The Complexities of Tebowing
While Denver Broncos’ quarterback, Tim Tebow, has drawn increasingly sharp criticism, satirical imitation, and downright scorn for his public displays of faith, as well as the emergent movement he has...
View ArticleOn Trayvon Martin, Perceived Identities, and Zombie Imaginaries
In his recent comments on the Fox News Channel’s FOX & Friends morning show, Geraldo Rivera claimed that the shooting of Florida teenager Trayvon Martin was equally the result of (i) an...
View ArticleThis Must Be How Jon Stewart Feels Every Day
by Donovan Schaefer Bill O’Reilly: It is a fact that Christianity is not a religion; it is a philosophy. If the government was saying that the Methodist religion deserves a special place in the public...
View ArticleA little simple, perhaps, but useful! On the Reza Aslan affair
by Ian Brown First, an admission. While I have watched Fox News anchor Lauren Green’s interview with Reza Aslan, I have not read his book and likely will not. Based on the book’s chapter headings,...
View ArticleThe War on Christmas, Affect, and the Closet of Disbelief: Postsecular...
by Donovan SchaeferAtheist interfaith activist and author of the memoir Faitheist Chris Stedman appeared two weeks ago on Fox News for an interview with right-wing commentator Bill O’Reilly....
View ArticleIt’s Cold as *$#%! How Cold? Colder than Mars!
by Matt SheedyTalk about the unusually cold weather in North America (U.S. and Canadian parts, that is) has been all the rage of late in mainstream and social media, what with record cold in the...
View ArticleJesus’ Remains: Teaching Multiple Jesi
by Kate Daley-BaileyMotivated by not a little shameless self-promotion and a pseudo-masochistic desire for undergraduate feedback on my work, I ventured to present my Introduction to Religious Thought...
View ArticleReza Aslan’s Theory of Religion and Politics
by Simon Frankel Pratt* This post original appeared on the author’s blog.As talking heads in the media once again make problematic, ultra-general claims about Islam’s supposed essential bellicosity, or...
View ArticleOn the Usefulness of Reza Aslan
by Matt Sheedy The launch of Reza Aslan’s Believer on CNN has, not surprisingly, garnered a fair bit of attention since its release earlier this month, from both popular websites as well as from...
View ArticleTheorizing Religion in the Age of Trump: Justin K.H. Tse
The election of Donald Trump has given rise to new kind of politics that has already increased tensions between competing groups, including religious groups over issues such as public education,...
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