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Dieting, Sex, Jesus: The Body as Moral Battleground

By Lynne Gerber

…’s the most important take-home message for readers? That religion is both central to and often invisible in many Western bodily projects. It shapes the moral norms and values which fuel projects of bodily change and its practices provide disciplines that are believed to effect change. And, as in many other areas of life and culture, religious hopes and physical realities are often in a complicated dance. Or, in the words of historian Hillel Schwa…

Sex, Violence, Art, and Religion

By Kent L. Brintnall

…ok-length project as I proceeded. I had to keep reminding myself about the central questions that were driving this project. For a while, I even had an index card taped on my wall with what I understood as the book’s thesis written on it. Whenever I felt lost, I would look up and remind myself what the book was about. I wasn’t writing a study of Francis Bacon’s work; I wasn’t writing a history of the Hollywood action genre; I wasn’t writing a cont…

Silver Bells and Atheist Billboards

By Steve A. Wiggins

…y eyes, I can nevertheless see clearly. Yes, 37 million Americans know myths when they see them. That’s because we live in one. Our myth says religion is still central to our lives, and, hey—is that the line for the Wired in-store wind tunnel over there?…

Prop 8 Ruling a True Test of Liberty (Religious or Otherwise)

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…e Fourteenth Amendment by impinging on fundamental liberties.” This is the central issue in Lawrence v. Texas. In that case, Kennedy found that in Bowers v. Hardwick , the case that had previously upheld sodomy laws, that the court had erred in its interpretation of the 14th amendment. To say that the issue in Bowers was simply the right to engage in certain sexual conduct demeans the claim the individual put forward, just as it would demean a mar…

Where are the Clergy? A Report from Occupy DC

By Sarah Posner

…ng activities; its repeal led to the financial services products that were central to the catastrophic economic collapse of 2008.) Actions with Consequences In the main, the sign listing the Occupy DC goals was heavier on wonkery than anarchism; albeit laden with some highly generalized goals (“foist off the corporate hijacking of society and politics!”). Merritt questioned why religious groups motivated by “social justice,” the term used by progr…

Betraying a Sacred Trust: From Penn State to Dover Air Force Base

By Gary Laderman

…and ultimate commitments. Football is about many things, but perhaps most central to the game is power, not simply in its crudest form but in more subtle and complicated ways. First is the collective power to defeat your opponent that emerges from bodies united by game plan and practice, each player knowing his role, and a more amorphous but critical team spirit shared by all the players. Second is a will to power that is built, ironically, on ce…

The Lethal Mix of Religion and War, Or, Why the World Ended in 1099

By Jay Rubenstein

…and His Biographer has influenced me tremendously. As a human being, I’ve always wanted to write like Raymond Chandler. What’s your next book? I want to write a sequel to Armies of Heaven, a book that will study the first fifty years of the crusader kingdom of Jerusalem. The central question will be, “How in this world do you run a successful government originally founded on an Apocalypse?” As with the First Crusade, there will be blood-soaked ba…

Fueling Activism: An Interview with Bill McKibben

By Peter Laarman

…ndustrial agriculture, for instance, would become much more difficult. The central logic of a post-carbon world is towards more localized economies, simply because the sun and wind are spread out in a way that fossil fuel isn’t. Another way of saying this: our addiction to fossil fuel is so important that it undergirds and explains our institutions and ideologies more than the other way around. At the theological conference you keynoted in LA rece…

LGBT and Muslim? A New Report Busts Stereotypes

By Peter Montgomery

…any gay Christians). That, combined with a focus on marriage and family as central to community social order, has meant that many LGBT Muslims remain on the “down low”—many in marriages of convenience. In Muslim countries that harshly punish homosexuality, the report notes, those punishments are often drawn from religious teachings about punishing adultery, but without the high evidentiary bar called for in the Qur’an—such as multiple eyewitnesses…

Does Perry’s New Ad Suggest Romney is Satan?

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…a pre-existent divine Person that became incarnate in time. But still, one central dispute between the LDS and Trinitarian Christians is over the nature of Jesus’ flesh. Curious. And then there’s the whole association with President Obama, in a time when some people seriously believe that Barack Obama is the slick-tongued hypnotic lying world leader “predicted” in Revelation. (That’s if you’re a dispensationalist, a theological viewpoint that is b…