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Matthew A. MacDonald, Ph.D., is a Catholic writer and filmmaker. He lives in Ottawa with his wife and children. He has lectured on religion and politics in the United States and Canada and his work has been published in Political Theology, the Journal of Islamic Philosophy, the American Journal of Islamic Social Science, and the Ottawa Citizen, among others.
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