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Doubting Obama: A Response to Harper’s and Simon Critchley

By Linell Cady

…, while 16% of Americans are unaffiliated with any particular tradition, a number that has increased significantly over the past decade, there is still no good gauge for the common refrain about being spiritual, but not religious. Theology of Doubt A 2004 interview with Obama—just released last week—sheds light on some of the complexities of his spiritual orientation. In response to the first question, what do you believe, he states first and simp…

Rites, Rituals, and the King

By Amina Wadud

…Therefore the proper posture is one of surrender. We are also khalifah, or agent, representative and trustee. This is our relationship to Allah’s Jamal attributes or her rubbubiyyah. In this, our proper posture is active engagement in all aspects of life. This engagement should manifest our inner states of surrender (this is for all our actions, not just in worship or ibadah, but also in our mu’amalat). There’s a Sufi image of these two postures,…

The Holocaust is Over: Avraham Burg’s Israel and Jews as Victims

By David Biale

…s disenfranchised minority became, at least in the eyes of its enemies, an agent of European imperialism. Moreover, it did so in an area of the world that has resisted Western modernization tooth and nail (imagine, by contrast, what Israel might look like if it had been established somewhere in Asia). The Jews became Western, but the area in which they chose to establish their state went the other way. The asymmetry between Israeli power and Pales…

Bannon’s “Alt-Facts” Satan

By Spencer Dew

…in Chicago, or that a protestor at one of his own rallies was actually an agent of ISIS. When commentators on the right cautioned, during the campaign, that Trump’s statements should be taken seriously but not literally, they were laying the groundwork for the birth of alt-facts out of a language of hyperbole which was simultaneously a language of smokescreen and plain-spoken statements that could always be partially retracted as exaggeration, as…

Pigging Out: What ‘Radically Unkosher’ Jewish Foodies Like Michael Pollan Are Missing

By Jonathan Schorsch

…y to things porcine Kaminsky called himself a “ham idolater” and owned his agent’s description of him as a “professional hamthropologist.”) Then there’s Ari Stern, owner of Culturefix, a bar and gallery on the Lower East Side, whose trendy monthly supper club held an event called “Passover for Goyim, A Very Traif Seder Plate.” The traditional ritual centerpiece at this event—the seder plate whose five (or six) foods recall the divine delivery of t…

How the FBI Aided and Abetted the Rise of White Christian Nationalism — An Interview

By Bradley Onishi

…” And Hoover did that in a couple ways. The first thing he did was to have agents sign what he called a “law enforcement pledge” that said in part that agents would commit to being “soldiers” who would “wage vigorous warfare against the enemies of my country, of its laws, and of its principles.” They were also meant to act as “ministers.” And Hoover makes sure that his agents are cultivated this way by putting them through a series of religious ex…

Vatican Sexual Abuse and the High Priests of Hollywood?

By Frances Kissling

…s are worshipped and quickly forgiven for any infraction so long as the PR agent is skilled as a saintly confessor. Entertainment and not religion is the new opiate of the people. The only double standard I see is that a Jesuit priest can get away with such crap without being called strident while the survivors of sexual abuse by priests or those who criticize the bishops and Popes who protected them are considered unhinged. I prefer to think Rees…

Colorado’s Personhood Initiative Fails—For Now

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…y, its use here is meant to do several things: (1) portray the fetus as an agent with moral standing, one in need of protection; (2) allow for the taking of guilty human life (since many social conservatives support the death penalty while also being opposed to abortion); and (3) contrast the innocence of the fetus with the guilt of the father. Indeed, on the last point, the amendment draws this contrast specifically: “No innocent child created th…

America’s Racist God Meets Miss Celie: Darren Wilson Not Indicted

By Anthea Butler

…fice to this god of white supremacy was Michael Brown’s. Darren Wilson, an agent of that god, was vindicated. For his reward, he is showered with blood money from other followers of the racist god. No one should be surprised that Darren Wilson was not indicted by the grand jury. Prosecutor Robert McCulloch played the role of Pontius Pilate, washing his and Darren Wilson’s hands of impunity, while the sacrifice, Michael Brown, was deemed worthy of…

‘Politicized Religion’ Doesn’t Explain Evangelical Support of Donald Trump

By Daniel Miller

…ut these must be properly, and hierarchically, ordered. A religious social agent will be one whose religious identity supersedes her political identity, and vice-versa. Reflecting this logic, in his critique of presidential candidate and self-professed evangelical Ted Cruz, Prothero writes, “it seems plain that Cruz is a conservative first, an American second, a Republican third, and a Christian fourth.” As a legion of contemporary scholars (e.g.,…