Religion & Culture

Religion & Culture Forum | a digital publication of the Martin Marty Center for the Public Understanding of Religion @UChiDivinity | Editor: @JoelAllenBrown

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"The Hypocrisy Juke"

Columnist Russell Johnson offers some advice for responding when people say "protest this, not that"

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"Stop Asking What the Bible Means to the President"

@Princteon historian of the bible in America, Seth Perry @gradualdigging (@UChiDivinity PhD’13), reflects on what Trump’s recent photo-op in front of St. John’s Church does (and doesn’t) mean

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"Playing the Ostrich; or, How Not to Think about QAnon"

Columnist, Richard Rosengarten (@UChiDivinity Prof), writes about the most recent and pressing American conspiracy theory movement—#QAnon—and the task of the scholar of religion in facing it down

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"The Black Church and LGBTQ People: Lessons Learned from #dems2020"

@LeroneWilder & @MyriamRenaud explore the intersection of race, religion, and LGBTQ rights in the 2020 Democratic primaries

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"Pandemic Piety"

William Lawrence explores the various ways Christians, Muslims, and Jews are seeking proper (and improper) piety in the season of #COVID19.

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"Plagues and the Pale Rider: Our Present Apocalypse"

Columnist William Schweiker (@UChiDivinity Prof) on how the ancient religious themes of "plague" and "apocalypse" can help us make sense of the #COVID19 global pandemic and its socioeconomic fallout

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Defiant Hope | by William Schweiker (@schweikerwm3)

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OMG | by Richard A. Rosengarten (@UChiDivinity Prof)

Reflections on Friday's #ChristchurchMosqueShootings in New Zealand, which left 50 people dead.

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Kondo and Kuyō: Disposal as a Religious Experience? | by Hannah Gould (@hrhgould)

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Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and American Civil Religion | by Richard A. Rosengarten (Prof. @UChiDivinity)

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This is the week! "Sightings" the book (ed. by Brett Colasacco @UChiDivinity) will be published by @eerdmansbooks on Thursday, the 24th. Order your copy now!

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Like Sand through the Hourglass | by Gerry Turcotte (@GerryTStMU)

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Wagner's Mythologizing of German Mythology | by Wendy Doniger
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Tree of Life | Joshua Feigelson
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Feigelson (Dean of Students @UChiDivinity) offers reflections on the #PittsburghShooting at #TreeOfLifeSynagogue this past Shabbat

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Today, right-wing pundits are claiming members of the migrant caravan are bringing leprosy. But leprosy and xenophobia have a much longer history. Read Mark Lambert's essay, "The Trump Administration, Immigration, and the Instrumentalization of Leprosy" https://t.co/awaAEWsDHL

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Faking the Bible | by Jeffrey Stackert (@UChiDivinity)
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Prof. Stackert reflects on the news that broke last week about Dead Sea Scroll forgeries at the @MuseumofBible in DC and what it teaches us about #Evangelicals

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A Pedagogy of Vulnerability https://t.co/QcV3fsgPSB

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To kick off "Sightings at the Art Institute (@artinstitutechi) Week," Prof. Richard Rosengarten (@UChiDivinity) considers the (likely unintentional) juxtaposition of the recent John Singer Sargent and Charles White exhibits at the AI
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Congrats to Div School students Elsa Marty and Aaron Hollander, winners of the 2018 International Dissertation Research Grants (IDRG) program from American Academy of Religion! @AARWeb @theatropectoris @AARWeb @UChicago #uchicago https://t.co/wiLZPD1NII

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The May-June issue of @UChiDivForum is featured on our Faith, #MeToo & Accountability show this week. Check both out! https://t.co/1MU4fzno4f