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Kate Blanchard

Kate Blanchard is Charles A. Dana Professor of Religious Studies, Emerita, at Alma College in central Michigan. She is the author of The Protestant Ethic or The Spirit of Capitalism: Christians, Freedom, and Free Markets (Cascade) and co-author of An Introduction to Christian Environmentalism: Ecology, Virtue, and Ethics (Baylor).

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Religion Dispatches
When people ask questions like “ Why do we pick and choose our religious beliefs?” they usually don’t mean “we” but “they.” This is because within such a question, there is often an implied criticism…
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Religion Dispatches
I have been following, with some glee, the verbal spankings that Bill Maher and other “New Atheists” have been getting from the likes of Ben Affleck and Reza Aslan. For years I have been not so much…
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Religion Dispatches
On the occasion of Dave Brat’s rise to (perhaps short-lived) fame, I wish to take this opportunity to question the common wisdom that Calvinism and capitalism go hand in hand. The confusion may go…
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