Here is the letter I delivered to my RELG 150 students today, the last day of class. Dear Students of “To Be Religious and Modern": First, thank you again for taking this journey with me these last few months. As our “temporary community” meets for the last time, I want to do some reflecting about [...]
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Racism Makes People Sick: The Legacy of Clark & Clark
Today in "Exile, Exodus, and Zion," we talked about the rise of Jim Crow and Plessy v. Ferguson. We argued that, as was the case with chattel slavery, Jim Crow--and the legal and extralegal violence that propped it up--were experienced as forms of exile; exile from one's own nation, one's own rights, one's own self. [...]
GBR Will Save the World (And the Ironies of American [Religious] History)
Here is a version of the letter that I read to my students yesterday, the last day of our term. Needless to say, I admire these students and I will cherish the memory of the time we spent together. To end our semester together, this is an open letter to the students of RELG 134: [...]
Max Perry Mueller 