians of Color Are Rejecting "Colonial Christianity" and Reclaiming Ancestral Spiritualities

This is how quickly it happened. One moment we were passing sumptuous kebob platters around the table making polite introductions, and the next we were swapping trauma stories that we—all people of…
Deborah Jian Lee
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The Public Eye, Winter/Spring 2020

Public Eye
Nearly a year in the making, Winter/Spring 2020 is a special internationally themed edition of The Public Eye, drawing on contributions from 10 writers and covering nine countries. Overall, the pictur
Cover of The Public Eye, Winter/Spring 2020
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Religion Dispatches

Challenging the Religious Left: RD on the Radio

RD’s Peter Laarman discussed his year-end piece, THE YEAR IN RELIGION: A RAY OF HOPE AMID THE USUAL FECKLESSNESS with State of Belief radio host, Welton Gaddy. Who’s getting it wrong? Who’s getting it…
The Editors
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Religion Dispatches

New World A-Coming: How Black Religion Helped Shape Racial Identity

What inspired you to write New World A-Coming: Black Religion and Racial Identity During the Great Migration? I have been fascinated by the black new religious movements of the Great Migration era…
Judith Weisenfeld
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The Public Eye, Commemorative Issue

Public Eye
Featuring excerpts from 20 seminal articles published in the magazine between 1995 and 2018 . A peer-reviewed quarterly magazine that goes beyond the standard thinking and reporting on the U.S. and…
The Public Eye, 100th Commemorative Issue
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Religion Dispatches

Historian John Ragosta Discusses the Context and Inspiration for 'Religious Freedom' in the U.S.

Historian John Ragosta details some of the strikingly similar issues over the proper place of religion and religious expression in a secular nation compromised of mostly religious individuals.
Frederick Clarkson
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Religion Dispatches

Religious Freedom Historian John Ragosta on "Religious Freedom"

To listen to the Christian Right, which has been busy seeking religious exemptions from laws governing reproductive rights and LGBTQ rights, one might think that armies of secularists are swarming…
Frederick Clarkson
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