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Colonial Violence, Sacred Power, and Gods of Indian Country: 7 Questions for Jennifer Graber

May 03, 2018 Leave a Comment

Jennifer Graber A crucial part of the Kiowa survival story is that they survived American occupation and ritual interactions with sacred power–as well as adaptation of those rituals.

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Almanacs and Religious Life? 7 Questions for Troy Tomlin

August 23, 2017 Leave a Comment

Troy Tomlin I wondered what these little books could tell me about wider patterns and disruptions in early American religion and, most importantly, what ordinary men and women may have thought about them.

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An American Reformation

May 28, 2015 Leave a Comment
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Amy Kittelstrom Somehow the word “godless” got hitched to the word “liberal.” The story of this coupling has something to do with the Cold War against communism, but behind this unholy union lies a much more interesting history of how some American elites led a very different fight against—well, elitism. Seven liberals, whose lives interconnected across two centuries through shared readings, relationships, and concerns, were so far from godlessness that the pursuit of truth and virtue dominated their lives. 

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Religion is Dead; Long Live . . . the Sacred

April 18, 2014 Leave a Comment

Gary Laderman I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: it’s the end of Religion as we know it.  And I do feel fine.  Bring on the “nones,” the SBNRs (Spiritual But Not Religious for those of you not up to

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