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Jeffrey Guhin

Jeffrey Guhin is an assistant professor of sociology at UCLA whose research interests include education, culture, religion, and theory. His first book, a comparison of two Sunni Muslim and two Evangelical Christian high schools, forthcoming from Oxford University Press, is tentatively titled "Make Belief."

American religion, humility, and democracy

Words can break bones

Jeffrey Guhin·

March 1, 2018

So we have a few problems. First, we have trouble talking to each other because the talk itself has weight.…

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The Vatican Spring?

Michele Dillon·

John L. Esposito·

Jeffrey Guhin·

Cecelia Lynch·

James Martin, SJ·

J. Michelle Molina·

Sarah Shortall·

May 10, 2013

Does the election of Francis I signal a major shift in Vatican policy, structure, or doctrine? How significant is Francis’…

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Archive: Notes from the field

The Help, ethnography, and ickiness

Jeffrey Guhin·

August 20, 2011

This is a post about the politics of representation, postcolonial theory, and the Hollywood movie, The Help. And it begins…

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Archive: Notes from the field

Why I don’t read non-fiction from Barnes and Noble, and why that’s a problem for public scholarship; or, what I learned in third grade about epistemology and essentialization

Jeffrey Guhin·

August 4, 2011

I have not been interested in the Barnes and Noble non-fiction section for a long time. There might be a…

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Archive: Notes from the field

Prayer is technology. I think.

Jeffrey Guhin·

July 11, 2011

My dissertation is a comparison of the use of prayer, scripture, science education, and “high technology” in four religious high…

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