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Is the Prochoice Religious Community a Sleeping Giant?

By Frederick Clarkson

…of reproductive choice and justice, but democracy itself. While anyone who reads the news knows that there’s a real decline in religious identity and institutional membership, less well recognized and reported is that this decline in organizational identity and membership isn’t unique to religious institutions. In fact, as detailed by Harvard political scientist Robert D. Putnam in his 2000 book Bowling Alone. membership organizations of all kinds…

Where Were They Radicalized? No Answer is Complete Without Addressing Evangelical Churches and Schooling

By Chrissy Stroop

…ions, fostered the subcultures that created the demand for hyper-partisan “news” outlets like Fox News. Any serious answer to the question of radicalization will have to address Christian nationalism’s own longstanding (dis)information and political ecosystem, taking into account the feedback loops between it; overt white supremacist and right-wing extremist groups; elite right-wing lobbies like the Council for National Policy; digital technology;…

7 Women Scholars On the Gender Divide in Religious Studies, the Power of Mentors, and Leading While Female

By Rebecca Barrett-Fox

…I needed to investigate my assumption that religion was a psychological “crutch” for the weak minded, so designed an independent study with a religion professor in which I read Freud, Kierkegaard, and Tillich. CONTRIBUTORS Wendi Adamek brings historical research on medieval China to bear on contemporary issues. She is the author of The Mystique of Transmission and the forthcoming Practicescape: The Buddhists of Baoshan. Nancy Ammerman has been at…

Pope Mum on LGBTs in Uganda; Church Defends Anti-Marriage-Equality Efforts in Australia; Cyprus Passes Civil Partnerships; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…nnot simply “nudge off” the LGBT community. More from Joe Williams at Pink News: Arun Jaitley says that the country must reconsider the “conservative” ruling made by the Supreme Court in 2013, as it ignores the needs of “millions of people” across India. “When you have millions of people involved in this (gay sex) you can’t nudge them off,” he stated. He added that India’s approach to gay rights needs to be modernised, arguing that the law would h…

Jerusalem Honors Right-Wing Mogul Sheldon Adelson

By Diane Winston

…ugh Israel HaYom (Israel Today), a free tabloid that is the country’s must-read news outlet. Adelson told reporters at the Jerusalem gathering that he does not dictate the newspaper’s coverage or editorials, but that both reflect his point of view and that of his close friend, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. In a nation of news junkies, Israel HaYom is trying to steer public opinion to the right. And it’s trouncing the competition. As PBS point…

2010: What Did We Believe In?

By Gary Laderman

…red principles upon which this country was founded. Opposition to the construction of a Muslim community center in New York; the brutal attack on a Muslim cabbie; the proposed burning of Qur’ans by a small church that created a media sensation; the passage of a law in Oklahoma outlawing shari’ah—taken together these and other similar incidents point to the sacred value of hating Muslims for Americans who place fear above education, knee-jerk milit…

Why Anti-Gay Bullying is a Theological Issue

By Cody J. Sanders

…te, equivocating messages of affirmation are overpowered by the religious rhetoric of hatred. Silence only serves to support the toleration of bullying, violence, and exclusion. In the face of what has already become the common occurrence of LGBT teen suicide, how long can we wait to respond? *Young, Justice and the Politics of Difference. p. 61 **Copeland, Enfleshing Freedom. p. 82…

4 Reasons Why Egypt’s Revolution Is Not Islamic

By Haroon Moghul

…le the Brotherhood is an incredibly large and powerful organization, it is today a product of years of suppression, torture, and intimidation. While it seeks to change society, it does not pursue an explicitly political agenda. Rather, it believes that an ideal politics will be achieved once society is Islamized—in other words, enough introduction of Muslim values into popular culture, and society will simply reform itself—and that includes the st…

From “Jane Roe” to “Roe No More”: Norma McCorvey’s Long Strange Trip Through the Politics of Abortion

By Patricia Miller

…82% of likely Clinton voters supported abortion rights, while only 36% of Trump voters did so. Fully 60% of Trump supporters thought abortion should be illegal in all most cases, while only 16% of Clinton backers would ban abortion. And the anti-abortion movement, which—as their exploitation of McCorvey demonstrates—has always had a better sense of the theatrics of the politics of abortion, married that to a fierce grassroots legislative ground ga…

No God but Country: The Religion of John McCain Has Something Important to Tell Us

By Kathryn Lofton

…maybe it’s not just more candidate bullshit, that this guy it’s maybe the truth. Or maybe both the truth and bullshit—the man does want your vote, after all. The man does want your vote, after all. And so we return to where we begin. How do we ever know the mysteries of the man’s soul? And what, really, should those mysteries have to do with our political estimations? To declare that McCain is not Christian against his (once rare; now constant) pr…