Kolby is a Ph.D. student at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He studies 19th-century U.S. religious history He is interested in the history of Catholic labor movements, as well as critical theory, secularism, and the relationship between religion and economy broadly.
While Baker’s interventions regarding the need to take seriously the “religion” of the Klan is noted, I question whether she does not herself reinforce problematic epistemological and methodological assumptions about “religion.” Describing the story of the Ku Klux Klan as “lovely”, as Kelly Baker does in her interview with David Lewis, is initially perplexing. Fortunately, Baker goes on to clarify what she intends, ...
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