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    • If the Media Are Reluctant to Properly Label the GOP’s Racist, Christian Nationalist Ideologies, We’ll Have Trouble Hanging on to Democracy
      If the Media Are Reluctant to Properly Label the GOP’s Racist, Christian Nationalist Ideologies, We’ll Have Trouble Hanging on to Democracy
    • ‘Pregnant Women’ or ‘People Who Can Get Pregnant’: How Do We Balance Recognition of Anti-Abortion Misogyny with the Erasure of Transmasculine People?
      ‘Pregnant Women’ or ‘People Who Can Get Pregnant’: How Do We Balance Recognition of Anti-Abortion Misogyny with the Erasure of Transmasculine People?
    • Who’s ‘Really’ Jewish: the Sefardi Floridian, the Ashkenazi Californian, or the New York Jew By Choice? ‘Authenticity’ is a Trap
      Who’s ‘Really’ Jewish: the Sefardi Floridian, the Ashkenazi Californian, or the New York Jew By Choice? ‘Authenticity’ is a Trap
  • Politics/Law
    • What the Hell is Wrong With Us? A Muslim Response to America’s Failure to Change
      What the Hell is Wrong With Us? A Muslim Response to America’s Failure to Change
    • Who’s Really Politicizing School Shootings?
      Who’s Really Politicizing School Shootings?
    • As Catholic Bishops Punish Dissent, Rosemary Radford Ruether’s Life and Legacy Show the Way Forward
      As Catholic Bishops Punish Dissent, Rosemary Radford Ruether’s Life and Legacy Show the Way Forward
  • The End of Roe
    • Who’s Really Politicizing School Shootings?
      Who’s Really Politicizing School Shootings?
    • Buffalo and Uvalde Both Appear to Have Involved the AR-15, the Rifle Revered by the Christian Right
      Buffalo and Uvalde Both Appear to Have Involved the AR-15, the Rifle Revered by the Christian Right
    • It’s the Theology, Stupid: Why the Shocking SBC Report is Anything But Surprising
      It’s the Theology, Stupid: Why the Shocking SBC Report is Anything But Surprising
  • Christian Nationalism
    • Who’s Really Politicizing School Shootings?
      Who’s Really Politicizing School Shootings?
    • Buffalo and Uvalde Both Appear to Have Involved the AR-15, the Rifle Revered by the Christian Right
      Buffalo and Uvalde Both Appear to Have Involved the AR-15, the Rifle Revered by the Christian Right
    • It’s the Theology, Stupid: Why the Shocking SBC Report is Anything But Surprising
      It’s the Theology, Stupid: Why the Shocking SBC Report is Anything But Surprising
  • Russia Invades Ukraine
    • Putin Theo-Propaganda Minister Kirill Invokes 600 Years of History to Lay Claim to Ukraine — Here’s What it Means
      Putin Theo-Propaganda Minister Kirill Invokes 600 Years of History to Lay Claim to Ukraine — Here’s What it Means
    • How Belief in Moscow as ‘The New Rome’ Explains Kirill’s Astonishing Declaration That ‘Russia Has Never Attacked Anyone’
      How Belief in Moscow as ‘The New Rome’ Explains Kirill’s Astonishing Declaration That ‘Russia Has Never Attacked Anyone’
    • Is This Tiny Divided Orthodox Nation the Next Front in Russia’s Religious War?
      Is This Tiny Divided Orthodox Nation the Next Front in Russia’s Religious War?
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Katherine Stewart

Katherine Stewart is the author of The Power Worshippers: Inside the Dangerous Rise of Religious Nationalism (Bloomsbury). Her work has appeared in the New York Times, the New York Review of Books, and the New Republic.

Archive, Christian Nationalism, New Books, OMFGApril 18, 2022

‘How Pentecostal Christianity Is Taking Over the World’: An Interview with Author Elle Hardy

By Katherine Stewart

Australian-born journalist Elle Hardy’s exposé of global Pentecostalism, released in November by an independent UK…

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(A)theologies, Archive, Christian Nationalism, Politics/LawAugust 9, 2021

What’s Missing From Popular Discussions of Today’s Christian Nationalism?

By Katherine Stewart

If you want to know where the Republican Party is headed, you need to set…

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Archive, New Books, New Books, OMFGMay 17, 2021

Largely Overshadowed by the Election, ‘Red Pill, Blue Pill’ Transcends Standard Explanations of Conspiracy Culture Which is ‘Killing Us All’

By Katherine Stewart

Mat Staver, cofounder of the right-wing legal activist group Liberty Counsel, seems to think that…

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(A)theologies, Archive, New Books, OMFGMarch 2, 2020

How a Powerful ‘Ex-Gay’ Pastor is Chasing the Latino Vote

By Katherine Stewart

At a mini-mall Starbucks in southern San Diego, I’m staring into my coffee and wondering…

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Culture, Guest BloggersJune 18, 2013

Are You Doing Your Part in the Baby War?

By Katherine Stewart

A new book on ‘only children’ adds an interesting dimension to the politics of making babies. 

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CultureFebruary 25, 2013

Protesting Yoga in Schools, But Welcoming Bible Study

By Katherine Stewart

When is touching your toes just touching your toes, and when is it an effort to indoctrinate small children in Hinduism?

 

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Guest BloggersDecember 3, 2012

Debating the “Nones” Part 3

By Katherine Stewart

The author responds.

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Politics/LawNovember 28, 2012

The Demographic that Should Keep Rove Awake at Night

By Katherine Stewart

Imagine a demographic that has doubled its share of the population over the past two decades, is up by 25 percent over the past four years, now accounts for as many as one in five Americans, and voted overwhelmingly for Obama.

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Politics/LawFebruary 2, 2012

Supreme Court Rules Religion is Special… This Time

By Katherine Stewart

The balance between the right to free exercise of religion and the right of employees to equal protection under the law is not easy to strike, and the Hosanna-Tabor decision doesn’t appear to strike it at all.

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Archive**December 7, 2011

Rent-Free Religion in New York’s Public Schools

By Katherine Stewart

When I moved to New York City just over a year ago, I started going to church. More precisely, I started going to the churches—dozens of them—that were located in New York City’s public schools. I attended services all over Manhattan, in Brooklyn, Queens, and the Bronx.

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