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Obama Makes Peace Offering to Gay and Lesbian Community

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…07, I walked a silent picket line in front of a concert venue in Columbia, South Carolina. Donnie McClurkin – a so-called “former homosexual” – was performing at a fundraising event for then Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama. McClurkin’s inclusion in the event had enraged gay and lesbian activists who felt betrayed by Obama – who had then claimed, and continues to claim to be a “fervent advocate for gay and lesbian rights.” The Obama…

Church of Pain: Religion, Ritual, and the Body in the New Serial Spin-Off, “S-Town”

By Spencer Dew

…the series for the New York Times, calls McLemore, “the peppiest pessimist south of the Mason-Dixon line,” noting his “talent for profane rants about civilization’s downfall that he delivers in an Alabama drawl.” There is more than a touch of exoticism in S-Town. The weird old south gets trotted out for display: a secret segregated room with an empty stripper pole, full of casually racist drunks; an anti-social eccentric commissioning iron gates f…

Pop Culture Yogi B. K. S. Iyengar Dead at 95

By Andrea R. Jain

…new system of Yoga by claiming ties to the yoga tradition presented in the South Asian text popularly recognized as the “classical” source, the Yoga Sutras, usually attributed to Patanjali, as well as to later hatha yoga developments. Iyengar even responded to recent debates about yoga’s identity and transmission by introducing an invocation to Patanjali at the beginning of each yoga class, though he insisted that while yoga was a part of an anci…

Blessed With a Dark Turn of Mind: Gillian Welch’s Spiritual Strivings

By Paul Harvey

…tion of rock and roll. Appropriate for characters nearly always set in the South or with Southern language, darkness always looms. Those who will enact Satan’s purposes on Earth are never far away, and even in the most personal of songs, symbols of disturbance straight from the playbook of Southern lore and Scots-Irish ballads abound: I can’t say your name without a crow flying by. Conjurers and tricksters from black Southern lore, and traveling r…

You Are What You Eat: New Book on Cannibalism Reimagines What It Means to Be Made of Flesh

By Michael Schulson

…ng of David Shulman’s book The Hungry God, and particularly a 12th century South Indian story that Shulman examines at length. One day, a Shiva-worshipper called Ciruttontar receives a visit from the god, who has disguised himself as a wandering ascetic. Eager to honor the holy man, Ciruttontar offers him a meal from any of his three herds. Shiva, in diguise, refuses. “The beast we eat is human,” he says—specifically healthy five year-old boys who…

Big Mo-Publican Primary Watch 2012 Begins

By Joanna Brooks

…team of former McCain advisors like Richard Quinn, Hunstman will focus on South Carolina and beyond—a cheeky strategy given how well Mormons traditionally do in the South. Romney will hold his national base of Mormon campaign donors and doers, but whatever Romney has in national infrastructure, Hunstman will make up for with his own deep pockets. Scenario two: Huntsman explores, then opts to postpone until 2016 and runs for US Senate in 2012 agai…

Why Pro-Life Voters Shouldn’t Trust Trump on Abortion—And Why It Doesn’t Matter

By Neil J. Young

…thood’s services excluding abortion. Other conservative activists—like the Southern Baptist Convention’s Russell Moore—have made similar vows, unconvinced by Trump’s claims to have abandoned his previous support for abortion rights in favor of a thoroughly pro-life position. Citing Ronald Reagan’s conversion from a pro-choice governor to an unwaveringly pro-life president as a model for his own transformation, Trump may have convinced enough Repub…

Romney Campaign to Surrender Evangelicals in 2012

By Joanna Brooks

…kely to have significant strategy impacts not only in Iowa but also in the South. For now, the Romney campaign seems focused on making endorsements—now numbering 100 or more—in key 2010 races, including successful GOP gubernatorial candidate Nikki Haley in South Carolina. This strategy shift reflects a refinement of the Romney 2008 campaign’s tactic of downplaying the candidate’s faith entirely as well as a renewed focus (taking a page from his fr…

American Sin: Why Pope Francis’ Mercy is Not Our Mercy

By Kaya Oakes

…rch from which Francis’ ideas about mercy evolved. Argentina may be one of South America’s more politically progressive countries, but it remains an overwhelmingly Catholic country with a dominant Spanish influence. With a dizzying number of languages, economic classes, ethnicities and cultures represented in American Catholic churches, American Catholics resist singularity. And it follows that they are going to be inconsistent in how they define…

Obama Foes Misrepresent Islam with “Apostate” Tactic

By Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na`im

…Religion, Florida State University +Huma Dar PhD Candidate, Department of South & South East Asian Studies, UC Berkeley +William Shepard Associate Professor of Religious Studies, Retired, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand +Harvey Stark, PhD Candidate in Religion, Princeton University +Seval Yildirim Assistant Professor, Director of Center for International and Comparative Law Whittier Law School, Costa Mesa, CA +Linell Cady, co-…