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Forget the Pope—We Need a New Caliph!

By Haroon Moghul

…I) Wild Card Candidate: Mahmoud Ahmedinejad, Soon-Not-To-Be of the Islamic Republic of Iran The Good: Considering he’s worn the same jacket for the past eight years, resources would not be wasted on clothes and there would be no need for a stylist. Also, he is unfiltered and blunt, so there’d be no need for speechwriters. Hailing from a working-class background, the former teacher and engineer, who is the sixth President of the Islamic Republic of…

To Get Hebdo Cartoons You Must Get Laïcité

By Stephanie Frank

…in support of monarchist politics, it is unsurprising that when the Third Republic was established in 1870, it set out against the Church. The Third Republic reinstituted several of the Revolution’s church-state reforms, rolling back Napoleon’s Concordat of 1801. Ultimately it pushed even further, instituting the 1905 Law on the Separation of the Churches and State, which ended all state financial support for religion. But the Third Republic’s le…

Can Anti-Mormon Prejudice be Compared to Anti-Black Racism?

By Joanna Brooks

…ace gauge racism is in terms of life chances and outcomes. Is a child born African American in this country statistically more likely to experience different life outcomes than a child born into a non-African-American Mormon family? (Thinking about how religion and race intersect for black Mormons would add a new wrinkle to the analysis.) Analytically, just by the numbers, just for the fact of being born black, a child is statistically more likely…

A Tea Party Case Study: Jacksonville’s Divisive Mayoral Race

By Julie Ingersoll

…p Islamophobia. The racism isn’t as blatant as opposing Brown because he’s African American. And, of course, they’ll point the African Americans they do support. But the real hysteria about “outsiders” is about race. What it comes down to is the tea party doesn’t like a group facilitating (and according to her own report we are talking about walking precincts and giving rides to the polls to legitimate voters) turnout among African Americans. A ha…

The Best Books Media of 2008

By Jeff Sharlet

…historian at the University of Rochester Frederick Douglass Institute for African and African American Studies. From Democratic Party outreach to evangelical voters to the smackdown of Jeremiah Wright to Tucker Carlson’s assertion that “black churches are basically political organizations,” we encountered a maelstrom of media references to the “black church” in 2008. For anyone who followed this coverage and questioned what such a monolithic term…

RDBook: Evangelical Christianity and Democracy in Africa

By Luke Ssemakula

…ica. Gifford is right in pointing out that we cannot adequately understand African governance outside neo-patrimonialism, a system built on loyalty where a superior ensures the security of a subordinate in exchange for political support. With evangelicalism, there is no consensus even in the West on how to correctly delineate who the evangelicals are in relation to the fundamentalists and Pentecostals. Defining evangelicalism in the African contex…

Saint John Coltrane: Fifty Years of ‘A Love Supreme’

By S. Brent Rodriguez Plate

…the African Orthodox Church, a denomination that began in the 1920s as an African-American split from the Episcopal church. The African Orthodox denomination continues in operation, albeit in relatively small numbers. The Coltrane church does not, as some might imagine, “worship” John Coltrane any more than a church called St. Mark’s worships Mark. The African Orthodox church officially canonized Coltrane, so the designation of “Saint John Coltra…

Just Give ‘Em a Little Jesus: Black Marriage Meets White Paternalism

By Sikivu Hutchinson

…to draw sweeping conclusions about churchgoing and recidivism rates among African-American and Latino men, arguing that faith plays a key role in helping them “flourish.” In a recent article in The Atlantic, entitled “How the Church Allows Black Men to Thrive,” the authors cite the higher levels of religiosity among African-American men, claiming that “compared to their less religious peers, these 6 million or so black men are significantly more…

Where Polls and Surveys Fall Short: A Conversation with Robert Wuthnow on “Inventing American Religion”

By Andrew Aghapour

…eligiosity, prayer. And yet when you look at the occasional major study of African Americans, with a large number of respondents and some white Americans for comparison purposes, the evidence suggests that African Americans are much more religious on average than white Americans in terms of how many hours in a given week they may spend at the church, or how important it is to them, or how often they see church friends, and so forth. That’s an exam…

Donald Trump Scares LGBT People Worldwide and More, in This Week’s Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ironically, their protests display episcopal collegiality and ecclesial decentralization that they have traditionally staunchly resisted. This collegial and decentralized perspective is favored by Pope Francis and, in fact, called for by Vatican II. So, for bishops conferences to be debating and even ignoring a papal document is, in a sense, progress. For bishops to understand they have a certain co-responsibility for the church, and that the pap…