Spencer Dew

Spencer Dew is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Religious Studies at Centenary College of Louisiana. He is the author of Learning for Revolution: The Work of Kathy Acker (Hyperbole, 2011), and is currently writing a manuscript on the role of law in three related black ethnic religious movements: the Moorish Science Temple of America, the Yamassee/Nuwaubian movement, and the Washitaw de Dugdahmoundyah.

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Religion Dispatches

Status Updates at the End of the World: The Religious Imagination and Our Latest Apocalypse

Revelations abound. Hurricanes, earthquakes, and wildfires crowd the news, alongside genocide, terrorism, and rogue state tests of intercontinental missiles and the nuclear warheads with which to arm…

Spencer Dew

September 20, 2017

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Religion Dispatches

Oh Say, Can You See?: 9/11 Flag Displays and the Flag’s Symbolic Power

As the sixteenth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks approaches, communities from Utica, New York to Sandy, Utah are preparing versions of what has become a new national flag ritual—the commemoration of…

Spencer Dew

September 7, 2017

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Religion Dispatches

What Happens When An American President Believes He is Above the Law?

Americans like to talk about law as if it something real, something outside the thoughts and actions of men and women like us, even including us. This reification of law is part of a deep American…

Spencer Dew

August 29, 2017

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