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By Randall Balmer, Anthea Butler, Evan Derkacz, Jeff Sharlet, and Diane Winston
…o refute Maddow’s facts, despite their having already appeared in Wamp’s local paper. Below the clip is Religion Dispatches’ exclusive roundtable on The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power, featuring three religion scholars and the author, Jeff Sharlet, discussing the history, theology, secrecy and future of the oldest Christian conservative organization in Washington DC. Has a secretive, informal network of fundamenta…
…old repeatedly this past weekend by the speakers at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC). And we’ll likely hear this reference again between now and the 2012 Elections. Conservatives, in their fervent religious nationalism, invoke this as a proof text for their version of American Exceptionalism. But for all their adoration of “the founders,” conservatives seem woefully ignorant of the origins and significance of this particular ima…
…eaching series Malachi: Living for a Legacy focuses on what kind of a biblical legacy their members will leave behind after they depart into the heavenly skies. However, given recent evidence of plagiarism by their senior pastor Mark Driscoll, one could easily question what kind of a legacy this megachurch is imparting not only via their home base in Bellevue, WA but also throughout their global church plants and their online podcast network. Now…
…fusing to work with those who don’t share their religious beliefs. Evangelical organizations like Miracle Hill, however, appear to be using the religious liberty argument developed by the Catholic bishops as cover for explicit evangelicalization in state and federally funded programs. Miracle Hill only recruits Protestant Christian families for its foster program and requires applicants to state their religious denomination and provide “their past…
…nce the arrival of the Spanish over five hundred years ago. From Mexico to California, shrines in her honor have surfaced in neighborhoods and lawns. But as millions mourn her death, a question that I have heard repeatedly from my Anglo friends is, “Who was Jenni Rivera?” Jenni Rivera sold over fifteen million albums worldwide, rising to fame in the male-dominated world of banda—a traditional, drum-and-brass, mexican-folk-meets-polka music style t…
…now, when Gary David Comstock and I published Que(e)rying Religion: A Critical Anthology in 1997 it was not easy to find material on Islam and homosexuality, so I was thrilled to learn of your work. What do you think explains the shift? Scott Kugle: The field of Islamic Studies has changed drastically over the past two decades, and new conditions within this field of study have made it easier to do research and write about homosexuality and transg…
…position as president, and the AJS Women’s Caucus issued a statement critical of the meetings and their implications for Jewish Studies more generally. This then resulted in a series of public letters back and forth, some condemning the Cohen meetings for rehabilitating an admitted sexual harasser who had not apologized to his victims, and some defending the meetings as an expression of “academic freedom” of the attendees. Much of the discussion…
…the mountains. “The popular phrase for this is ‘deconstruction,’ the biblical phrase is ‘falling away.’ By all the measurements that I have for defining a Christian, I am not a Christian.” Though he has not revealed the forces that led to the simultaneous unraveling of his marriage and his religious identity, it seems like it was questioning his previous stance on sexuality and gender issues that played a part in the latter. Harris paired his sec…
…ding bombing, an event so horrendous that it seems to have sobered the radicalism of many Christian militia members. Then came the eight-year reign of President George W. Bush who voiced his support for anti-abortion activists and gave the impression that they had a friend in the White House. The violence abated. All this may now be changing. A new president is vilified in the right-wing press not only as pro-abortion but as a demonic figure. The…
…was word that applied to me—and the more vernacular “dyke” that I had been called by some classmates. I didn’t like either of them. “Lesbian” sounded like a horrible disease (no offense to natives of Lesbos), and “dyke” was not yet an epithet I had learned to love for its amazing power and strength. After dark, when the downtown shops had closed and the streets were rolled up for the night, I took up a position in the middle of the oncoming lane,…
