Jonathan Zittell Smith: The Grass Breeder Who Remade the Study of Religion
He wanted to breed grass. Not religion. Grass. At sixteen he spent a summer on a farm, part of a program Cornell ran for city boys who thought they might want to work the land. The school made him…
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