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RD Book: Class Conscious

…, analyze their sources or even assess their accuracy. Sean McCloud’s book Divine Hierarchies: Class in American Religion and Religious Studiesis a very useful effort at formulating that language for scholars and students of religion. Class matters, McCloud argues, but not in the ways that earlier academics thought. In order to think about class productively, he points to four ideas about class that need to be dispensed with. While class is certai…

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What Get Religion Doesn’t Get About “Monk” Class

…nscendence, submission and union with Another? What is the purpose of this class?” Justin’s answer to the AP was simple: “Its not about individual restrictions. It’s about building a hyperawareness of yourself and others.” Prof McDaniel is not a spiritual father, nor is he there to convert students. Yes, he has lived as a Buddhist monk, and is a Catholic. He is their professor. He’s no Thomas Merton, but hey, he wouldn’t be the first Ivy League pr…

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Power in a Union: How the Working Class Shaped Religion in America

…a cultural analog in the rise and fall of specific expressions of working-class religion. Among the largest working-class religious communities in Detroit—Catholics, African-American Protestants, and white evangelicals from the South—a set of new, more “worker-centric” idioms began developing in the 1930s, linking religious and class identity in defense of the CIO and the general thrust of the New Deal. This “proletarianization” of religion produ…

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In a Powerful Statement Black Presidents and Deans Say: No More Stolen Black Lives!

…ry Rev. Yolanda Pierce, PhD, Professor & Dean, Howard University School of Divinity Rev. Kirstin C. Boswell-Ford, M.Div. Associate Dean of Student Support Services, Brown University Rev. Maisha Handy, PhD, Provost/VP for Academic Affairs, Interdenominational Theological Center Rev. Stephen G. Ray Jr., PhD, President, Chicago Theological Seminary Rev. Micah L. McCreary, PhD, President, New Brunswick Theological Seminary Matthew Wesley Williams, M.D…

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Escalating Afghanistan: What Did You Do in the Class War, Daddy?

…ashington Monthly) what still remains a definitive article about the class divide in times of war—“What Did You Do in the Class War, Daddy?” I still have a yellowed original copy somewhere. Fallows was writing about the sickening reality that as a Harvard student he, like so many other Ivy Leaguers, could quite easily avoid fighting in Vietnam. They had the ways and means to avoid military service: exemptions, deferments, lawyers, connections. I w…

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Mitt’s Jesus, Barack’s Jesus, and Why Christ’s Color Matters

…acy of the image and all it represents and symbolizes about racialized and class divides remains with us still.   Ed Blum: At times, the uses of racial Christ imagery is quite intention. Madison Grant (the spokesman for “Nordic whiteness” in the 1910s and 1920s) discussed explicitly Jesus as “Nordic” as part of his attack upon immigration from Asia and Southern and Eastern Europe. Klan members of his age, likewise, linked the racial body of Jesus…

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#NamaSlay, Or How Black Women Are Using Trap Yoga as a Mode of Spiritual Resistance

….’” A friend who had a studio asked if she would want to teach a trap yoga class. Rogers agreed, and the 60-person class she signed up to teach sold out in just a few hours. And it kept selling out over and over. At the first class, she was overwhelmed. “I had never seen so many plus-sized people, so many queer folks, so many men in baggy pants and fitted caps. That chemical smell when you open a brand new yoga mat for the first time? That was eve…

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RDGenerations: Religion in the Academy

…helped us articulate our positions, but they also intensified preexisting divides within the class. Alternatively, by putting the issues out on the table, we set ourselves up for sharper disagreement. Often I noticed a “split-level” dialogue according to students’ cultural backgrounds and experience in Religious Studies. For example, my Human Rights class read an essay that casually referred to God as “She.” The article had little to do with femi…

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How a Pioneer of Branding Invented Christian Fundamentalism

…. Throughout the 1890s amid growing populist discontent, groups of working class and lower middle class evangelical radicals were using beliefs and practices similar to Torrey’s to challenge the rising professional classes and in some cases the entire capitalist order. So, this message of Moody’s and Torrey’s that was supposed to bring social order starts to bring disorder. By 1901, everybody was bailing on Moody and they were losing their financi…

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The Forgotten Struggle Over Gender and Bigotry in Christianity

…. So, an ancient Christian credo declaring solidarity across ethnic lines, class division, and gender difference sounded a little unbelievable to someone who had come to see the Christian church as more a symbol of social ills than of starry-eyed utopian dreams. And that these words could have come from the Apostle Paul—to anyone with a passing familiarity with Christianity—would have seemed more incredible still. Most people today assume that Pau…

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