Blog – Page 15 – Sowing the Seed

Making Masculinity: Reflections on Hoover and Coates’ Does God Make the Man: Media, Religion, and Gendered Identity.

Posted on October 10, 2017October 13, 2017 by Maya Clare

In this series, "The Textures of Sexuality," we have undergraduate students from two schools considering how the body is implicated in the storytelling devices used in popular media. Elizabethtown College student Chandler McLaren also considers Stewart M. Hoover and Curtis D. Coats' Does God Make the Man: Media, Religion, and the Crisis of Masculinity, (New York: New York University … Continue reading Making Masculinity: Reflections on Hoover and Coates’ Does God Make the Man: Media, Religion, and Gendered Identity.

American Masculinity and Media Crisis

Posted on October 4, 2017 by Maya Clare

In this series, "The Textures of Sexuality," we have undergraduate students from two schools considering how the body is implicated in storytelling devices used in popular media. Elizabethtown College student Hannah Ciocco begins with a discussion of Stewart M. Hoover and Curtis D. Coats' Does God Make the Man: Media, Religion, and the Crisis of Masculinity, (New … Continue reading American Masculinity and Media Crisis

A Byte of Apple: Identifying Religion as a Social Technology

Posted on September 16, 2017September 18, 2017 by Maya Clare

The issue in this discussed example is that if an identity is so ubiquitous as Apple’s enthrallment was, it can prevent us from realizing our conversion.

Defining Religion in The Tragedies of War

Posted on September 12, 2017September 15, 2017 by Maya Clare

...the DAPL debate merely represents a continuation of the misunderstanding of and disregard for Native Americans' understanding of their own religious traditions.

Holding on to Houston from Afar

Posted on September 5, 2017September 6, 2017 by Richard Newton

Watching images of Hurricane Harvey, I’ve been able to do little but reflect on the past. I was born and raised in Houston. It may be America’s bustling fourth-largest city, but somehow I never thought the national news would feature the site of my first date, first speeding ticket, and countless other personal moments.