Jeffrey Scholes

Jeffrey Scholes is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies in the Department of Philosophy and the Director of the Center for Religious Diversity and Public Life at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs. He is the author of Vocation and the Politics of Work (Lexington 2013) and Religion and Sports in American Culture with Raphael Sassower (Routledge 2014).

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Religion Dispatches

The Question is: What Kind of Football Does God Fancy?

After leading his team to victory over the Seattle Seahawks last Sunday, Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers told reporters that God “was a Packers fan tonight”—a retort to Russell Wilson’s…

Jeffrey Scholes

September 25, 2015

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Religion Dispatches

Reza Aslan’s Viral Fox News Interview Reveals More Than Just Christian Privilege

When FoxNews.com’s Lauren Green repeatedly pressed Reza Aslan, a Muslim, on why he wrote a book on Jesus, she was, without knowing it, putting the role of religious studies scholarship on a grand stage.

Jeffrey Scholes

August 19, 2013

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Religion Dispatches

Neither The Joker Nor Godlessness Drove Batman Shooting

Rather than attributing Holmes’ and the Joker’s nonexistent moral compass (and neither seems to have one) to an absence of moral training that would be there if prayer were back in public schools, we may need to look at their apparent lack of a self-conscious narrative as a more telling source.

Jeffrey Scholes

July 30, 2012

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