An Upstanding Study of Religion

Authors

  • Richard Newton University of Alabama

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1558/bsor.23801

Keywords:

Carson v makin, Abington v schepp, Lemon v Kurtzman

Author Biography

  • Richard Newton, University of Alabama

    Richard Newton received his PhD in Critical Comparative Scriptures from Claremont Graduate University.

    Dr. Newton’s areas of interest include theory and method in the study of religion, African American history, the New Testament in Western imagination, American cultural politics, and pedagogy in religious studies. His research explores how people create “scriptures” and how those productions operate in the formation of identities and cultural boundaries. He has published an array of journal articles, book chapters and online essays. His book, Identifying Roots: Alex Haley and the Anthropology of Scriptures (Equinox 2020), casts Alex Haley’s Roots as a case study in the dynamics of scriptures and identity politics with critical implication for the study of race, religion, and media. He is also the curator of the  multimedia professional development network, Sowing the Seed: Fruitful Conversations in Religion, Culture, and Teaching.

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Imhoff, Sarah. 2016. “The Creation Story, Or How We Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Schempp.” Journal of the American Academy of Religion 84.2, 466–497. https://www.jstor.org/stable/43900199.

McCutcheon, Russell T. 2016. “Celebrating Merrily Their Happy Anniversary…” Study Religion, Department of Religious Studies at the University of Alabama, August 8, 2022. https://religion.ua.edu/blog/2016/08/08/celebrating-merrily-their-happy-anniversary/.

Sullivan, Winnifred Fallers. 2016. “Teaching Religion: Refusing the Schempp Myth of Origins.” The Immanent Frame, August 15, 2016. https://tif.ssrc.org/2016/08/15/teaching-religion-refusing-the-schempp-myth-of-origins/.

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Vaughn, Sarah. 2018. Anatomy of a Scandal. Emily Bestler Books: New York.

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Published

2022-11-08

Issue

Vol. 51 No. 1 (2022)

Section

The Editorial

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How to Cite

Newton, R. (2022). An Upstanding Study of Religion. Bulletin for the Study of Religion, 51(1), 1-3. https://doi.org/10.1558/bsor.23801