We’ve seen in a previous post how reticent the religious studies academy was to “interpret,”in Jonathan Z. Smith‘s terms, the Jonestown massacre. Did the religion academy respond any better 15 years later in response to the siege of the Branch Davidian compound at Waco? Sociologist of religion Nancy T. Ammerman, who consulted with the Justice … Continue reading “Bad Religion” and Religion Scholars Gone A.W.O.L. (Part 2)