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Pausing the Panic Button: Can Religious Scholarship Teach Media Literacy?

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by Rebecca Epstein-Levi
October 21, 2020 at 12:49pm
Moral panics about sexually disturbing or explicit media are hardly new or uncommon.
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Faithful Bigot: Amy Coney Barrett Is the Catholic Church’s Secret Weapon

by Olga Segura
October 13, 2020 at 11:43am
Like other American institutions, the Catholic Church has been shaped by white supremacy. Read more »
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Out of Network: What’s Really Behind “Health-Sharing” Ministries?

by Hannah Amaris Roh
October 7, 2020 at 11:14am
The pandemic has underscored how one person’s “faith” can be weaponized against others to worsen an already shared precarity. Read more »
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Our Loss: We Still Don’t Know How to Mourn Jewish Celebrities

by Michelle Krasovitski
October 1, 2020 at 10:15am
It’s a disservice to remember Ruth Bader Ginsburg as a feminist icon but erase her Jewishness. Read more »
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Allowed to Imagine: What We Lose When Migrant Folks Aren’t Able to Create

by Tina Vasquez
August 21, 2020 at 11:28am
There’s a rich and beautiful tapestry of migrant artists, writers, poets, and musicians. Read more »
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Picketing Equality: Non-religious Queer Storylines Still Rule the TV Roost

by Michelle Krasovitski
June 26, 2020 at 9:00am
We need more sophisticated storylines pertaining to religion and tolerance. Read more »
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Undivine Intervention: Do We Need Religious Faith to Defend Humanitarian Aid?

by Barbara Sostaita
June 3, 2020 at 10:55am
What religious-freedom claims mean for the legal future of progressive movements. Read more »
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Contagion Is Not the Crisis: COVID-19 Is a Chance to Rethink Stereotypes About Immigrants

by Barbara Sostaita
April 22, 2020 at 12:00pm
Nationalistic racism tells us that migrants infest, infect, and invade the homeland.  Read more »
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Religious Exemption: Catholic Hospitals Are Barring Transgender Patients from Surgery

by Leah Feiger
January 13, 2020 at 12:41pm
These policies and resulting statements, coupled with the reach and growth of Catholic healthcare systems, could make access to gender-confirmation surgery even more difficult. Read more »
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In Bad Faith: Hallmark’s Jewish Stereotypes Meet America’s Rising Antisemitism

by Noa Azulai
December 17, 2019 at 9:00pm
Hanukkah, as it exists to Hallmark, is just Christmas’s quirky ethnic sidekick.  Read more »
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The Unbelievers: New Atheism and the Old Boys’ Club

by Victoria Bekiempis
December 16, 2019 at 12:32pm
So is new-style atheism the sausage party that media coverage would suggest? Read more »

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Hot Under the Bonnet: The Cooptation of Amish Culture in Mass-Market Fiction

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by Audrey deCoursey
Spring 2014 • Maps & Legends
Dubbed “Amish romance novels,” “Amish fiction,” or the more waggish “bonnet rippers,” these novels just one entry point into the varying images of Amish communities in U.S. popular culture. Read more »