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Tag Archives: Slander

Out of Control

Posted on February 13, 2016 by Russell McCutcheon
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unintended

I’m sure you’ve seen that statement at the tail end of the movie credits — as you waited to see if a blooper reel would end off the film; ever wonder why it’s there? Continue reading →

Posted in Faculty Blog, Relevance of Humanities, Religion in Culture | Tagged agency, Defamation, Happenstance, Hollywood, intention, Menaing, MGM, Rasputin and the Empress, Russia, Slander, structure | Leave a reply

Studying Religion in Culture

Welcome to the blog of the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Alabama. This site -- maintained by the faculty but also involving our students, our alumni, and the graduate teaching assistants who help us in our classes -- discusses the relevance of the study of religion, in particular, and the liberal arts, in general, for understanding both the past and present, by seeing religion as but one element of wider cultural practices.

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