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Given Biblical passages like Acts 2:42-47, how did mainstream American Christianity come to be so opposed to socialism?
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I’m Dr. Rachel Herrmann. I’ll be here on March 11th at 1PM EST to talk about my edited collection, To Feast on Us as Their Prey: Cannibalism and the Early Modern Atlantic. I’m ready to answer your questions about histories of cannibalism, food, and hunger. AMA!
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When the Spanish came to the New World, they brought diseases that wiped out Native Americans on an awe-inspiring scale (I’ve heard up to 90%). The Vikings got there first, why was there no corresponding pandemic from this first encounter?
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In Hinduism, the devas are benevolent deities while the asuras are malevolent, while in Zoroastrianism, the reverse is true. Does this inversion reflect anything about the historical relations between the cultures that practice these religions?
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What was the long-term aim of the alliance between Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan? Was it simply an alliance of convenience against Great Britain or was there some longer-term vision behind it?
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