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Will the Religious Side with Workers?

By Peter Laarman

…version to trade unionism? The key swing constituencies are Hispanic and African-American evangelicals, who are far more likely to embrace unionism than their white brethren. Faith communities serving immigrant workers and their families completely understand that unions do more than anyone else to offer protection and a better way of life to new Americans. But even if theologically moderate Protestants begin to swing more toward a pro-union stanc…

Taqwacore Roundtable: On Punks, the Media, and the Meaning of “Muslim”

By Shahjehan Khan

…at least partly inspired by fiction, the fact that it exists in real life today becomes even more remarkable. Kaitlin Foley has noted that social networking sites such as MySpace have played a significant role in galvanizing both virtual and bricks-and-mortar support for the Taqwacore bands, as they do for most bands today. How do you all think the fictional and virtual origins of Taqwacore have affected the development of the Taqwacore scene so…

Euro-Islam vs. “Eurabia”: Defining the Muslim Presence in Europe

By Ina Merdjanova

…on sought to formulate a “local Islam,” compatible with Western modernity. Today, the well-institutionalized Bosnian Islamic Community has played a key role in promoting the positive image of Balkan Islam as a model for a pan-European Islam, and its leader, Mustafa Ceric, wants to establish himself as its patron. In 2006 Ceric devised and circulated a “Declaration of European Muslims”, which names Europe “the house of Peace and Security based on t…

Sikh Temple Shooting: Two Massacres and the Virtual Transformation of Trauma

By Shruti Devgan

…in oblivious to? Could the effects of that trauma have been lessened? Even today it is only a handful of what sociologist Arlene Stein calls ‘memory-workers’ who are using the internet in defining 1984 as a trauma. These memory-workers have expanded numerically and are joined by other Sikhs reacting to the Wisconsin trauma swiftly. The internet has acquired therapeutic value even as a trauma unfolds. Sikhs are writing about their experiences of be…

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

By Rebecca Barrett-Fox

…ociation for the Sociology of Religion, and the Religion Section of the American Sociological Association. Elaine Howard Ecklund examines contemporary American religion and its intersections with science—specifically, how scientists interact with religion and how religious believers make sense of science. She is the author of Science v. Religion: What Scientists Really Think. In her writing, including including Calvin and the Rhetoric of Piety and…

“A Feminine Complaint Against Theologians”

By Susan Henking

…y, fifty years. Nixon is long dead, as is Kennedy. “Negroes” have become African Americans. Radcliffe no longer produces graduates, and it is not quite so newsworthy when students of color graduate from the Ivy League. We remain unsure whether parents can (or should) choose their baby’s sex (even though we also know they do). And we continue to care about Philadelphia’s Barnes Collection. But we know so much more. Fifty years have passed. Women’s…

Hate Crimes Update—Killing “Liberal Vermin” in Tennessee

By Mark Hulsether

…terrorism. But I realized I could engage the terrorists’ allies here in America. The best allies they’ve got.” A second section turns to the Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist church, which Adkisson describes as a “cult” that “worships the God of Secularism” and a “den of un-American vipers.” He accuses the church of elitism and hypocrisy (as when it accepts “perverts” but hates conservatives) and asks “how is a white woman having a niger [si…

In Just 10 Years ‘The Book of Mormon’ Musical Has Gone From America’s Darling to America’s Latest Problem — The Inverse of the Mormon Story

By Jake Johnson

…s just how much the musical’s imagined Africa would in ten years look like today’s very real America. Ugandans in The Book of Mormon are facing an epidemic (in the case of the show it’s AIDS). They bend to superstition and choose sexual assault as a remedy. In the real world, Americans suffering our own pandemic reject scientific reason and resort to eating horse de-wormer. This is the world The Book of Mormon’s curtains open out to in a few weeks…

Departure of the Queen

By Amina Wadud

…wax a little melancholy as the ending of this auspicious month approaches. Today, I returned to my solitary suhur, then walked beneath the canopy of trees toward the mosque for morning prayer and muraqabah, or meditation. The stars were still shining like brilliant diamonds in the deep dark sky. I did search for a glimpse of the moon, so I could check our progress toward the final day, but alas, he was not visible between the tall trees. Or perhap…

America, the Mythical: “Mother of Exiles” or Denier of Safe Haven?

By Ed Simon

…a lie which tells the truth. What we say about the pilgrims conveys allegorical knowledge of American character, and as we have refined the story we’ve seen how those settlers embody our own contradictions. America has been variously prefigured as a New Israel and a New Babylon, as Eden and Golgotha, as site of Genesis and Revelation. Formulated honestly, our myths can remind us of these contradictions. Just as the first Thanksgiving celebrated a…