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leibman
Oct 15, 20141 min read
Spiritual Makeup: Religion and Cosmetics (Religion in American History Blog Post)
For early Americans and Europeans alike, cosmetics carried spiritual and moral messages. In this post I look to three examples of the use...
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leibman
Oct 15, 20141 min read
When Women Don't Marry: Single Blessedness and the Shidduch Crisis (Religion in American History blo
"Save our desperate daughters," proclaims the cover article in issue 521 of Mishpacha [family] magazine, an English-language,...
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leibman
Sep 11, 20141 min read
Female (Mis)Behavior, Class, and Religious Authority: Bath Attendants in Early America (Religion in
What can baths tell us, then, about the everyday lives and challenges women faced in early America? In this post, I move beyond an...
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leibman
Sep 11, 20141 min read
Virtually Dead: Religion in the Age of the Internet (Religion in American History blog post)
This past spring, I taught a digital humanities course on American Dead and Undead. The premise of the course was fairly simple: we...
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leibman
Jun 19, 20141 min read
Jews and Judaism in the American World of “Difference” (Religion in American History blog post)
Last week's American Jewish Historical Society (AJHS) Biennial Scholars Conference on "Jews and Judaism in the American World of...
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leibman
Feb 16, 20141 min read
Religion and Toys: Religion in American History Blog Post
Why is it that Christian Fundamentalists have had better kitsch than Charedi Jews? Will this always be the case? To answer this question,...
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leibman
Jan 15, 20141 min read
Clothing and Religion: Religion in American History Blog Post
Do you dress your religious beliefs? Some American religions (Judaism, Islam, Mormonism, to name a few) include doctrines about how...
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leibman
Oct 21, 20132 min read
The Kabbalah Project: Kabbalah in Art & Architecture
The Kabbalah Project (#KabbalahProject) is meant as a creative response to Alexander Gorlin's book, Kabbalah in Art and Architecture. ...
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leibman
Oct 16, 20131 min read
Religion in American History: Language, Media, Religion Mini-conference
My latest post on the Religion in American History Group Blog on a recent Language, Media, and Religion mini-conference and roundtable...
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