Here’s what I posted today at the Religion in American History blog: Wednesday Round Up: Must Read Edition While Paul is away, the blog will go on (and on) with a new series on religion and masculinity (see Charity’s first post here) and the long overdue return of the Gender and the American Religious Historian
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Well, my summer class (300 level Religions in America) is in session, so I am knee-deep in class preparation and grading as well as editorializing on Michele Bachmann and white Christian motherhood (I’ll post the link as soon as I have one). This means that zombies and monstrosity are on my mind, but not on
Cookie Monster on Zombies Read More
The newest issue of Material Religion: The Journal of Objects, Art and Belief is now available (with a library subscription). For those of unfamiliar with this journal, it is an excellent, interdisciplinary journal that provides cutting edge scholarship on the materiality of religion. Every time the table of contents arrives in my inbox, I stop
Disputing Sacred Space in America Read More
Over at Religion Dispatches, I guest blog about Glenn Beck’s last show on Fox, his nationalism, and his telling of American history. Here’s an excerpt: Beck’s mantle of telling history like it really “was” is packaged, glossy, and consumed. Yet this mantle, or even legacy, does not solely belong to him. The struggle to reclaim
The Birth of Glenn Beck’s Nation (Or the Long Goodbye) Read More
While I am prepping promotional materials and changing citation styles for an article (ouch), I shouldn’t be blogging, so I am not. Instead to continue the monsters theme, I post my new favorite Sesame Street skit (which aired last year) entitled True Mud. Sesame Street’s True Mud on YouTube This is, of course, a parody
So, it begins. Gospel According to the Klan officially arrives on the shelf a short two three months (math isn’t my strong suit) from today. In honor of its forthcoming publication, I have an op-ed up at the History News Network today on the protest and counterprotest at Arlington Cemetery on this past Memorial Day
Westboro Baptist Church vs. the Klan: HNN Op-ed Read More