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Christian Right Claims to be ‘Above Politics’ Are Unbelievable

…he anti-LGBTQ Family Research Council, claims that if churches played down politics and simply instructed their congregants “better” in matters of theology, right-wing politics would naturally follow. What I also initially wanted to address in that piece but ultimately had to leave out is how claims that an action or belief is entirely “apolitical” can serve the same ends. To take a recent example from the current news cycle, witness racist Fox Ne…

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Response to Daniel Philpott: the Politics of Religious Freedom

…ok also discusses the political economy of the “religionization” of global politics, which I’ll mention by way of conclusion. Today many scholars and practitioners interested in these topics in Europe, North America, and elsewhere see no way forward but to take their place in the burgeoning international infrastructure of religion and development, religion and humanitarianism, religion and legal reform, interfaith understanding, religious rights p…

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Are You There God? It’s Us, Googling

…sites actually shape people’s responses to deep theological questions? Can search results and search engine optimization influence the beliefs of an individual confronting a difficult question? It’s hard to tell. But as people go online for answers to religious questions, fundamentalist and fringe religious groups do have chances to dominate the search results and stake out authoritative-sounding positions, regardless of their influence offline. Y…

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Scope Bacon, Twttr Hoaxes & Joel Osteen’s Big Reveal

…ianity News” channel that featured screenshots of the website and doctored CNN and Drudge Report headlines appearing to confirm the news played over ominous-sounding music. A “Christianity News Texas” blog post on April 2, written by Tribble, reported on the “Special Announcement.”  The combination of these interlocking, seemingly credible sites and the shocking nature of the story itself generated a large amount of attention in just a few days. T…

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New History Finally Recognizes Afro-Creole Spiritualists

…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…

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Buddhism And Politics in Myanmar: An Author Interview

…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….

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

…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]…

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A Third Reconstruction? Rev. William Barber Lifts the Trumpet

…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…

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

…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…

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Why “Religion or Politics?” Is the Wrong Question

…? 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…

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