Articles

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From Lost Cause to Third-and-Long: College Football and the Civil Religion of the South, Journal of Southern Religion (2009)
 

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Ecstasy, Joy, and Sorrow: The Religious Experience of Southern College Football, Journal of Religion and Popular Culture (2008)
 

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Review of Alasdair MacIntyre's Collected Essays, Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory (2008)
 

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Democracy and Tradition: Finding Common Ground Between Hauerwas’ Traditionalism and Rorty’s Liberalism, Journal of Religion & Society (2005)
 

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Awareness, Appropriation, and Loathing in Histories of Comparative Religion: Review and Assessment, Journal of Religion & Society (2003)
 

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Freedom and Commitment: Religious Colleges and Universities in a Multicultural Society, Journal of Religion & Society (2000)
 

Presentations

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Popular Culture and the Denigration of the Self, Popular Culture Association (2009)
 

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Sacrifice in a Post-Moral Society, Henry Institute for the Study of Christianity and Politics/Calvin College (2009)
 

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Moral Communities in a Pluralistic Nation, Unitarian Universalist Church of Bowling Green (2008)
 

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Sport as the “Opiate of the Masses”: College Football in the American South, Philosophy & Religion Faculty Publications (2008)

Karl Marx famously describes religion as the “opiate of the masses.” Marx argues that religion...

 

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Truth and Virtue in Spiritual Eclecticism (2008)
 

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Structure and Communitas: The Affirmation and Negation of Race and Social Class in Southern College Football, Popular Culture Association (2007)