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‘The Age of Insurrection: The Radical Right’s Assault on American Democracy’ Explains How We Got Here — And What Comes Next

…tifascist resistance. Neiwert’s attention turns here to increasing clashes between Proud Boys and other far-right groups and antifascists. Amid tear gas fog and street fights at these confrontations, Neiwert and I shuffled between these groups, fending off angry “patriots” asking if we were “antifa,” and watching as police turned their attention on the antifascist crowd. Age of Insurrection captures the heat and paranoia in the air at those events…

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Despite Conflation of Israel with Judaism, Anti-Zionism is More Kosher Than You Think

…able? If it is true, as Marc Tracy writes in the New York Times, that “[i]n 2024, anti-Zionism is the closest thing organized Judaism has to heresy,” then for most of Jewish history it may have been closer to the opposite. For 2000 years Jewish prayer has hoped ardently that the Land of Israel (Eretz Yisrael) would soon be redeemed by God and led by His Messiah; some even made pilgrimage to visit or dwell with others in the Holy Land. But there is…

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In Speech to White Evangelical Broadcasters, Trump Lays Out his White Christian Nationalist Vision

…want to take away my freedom because I will never let them take away your freedom. And I’m never gonna let it happen. They wanna silence me because I will never let them silence you. And in the end, they’re not after me. They’re after you. I just happen to be standing in the way. “We have to bring back our religion.” Trump privileges the interests of White evangelical Christians over everyone else and promises to restore them to power. What they…

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Pray Vote Stand 2022 Kicks Off With Some Head-Scratchers on Predictable Topics

…ight voters with the right issues” coming to the polls this election and in 2024. After 2020 Republican losses in Georgia, it’s telling that the Family Research Council brought the conference to Atlanta. Mohler reminds the audience that, come November’s midterm elections, the whole country “will be looking at Georgia.” Georgia’s Senate hopefuls Herschel Walker and Raphael Warnock were both invited to speak at Pray Vote Stand on Friday. Neither is…

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‘Brazil’s Trump’ Bolsonaro Lost — But Anti-Democratic Movements Seldom Accept Electoral Defeat

…han Trump—he’s been a politician for far longer, and historically has been better at reining in his coalition and keeping it on message. That message, in two words: Christian nationalism. Christian nationalism is at the heart of both Trump’s and Bolsonaro’s politics, and this is nowhere more obvious than in each of their chief “ideologues.” Trump’s, former media mogul turned political strategist Steve Bannon, trucks with right-wing nationalist nar…

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Did Romney Cynically Cite His Mormon Faith for Impeachment Vote as Critics Claim?

…n fact, it might cost him some. It certainly wouldn’t be a get-out-of-jail free card within his own party, as evidenced above. So possible, but not necessarily probable. Another argument is that Romney, like many Mormons, has been turned off by the President’s lack of [ahem] interpersonal moral hygiene. You hear this one a lot when evangelicals are discussed as well. But while it’s true that Utah gave Trump his smallest margin in any state he won,…

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How Robert Bellah (1927-2013) Changed the Study of Religion

…ous studies with a different kind of pioneering study, this one focused on Japanese religion. In Tokugawa Religion, Bellah did for Japanese Buddhism, Confucianism and Shinto what Max Weber did for Christianity in The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism. He showed how the social values embedded in religious thinking can help to support certain kinds of social transformations. In the case of Tokugawa Religion these values helped to pave th…

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Besides a Love of Chinese Food on Christmas, Why “JewAsian” Unions Work

…iastic about its growing racial diversity and so we wrote this for Jews to better understand some of our families and perhaps congregation members. We also wrote it for anyone interested in American growing percentage of mixed households of all kinds of racial, ethnic and religious mixes, including but not limited to the JewAsian mix. Finally, we wrote it for our now 8 and 5 year old son and daughter (and we also dedicated the book to them, which…

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The Landmark 85-Year-Old Report Absent From Debates Over Missionary’s Death

…pressing issues facing their foreign missions in India, Burma, China, and Japan. Based off a two-year study in consultation with foreign mission boards and missionary leaders abroad, the commission concluded by recommending a reorientation of missionary approach emphasizing education, social services, partnership with local communities, and respect for local religious traditions. The Laymen’s Report marked a watershed moment when American mission…

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The ‘Spiritual Warfare’ Worldview of Trump’s Conspiracy Doctor is Part of a Transnational Movement

…ssions and founder of the New Apostolic Reformation in 2001, said that the Japanese economy suffered a severe blow because the emperor of Japan had sex with the sun goddess, the chief “spiritual ruler” or principality over the nation. As a professor of missions studying the growth of Pentecostal churches in the Majority World, Wagner eventually adopted Hiebert’s “excluded-middle” worldview which led him to write numerous books on “spiritual warfar…

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