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Kill Your Patriarchs: An Interview with Michael Muhammad Knight

By Hussein Rashid

…e walks in on this conversation, it is the typical college conversation of students who believe they are discovering truths that have never been known before, and getting it all wrong. The setting is a post-MSA (Muslim Student Association) event, and some boy is apparently trying to show how intellectual he is, using terms like muqallid (one who follows), ijtihad (independent reasoning), mujtahid (one who does independent reasoning), and taqleed (…

Oh My God(dess)! Feminist Spirituality in the Third Wave

By Mandy Van Deven

…nstantly using the same texts and theorists, but I noticed that some of my students were starting to ask different questions than these writers, most of whom started writing in the 1970s, were asking. I began looking for more recent contributions to the field, but had a hard time finding any. There is a lovely anthology by Danya Ruttenberg about young Jewish women called Yentl’s Revenge, but that’s about it. So I set out to create a resource that…

You Are More Than Your Brain: A Revolutionary Theory of Consciousness

By John Stoehr

…mulacrum of social exchange between a nonthinking and nonfeeling robot and students who were very much thinking and feeling. So what proof is valid proof? “If what people say and do, and measurements of what their brains are doing, are the best we have to go on,” Noë writes, “then it would seem that our commitment to the minds of other is philosophically ungrounded, a mere act of faith.” But it isn’t. A True Article of Faith We do not live in a wo…

By the Way: “Ten Commandments Judge” To Be Alabama’s Next Gov?

By Randall Balmer

…l years ago (after the “Ten Commandments” trial), I accompanied a group of students from the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism on a tour of the South. We arranged a meeting with Moore, who is an engaging man with a good sense of humor. I found myself liking him, even though I consider his ideas and his antics dangerous. In the course of the conversation—a peroration, really—Moore did his schtick about our Christian nation and how the First Am…

Christian Punk Meets American Pop; Evangelicals in the ’Burbs

By Brittany Shoot

…ith active believers has been more limited. I’ve taught a lot of Christian students who believe that I must be a born-again Christian (I’m not) because I take religion seriously, and they don’t always expect that. What was your favorite part of your research? My favorite research was for the chapter about Christian metal bands. I was never a fan of “mainstream” metal music, so I felt that I could treat both Christian and “secular” bands fairly. St…

The Nation of Islam at the End of the Apocalyptic Age?

By Anna Clark

…ative on Earth and began years of training in holy wisdom. Among his first students was Elijah Muhammad, who helmed the Nation until his death in 1975. When Muhammad’s son, Warith (Wallace) Deen Muhammad, became the Nation’s leader that same year, he radically reorganized the organization to more closely follow traditional Islam. It was renamed the American Muslim Mission and opened its doors to whites and Latinos. Four years later, Louis Farrakha…

Watch This! The Ethics and Aesthetics of Black Televangelism

By Jonathan L. Walton

…of the freedom-fighting “black church” is in many ways inconsistent with a number of African American Christians whose view of the faith is informed by Trinity Broadcasting, the Word Network, and Streaming Faith.com. Just the same, for sociologists and communication theorists who have examined the world of evangelical religious broadcasting, it is predominantly framed as the domain of the white, religious right. This book, then, is my attempt to…

RDBook: Darwin and Slavery

By Arri Eisen

…erican—that toured high schools to talk on race and religion and allow the students to meet people who were not like themselves, in many cases for the first time. These are the type of experiences that shaped me, that shape all Southerners. In Sacred Cause Desmond and Moore argue, with overwhelming evidence, that Darwin, too, was immersed in issues of race from the day he was born, and that his abhorrence for racism shaped him and the theories and…

Paul Weyrich, “Godfather” of Modern Conservative Movement, Dead at 66

By Bill Berkowitz

…Falwell Jr. said after Weyrich’s death. “He hosted many Liberty University students and interns at high-level political events in Washington, exposing them to the political process and teaching them how to become part of it. I met many of our nation’s political leaders when I attended some of those events as a college student in the early 1980s. Paul Weyrich will be greatly missed by conservative Christians across this nation. He worked tirelessly…

The Roots of Violence in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam

By Bruce Chilton

…ent at Sheffield University in England. One afternoon, after meetings with students, I struck up a conversation with a colleague who was (and is) an expert on the Dead Sea Scrolls. We talked about Abraham’s offer to sacrifice his son Isaac in Genesis 22. Both Judaism and Christianity took that story and changed its ending. According to some graphic accounts, Abraham actually slaughtered the boy on Mount Moriah, just as God commanded him to do, and…