Tag Archives: religion in America

“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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Is Islamophobia Racism?

Posted on June 19, 2012 by Donovan Schaefer

Short answer: Yes. The long answer: So you remember Don Imus? The sports commentator who called the teenage girls of the Rutgers basketball team “nappy-headed hoes” and was dropped from NBC? How about Michael Richards—the guy who played Kramer on … Continue reading →

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The Existential Work of the Jedi

Posted on January 19, 2012 by Kenny Paul Smith

In a Bulletin post from August 2011, I speculated about the likely religious future of George Lucas’ still wildly popular, and globally distributed, Star Wars universe. Might figures such as the Jedi Knight come to play an increasingly explicit role … Continue reading →

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Daisy Khan at Syracuse University

Posted on October 8, 2010 by Donovan Schaefer

I met Daisy Khan, wife of Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf and one of the minds behind the Park51 project, when she came to my campus today, first at a lunch hosted by the interfaith Hendricks Chapel, then for an interview … Continue reading →

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