[Updated 1 Feb 2020] Religion is arguably one of the most egregious ‘othering’ forces that has ever existed. All through recorded history people have been marginalized -and in countless cases murdered- because they were of the ‘wrong’ religion.” “The normal and the stigmatized are not persons, but perspectives.” -E. Goffman, Stigma, 1963 Prologue As I … Continue reading The gaping hole in the Hydra model: religious persecution