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Religious Freedom Gets Hollywood Treatment

By Daniel Ramirez

…position to the dictator’s perennial re-election, and heightened their distrust of the prelates and their uneven application of the Church’s new Social Doctrine in the aftermath of the Revolution. This helps to explain why Protestants, teachers, agrarian reformers, and anyone associated with the revolutionary agenda dreaded the arrival of the cristero forces in their towns and villages—their side has a martyrdom narrative too—and why they were rel…

Pressure Grows on Obama to Reject Anti-LGBT Religious Exemption

By Sarah Posner

…rates calls made since 2011 for Obama to rescind the Bush executive order. Today’s letter, in contrast to yesterday’s letter from over 50 legal scholars, is more focused on framing religious freedom as a core American value that is protected, rather than endangered, by rejecting the religious exemption. The legal scholars focused more on constitutional law and the Religious Freedom Restoration Act in making the case that neither Free Exercise Clau…

Mormon-Born Daya Mata Typifies American Yoga

By Andrea R. Jain

…n encouraging members of the Self-Realization Fellowship to enter into a guru-disciple relationship with the official gurus of the tradition, including Babaji, Krishna, and Jesus, as well as Yogananda himself. She taught that the gurus, having attained loving union with God, could help their disciples attain that same goal. Having taken the vow of renunciation, Daya Mata prescribed that path for those who, like her, wanted to devote their entire l…

Fascinating History of Search for “Lost White Tribe” Sheds Light on Construction of Race

By Michael Schulson

…. Robinson Oxford University Press, April 2016 This premise isn’t exactly true; race is a construct—a shifting template created by human beings and applied to human bodies. To be clear, constructs are real. Racial categories are meaningful to anyone who lives within them (i.e. everyone), and this whole conversation could sound utterly irrelevant to, say, a black woman who’s just been pulled over by the police. Still, not to get too circular here,…

Aasif Mandvi on Islamophobia, Acting, and the Long Shadow of Jon Stewart

By Haroon Moghul

…re South Asians, more people from the Middle East, portrayed on television today, as compared to when I started out. But in Hollywood, Caucasian is still the norm. Your heroes are still Caucasian. So that is somewhere we need more diversity, in terms of who’s creating the stories, who’s starring in the stories, who the stories are about. You can have a lot of brown people, but if the story’s really about white people, then it’s diversity, but not…

Ugandan Gay Rights Activist Murdered, US Evangelicals Must Take Responsibility

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…Stone. The paper urged readers to kill those on the list. A Ugandan court ruling prevented the paper from publishing more names. Hopefully, Kato’s death will serve as a wake-up call to conservative evangelicals in the U.S. who have attempted to wash their hands of the matter. Today, a gay activist is dead in a country where gays and lesbians are actively persecuted, where the law may soon allow them to be legally executed, and it’s a hatred they…

The Sanders Insurgency: A Return to the “Secular Sacred”?

By Peter Laarman

…nd/or Dad than with a spouse or partner, and not by choice, according to a new report). But do these struggling and fired-up millennials have actual millenarian aspirations? Are they willing to go the distance for a different kind of society during this Second Gilded Age, a time when economic exploitation and political corruption look different but smell the same as in 1886? I have heard the argument that they are merely venting their personal con…

Can the Catholic Church Survive Trump?

By Patricia Miller

…the highest profile culture warriors like Baltimore’s Archbishop Lori and New York’s Cardinal Dolan, they helped steer the more confrontational posture of the U.S. bishops’ conference. Byrnes argues that it’s foolish for any religious institution to tie itself too clearly to any political party for the simple reason that parties are “ephemeral political institutions,” always in the process of decay and rebirth: …one can well imagine a bishop deci…

“A Feminine Complaint Against Theologians”

By Susan Henking

…itical and constructive—in Christianity, in Judaism, and in what were then new “goddess” religions. Despite sometimes being seen as dated in her essentialism, Saiving is, and was, key to this and much much more. Womanspirit Rising was not the first time nor the last that the 1960 essay would be reprinted. It appeared again in a scholarly venue, the journal Pastoral Psychology, in 1966. And it has been repeatedly anthologized in the decades since,…

Romney Accuses Obama of Stifling Religious Liberty

By Sarah Posner

…an essential theme of the 2012 presidential campaign. Romney, fighting off Newt Gingrich’s campaign theme that he is a “Massachusetts moderate,” today jumps on the bandwagon in hopes of sealing the deal with religious conservatives: But, now, more than two centuries after the drafting of the Bill of Rights, religious liberty is facing the most serious assault in generations. And the assault is coming from liberalism itself. In the process of imple…