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The Ghost of Roy Orbison Goes on Tour

August 23, 2018 Leave a Comment

Peter Lehman He seemed to be defined by an absence, which then materialized as a dark, quiet persona who always kept his eyes covered in public, inviting people to project their thoughts, fears and melancholy onto him.

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Watering the Roots of Mormonism: The Erie Canal’s Contribution to the Faith

December 19, 2017 Leave a Comment

S. Brent Plate Religious groups took various routes out of the area, often seeking ever greener pastures to the west. Many groups that began along the canal, like the Mormons, Spiritualists, and Adventists, spread to remote corners of the globe.

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Humor is Not Just Entertainment: 7 Questions for David Feltmate

November 17, 2017 Leave a Comment

David Feltmate Popular culture scholarship is actually quite difficult, but people seem to think it is easy. It is not enough to just watch TV or listen to music, you really have to dig into the significance of the material and its social importance.

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America’s 10 Commandments: 7 Questions for Jenna Weissman Joselit

June 24, 2017 1 Comment

Jenna Weissman Joselit No other country made, or continues to make, as much of them as America does.

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Religion on Display at the National Museum of African American History and Culture

January 03, 2017 2 Comments

Judith Weisenfeld Fortunately, visitors will encounter aspects of African-American religious life in unexpected places throughout the exhibits that give a broader sense of the places and people involved in this history.

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7 Questions for Elizabeth Drescher

September 22, 2016 Leave a Comment

Elizabeth Drescher . . . what constitutes “religion” and the “spiritual” for most people often has little in common with what scholars study and demographers track.

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Bonnaroo Spirituality and Collective Effervescence

August 26, 2016 Leave a Comment
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Scott Muir Bonnaroovians overwhelmingly endorse the notion that the festival is a sacred collective experience.

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Yee-haw! Guns and Civil Religion in Texas

August 18, 2016 Leave a Comment

William B. Parsons Which brings us to guns. There are many, many reasons why campus carry is a bad idea.

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Seven Questions for Erin A. Smith: What Would Jesus Read?

August 10, 2016 Leave a Comment

Erin A. Smith I purposely excluded sacred scriptures from the study, because I wanted to investigate the messy relay between the commercial and the transcendent.

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American Secularism: Seven Questions

July 13, 2016 Leave a Comment

In our interview series, “Seven Questions,” we ask some very smart people about what inspires them and how their latest work enhances our understanding of the sacred in cultural life. For this segment, we solicited responses from Joseph O. Baker

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