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The Demographic that Should Keep Rove Awake at Night

By Katherine Stewart

…iritual but not religious,” or simply uninterested in religion. They are spread fairly evenly across education and income levels. And they’re politically diverse when it comes to economic ideas. But they do seem to largely agree on one thing: that mixing religion with politics is a bad idea. Which brings me back to the recent election. If the statistical data seem unreliable, just think back on the extraordinary nature of the debate in 2012. Never…

How “Race Tests” Maintain Evangelical Segregation

By Joshua L. Lazard

…re decidedly liberal and stand at the opposite end of the theological spectrum. Studies have shown time and time again that this segregation has held true for a multiplicity of reasons. While these reasons range from the difference of praise and worship style and doctrinal differences, to residential segregation or the preference of non-whites creating affirming spaces of their own, white liberal churches aren’t excused from being a part of white…

Now That ‘Serial’ is Over: 2014’s Best Podcasts about Religion

By Andrew Aghapour

…mber of podcasts have covered contemporary intersections between religion, politics, and society. The Runner Up. This list’s second Peabody Award winner is On the Media, produced out of WNYC. OTM offers some of the sharpest media analysis and most sophisticated investigative journalism that you can find today. January’s “Secrecy at the Border” was initiated after OTM producer Sarah Abdurrahman was detained, without explanation, by US Customs and B…

Studying Religion is Suddenly Popular

By Mark Hulsether

…t is virtuously out of step with most Ivy League schools. Third, and most crucially, that it is running away from what is clearly coded as a shame or embarrassment: its “legacy of Christian origins.” Apparently the problem is that some Religious Studies programs—notably Harvard’s, from which Robert Orsi luckily “fled”—still train some of their students for careers related to Protestant Christianity. Now, virtually everyone in the field wants to di…

Popesplaining: Women Remain “Strawberries” in Francis’s Book on Happiness

By Kaya Oakes

…too concerned with rules” and “too tied up in politics.” Politics, and the rules of politics, have especially made us miserable lately, and our obsessive scrolling through news feeds and social media to keep up with the latest political disasters isn’t making us feel any better. Twitter use is correlated with greater rates of anxiety, and Facebook contributes to depressive mind states. So what does the Pope tell us to do in order to be happier? Mo…

A New Frontier for Democrats and Religion?

By Sarah Posner

…there are topics apparently left undiscussed: a new war on LGBT people in Russia, Nigeria, and elsewhere, not to mention that elephant in the room with all things Francis, what freedom means for half the world’s population, women. Obama and Kerry, both of whom have faced pressure to incorporate more religion into their politics and policy, have expressed joy and admiration for Francis that goes far beyond diplomatic platitudes. Who is more Cathol…

Why Hulu’s “Handmaid’s Tale” May Be the Wrong Adaptation for Trump Era

By Christopher Douglas

…ogeneity of the evangelical movement in North America than it is about the politics of its power structures and general culture. As the tweet above suggests, comparing Hulu’s Gileadean leaders to the current Republican leadership repealing Planned Parenthood funding, the dynamics are very much about flexing the power of white Christian males. Even the show itself won’t pretend to imagine black fundamentalist men among Gilead’s leadership. The Trum…

Adult Realism and the State of This Union

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…made for a good line—though one might wish he’d said “bigger than partisan politics.” Politics, after all, is what we do to deliberate about such big problems. The line was offered in the spirit of can-do American industriousness, the notion that when we put our minds to a thing, we achieve it beyond the wildest expectations of a witnessing world. Such a line is neither Niebuhrian, nor necessarily very realistic. The vast majority of the President…

Hijab: Culture, Custom, and Chaos

By Amina Wadud

…han, the ones whose dress is up for debate in the first place, that is the politics of hijab. These have nothing to do with taqwa, with the Qur’an, with Allah, the Prophet or even Islam. However the politics of all of these take on their own life and should be entertained in full in order to make sense out of the chaos. In my life, first as a young woman who had not yet chosen Islam, I have dressed with a dress so short, I had to keep standing if…

I Met God, She’s Black: An Exhibit Makes the Black Female Body a Temple

By Anita Little

…ct of slavery on their families but also to resistance within the family structure that allowed for them to be here today. That’s a really important component of this project. People are desiring to heal, but they’re also desiring to affirm the power of resistance to social forces. It seems a lot of black women who came to this exhibit saw it as a sacred space and described it as similar to going to church. How does this space stand as an alternat…