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From Bad to Worstest: How Liberals Should (And Should Not) Talk About Values

By Daniel Schultz

…They agree, and that’s enough. The people who disagree, on the other hand, discount your religiosity. They disagree, which invalidates your authority. People also tend to assume that there is a shared moral framework in America that can unleash great cooperative political power, if it can only be tapped in just the right way. There’s not, for pretty much the reasons outlined above. While Americans might share broad moral assumptions, in reality th…

Decolonizing Jewish Studies Part II: A Response to the Backlash

By Gilah Kletenik and Rafael Rachel Neis

…harassment is hardly coincidental, as scholars note. But absent this, we’d discount the work on ethico-intellectual grounds alone. We invite opponents of the effort to confute his scholarship to defend it on its merits, rather than fear mongering about “academic freedom” to salvage his reputation and research (which is notorious for fear mongering about the Jewish “future”). There’s a chasm between the openness we’re advocating to dismantle injust…

Trayvon Martin and American Exceptionalism

By Mark Hulsether

…ction. Following Anthea’s lead, I too would stress how it is often used to discount and cover-up ongoing structural racism, so I write primarily to underline her reflections. Yet one must also grant that exceptionalism can be used (as Martin Luther King Jr. used it, for example) to combat racism, within an underlying logic of “exceptional-democracy-versus-exceptional-racism.” In the work of King at his best, and in many other significant contexts,…

Journalistic Blind Spots and the “Centrist-to-Liberal” Christian

By Mark Hulsether

…hird of them have been relatively centrist “Carter-types” all along. These numbers are neither static nor crystal clear—they probably inched upward along generational lines and shifted by a few percentage points from time to time, depending on how we measure evangelical status and centrism. (Many evangelicals take more progressive stances toward poverty, militarism, and the environment than feminist and LGBT issues.) Meanwhile, the media spotlight…

RD10Q: What is Black Religion?

By William D. Hart

…ious Naturalism and Cultural Criticism of Kenneth Burke and Ralph Ellison (Princeton 2003) by Beth Eddy. The book is beautifully written, well argued, and comports with my own naturalistic views. What’s your next book? If you discount a short companion text entitled Black Religion: Beyond the Standard Narrative that pulls together the material I described in question three, then my next book is a study of human sacrifice in religion and statecraft…

Shutdown is Over, But There Will Be a Next Time

By Diane Winston

…The message may be exploited for political or economic purposes but don’t discount the many true believers: Ted Cruz, Mark Meadows and Michele Bachmann are not using politics for religious ends or religion for economic ends, it’s one and the same. This time, they may not have succeeded. But there will be a next time and a next time until an alternate vision of society—one that remixes religion, politics and economics into a more communal and coll…

Does End Time Belief Really Cause Climate Change Apathy?

By Robin Globus Veldman

…at is, that Jesus will return to Earth someday?” would have been likely to discount the future. From what I saw in the field, people who did not live in the shadow of the Last Days recognized the folly of giving up on this world when it was uncertain when the next one would come. This highlights another problem with Barker and Bearce’s study: it only included two belief-related variables: the one about the second coming of Christ, and another tha…

Was Islam Responsible for the Boston Bombings, or Was “Internet Islam”?

By Ivan Strenski

…ty” of the Tsarnaevs. That too misses a vital point. I do not for a moment discount the sincerity of the feelings for Islam by the Tsarnaev brothers. But, what Islam was the object of those feelings? I would offer that it was for an “Internet Islam”—for an abstract, compact, easily rendered Islam, fed by the representations flowing from out of the ether! When the older brother went to Dagestan, apparently, to find himself, he did not take Islamic…

Muslims for Trump

By Haroon Moghul

…er more ossified society, such that those with money—including significant numbers of America’s small Muslim community—were liable to hold onto their wealth even as many around them found it harder and harder to get by. They arrived and became part of the top several percent. I am afraid that many of these folks have confused the circumstances that have enabled their prosperity with their efforts. It undoubtedly takes courage to get up and come ha…

The Most Ridiculous Responses to the Vatican’s Call-out of the Catho–Christian Right

By Patricia Miller

…f religion and politics in the U.S. Of course, Spadaro and Figueroa didn’t discount such a history. They merely noted that the emergence of a largely electorally motivated, right-wing Catho-Christian political machine was a relatively recent phenomena. Ross Douthat also goes with the “don’t know nothin’ about U.S. history approach” in his takedown of the article. First, however, he notes the deep political and social divides that have come to char…