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New History Finally Recognizes Afro-Creole Spiritualists

By Paul Harvey

…addition to academics, the book will appeal to anyone interested in Reconstruction-era politics and culture, the widespread belief in ghosts and spirits in America, the politics of race, African American religions, and New Orleans and/or Atlantic world history. I hope the book will be assigned in undergraduate and graduate classes, especially undergraduate. Beyond the academy and its classrooms, A Luminous Brotherhood will bring an academic analys…

Buddhism And Politics in Myanmar: An Author Interview

By Matthew Walton

…es and identities affect the ways in which people understand and engage in politics. Buddhism, Politics and Political Thought in Myanmar Matthew Walton Cambridge University Press Nov 17, 2016 What’s the most important take-home message for readers? It’s commonplace for many people to say that Buddhism influences politics in a country like Myanmar, but actual attempts to describe that influence usually end up being superficial or over-generalised….

Today We Pray for Women for Whom Pregnancy is Not Good News …

By Kiera Feldman

…line in hopes of preventing other women from having abortions. Karen Santorum, Rick Santorum’s wife, may well be on a related version of that trajectory, repenting for having spent her 20s living with a man, 40 years her senior, who helped found an abortion clinic. “Women who are having abortions, especially religious women, feel that their only option is to go ahead and have the abortion, say that they really didn’t have any other choice, [and]…

A Third Reconstruction? Rev. William Barber Lifts the Trumpet

By Peter Laarman

…ghts and labor rights. Barber gives us good insights into how First Reconstruction fusion politics actually held on in North Carolina for a very long time in the face of an increasingly militant Jim Crow repression, not finally succumbing until the very end of the 19th century. In fact, the Moral Monday movement’s very public challenge to the 2012 Republican putsch in Raleigh was grounded in the still-extant Reconstruction-era clause in the state…

Why “Religion or Politics?” Is the Wrong Question

By Kate Blanchard

…? What kind of politics characterizes American evangelicals who voted for Trump? What kind of politics are we working toward as a nation? But here we are, with a president who claims “Islam hates us,” conservatives who claim Islam is not a religion, and liberals who are okay with Islam as long as it doesn’t become “politicized.” There is, in short, little reason to hope that the conversation will change anytime soon. __________________ Michael Sch…

Why Christian Fundamentalism Is Still a Big Deal in U.S. Politics, And How It Got That Way

By Eric C. Miller

…infrastructurally advanced countries would inevitably become more secular. Today, researchers tend to recognize that the situation is more complex. As global connectivity increases, religious belief continues to wield tremendous influence. Religious voices and images flood public media; political leaders seek out religious audiences and institutions; and religious leaders enjoy growing political influence around the world. Many religious beliefs a…

Putting the “Protest” Back in Protestant: Reclaiming the Spirit of Resistance

By Peter Laarman

…l literacy led inevitably to serious political ferment. I want to focus on politics, because politics is where Protestantism gets interesting. Luther famously cast his lot with aristocrats and decried political rebellion. Worse than that, he sanctioned the mass murder of radical Anabaptists and others. In the history of the Calvinist sects, however, you can discern the stirrings of very significant proto-republican ideas: Huguenots rising for a ti…

American Buddhism: Beyond the Search for Inner Peace

By Joshua Eaton

…izens. Finally, I’m curious: you’ve talked in interviews about your online news reading. What news sources do you regularly read? I normally look at several alternative news sources and commentaries. I follow Democracy Now! almost daily—though I don’t watch all segments every day. I also read Common Dreams, Truthout, AlterNet, TomDispatch, and Climate Progress. The commentators that I most appreciate are Amy Goodman, Glenn Greenwald on justice is…

Good News For Bad News Addicts

By J.J. Goldberg

…the same thing in 1990. But few will notice. All we’ll remember is the bad news. We’re addicted to bad news, always convinced disaster is just around the corner, unable to recognize good news when it stares us in the face. Worse, we obsess on the headlines but don’t bother reading the details. Folks, the news this week is that the Jewish community is growing, not declining. While nobody was looking, the children of intermarriage in 1990 grew up an…

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Cheese State Reality Check: On The Wisconsin Idea and the Social Gospel

By Daniel Schultz

…ne to share this dream? And there’s the rub. There is no vision because in today’s politics, race is everything, even when it seems like it’s not. As fascinating as the history of the Wisconsin Idea is, the argument Raushenbush builds from it is incomplete, because it doesn’t include an analysis of how and why Republicans turned their back on their own legacy and now actively seek to undermine the very project they helped create. I speak of Gov. S…