Jeff Guhin
Asst Prof @SociologyUCLA. Dad. he/él/هو.Theory, Religion, Schools, Culture, Methods. Book: global.oup.com/academic/produ…
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Embodying the Faith: Religious Practice and the Making of a Muslim Moral Habitus
Abstract. Despite a number of contemporary theoretical works in sociology and moral philosophy arguing that the project of modern selfhood is necessarily a dee
Jeff Guhin
@LandonSchnabel @sanderwagner @eollion It really depends but I’ve found students really respond to Dan Winchester’s Social Forces article on Muslim converts.
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World Suicide Prevention Day: Here's how to help
Learn the risks and key warning signs of suicidal thinking on 2020's World Suicide Prevention Day.
Jeff Guhin
Suicide is a public health crisis made worse by COVID. I've struggled with depression and anxiety a long time so I'm gonna say what can be hard to admit: depressed people can sometimes be really difficult! I appreciate that. But please do keep checking in.
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Become a Poll Worker | U.S. Election Assistance Commission
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Jeff Guhin
Here's a way you might be able to help with fair elections. There will still be a lot of people voting in person this year, and we need to be ready. Poll workers tend to be older and so many can't come out this year. Please consider becoming a poll worker!
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How Jerry Falwell Jr. mixed his personal finances with his university's
After parting ways with President Jerry Falwell Jr in the wake of personal scandals, Liberty University has hired a firm to investigate “all facets” of Falwell’s tenure, including the school’s financial and real estate operations.
How Trump And COVID-19 Have Reshaped The Modern Militia Movement
In the video, the host of a local independent news radio program surveys the late-night shadows of a Kenosha, Wisconsin, car lot. You can just make out four men…
Disdain for the Less Educated Is the Last Acceptable Prejudice
It’s having a corrosive effect on American life — and hurting the Democratic Party.
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Jeff Guhin
This Sandel article is making the rounds, and I think it's worth distinguishing between snobbery-which is a problem for certain urban professional democrats-and a commitment to good arguments rooted in good evidence, which is a problem for many MAGA fans.
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The Work of Analogy: On Isabel Wilkerson’s “Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents” - Los Angeles Review of Books
A sweeping new book reevaluates the American conception of race and class.
Do Street‐Level Bureaucrats Discriminate Based on Religion? A Large‐Scale Correspondence Experiment among American Public School Principals
Although public administration scholars have long studied discrimination on the basis of race/ethnicity, class, and gender, little to no research exists on whether street‐level bureaucrats provide d...
The Bully’s Pulpit
In late February and early March 1991, during the first Gulf War, U.S. forces bombed, shelled, and otherwise set fire to thousands of young Iraqi men who were trying to flee Kuwait. There were a…
Trump encourages North Carolina residents to vote twice to test mail-in system
The president said it would be a way to check if anti-fraud efforts are "as good as they say."
How the US Military Taught Americans to Smoke | Essay | Zócalo Public Square
Mention of the American military-industrial complex conjures up images of massive weapons procurement programs and advanced technologies: supersonic
Oxford Handbook of Classics in Contemporary Political Theory - Oxford Handbooks
This handbook is currently in development, with individual articles publishing online in advance of print publication. At this time, we cannot add information about unpublished articles in this handbook, however the table of contents will continue...
Anthony Downs, An Economic Theory of Democracy
"Anthony Downs, An Economic Theory of Democracy" published on by Oxford University Press.
Robert Nozick, Anarchy, State, and Utopia
"Robert Nozick, Anarchy, State, and Utopia" published on by Oxford University Press.
The boundaries of pragmatism in Muslim education: Comparing the Islamic pedagogies of Sayyid Qutb and Fethullah Gülen - Jeffrey Guhin, 2020
Sayyid Qutb and Fethullah Gülen are two of the most important Muslim leaders and intellectuals of the twentieth century: the two are similar not only for their ...
Jeff Guhin
Here's my latest article (a long time coming!) in Critical Research on Religion: "The Boundaries of Pragmatism in Muslim Education: Comparing the Islamic pedagogies of Sayyid Qutb and Fethullah Gülen” If you can't access and want a PDF, just let me know.
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Jeff Guhin
Here's my latest article (a long time coming) in Critical Research on Religion (@critresrel): "The Boundaries of Pragmatism in Muslim Education: Comparing the Islamic pedagogies of Sayyid Qutb and Fethullah Gülen” If you can't access the PDF, let me know.
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FBI investigating after alarmed pilot tells LAX tower: ‘We just passed a guy in a jet pack’
Two commercial pilots radioed the air traffic control tower at Los Angeles International Airport with reports of a man flying with a jet pack nearby.
How the sound of religion has changed in the pandemic
A team of scholars have been documenting the sound of worship for six years. Since the lockdown, they have heard a different form of religious expression.
We Must Learn to Embrace Populism
Thomas Frank’s brilliant new book The People, No focuses on the long elite tradition of anti-populism. But it is really an urgent plea to liberals and radicals alike to embrace a left populism and universalism — or keep on losing.