Tara Isabella Burton
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Tara Isabella Burton writes about religion, culture and place, and her work has appeared in National Geographic, The Wall Street Journal and The Atlantic, among others. She is a Clarendon Scholar at Trinity College, Oxford, working on a doctorate in theology, and recently completed her first novel.
Written by Tara Isabella Burton
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Subcultures
What is a cult?
Cults are exploitative, weird groups with strange beliefs and practices, right? So what about regular religions then?
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Art
Why the dandy is a subversive work of public art
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Religion
Spare the rod
Christian Domestic Discipline and the erotics of religious submission raise the possibility of a new concept of God
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Stories and literature
Dark books
What’s more wholesome than reading? Yet books wield a dangerous power: the best erode self, infecting readers with ideas
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