Religion Dispatches
What should be more offensive to a political candidate, a claim that God is fully in charge of history, or a claim that the biblical text, not human thought, is the source of truth? It’s the latter that violates the spirit of the first amendment…
Read MoreMcCain corroborates Obama’s Sociology of Religion 101 insights—all politicians do…
Read MoreThe words of our top general in Iraq—words I’ve described as myths—are those that the president says will determine his war policy.
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A scholar of nonviolence shares his struggle with Jewish identity during a time of escalating conflict and violence in Israel.
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Beneath the violence and inability to find peace in Israel/Palestine lie a series of narratives and myths American and Israeli Jews employ to understand the situation. One such narrative has shifted toward hope recently, but does it go deep enough?
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This presidential election has a symbolic sub-plot in which ancient archetypes vie for the American voter’s soul…
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The “compassionate conservatism” of the Bush era was based on the idea that “sinful sloth” leads to poverty, and only religion can cure such a weakness. But the underpinning of Obama’s faith-based plan is political, not theological…
Read MoreDeconstructing the systematic political theology in the president’s Easter address; are American soldiers merely imitating Christ?
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Agonized analyses about the proper relation between church and state too often miss the point.
Read MoreRevisiting the secularization hypothesis and Alan Wolfe’s Atlantic essay.
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