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Religion Dispatches
A response to Ivan Strenski’s “Can Religion Professors Save the Planet?”
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Religion Dispatches
The ongoing debate regarding activism and the academy: climate change edition.
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Religion Dispatches
Prof. Zoloth’s proposal tells us everything we need to know about the malaise poisoning the study of religion.
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Religion Dispatches
If you don’t want a culture war, don’t act like a culture warrior.
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Religion Dispatches
Is it really feasible to have this conversation without any reference to human values?
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Religion Dispatches
When I conducted a focus group at this church, the end times seemed to be on everyone’s mind. When we talked about caring for the environment, “Craig” cautioned that it was important to draw the line between protecting the creation and worshipping it, while “Julie” agreed, adding that, “like with the polar bears and stuff, of course I don’t want them to die, but you also have to realize this is just a part of the world coming to an end like it’s supposed to. And there’s nothing really that they can do.”
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Religion Dispatches
“I understand the temperature on Mars is going up, and we don’t have any SUVs there.”
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Religion Dispatches
An RD holiday sampler of stories & viewpoints we would have liked to read in 2012.
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Religion Dispatches
If there is one thing people need during a national disaster, it is functioning and effective government. If there is one time we need redistributive justice, it is during a crisis. Much of politics perhaps just comes down to what is, and is not, a crisis—a hurricane I hope we can all agree on. But what about climate change? Or health care? What is life-threatening? What is an emergency?
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