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English
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What's So Bad about Polygamy? Teaching American Religious History in the Muslim Middle East
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The Journal of American History
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March 2010
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96
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no.4
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1112-18
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Mason discusses how cultural differences in a classroom affect the reception of American Religious History. He highlights his personal experiences teaching in a predominantly Muslim environment at the American University in Cairo (AUC). He gives the specific example of discussions on the first amendment's religious freedom clause and antipolygamy legislation held in his classrooms at AUC comparative to those held in his classrooms at the University of Notre Dame.