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  • Anointed with Oil – Response by Kevin Stewart Rose July 9, 2019
    Editor’s Note: This is the first in a series of four responses to Darren Dochuk’s Anointed with Oil: How Christianity and Crude Made Modern America, the subject of a roundtable discussion held at UVA in April 2019. The other three responses are by Brittany Acors, Kathleen Flake, and Matthew Hedstrom, and Dochuk offered a response to the responses as ...
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  • Jane Little on Faith and Violence for the BBC May 29, 2019
    Religion and Its Publics’ own Jane Little recently produced a three-part series for the BBC entitled “Fork in the Road.” The series is a meditation on faith and doubt, as told through the stories of people who have confronted profound challenges that have shaped their belief, or unbelief. The third and final episode is called “Two ...
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  • Jane Little on Faith and Sexuality for the BBC May 27, 2019
    Religion and Its Publics’ own Jane Little recently produced a three-part series for the BBC entitled “Fork in the Road.” The series is a meditation on faith and doubt, as told through the stories of people who have confronted profound challenges that have shaped their belief, or unbelief. The second episode is called “My faith and ...
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  • Jane Little on Faith and War for the BBC May 24, 2019
    Religion and Its Publics’ own Jane Little recently produced a three-part series for the BBC entitled “Fork in the Road.” The series is a meditation on faith and doubt, as told through the stories of people who have confronted profound challenges that have shaped their belief, or unbelief. The first episode is called “Two journeys out ...
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  • Elisabeth Becker-Topkara on Diyanet Mosque fire for the Washington Post May 20, 2019
    Elisabeth Becker-Topkara, postdoctoral fellow for the Religion and Its Publics project, recently published another piece in the Washington Post on the most recent attack against a place of worship: her husband’s mosque. “I think of how such acts devalue the lives of those close to my heart, from our dear family friends to my own husband and son. ...
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  • Elisabeth Becker-Topkara on Muslim-Jewish Relations for the Washington Post February 16, 2019
    Elisabeth Becker-Topkara, postdoctoral fellow for the Religion and Its Publics project, recently published a piece in the Washington Post on the need for a Muslim-Jewish alliance in the US, and on what small steps may be possible moving forward, given the common threats they face. Here is an excerpt and a link to the full ...
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