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January 17, 2012
in History, Religion

Lest We Forget: What Converting Environs Means for Converting Beliefs

January 17, 2012
in History, Religion

Sarah Underwood— ABC’s series Pan Am, which premiered last fall, follows several beautiful airline stewardesses from the 1960s whose careers are filled with enough to drama to crash a plane. The stewardesses’ lives, which have repeatedly been called “glamorous” by reviewers, create a good platform for addressing contemporary social issues.

December 23, 2011
in History, Religion

Craig Harline on Telling Conversions

December 23, 2011
in History, Religion

Since the publication of Conversions earlier this fall, author Craig Harline has been busy writing op-eds for the Huffington Post, History News Network, The Daily, and Berfrois, all the while being profiled by Publishers Weekly, who also named the book a Top Ten Religion Book of 2011. The book dually

October 7, 2011
in History, Religion, Social Science

A Novel Narration of Religious Conversion

October 7, 2011
in History, Religion, Social Science

Craig Harline knows that history can be boring. He regrets the way in which many historians, himself included, often “write only for each other, in our special language” or “choose to write about subjects that are not exactly obvious in their relevance.” Accordingly, Harline’s Conversions: Two Family Stories from the

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Lest We Forget: What Converting Environs Means for Converting Beliefs

Craig Harline on Telling Conversions

A Novel Narration of Religious Conversion