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“We’re here to talk about religion”: A Few Examples for Teaching Classification

by Charles McCrary This post’s titular sentence was spoken Friday morning by a student during first lecture of the semester. It was a protest, playful but betraying frustration. She was sitting in the front row of a packed classroom, spending … Continue reading

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All-American Fireworks, Hamburgers, Frankfurters and Yoga

by Steven Ramey * This post first appeared on the Culture on the Edge: Studies in Identity Formation blog. With all-American Fourth of July festivities like fireworks, frankfurters, and hamburgers, we continually construct our identification with an imagined community, as Benedict … Continue reading

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