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Max Perry Mueller

Max Perry Mueller is an associate professor in the Department of Classics and Religious Studies at the University of Nebraska - Lincoln. He is also a fellow at the Center for Great Plains Studies and teaches in the Department of History, the Honors Program, and the Global Studies program. Mueller is a theorist and historian of race and religion in American history, with particular interest in Indigenous and African-American religious experiences, epistemologies, and cosmologies. His first book was Race and the Making of the Mormon People (The University of North Carolina Press, 2017).

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War, Peace, and Erasure: Lessons from Wakara for Gaza and Beyond

War, Peace, and Erasure: Lessons from Wakara for Gaza and Beyond

Max Perry Mueller

Lincoln, NE (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – Long before Israeli leaders invoked biblical rhetoric to justify the “erasure” of a Palestinian homeland, another colonizing people sought to remake a land in the image of their God.  In July 1847, Brigham Young declared the American Great Basin “the place” God had set apart to “make” […]

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