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- September 9, 2010
- Sexuality/Gender
  - The Trials of Janie Spahr
    
    Richard A. Lindsay
  - Beyond Adam and Eve
    
    Becky Garrison
  - Jesus Was Single
    
    Louis A. Ruprecht
  - Pat Robertson’s Women Warriors Leading Spiritual Warfare In Zimbabwe
    
    Sarah Posner
  - The ‘Christianization’ of Shirley Sherrod
    
    Rosetta E. Ross
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- Politics
  - Beck Plus God Does Not Equal X
    
    Anthea Butler
  - Beck’s “Dream”—Our Nightmare
    
    Julie Ingersoll
  - Liberal Defenders of “Mosque” Get it Wrong
    
    Aisha Ghani
  - Israel’s Immigration Debate: “Where is the Jewish Spirit?”
    
    Mati Wagner
  - Dangerous Religion
    
    Gary Laderman
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- Culture
  - Will God-Gaming Alter the Bible?
    
    Rachel Wagner
  - Narco-Violence and the Failure of the Church in Mexico
    
    Jennifer Scheper Hughes
  - Strippers versus Church: Cosmic Battle With Civic Consequences
    
    Joseph Laycock
  - Eat, Pray, Trash: What the Critics Don’t See
    
    Ben Brazil
  - Eid on 9/11 Anniversary?
    
    Haroon Moghul
  - See all in Culture
- Science
  - Religion and Science: Busting Assumptions
    
    Annie Hardison-Moody
  - Still Trying to Get Creationism into Science Classes
    
    Lauri Lebo
  - Creating a Cell: Science Plays God
    
    Arri Eisen
  - The ‘Messy’ God of Science
    
    Mark Vernon
  - The Vatican v. Protestant Free Thinkers
    
    Louis A. Ruprecht
  - See all in Science
- (A)theologies
  - Humanitarian Victims or Christian Martyrs: What's in a Word?
    
    Donald Heinz
  - The Wandering Evangelical
    
    Philip Majorins
  - Glenn Beck’s Salvation Army
    
    Peter Montgomery
  - Evangelicals, Oppose Park51 At Your Own Eschatological Risk
    
    Stephen V. Anderson
  - The Ground Zero-Sum Game
    
    Reuven Firestone
  - See all in (A)theologies
- Books
  - Where Christianity and Islam Collide
    
    Maggie Fick
  - Cooler than Thou: Will Hipsters Wreck Christianity?
    
    Nicole Greenfield
  - The Future of Islam, the Future of Humanity
    
    Tamara Sonn
  - Better Science Through God?
    
    Nathan Schneider
  - Noise in the Hood: Raising the Volume and Losing Our Bodies
    
    Peter Laarman
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Laurie L. Patton is Charles Howard Candler Professor of Religions at Emory University and co-director of its Religion, Conflict and Peacebuilding Initiative. For several years during the last two decades she has made her Indian home in Pune, Maharashtra. Her scholarly interests are in the interpretation of early Indian ritual and narrative, comparative mythology, literary theory in the study of religion, and women and Hinduism in contemporary India.

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