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Lying About Our Religion, And Other Problems With Polling

By Michael Schulson

…g, Wuthnow writes, is “the phenomenon of drawing generalizations about the American public, meaning all of the American population, based on evidence that mostly reflects the sampled responses of the white majority.” Christian norming happens, too: a poll that supposedly reflects the nation’s views on God is, often, mostly talking about Christian views. In doing so, it’s essentially conflating “Christian” with “American,” a strategy typically asso…

What’s in a Name? Religious Nones and the American Religious Landscape

By Richard Flory

…tention is that there has been a significant and sustained increase in the number of people who are choosing not to identify with any religion. As reported by the Pew Research Center, in 2007, 16 percent of American adults reported no religious preference or affiliation; by 2014 this statistic had increased to almost 23 percent. And younger adults are more likely to say that they have no religion than their parents or grandparents’ generations. Ma…

Imagining Fear and Anxiety in Post-9/11 New York

By Haroon Moghul

…Ground Zero, questions remain about how to remember, what place to accord American Muslims, and how much America has or hasn’t changed. But for anyone who needs to understand, there are few better places to start than with The Submission. At the point when we learn that an American Muslim has sent in the winning submission, I was of course reminded of last summer’s debate over the proposed mosque near Ground Zero. Seems like you had a good deal…

Coakley v. Brown: Democrats Search (For) Their Souls

By Peter Laarman

…o the Lords of Finance. The Right’s tears for working families never quite manage to conceal their big sharp crocodile teeth, but it still must give them an illicit thrill to put on populist drag yet again to decry the arrogance and elitism of liberal Democrats. Make no mistake: in assessing the pull of the Revanchist Right “message” we are right to begin with the viscera, because it almost goes without saying that the content will be incoherent….

International “Religious Freedom” Agenda Will Only Embolden ISIS

By Elizabeth Shakman Hurd

…ion and conflict, amplify and entrench the religious divisions it seeks to manage, and force political authorities to discriminate between “good” and “bad” religion. Each of these tendencies has implications for the current debate over ISIS. A bigger field of play Religious freedom advocacy singles out individuals and groups for legal protection as religious individuals and collectivities. Positing religion as prior to other affiliations re-politi…

Palin Talks Israel in Anticipation of 2012

By Shalom Goldman

…ionist policies. Still, there’s a good chance that aid to Israel, like the American wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, will manage to be exempt from their ire. The billions of dollars spent every month on the two wars (and over 270 American military bases around the world) are somehow not a sign of “big government” for the Tea Party faithful. Late last month, in a trenchant article for The Nation, Princeton lecturer Melissa Harris-Perry sought to expla…

RDPulpit: Is Barack Obama a “Fierce Advocate” For Gays or Just Pragmatist-in-Chief?

By Paul Gorrell

…ieve that Obama would be a champion for causes that were important to LGBT Americans. Almost six months since the Rick Warren incident, gay Americans have either heard silence on the important issues or communication that makes the administration seem utterly tone-deaf to our struggles. The insulting tenor of the recent DOJ brief has brought the issue to an entirely new level. Learning from Bill Clinton, our current pragmatist-in-chief appears to…

If You Were Faced With Him

By Amina Wadud

…. Let the record show, I was not successful, despite my best intentions. I managed to drop that daughter off just in time to head to Oakland as I had told my middle daughter I would. She needed assistance with the baby because her Canadian in-laws gave her a car, which had to be cleared at customs before local registration. Then we went to the farmers’ market, the flea markets, and the swap meet. She insists on using a baby carrier instead of a st…

Vatican Seeks Virgin Amidst All This Sexual Impropriety

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…bout the woman caught in an adulterous liaison—and more specifically, Jesus’ cautionary word about “he who is without sin casting the first stone at her”—seems little more than a calculated way to use the sacred scriptures to manage a very profane affair. There seems little saintly or supernatural about any of this. Perhaps that is why the Church and her pilgrims continue to go looking for it, in the slightly more rarified air of the Bosnian hills…

SCOTUS Seems to Think You Should Be Forced to Pay For Religious Education

By John Stoehr

…y sharia law. How are they going to distinguish? Not honestly, but they’ll manage. Are we talking about compelling states to fund religious schools and their religious activity but only the right kinds of religions? First comes the shift in free exercise law, which compels everyone—including the secular—to give money not just to schools with religious status, but for religious uses. That line between religious “status” and religious “use”—that gov…