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Undercover-ed Religion: 13 Stories That Went Missing in 2012

By Peter Laarman

…of ash, hints of ocean breeze, a wisp of sulphur…). –The Eds. 1. Maya Sham-a-You Old Harold Camping has nothing on the mysterious Maya, whose civilization flourished and then went kaput in Mesoamerica long before Europeans showed up. This month’s Harper’s includes an amusing Tom Frank riff on the passion of the many pseudo-scholars who cannot abide having the Mayan calendar’s so-called Long Count ridiculed. Frank finds Maya-centered “end-times po…

Mike Johnson’s Porn-Monitoring isn’t Just ‘Creepy’ — it’s a Window to the Fascist Desire Driving the White Evangelical Will to Power

By Jessica Johnson

…porn with fear-inducing statistics. The opening to the free downloadable e-book Your Brain on Porn proclaims, “those who self-identify as ‘fundamentalists’ are 91% more likely to look at pornography than the general public.” Such data is used to frame a study on the “neuropathways for the addictions” which theorizes that “sex is perhaps the most powerful addiction because it…offer[s] arousal, satiation, and fantasy.” Your Brain on Porn also quote…

Betrayed at the Polls, Evangelicals of Color at a Crossroads

By Deborah Jian Lee

…and all the stuff that was built into our DNA for the last 20 years.” Many feel compelled to compartmentalize their personal spirituality and missional calling for the sake of survival and emotional health. “People of color [have been] willing to fit themselves into these white evangelical spaces even when it was uncomfortable,” explains Walker-Barnes. The expectation that minorities—especially women—do the emotional labor in conversations about r…

Judeo-Christian America: The Fall of the ‘Christian Nation’

By Edward J. Blum

…ey had to confront the networked patriarchal web of faith traditions, faith-in-faith, and iterations of American nationalism. Without doubt, Tri-Faith America will have religious studies scholars debating Schultz’s approach to what “religion” is and it will have historians debating exactly how potent a problem tri-faith America really was. But for me, Tri-Faith America helped explain how and why at seventeen I used the language of “Judeo-Christian…

Religious and Political Silence on India’s LGBTQ Decision Speaks Volumes

By Andrea R. Jain

…to take a position on Section 377), the silence spoke volumes and went hand-in-hand with a Hindu chauvinist and exclusionary social agenda consistent with Modi’s training and membership in the Bharatiya Janata Party (B.J.P.). Though attention to the exclusionary nature of Modi’s social agenda tends to focus on his complicity in Hindu-Muslim conflict, it doesn’t end there. His complicity in the ongoing criminalization of LGBTQ people allowed the B….

The Forgotten Nones: The High Cost of Fleeing Fundamentalist Religion

By Andreea Nica

…es her coming out as a nonbeliever to family as “difficult and still a work-in-progress” and further explains: During my several years [in] transition from religious to nonreligious, I didn’t feel comfortable talking about my beliefs with family and friends. Since discussing matters of faith had been a focal point of these relationships (i.e., praying for each other, encouraging each other with scriptures, etc.), my silence created feelings of dis…

Public Religion in a Post-Christian Age, Graduation Edition

By David Gushee

…lic square, I choose multi-faith. But there’s something lost even there, as the particularities of the world’s religions and sacred texts are sanded down to much thinner versions safe for public display. For this reason there will always be dissenting sub-communities in our land who refuse either to play by no faith or multi-faith rules and continue to educate their young in robust versions of their own distinctive religious traditions. And they…

Devil’s Bookmark: Doubting God’s Existence, but Angry Nevertheless

By Bernard Schweizer

…ti-theism. But when it comes to his “Book Against God,” his book-within-the-book, he comes across as stridently God-hating. Now, some of these positions are not all that incompatible. Many atheists are also enemies of religion (hence, anti-theists)—Christopher Hitchens has identified himself as just such a rebel. It also makes sense to waver between atheism and agnosticism, as Philip Pullman sometimes does in his public statements. But there are l…

Another Book Burner Lusts for Attention

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…Grace on an infinite loop), they encourage other churches to hold similar book burnings, or book “tearings” if local laws prohibit open fires. If all else fails, you can send your blasphemous material to Grizzard who will do the deed for you at their annual event. The church apparently burned books and other materials last year on Halloween. Grizzard does not give a specific date for this year’s burning—and just to differentiate himself from Jone…

The White Nationalist Fringe Just Took a Giant Step Closer to the Center of the GOP

By Annika Brockschmidt

…ng the rally, which Fuentes attended, a right-wing extremist killed counter-protester Heather Heyer with his car. Beforehand, neo-Nazis and white nationalists had marched through the streets of Charlottesville carrying the now-infamous Tiki torches while chanting “Jews will not replace us.” And while many commentators condemned the violence and images of the rally, most missed what the marchers meant by “Jews will not replace us.” It was a direct…