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Kelly Denton-Borhaug

Kelly Denton-Borhaug, a TomDispatch regular, has long been investigating how religion and violence collide in American war-culture. She teaches in the global religions department at Moravian University. She is the author of two books, U.S. War-Culture, Sacrifice and Salvation and, more recently, And Then Your Soul is Gone: Moral Injury and U.S. War-Culture.

The Sacralization of War, American-Style

Reaping What We Sow

By Kelly Denton-Borhaug On February 22, 2022On February 23, 2022

A Parable of (All-American) Violence

Accountability and the War of Terror

By Kelly Denton-Borhaug On September 23, 2021On September 23, 2021

Moral Injury and the Forever Wars

What Americans Don’t Want to Hear

By Kelly Denton-Borhaug On August 3, 2021On August 3, 2021

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