jeremiahcoogan.bsky.social
Historian of religion, textuality, and enslavement in the Roman Mediterranean | Associate Professor of New Testament and Early Christianity
👤 Joined on 10 August 2023
Followers
Following
Total Posts
@jeremiahcoogan.bsky.social(And of course, as Amanda Anderson notes, peer-reviewed knowledge is already 'viewpoint diverse,' which is why calls to introduce 'viewpoint diversity' don't make any sense on their face, but rather represent an ideological strategy of conservative self-promotion in defiance of empiricism)
Show PostAnd thus also a set of predetermined outcomes that must come from the study of these texts - affirmations of a 'classical liberal' tradition that validates free markets, unregulated capitalism, and authoritarian ideas of law as the 'natural' or 'inherent' results of 'fidelity' to the 'tradition'
Show PostCompletely agree with you. I remember doing a college tour of St John's as a senior in high school and thinking it was really interesting, subsequently not going, and then after being taught to read texts contextually in my first year of college thinking that I had made the right decision not to go
Show PostWhich- take it or leave it as a source. But
Show Post