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The Progress of Christ in Commercial America: A Review of Chris Lehmann’s The Money Cult

By Peter Laarman

…o reap huge profits without having to work themselves. He presents readers with a tableau of characters whom we will forever see in a new light, such as the department store magnate John Wanamaker, a marketing genius who also believed passionately that born-again Christians would transform society, and the aforementioned Bruce Barton, who likewise carried forward a touch of Social Gospel idealism despite his reconfiguration of Jesus to suit the ta…

‘Cult’ Is an Inaccurate, Unhelpful and Dangerous Label for Followers of Trump, QAnon, and 1/6

By Catherine Wessinger

…ia representatives on Fox News and One American News Network (OANN), along with a not insignificant number of elected members of Congress. A great deal of the concern on the part of white people is over their potential loss of status in America. This concern is being expressed in current Trumpist Republican efforts to curb access to voting by people of color and the social panic being fomented about “Critical Race Theory,” which has been turned in…

Religion and Other Animals

By Paul Waldau

…mal group known as the “Animals and Religion Consultation” has received growing attention, and publications dealing with religion and animals are increasing exponentially. This scholarly work emerges into a context where humans’ attitudes toward our cousin animals are more multifaceted than ever. At times, some humans seem driven by a refusal to inquire about the nonhuman lives within and near their communities. This refusal is evident in food pra…

No Conspiracy Theories Needed: Abortion Foes Cry Racism

By Kathryn Joyce

…aim that providers are targeting black and Latino populations, and have leafleted inner-city neighborhoods with denunciations of “Klan Parenthood,” juxtaposing images of lynchings and aborted fetuses with the slogan “lynching is for amateurs.” The argument’s popularity is climbing, spurring numerous rallies, publications, and organizations devoted to spreading word of abortion providers’ supposedly racist motives. Indeed, Rep. Franks, the lead spo…

Evangelical Pastor Argues for Full LGBT Inclusion: “I Think It’s Inevitable”

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…ne Paul offered those in Rome: stop judging one another and live in peace. Wilson spoke with Religion Dispatches’ Candace Chellew-Hodge about the book and how it’s being received. What prompted you to write this book? I had been doing a rethink on this question for a number of years and my convictions had changed but I didn’t know how to process it in the congregation at that stage. I had processed it with the church board and pastoral staff and d…

Islamic Intellectual Leadership at a Crossroads

By Amina Wadud

…urqa, and equality, it is interesting to note how many have to do directly with women or with gender identity and politics. He was concerned that using vaguely poetic or philosophical language might be seen as an attempt to mislead the readers. Otherwise, he should just stick to these button issues. Isn’t it curious that women are expected to address these topics no matter what their intellectual discipline? Failure to do so is tantamount to moral…

Lessons from the Defeat of the Oklahoma Personhood Bill

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…of course: from the simple and unsurprising non-news that sometimes people with the same job disagree with each other; to the possibility that personhood legislation is an unsettled question for US Catholic bishops; to the question of whether the bishops’ national fight with the Obama administration over contraception coverage has hardened their other positions on incipient human life. It would be premature to draw conclusions on any of these issu…

Two Women and a Mosque: A Convert Community Grows in Panama City

By Aliyya Swaby

…Most Muslims in Panama live in the major cities of Panama City and Colón, with smaller numbers in other provincial cities. The Panamanian government does not collect information on its religious composition, but a 2009 international report estimated the number of Muslims at around 24,000, comprising less than one percent of the country’s population. Most are of Lebanese, Palestinian or Indian descent. Though small, Panama’s Muslim community has g…

The Internet Is Not Killing Religion, Religion is Killing Religion

By Elizabeth Drescher

…and wonder as a sweet piper’s tune sings into the air. It allows us, following Talal Asad’s critique of William Cantwell Smith’s conception of “faith,” to consider what elements of human experience are deliberately and incidentally left out of whatever it is we might understand as “religion” in its institutionalized forms, and why. Who is served by the various exclusions and inclusions of institutional religion? To what ends? And who is harmed? W…

The Catholic-Evangelical (Non-)Coalition

By Patricia Miller

…. In terms of trends, 40% of Catholics supported same-sex marriage in 2001 with that number increasing to nearly 60% by 2014. By contrast, only 13% of Evangelicals favored same-sex marriage in 2001 and just 23% approve of it today. Writing in The Atlantic, PRRI’s Robert Jones gets at the truth behind these numbers: “there is more support for official Roman Catholic Church positions among white evangelical Protestants than among Catholics.” But, as…