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What Coverage of a Fatal Orthodox Baptism Reveals About Western Media

By Katherine Kelaidis

…t of contention and identity within the larger Christian world for at least 1,800 years. Whether or not early Christians practiced infant baptism (paedobaptism is the technical term) is a matter of much debate; in fact, one might argue it’s the debate on which all subsequent discussion of baptism (of which there’s a great deal) is founded. There is no direct Biblical evidence for infant baptism; however, both Origen and Tertullian, writing in the…

Religious Exceptions Not So Exceptional According to New Study

By Patricia Miller

…ts plans? Kaiser found in fact that 10 percent of nonprofits with more than 1,000 employees have requested an accommodation to the contraceptive mandate, as did five percent of firms with between 200 and 999 employees. According to Kaiser, “many of the nonprofits who have sought the accommodation are likely health systems or educational institutions affiliated with the Catholic Church, which objects to birth control.” According to Kaiser, there ar…

Fox Makes Mockery Of Promise To Rein In Beck’s Anti-Semitism

By Sarah Posner

…Soros in the crosshairs, not unlike what we saw with Father Coughlin in the 1930s or the John Birch Society in the 1950s. Byron Williams, a Beck acolyte who recently engaged in a shoot-out with police on his way to kill “people of importance at the Tides Foundation and the ACLU,” shares his hero’s hatred of Soros and other “progressives.” Given the more than 40 percent of Jews self-identify as liberal, this hatred targets us. Beck doesn’t care — a…

The Kids are Religious Right: Punk Rock & Pro-Life

By Justin Philpot

…porters. Rock for Life’s willingness to operate within the institutions of American culture is in line with American Catholic attempts to create space for their voice within the liberal democratic system. In 1999, Kemper initiated a bold plan to counter a pro-choice petition drive sponsored by Rock for Choice. Rock for Choice gathered some 50,000 signatures in support of abortion rights on petitions which were then delivered to Congress and the Wh…

Racialization Meets Purity Culture: Abortion Criminalization Cases Confirm That It’s Always Been About Controlling Women’s Bodies And Protecting the ‘Ideal’ American Family

By Mihee Kim-Kort

…. And so, purity and prosperity are conjoined to produce a special kind of American exceptionalism—one that’s maintained in the sphere of the American evangelical family, and which, unavoidably, intersects with the political. This is where we see and hear the Christian Right. This American exceptionalism is then inseparable from national identity. The language of American evangelical exceptionalism demonstrates how evangelicals have “successfully…

How Religion Shaped American Jewish Masculinity

By Sarah Imhoff

…been increasingly moved to change my mind. She moved to Palestine alone in 1919 and gave up her American citizenship. But most interesting of all, to me, is that she was disabled from childhood polio, and she never married, but she championed a Zionist movement that promoted settling working the land and having children. How did a queer, “crippled” woman become a leading voice of American Zionism, and how should I write about the life and embodie…

Year-End Best Books in Race and Religion in American History

By Paul Harvey

…m the archives of the Afro-Creole Spiritualist group Cercle Harmonique from 1858 to 1877. By focusing on Afro-Creole Spiritualism in New Orleans, we get an extended, as well as intimate, look at how one very particular group, mostly men and free people of color, envisioned their ideal society through the voices of spirit mediums. In doing so, they drew from French thinkers and historical experiences (including everyone from Rousseau, Robespierre,…

Is Religious Freedom a Casualty at Ground Zero?

By Kambiz GhaneaBassiri

…ed to the use of an “I” on the dog tags of American Muslim soldiers. In the 1950s and 1960s, as immigration laws were liberalized and as Malcolm X and the Nation of Islam came to play a national role in the civil rights struggles of the period, the number of Muslim immigrants and converts increased. Many of these Muslims were politicized by anti-colonial movements abroad as well as civil rights struggles at home. Much of their activism took the fo…

The Protestant Mainline Makes a (Literary) Comeback

By Gary Dorrien

…Rise of the Protestant Mainline (New York: Oxford, 2013). Gary Dorrien, The Making of American Liberal Theology: Imagining Progressive Religion,1805-1900; Dorrien, The Making of American Liberal Theology: Idealism, Realism and Modernity, 1900-1950; and Dorrien The Making of American Liberal Theology: Crisis, Irony and Postmodernity, 1950-2005 (Westminster John Knox Press, 2001, 2003, 2006). Gary Dorrien, Soul in Society: The Making and Renewal…

Five Must-Reads on the “Nones”: A Tipping Point in American Religion and Spirituality

By Elizabeth Drescher

…irled about what is arguably the geographical and historical center of the American metaphysical tradition: Cambridge, Massachusetts. In the process, she offers a richly contextualized network map of local religious history and contemporary practice that shows how deeply entangled “new,” “idiosyncratic” spiritualities are with the traditions of religious, scientific, and other cultural institutions. Bender also powerfully challenges common popular…