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By Ron Duncan Hart Benjamin Netanyahu has long had a close bond with American Evangelicals, who he has repeatedly called Israel’s best friends in the world. Evangelicals tend to share Netanyahu’s political goals and have invited him frequently to speak at their events, and he, in turn, has
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by Ron Duncan Hart February 4, 2025 Over the last twenty years my wife Gloria Abella Ballen and I have spent months on end at the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge in conversations with faculty members and doing research in their vast libraries. The Bodleian Library at Oxford has an
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By Ron Duncan Hart December 4, 2024 Is America in crisis? The religious right is telling us that we are. It is true that there is a crisis in religious circles. The number of adults identifying as Protestants has dropped from 69 percent in 1948 to 34 percent today. Membership
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With Diane Winston and Ron Duncan Hart, moderator Alma Gottlieb Sep 15, 2024 In this Santa Fe Distinguished Lecture Series program anthropologist Alma Gottlieb interviews authors Diane Winston and Ron Duncan Hart on their recent books. Prof. Winston is an historian of religion, and she discusses the background of White
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Rockower Award Winner 2025 - Category: Antisemitism by Ron Duncan Hart I first encountered Christian nationalism two generations ago in research I was doing in Cabbagetown, a White working-class neighborhood of Atlanta. It was at the end of the Jim Crow era in Southern politics, and people were protesting the
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Ron Duncan Hart As an American, I am proud of our tradition of freedom of speech, but I am concerned that hate speech is eroding respect for the Other which is a necessary ingredient to the freedom of speech. I am an anthropologist, and I have done research, observing life