As we have spent the past few weeks studying Martin’s Critical Introduction and his claims on the use of religion, authenticity, legitimacy, and authority I have been thinking about how these could and do divide people. One day as I left class this song, That’s My Dixie, came on and my mind started to think … Continue reading Let’s Analyze my #3 Most Listened to Song this Month →

By: Jordan Bondrowski Vaping is one of the most popular “past-times”, if you could call it that, of teens and young-adults. With it’s growing popularity there has been more and more studies coming out about the effects of it and to try to wane younger people off of it as to try to protect their […]

https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMLpveMSg/ In this Tiktok, the customer tells the pharmacist that they MUST have the name brand version of this medicine, because “the doctor said so”. She said, “if that’s the one he said I should take, then that’s the ONLY one I am taking!” A doctor is an example of an authority figure in contemporary […]

The rapid growth of contemporary ideas cultivates widespread beliefs among human societies, cultures, and philosophical reason. Growing with popularity, cultural phenomenon’s often support how individuals adopt certain behaviors or beliefs based off other individuals’ lifestyles and beliefs that are becoming widely “accepted.” Social and religious trends have a growing influence on our society as online […]

“Will the Supreme Court once again favor the rights of Christians over everyone else?” By Caroline Mala Corbin, professor of law at the University of Miami School of Law https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/supreme-court-prayer-case-rights-christians-football-coach-rcna25673 This unit we read and discussed Martins three subjects of how to discuss religion including legitimation, authority and authenticity. In his last chapter of his […]

1 In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. 2 And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. Gen 1:1-2 (kjv) Answers in Genesis (AiG) is a young earth creationist organization which operates theContinue reading “The Ark Encounter: Legitimation of a Six Thousand Year Old Earth”

Get it from the source! We’ve spent the past few weeks learning about legitimation, authority, and authenticity claims. I believe that the most interesting application of these topics is to the sense of nationality and groupthink as a whole. I came across a speech given by President Biden at the Royal Castle in Warsaw, PolandContinue reading “Biden’s Address in Poland as Pertains to Religious Studies”

The artifact I chose to demonstrate the concepts of legitimation, authority, and authenticity is the Republican Jesus joke that is common on many social media platforms. There are many variations of it, but I chose the three images below to demonstrate the underlying principle of it.  Republican Jesus is a satirical depiction of a version … Continue reading “Republican Jesus”

The cultural artifact being examined is this opinion piece by The New York Times: “Abortion Has Never Been Just About Abortion” by Thomas B. Edsall The article “Abortion Has Never Been Just About Abortion” by Thomas B. Edsall discusses the intricacies of the abortion debate, as well as the deeper strategies and conversations within each … Continue reading The Abortion Debate: Legitimation, Authority, & Authenticity Claims →

Protestants Abroad: How Missionaries Tried to Change the World but Changed America “Between the 1890s and the Vietnam era, many thousands of American Protestant missionaries were sent to live throughout the non-European world. They expected to change the people they encountered, but those foreign people ended up transforming the missionaries. Their experience abroad made many of […]