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When God and Gender Mix: New Book Examines the Southern Holiness Movement

By Colin Chapell

…tten? Which one? Why? I think most academic historians want to write a best-selling, Bancroft and Pulitzer Prize-winning work with the prose skills of Michael Chabon! I don’t know if there’s a specific book out there that I wish I had written. For me, I want to improve my craft all the time. That being said, Gail Bederman’s Manliness & Civilization and Matthew Frye Jacobson’s Barbarian Virtues are two of the most influential books for me, so I’d h…

Jesus Christ and Super Stars: How The Holy Rolled Mainstream in Pop Music

By Alana Massey

…ere.” The cognitive dissonance required to listen to an album in which play-by-plays of the Transfiguration of Jesus and the Binding of Isaac are thoroughly detailed and not declare it either pedantic or preachy is a deep dissonance indeed. Sufjan Stevens plays like, seven hundred instruments. He composes for ballets. The dude likes his details. Why couldn’t critics just let Sufjan Stevens bear prophetic witness? Perhaps it’s that the aftertaste o…

Orthodox Jews Begin to Reckon with Sexual Abuse

By Paul Berger

…Salomon, a Long Island psychiatrist, who has just finished working on an as-yet-unpublished book about sexual abuse in the Orthodox world. “Different religions use different justifications for not reporting,” he says. “But it comes down to the theory that religious issues should be handled within the religious community, even though the powers that be within the community do not have the power to investigate and to prosecute.” For many years, Orth…

Bush Has Helped the Scarecrow of American Religion

By Hussein Rashid

…ng the environment. More American Jews are coming out to say that being pro-Jewish doesn’t automatically being pro-Israel, nor is all criticism of Israel anti-Semitic. Although the actions of Osama bin Laden were catalytic in organizing the silent majority to speak out against atrocities done in the name of Islam, it is actually President Bush who made it OK for us to speak out, but giving voice to our concerns. As religious progressive voices are…

Haiti and the Push for Theological Questions

By Paula M. Cooey

…ent for close to a century. Prior to the revolt French-ruled Saint-Domingue-now-Haiti was stripped of its natural resources by French occupation. Subsequent to the embargoes, in the early twentieth century, Haiti suffered invasion and occupation by this country at the expense of development on its own terms. All of these conditions—French plundering, colonial and European embargo, and US occupation—produced long-lasting and incomparable poverty an…

Life Imitates Satire Imitates Life: Rep. King Revives Manchurian Candidate

By The Editors

…mitates Satire Imitates Life. In this clip, from the Manchurian Candidate a Joseph McCarthy stand-in uses his own investigative tool to determine how many crypto-commies there really are… Rep. Peter King (R-NY), minus 45 years from Religion Dispatches on Vimeo….

In a Powerful Statement Black Presidents and Deans Say: No More Stolen Black Lives!

By Pamela R. Lightsey

…isconduct, to include clarity about “excessive force.” ○ A moratorium on no-knock warrants for drug-related arrests. ○ An end to “broken-windows” policing. ○ The implementation of swift and strong fines against persons who make emergency calls to police departments based upon false allegations against Black citizens. ○ State and local level public policy initiatives that ensure police review boards comprise citizens representing its diverse neighb…

New Poll Reveals That Anti-Trans Rhetoric isn’t Just Affecting Republicans and White Evangelicals

By Chrissy Stroop

…clear that the widespread use of false, inflammatory, and dehumanizing anti-trans rhetoric by right-wing activists and politicians generates a feedback loop that enables the proliferation and escalation of anti-trans legislation. And we’re now learning that the deluge of disinformation and hateful propaganda is also having a negative impact on trans acceptance in the general public—even among progressive demographics. That, at least, is my grim ta…

Newsweek’s Strange Faces of the Christian Right List

By Sarah Posner

…a member of the Christian right. Rogers, who has worked for the pro-church-state-separation group the Baptist Joint Committee on Religious Liberty, and now has an affiliation with the Brookings Institution, is one of the country’s best authorities on church-state separation law, and an advocate for enforcement of the Establishment Clause. Not only would Rogers herself be surprised to be on the list, I’d imagine, but so would the Christian right i…

The American Media’s Longterm Ambivalence About the Papacy

By Peter Manseau

…American shores, but Luce framed his Catholic cover subjects within a week-to-week serial of significant individuals of whom lesser mortals should take note. When one of his cover-cardinals, Eugenio Pacelli, eventually became Pope Pius XII, Time could claim status not merely as Catholic observer, but Catholic kingmaker as well. Readers hoping to gain insight into what it actually might mean to live as an American Catholic who was not a member of…