On November 13, 2010, there were two stories about religion, separated by four pages, in The New York Times. The first, filed by Laurie Goodstein (who reports regularly on religion), dealt with a conference of Roman Catholic bishops on procedures of exorcism. The other story, by Mark Oppenheimer (another regular Times reporter), told of an unusual proposal made at the recent annual meetings of the American Academy of Religion. Both Goodstein and Oppenheimer are excellent journalists, and their stories are well worth reading separately. Let me propose that it is instructive to read them together.
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