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Liz Bucar

Liz Bucar is a Professor of comparative religion at Northeastern University. She has published five books, including the award-winning Pious Fashion: How Muslim Women Dress, and her op-eds have appeared in The Atlantic, The Los Angeles Times, Teen Vogue, Zolaco Public Square, and The Conversation. Her next book on the ethics of religious appropriation will be published by Harvard University Press.

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Religion Dispatches
Over the last several years, there has been growing attention to the role of cultural appropriation in Halloween traditions . And yet, costumes based on religious clothing—such as the sexy nun—seem to…
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Religion Dispatches
A museum’s charge is to educate, so I’m left wondering whether the curators were afraid of offending their Vatican partners or whether they were simply unwilling to take the religious content seriously.
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