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I spent most of the morning talking with a filmmaker working on a documentary on religious minorities in Iraq. Even so, I managed to cross paths with lots of old friends at least briefly. My first actual session I have gotten to is thus the AAR session on Religion and Science Fiction. The first paper […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,57,80,86,88],"tags":[634,1703,2004,3498,5093,5376,5677,6300,6308,9062,10885,10890,10904,12508,12941],"class_list":["post-10724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-american-academy-of-religion","category-mandaeans","category-religion","category-science-fiction","category-society-of-biblical-literature","tag-animals","tag-chalcedon","tag-cold-war","tag-flynn","tag-incarnation","tag-iraq","tag-jesus","tag-kurt-vonnegut","tag-l-ron-hubbard","tag-philip-k-dick","tag-sci-fi","tag-science-fiction","tag-scientology","tag-theology","tag-tron"],"yoast_head":"\n
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