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Francis and Xi: More Similar Than You Think

By Jeffrey Wasserstrom

4-3-13

Watch for the publication in June of the new edition of Jeffrey Wasserstrom's China in the 21st Century: What Everyone Needs to Know, a revised version of his 2010 Oxford University Press book, which he updated in collaboration with Maura Elizabeth Cunningham.

The Pope and the Nuns

By Margaret McGuinness

4-1-13

Margaret McGuinness is professor of religion and executive director of mission integration at La Salle University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She is the author of "Called to Serve: A History of Nuns in America."

Papa Francesco: A New Era?

By Steven M. Avella

3-25-13

Steven M. Avella is a priest of the Archdiocese of Milwaukee and a professor of history at Marquette University. He is a past president of the American Catholic Historical Association.

A Pope of Firsts, But Will Francis Actually Change the Vatican?

By Anthea Butler

3-20-13

Anthea Butler is Associate Professor of Religious Studies and Graduate Chair in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. Her most recent book, "Women in the Church of God in Christ, Making A Sanctified World" published on the University of North Carolina Press, chronicles the history of African American women’s religious lives, and civic engagement in the Church of God in Christ, the largest Pentecostal denomination in the United States

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