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From Confusion to Kardashian: Misreading the Middle East

By Haroon Moghul

…d Muslim worlds. Those who shaped our narratives of the Middle East—our intellectual elites, commentators and columnists—failed to grasp the consequences of the Arab Spring. Just like Arab dictators faced with popular uprisings didn’t know what hit them until they were on a plane, in prison, or face-down in a ditch. Even the IDF, the supposed fount of Israel’s “start-up” success, seemed off in the new media world. The Arab Spring has changed how…

How Orthodox Christianity Became the Spiritual Home of White Nationalism

By Katherine Kelaidis

…of the modern Orthodox church’s relationship with the far-right, highly likely. It is this relationship that has, at least in part, propelled Orthodoxy into the position of “go-to religion” for the white supremacist movement that would prefer to be known as the “alt-right“—not just in the United States, but around the world. When priests in Corinth sprinkle holy water around the new campaign office of the Greek Neo-Nazi party Golden Dawn and the P…

How the Catholic Church Broke the Health Insurance it Advocated For

By Patricia Miller

…t out of such coverage based on “conscientious objection or long-standing religious beliefs against such coverage.” This laid the groundwork for the bishops’ objections to the contraceptive mandate in the Affordable Care Act, which they now argued would violate not just insurers’ rights, but the rights of the insured, who would be forced “to go out into the marketplace and buy a product that violates their conscience.” Other social conservatives,…

Queer Nuns: Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence Are ‘Serious Parody,’ Forcing us to Redefine Nuns

By Melissa Wilcox

…some of my enthusiastic fascination with queer and transgender studies in religion. I hope religious studies readers come to think more carefully about the enormous diversity of religious practices and perspectives in queer and trans communities and the force of performative religious activism. I hope queer and transgender studies readers come to think more carefully about religion beyond their immediate association of the word with Jerry Falwell….

Queer Nuns: Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence are “Serious Parody,” Forcing Us to Redefine Nuns

By Melissa Wilcox

…some of my enthusiastic fascination with queer and transgender studies in religion. I hope religious studies readers come to think more carefully about the enormous diversity of religious practices and perspectives in queer and trans communities and the force of performative religious activism. I hope queer and transgender studies readers come to think more carefully about religion beyond their immediate association of the word with Jerry Falwell….

Declining Southern Baptists Double Down on Homophobia

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…r rooms. […] The state of New Jersey has made it illegal for licensed counselors to help a child embrace a gender identity that matches his sex. The horror! Next thing you know cats and dogs will be living together, wolves will lie down with lambs, leopards will lie down with goats, and lions and yearlings will live together. Such chaos God surely cannot tolerate. (See Isaiah 11:5-7) One might rightly question whether this is the best move for the…

Breivik’s Christianity About Culture Not Piety

By Julie Ingersoll

…you have a personal relationship with Jesus Christ and God then you are a religious Christian. Myself and many more like me do not necessarily have a personal relationship with Jesus Christ and God. We do however believe in Christianity as a cultural, social, identity and moral platform. This makes us Christians. But lest you think this is a veneer of Christianity over a political philosophy there is more to consider. First, the notion of a “perso…

More Sex Icon than Feminist

By Kathryn Joyce

…Cindy, who suddenly let her hair down in bed-head style, perhaps at last relieved of the burdens of wifely duties, calls it “a perfect match.” That Esther’s biblical fame is actually due to her subversion of that submissive role—using her beauty in order to save her people from genocide—seems fitting for the sort of adulation conservative Christians have for Palin in hailing her as the right woman for the times. They linger on her victimization a…

Medieval Multitasking: Did We Ever Focus?

By Elizabeth Drescher

…I read both Carr and Shirky over the past couple weeks—who both seek parallels between the rise of the internet and digital social media and the invention of the printing press in the 16th century—I couldn’t help thinking about medieval manuscripts. Since the early 1990s, both medievalists and electronic media theorists have pointed to the hypertexted quality of medieval illuminated manuscripts in making complementary claims: medievalists to conti…

Milwaukee Archdiocese, Under Dolan, Paid Sex Abusers to Leave Priesthood

By Sarah Posner

…ge is “un-American;” He worried that by inviting HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius to speak, Georgetown University showed it was moving to a more “secular model, where they would take their cues from what’s happening in contemporary events instead of the timeless wisdom of the church.” Pertinent to the payments made to abusive Milwaukee priests—one, Goodstein reported, had sexually assaulted 10 minors—in March the National Catholic Reporter noted ho…