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The fear over what is now regularly termed Islamic radicalization is much in the news these days, what with so-called Jihadi John‘s identity being determined and yet more stories appearing in the news concerning young people apparently leaving North America or Europe to travel to the Middle East to join ISIS’s fight against what I …
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Did you catch this story a few days ago? No…? While you can listen to the original, longer set of stories, listen to the brief weekend report: The moral of the story?
Did you catch this news story the other day? It opens:
Vasiliki Platioti (right) and Constantinos Dokas (left), in Thessaloniki, Greece, got buttons. Did you? Then we’d like to post a pic of you and your button from the Edge on Facebook. So email us an attached pic (and tell us who you are andwhat you’re working on) at: edge@ua.edu
We’re all near the Edge–but how close are you? If you get an Edge button in Baltimore, during late-November’s annual meeting of the American Academy of Religion/Society of Biblical Literature, then we’d like to see you proudly wearing it (only photos that grandma would approve of, please). So send us a pic, tell us who …
“Race” is such a problematic, complex term, no? We use it as if it refers to some stable thing (like when we complete a government form) but as soon as we look at its use more closely we realize it is a vague designation for a variety that spans a limitless continuum with no clear …
My ear caught a line in a TV show last night: Look, nobody joins a cult. Nobody joins something they think is going to hurt them, or anyone else. You join something with people that you really like. People you believe in. Don’t you?
Sometime ago, I uploaded to a Facebook album my own version of a Sociological Images post — worth reproducing here, I think: so consider this March 20, 2009, photo of a group of Cameroon’s Baka people performing for Pope Benedict XVI as he left for Angola. Simple question: who is wearing a costume? To rephrase, …