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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…

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….

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….

Faith-Baiting in Minnesota and Elsewhere Follows the “Project Blitz” Playbook

By Frederick Clarkson

…he record—but he was able cast them as opponents of God and country on Fox News. After the Fox News segment aired, the rightwing media from Breitbart to LifeSiteNews exploded with coverage of this minor legislative moment and Hall’s comments. Meanwhile in Oklahoma, Governor Mary Fallin signed into law a bill that has been labeled as (and opposed as) a bill that allows the Ten Commandments to be posted in public schools, and government buildings, b…

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…

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…

Who (or What) are Sarah Palin’s Prayer Warriors?

By Sarah Posner

…g gossipy tidbits. At Get Religion, Sarah Pulliam Bailey — who also covers politics for Christianity Today — rips into another shortcoming that has received little attention: Gross’s blithe and superficial treatment of Palin’s religion. Gross devotes a few hundred words out of the 10,000 word piece to what he portrays as Palin’s belief about “Angels and Demons.” He writes that instead of hunkering down and learning policy, she read emails from “pr…

Conversion Story #643 (not a real number)

By Amina Wadud

…1973, when I was began reading the Qur’an. For some time after that, all I read was Qur’an. Still today if things get freaky I return to just reading the Qur’an. Knowing it was originally in Arabic, I began studying Arabic through the local mosques until I could register for a course at my undergraduate University of Pennsylvania. In fact, the study of Arabic would go on actively for the next three years until I moved to an Arabic speaking country…

Washington Post Story Gets Christian Reconstructionism Wrong

By Julie Ingersoll

…e homeschooling curriculum still in use today. Gardner is also wrong about Rushdoony’s politics. He never tried to start a political party. He insisted that the primary goals of the movement were not political (by which he meant concerned with civil government). He did advocate theocracy, by which he meant that civil rulers derive their authority from God and are obligated to follow biblical law. Angle has embraced this view. “Dried up?” Absolutel…

Sex Work: In Bed with the Religious Right

By Dagmar Herzog

…e book is primarily a tribute to them. I’m thrilled that the book is being read and debated now in university classrooms. Are you hoping to just inform readers? Give them pleasure? Piss them off? I hate pissing people off; it’s my least favorite thing. I’m actually quite conflict-averse. My biggest goals were to communicate just how malicious (and by no means moral) the religious right’s effects have been, to show how people’s deepest longings and…