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Finbarr Curtis

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Finbarr Curtis is associate professor in the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies at Georgia Southern University. His book, The Production of American Religious Freedom (2016), engages subjects ranging from nineteenth-century revivalism to contemporary legal debates to examine how the rhetoric of religious freedom has participated in the production and distribution of social power in the United States. He is currently working on a study of insults, offense, and free speech in illiberal politics.

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