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

By Nathan Schneider

…in that world of no heroes. To conclude: Billy refers at one point in the book to “the reality joke”—what’s the punchline? KL: The fake is the only real we can begin to believe, now. SD: I write in the book a bit about how Billy can be a fake leader for generations who have rejected leadership, or for those who can only perform the role of following. It almost seems like people, especially those that don’t self-identify as religious or political,…

Jerusalem Countdown: Christian Zionists and the New Israeli Government

By Bill Berkowitz

…Left and World Chaos: A Carter/Obama Plan That Will Not Work (Time Worthy Books). The book mocks and belittles former President Carter’s efforts working for peace in the Middle East. Although the book resided at #4713 in “Books” in early March, a couple of recent appearances on the Fox News Channel provided a book-buying surge, driving it to #1 in the “Leadership” category, and #2 in “Middle East.” In an early March e-mail, Evans reported on Secr…

RDBook: Selling the Good News

By Sarah Posner

…ies are too one-sided. Holy Mavericks draws a bit on Lee’s excellent first book, T.D. Jakes: America’s New Preacher, which remains the essential account of Jakes’ rise to stardom, but it could have used more of the same sort of reporting and analysis Lee did there. In framing each biography, Lee and Sinitiere rely too uncritically on each subject’s autobiography rather than including, as Lee did in his book on Jakes, the views of contemporaries, c…

Transgender, Scientologist, “Cult Hero”

By Jay Michaelson

…n, and embrace of her kinky, post-gender, post-fame self. (Bornstein’s new book gives her status as a “cult hero” a whole new meaning.) These are also two complete books, and also indispensable. Where to begin? Infallible but Religious Hugh Urban’s rather tentative book, The Church of Scientology: The History of a New Religion, published last year by Princeton University Press, refuses to condemn Scientology, or to praise it [see “Scientology: All…

The Roots of Violence in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam

By Bruce Chilton

…t is a pretty interesting collection, and useful for teaching. But in this book, as in my other books for Doubleday, I have deliberately spared the reader the technical information that the notes refer to. What are some of the biggest misconceptions about your topic? It is easier to see Abraham’s curse in others than in oneself. Christians spot it in Islam, but fail to recognize it in the Crusades. Muslims deny it in the Qur’an, and call attention…

Addressing the Culture War Without Touching the Culture War

By Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins

…tance, wrote of The Lonely Crowd in his 1961 preface that it ‘was one of a number of books which in recent years have eschewed dogmatism and fanaticism and preferred openness, pluralism, and empiricism,’ he was simply summarizing the consensus liberal ideals of the day. These were ideals held not only by scholars; they were also becoming widely prevalent in business, politics, the media, and everyday life. This had deleterious consequences, he arg…

Betrayed at the Polls, Evangelicals of Color at a Crossroads

By Deborah Jian Lee

…of color to heal from trauma experienced in the church and society. On Facebook, she was added to a group formed to mobilize churches to protect trans and non-binary people of color and to a book club exploring Latinx feminist liberation theology. Social justice activist Crystal Cheatham is developing an app for people on the margins of the church. The Our Bible App launches this June and will offer gender-inclusive Bible translations, a library o…

Men Without Guns: A Tribute to Larry McMurtry

By Amy Laura Hall

…ighteous Christians are likely covering something up. My favorite McMurtry book is The Evening Star (1992). Aurora Greenway’s life after death is my brand of triumph. But my first McMurtry is forever The Last Picture Show (1966). My mother recommended I read it in order to understand my father. He grew up bookish near Archer City and became an uncommonly nonjudgmental Methodist pastor. To say the novel is about loss is to state the obvious. It’s i…

Political Reporters Start Reading Religious Right Books

By Sarah Posner

…ed, “Can’t remember another campaign bragging that candidate was reading a book that asked people to pray for conversion of all Jews and Muslims.” Perhaps Lizza can’t remember, and perhaps a campaign didn’t explicitly brag about reading a particular book, but considering that conversion of non-believers is a standard evangelical imperative, it shouldn’t be too terribly surprising that an evangelical candidate would brag about reading a book that c…

How Conservative Christian Women Came to Claim “True” Feminism

By Eric C. Miller

…favor shows up to the party. And that, really, is much of the point of the book, wherein I grapple with whether chaos rhetoric is a unique practice. I demonstrate that it’s not, as I show how many other, seemingly different, groups (including the very scholars who study the Christian Right) do the very same thing: they use chaos rhetoric to portray their own ideological opponents as a force that violates everything that is good, noble, productive,…