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The Revolujah! Will Be Performed: Reverend Billy’s Reality Joke

By Nathan Schneider

…every day would be key to our church’s defense against fundamentalism. Crossan’s peasant priest/magic-man/polemicist and Pagels’ Magdalen opened up my view of intellectual and artistic affect. In particular, I was susceptible to old ideas of the hero of the arts. So when the choir came around me clapping on the Times Square sidewalk, and when Savitri joined as an equal at the pivot of 9/11, I was less fearful of my territory as hero and could rela…

Occupy Francis Lewis Boulevard

By Haroon Moghul

…hari’ah version of formerly fat, now thin Jared. Maybe I can be formerly crazy, but now acceptably moderate Muslim “Abdul,” because of my diet of Subway sandwiches. I eat there every day, or almost every other day, and thanks to my their reward points programs, I have put the fear of God and math into every Subway franchise within a ten-minute drive of me, all of which dread the day when I walk in and announce, I’d like to redeem my tens of thousa…

Repurposing the Gospel Aura: Eminem’s Chrysler Ad Borrows Some Spirit

By Douglas Harrison

…r the salvation of freedom in the Civil Rights era. And then there are any number of other mainstream movies that in one fashion or another use the crossover hit, “Oh Happy Day,” what one reader at my blog aptly suggested could be retitled “the only black gospel song Hollywood knows.” For only one of the most recent examples of this phenomenon, see Disney’s Secretariat (2010), in which a montage overlaid with a black gospel choir singing “Oh Happy…

Muslims Helped Legitimize Lowes’ Decision to Pull Ads From All-American Muslim

By Hussein Rashid

…es who would not acknowledge FFA’s sinister anti-First Amendment agenda? Amazingly not. It seems that the greatest critics of the show have been other Muslims. I think there are valid critiques one can make of the show. Su’ad Abdul Khabeer made some wonderful observations here on RD, but she also recognized the limitations of the genre, and more importantly, offered constructive suggestions. Zeba Iqbal built on the theme, and talked about the fact…

Egyptians vs. The Police

By H.A. Hellyer

…ff, when Muhammad, one of my neighbors, recognized him. “Oh, hello. Wait a minute — aren’t you the police officer we saw here yesterday?” Bashfully, he replied, “Um, yes.” Muhammad responded, with all the righteousness evident in his voice, “So, no work for you today?” None of us wanted to see a cop. None of us wanted to see one ever again. A few days ago, it was the police who were both the mainstay of our security, and the annoying bane of our l…

A Frustrated Romney Loses Lead in SC

By Joanna Brooks

…atively cannot participate. Romney has participated in hundreds—if not thousands—of such interviews during his time as a member and a lay congregational and lay regional leader for the Church. But what works for proving worthiness in a religious setting may not win over South Carolina voters, as evidenced by the boos at the CNN debate and dramatic last-minute reversals in the polls. No wonder Romney again let his prickly side come out during the d…

Is Mitt’s Mormonism Responsible for South Carolina Loss?

By Joanna Brooks

…% of self-identified evangelical Christians voted for Romney, 23% for Rick Santorum, and 21% for Ron Paul. It is also worthy of note that in South Carolina Mitt Romney actually improved his share of self-identified Protestant voters. In 2008, Romney won about 13% of South Carolina Protestants; in 2012, that number grew to 27%. Certainly, data shows that anti-Mormon sentiment played a role in Romney’s fortunes, but here are five other takeaways fro…

The Internet is Not Killing Organized Religion

By Elizabeth Drescher

…t it would be interesting to explore the balance of ideologies across this number. Are liberal Catholics more likely to become unaffiliated than conservative ones? I wouldn’t be surprised to find that this is the case. Certainly, findings from the National Study of Youth and Religion bear this out, showing that mainline Protestant and Catholic young people exhibit significantly less robust and enduring denominational identities than do their evang…

I Booed Romney For Jesus

By Anthea Butler

…the crowd. President Obama was absent from the convention except for a two-minute video speech before Biden’s talk. The vice president, however, was the right choice to follow up the staid and stiff Mitt Romney. While Romney didn’t seem to understand that the countless organ riffs were trying to get him to wrap it up, Biden reveled in his connection to the crowd. Unlike Romney, Biden was not an outsider to African-American life. Giving shout-outs…

Pawlenty Stars in American Civil Religion: The Movie

By Michael J. Altman

…squerades as a book ad that looks like a movie trailer. The ad runs only a minute and fifteen seconds but it packs in a flurry of American religious and civic mythology around the themes of freedom, security, and prosperity. With a thrilling musical score of vague but impending danger that could have been lifted from the season finale of 24, Pawlenty’s voiceover reminds us that these three goals won’t be easy but that we can accomplish them becaus…