Tag Archives: George Washington

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

Posted on March 23, 2015 by mattsheedy

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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The Politics of Choice

Posted on March 31, 2014 by mattsheedy

by Craig Martin * This post originally appeared on the Culture on the Edge blog. George Washington’s Sacred Fire—in which Peter A. Lillback argues that “founding father” George Washington was a Christian and not a deist—garnered a great deal of … Continue reading →

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Cultural Icons Turn Out For Perry-odies

Posted on December 19, 2011 by Kenny Paul Smith

In what is now a classic text in American religious history, Selling God: American Religion in the Marketplace of Culture, R. Laurence Moore documents the gradual entanglement of American religion “in the marketplace of culture” during the 19th and 20th … Continue reading →

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