Paul Nathanson is a Canadian religious studies academic. He has a BA in art history (1968); an MLS (library service, 1971); a BTh (Christianity, 1978); an MA in religious studies (Judaism and Islam); and a PhD (1989). He began his academic career by writing Over the Rainbow: The Wizard of Oz as a Secular Myth of America, "about the convergence of sacred and profane patterns in popular culture."[1]
Together with Katherine K. Young Nathanson has published a series of works on the subject of misandry, which the authors assert is a form of prejudice and discrimination against men and boys that has become institutionalized in North American society.
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In 2007, during the Varnum v. Brien case, Iowa's Polk County District Court rejected Nathanson's testimony concerning the purported social effects of recognizing same-sex marriages. Judge Robert Hanson stated that it would be inadmissible at trial, on the basis that his opinions were "not based on observation supported by scientific methodology or... on empirical research in any sense."[2]