Charles McCrary

Charles McCrary is a postdoctoral research scholar at Arizona State University, and in the fall will be an assistant professor of religious studies at Eckerd College in St. Petersburg, Florida. He studies secularism, religious freedom, race, and politics in the United States and is the author of Sincerely Held: American Secularism and Its Believers (University of Chicago Press, 2022).

 

Contributions by Charles McCrary

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What's Sincerity Got to Do With American Secularism?

Join Matt Sheedy and Charles McCrary as they discuss a cultural history of "sincerely held religious beliefs." McCrary explores how SCOTUS has determined who and what gets to count as 'religious' and traces the historical development of American secularism. Be sure to tune in!

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Religious Literacy and Its Discontents | Discourse! February 2023

Join Benjamin P. Marcus, Paulina Gruffman, and Charles McCrary for this month's #RSPdiscourse as they discuss a recent Pew survey on religious literacy and the so-called Asbury revival. Be sure to tune in!

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Gods and Demons, Scholars and Lawyers: Brief Reflections on American Religion and Law

Some religion scholars got into studying the law through studying New Religious Movements (NRMs) or minority religions, as they tend to be treated differently under the law. Talking to lawyers is a real skill, and is very good at it. In the subfield of traditional American church-state studies, legal historians, lawyers, lobbyists, and religion scholars convene for conservation and debate, mostly about First Amendment jurisprudence.

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