Department: Philosophy and Religion
Areas of expertise:
- Religion and Medicine
- Religion and Science
- Classical Chinese Thought
- Persuasion
Alan Levinovitz received his bachelor’s degree in philosophy and religion from Stanford University, and his doctorate in religion and literature from the University of Chicago. His research and writing uses concepts taken from religious studies to analyze people's beliefs about non-religious topics, ranging from dietary practices to artificial intelligence. His current book project, “One Nature Under God: How To Love the World Without Hating Ourselves,” will be published by Beacon Press, and argues that making the natural world sacred cannot happen without making room for human nature.
Media contact: Eric Gorton, gortonej@jmu.edu
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- The Demonization of Gluten (Freakonomics)
- Go Ahead, Order That Cheesesteak (Bloomberg)
- When Restaurants Promise Health Benefits, They're Crossing the Line (Eater)
- Doctors Once Thought Bananas Cured Celiac Disease. They Saved Kids' Lives' At A Cost. (NPR)
- The reason your friend's 'gluten-free' diet is making them feel better probably has nothing to do with gluten (Business Insider)
- Here is what your body would say if it could talk (Washington Post)
- It's Not All Relative. Can a devotion to cultural tolerance lead to the triumph of alternative facts? (The Chronicle of Higher Education)
- Melania Trump's plagiarized Republican convention speech would get an F in my class (VOX)
- In an era of doping and blade running, what is a 'natural' athlete, anyway? (Washington Post)
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