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Christopher Douglas

Christopher Douglas is Professor of English at the University of Victoria, where he teaches American literature, and is the author of If God Meant to Interfere: American Literature and the Rise of the Christian Right. Follow him on Twitter at @crddouglas and read his other work here.

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Religion Dispatches
The following was originally published on April 25, 2017. The upcoming release of Hulu’s Handmaid’s Tale miniseries is an opportunity to appreciate the cultural significance—and political prescience…
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Religion Dispatches
Hulu’s The Handmaid’s Tale triumphed at the Emmys last night, capping a culture-grabbing comeback for Margaret Atwood’s 1985 dystopian novel. But if we’re still casting about for literary maps of what…
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Religion Dispatches
“Conservative Christians had long rejected aspects of expert knowledge, official science, reason, and their organs of circulation. They had been trained in a fundamentalist hermeneutics of suspicion.”
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