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Journal of the American Academy of Religion 2008 76(4):844-873; doi:10.1093/jaarel/lfn076
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The War in Iraq and the Academic Study of Religion

Ira Chernus

Ira Chernus, Religious Studies Department, 292 UCB, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309, USA.

E-mail: chernus{at}colorado.edu


  Abstract

We can gain valuable new perspectives on the Bush administration's policies in Iraq and the domestic response to them by applying the historical and analytical–descriptive methods of academic religious studies. The article analyzes the work that has already been done along these lines, placing it in the context of broader studies of American religion and culture that cast the U.S. role in the Iraq war in a new light. These works provide a model of scholarship as good citizenship, helping American society understand itself better in a time of war, stimulating the kind of thoughtful debate that is the lifeblood of democracy.


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