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Carson’s Lead Shows Evangelicals Care More About Politics Than Religion

By Sarah Posner

…eptable to have a Muslim president. In the end, we may see the decline of the Carson candidacy without any of this being discussed. (That, indeed, would be a relief.) Trump had his moment; Carly Fiorina had a far shorter moment; now it’s Carson’s moment. But even if he, rather than, say, Ted Cruz or Marco Rubio, were to win Iowa, there’s little precedent for caucus winners moving on to anything bigger and better. Remember Mike Huckabee and Rick Sa…

“We’re Not Fighting About Politics, We’re Fighting About God”: Diana Butler Bass Wants a Revolution

By Jesse James DeConto

…nd I have a fundamental disagreement about who God is.” Bass is asking her readers to consider a shift in American Christianity that goes beyond politics and demographics: “I think a conventional God moving off of ‘His’ throne in heaven is much bigger news than the fact that your local Methodist church doesn’t have as many members as it used to have.” I spoke with Bass this August in a café near her home in Alexandria, Virginia. In Christianity Af…

Good Hair, Good God! The Divine Politics of African-American Hair

By Anthea Butler

…afraid. I didn’t want to risk offending people who had not figured out the politics of hair, even if they had deployed it almost as surely as sanctification had been used to cut the wheat from the chaff. Watching Good Hair brought up all of those memories, and more, from the research of my book. The Marriage of Hinduism and Black Hair Care Apart from being a good film, Good Hair has a religious subtext that is important to look at within the conte…

The Racial Politics of Atheism

By Sikivu Hutchinson

…ion; bringing it full circle to the last chapter which explores the racial politics of death and the so-called moral abyss of non-belief. Is there a book out there you wish you had written? Which one? Why? One recent book I’ve read that I really admire is Harriet Washington’s exhaustively researched Medical Apartheid. Washington nails how legacies of scientific racism and white supremacist medical experimentation inform contemporary perspectives…

The Deadly Politics of (in)Difference Is Killing Trans Women of Color

By Robyn Henderson-Espinoza

…and protection are owned by the ruling class of white folks, we cannot disrupt the dominant narrative that creates those deadly theologies of indifference. Challenging these ruling theologies, what I call supremacist theologies, requires the creation of a counter-theology—one of resistance to indifference. To support such a politics and to actively resist indifference, this counter-theology must be rooted in the act of bridging. As Gloria E. Anza…

Hulu’s ERA-Focused Mini-Series ‘Mrs. America’ Reveals an Ongoing Predicament of Progressive Politics

By Amy Fallas

…political grassroots organizing feels at home within the contradictions of today’s evangelical conservative establishment that claims God’s blessing over Trump’s Presidency despite his extensive history of immoral behavior. Yet the failed ERA campaign represents an antecedent to the frustrating contemporary reality for those on the left: that well-articulated arguments, logically consistent positions, and educated viewpoints do not always hold the…

Election Takeaway: Fake God Talk Doesn’t Cut It with Americans

By Anthea Butler

…n of their harmony was a strong delusion. Karl Rove’s epic meltdown on Fox News’ election night when Fox called the election for President Obama showed the strength of the delusion. Rove hijacked Fox News pundits and their audience, claiming there was still a path for Romney to win in Ohio. Now, Rove and the RNC’s fates are linked with the hard-line religious ideologues whose power is on the wane. From Akin’s “legitimate” rape to Richard Mourdock…

To Fight White Supremacy We Must Resist Essentialism: The Author Responds

By Andrea R. Jain

…elves, could we refine the ways we do scholarship? It was disconcerting to read Rumya Putcha’s interpretation of my piece, which suggested it was “classic victim-blaming” and betrayed “a lack of awareness around the nature of social justice discourse and postcolonial/critical race scholarship.” Public scholarship, especially on religion, is dangerous. That is why the orthodox model for scholars of religion is to not try to connect with the public….

What to Make of the Chechnya Connection? An Expert Weighs In

By Hussein Rashid

…’s been more or less a hidden war for a generation, for which “the western news media has no in-depth knowledge,” especially when compared to situation in nations of the Middle East where news media have more or less open access. Without that core understanding of what is going on in the region, what the issues are, and what people’s actions are there, there is no way to make any association with what the two brothers in Boston did or why. He says…

To Fight White Supremacy We Must Resist Essentialism: The Author Responds

By Andrea R. Jain

…elves, could we refine the ways we do scholarship? It was disconcerting to read Rumya Putcha’s interpretation of my piece, which suggested it was “classic victim-blaming” and betrayed “a lack of awareness around the nature of social justice discourse and postcolonial/critical race scholarship.” Public scholarship, especially on religion, is dangerous. That is why the orthodox model for scholars of religion is to not try to connect with the public….