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Cyclops Baby of the Apocalypse? Another Day in ISIS Fundamentalism

By Joseph Laycock

…n a great war, a cosmic struggle that allows them to play out all of their computer game fantasies of warcraft, valor and gore.” This suggests that as ISIS empties the traditional Muslim cosmos in the name of returning Islam to its roots, its young recruits are filling it just as rapidly with a mélange of supernatural tropes drawn from popular media and the Internet. For every saint’s tomb that’s blown up in the name of combatting shirk, a cyclops…

Is the State a Religious Actor in Deeming Teen’s Crotch-Rubbing of Jesus Statue Illegal?

By Joseph Laycock

…is itself regarded as polluting? Mircea Eliade noted that anything could become could come to be regarded as hierophany—a manifestation of the sacred. He wrote, “Indeed, we cannot be sure that there is anything—object, movement psychological function, being or even game—that has not at some time in human history been somewhere transformed into a hierophany.” More recently, Ann Taves, in her book Religious Experience Reconsidered: A Building-Block…

West Virginia Mayor Enlists Churches To Pray Away Drugs and Crime

By Sarah Posner

…is own Facebook page.” In the “not political” video, the mayor adds, “I’ve come to understand and experience how powerful prayer can be personally in my life, and certainly what I’ve observed within my administration and how we’re going about doing business. Prayer is so powerful I cannot imagine the power that would be unleashed if every church on September 7 at 11:05 a.m. … would take a moment to pray.” Williams has more than a few supporters, d…

“Muscular Christianity” Not to Blame For Driscoll: A Response

By Jessica Johnson

…id not realize at the time. The misogynistic and fearful broader culture is a detriment whatever our gender or beliefs—religious, secular, or otherwise. We have a lot more common ground and spiritual affinity than we may think, and exploring that potential may just be the best way forward….

Promise Keepers Launches Effort to Support Messianic Jews in Israel

By Sarah Posner

…eported on Messianic Jews in Israel in 2012, I found they operated largely underground, particularly in Jerusalem, where they claimed a fear of reprisal from haredi opponents. At a youth conference organized by Succat Hallel at a concert venue in Tel Aviv, there was no signage indicating what was taking place, and organizers allowed me in on the condition that I didn’t report what happened inside. (There is, however, video of the event online.) Th…

Public Shrines to Treason: Charlottesville and the Cult of Confederate Memorialization

By Spencer Dew

…of a local paper, a venue, too, for the repetition of the ISIS analogy in online comments. The logic here links those who would remove Confederate monuments to ISIS both in terms of occupation and of religious war. Those opposed to the monument are presented as a capricious, violently oppressive army, and outsiders to boot—power-hungry and disrespectful carpetbaggers. The comparison is also, of course, hyperbolic, as the use of an actual ISIS tac…

The Higher the Dome, The Closer to God: “Megachurches” Explores the Arid Architecture of America’s New Sanctuaries

By Anita Little

…n statement ever could. These local churches seem to blend into their surroundings, becoming as much a part of NELA’s landscape as the traffic and thrift stores. But megachurches aren’t too concerned with blending or subtlety, as a recent project from Los Angeles-based artist Lisa Auerbach shows. For “Megachurches,” Auerbach spent several years touring the United States and taking pictures of churches—exteriors only. While flipping through the pho…

Must We Burn Something to Get Attention?: 50 Years After the Catonsville Nine

By Jason C. Bivins

…. And this is what religious protesters are doing brilliantly today: in protests, online, in their communities, even in their classrooms. The strategies are many, but the goals can only be achieved if attention increases. If movements form, rather than occasional actions. Renewed reflection on Catonsville helps us not in the sense that it must be emulated, necessarily, but because it underscores how urgently religious Americans need to challenge t…

Misdiagnosing Nationalism as ‘Christian’ Exacerbates the Challenges of Islamophobia: A Response to Murali Balaji

By John W. Morehead

…e nationalism and Christian nationalism, the terrorist’s own words seem to undercut this attempt. “We are coming for Constantinople and we will destroy every mosque and minaret in the city,” the terrorist wrote in his manifesto. That’s not subtle in its call for Christian supremacy and destruction of Islam. I sympathize with Morehead’s position, but the terrorist seems to make both implicit and explicit references to a dream that many white Christ…

White Christian Nationalism May Not Be Religious, But It Is Christian

By Murali Balaji

…clusivist movements—Jewish nationalism in Israel; Islamism in parts of Africa, the Middle East, South and Southeast Asia; Hindu nationalism in parts of India; Buddhist nationalism in Sri Lanka, Myanmar and Thailand—that have grown in recent years are grounded in theology. They’re all connected by a shared sense of grievance and an imagined community based on assumed shared ideals. The New Zealand terrorist might not have been religious per se, but…