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    • As a Religious Studies Professor I Disagreed With the Hamline Firing — But Now I’ve Changed My Mind
      As a Religious Studies Professor I Disagreed With the Hamline Firing — But Now I’ve Changed My Mind
    • Enjoy the Kosher Collard Greens, But Understand This: Hebrew Israelites Have Something to Say to the Rest of the Jewish Community
      Enjoy the Kosher Collard Greens, But Understand This: Hebrew Israelites Have Something to Say to the Rest of the Jewish Community
    • Pope Benedict’s 2006 Islamophobia Controversy Wasn’t an Isolated Incident — Islamophobia is an Integral Part of His Theological Legacy
      Pope Benedict’s 2006 Islamophobia Controversy Wasn’t an Isolated Incident — Islamophobia is an Integral Part of His Theological Legacy
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    • In Hamline Case, the ‘Free Expression vs. Religious Sensibilities’ Frame Obscures a Stark Reality About Higher Education
      In Hamline Case, the ‘Free Expression vs. Religious Sensibilities’ Frame Obscures a Stark Reality About Higher Education
    • GOP Candidate Allegedly Orchestrating Shooting of Democrats’ Homes is no Accident
      GOP Candidate Allegedly Orchestrating Shooting of Democrats’ Homes is no Accident
    • The Key to Understanding the Federalist Society Isn’t Originalism — It’s This 800-Year Old Tradition
      The Key to Understanding the Federalist Society Isn’t Originalism — It’s This 800-Year Old Tradition
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    • But What About the Parents? New York Times Falls Into the Anti-Trans ‘Parents’ Rights’ Trap
      But What About the Parents? New York Times Falls Into the Anti-Trans ‘Parents’ Rights’ Trap
    • No Longer Content With Right to Opt Out, Conservative Christians Asking Courts to Eliminate Rights for Others — And They’re Winning
      No Longer Content With Right to Opt Out, Conservative Christians Asking Courts to Eliminate Rights for Others — And They’re Winning
    • Broken Courts, Big Lies and Genocide Rehearsal: A Review of 2022—And What We Can Expect From 2023
      Broken Courts, Big Lies and Genocide Rehearsal: A Review of 2022—And What We Can Expect From 2023
  • Christian Nationalism
    • GOP Candidate Allegedly Orchestrating Shooting of Democrats’ Homes is no Accident
      GOP Candidate Allegedly Orchestrating Shooting of Democrats’ Homes is no Accident
    • The Key to Understanding the Federalist Society Isn’t Originalism — It’s This 800-Year Old Tradition
      The Key to Understanding the Federalist Society Isn’t Originalism — It’s This 800-Year Old Tradition
    • ‘Exporting Garbage to the Nations’: Conservative Christian Rifts Spreading Like Cracked Glass
      ‘Exporting Garbage to the Nations’: Conservative Christian Rifts Spreading Like Cracked Glass
  • Russia Invades Ukraine
    • Espionage Allegations Against Russian Church Raise Religious Freedom Issue in Ukraine
      Espionage Allegations Against Russian Church Raise Religious Freedom Issue in Ukraine
    • As Tensions Escalate in the Balkans, the West Could Hand Putin a Valuable Weapon
      As Tensions Escalate in the Balkans, the West Could Hand Putin a Valuable Weapon
    • Putin’s Violent Holy War Rhetoric Made it to the Christian Right Fringe — And There’s Reason to Believe it’ll Go Mainstream
      Putin’s Violent Holy War Rhetoric Made it to the Christian Right Fringe — And There’s Reason to Believe it’ll Go Mainstream
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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, Books, Christian Nationalism, 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, 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, Books, Christian Nationalism, 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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