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Religion is Not Done With You: Ilyse Morgenstein Fuerst & Megan Goodwin
Join us on January 23 at noon (MST) for a conversation with Dr. Ilyse Morgenstein Fuerst & Dr. Megan Goodwin, authors of Religion is Not Done With You: Or, the Hidden Power of Religion on Race, Maps, Bodies, and Law and hosts of Keeping It 101: A Killjoy’s Introduction to Religion.
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A smart, irreverent, and accessible guide to thinking more deeply about how religion permeates and shapes the world around us –and why you need to understand the work it’s doing.
Megan Goodwin PhD is an editorial consultant at Religion Dispatches and media & tech consultant for The Crossroads Project. Her research centers on race, religion, gender/sexuality, and politics in what’s now the United States. Her first book, Abusing Religion: Religious Persecution, Sex Scandals, and American Minority Religions is available through Rutgers. Her next project is Cults Inc.: The Business of Bad Religion.
Dr. Morgenstein Fuerst is an associate professor of Religion and the director of the Humanities Center at the University of Vermont. Her formal expertise is in Islam in South Asia, racialization of Muslims, and global histories of imperialism. Her first book, Indian Muslim Minorities & the 1857 Rebellion: Religion, Rebels, and Jihad, is available through Bloomsbury. She is also co-editor of Words of Experience: Translating Islam with Carl W. Ernst (Equinox).