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Updated: G-O-D Plays a Bit Part in First GOP Debate

By Daniel Schultz

…s name-checked in the debate. Mostly it went like this. The candidates did talk about hot-button social issues, but they held back from claiming religious sponsorship of their ideas. It’s not clear if they’d gotten the memo about not antagonizing religiously unaffiliated voters, or if they simply didn’t see much advantage in differentiating themselves against one another with faith messages. The big exception to the trend was Kasich’s answer to a…

Egyptian President Al-Sisi is a Dictator, Not a Reformer of Islam

By Mohamad Elmasry

…Islamist extremism and the Christian Post‘s Richard Land even compared his talk to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr’s “I Have a Dream” speech. It’s troubling that Westerners claiming to be lovers of human rights would overlook, or downplay, Al-Sisi’s policy record—which features a military coup against a democratically elected president, large-scale massacres of civilian protesters, the imprisonment of tens of thousands of people (including many journali…

Amid Anticipation of Government Disclosure, ‘We Are Not Alone’ Follows Those Who Claim Alien Contact Through Meditation

By Joseph Laycock

…said he hoped these revelations would cause “ontological shock.” All this talk of imminent UFO disclosure hasn’t gone unnoticed by religious studies scholars. So when I was offered an interview with filmmaker and reality TV star Serena DC about her forthcoming documentary We Are Not Alone, I was intrigued. The film (not to be confused with the sci-fi comedy of the same name) describes DC’s own experiences with CE5 (close encounters of the fifth k…

Reading Beinart and Lerner as Gaza Burns

By Ira Chernus

…doubt intentionally) destroyed a real chance for peace with Hamas. Despite talk of a truce, on every front the Israel-Palestine peace process seems dead in the water. There is no indication that the Obama administration, preoccupied with so many other things, will spend precious political capital to try to revive it. Israel’s right-wing leader, Benjamin Netanyahu, seems set to win another term as prime minister and continue blocking the path to pe…

Does Conservative Watchdog Actually “Get Religion”?

By Joanna Brooks

…t a worldwide LDS conference, Elder Packer delivered another controversial talk on homosexuality that led LDS PR officials to issue a statement affirming that the Church unequivocally decries anti-gay violence. (Other high-ranking LDS Church leaders have demonstrated changing views of homosexuality, as the LDS blogger Kaimi Wenger carefully documents here.) You will, however, hear significant changes in the way more than a few rank-and-file Mormon…

But Are They “The Good Muslims”?

By Haroon Moghul

…ng in the Egyptian elections, Salafis are a hot topic. But despite all the talk of Salafis, we still have a difficult time defining Salafism. Take Wendell Steavenson’s recent New Yorker piece, “Radicals Rising,” a portrait of Salafi politicians in Alexandria, Egypt. Steavenson defines Salafism as “a strain of Islamic fundamentalism that emphasizes the original tenets and practices of the Prophet Muhammad and his companions.” Steavenson’s essay is…

#OccupyWallStreet and the Antichrist

By Sarah Posner

…nd disseminate their ideas. Their think tanks, legal societies, lobbyists, talk radio and best-selling manifestos have trained, educated and financed two generations of writers and organizers. Conservative Christian colleges, both Protestant and Catholic, provide students with a more coherent worldview than do the more prestigious schools led by liberals. More recently, conservatives marshaled media outlets like Fox News and the editorial pages of…

‘People You May Know’ Reveals a War on Democracy Being Waged With Big Data [Part II]

By Chrissy Stroop

…sponse is, oh, it’s anti-Christian, it’s anti-religious. But we’re in fact talking about the exploitation of Christians. CK: If an evangelical Christian is watching the film, I hope they come away from it shocked at the way that their data has been harvested and that they have been targeted, even if they agree with what the targeting was trying to do. We’re anything but anti-Christian. KGV: I grew up evangelical myself, and I’ve been very happy to…

What If Donald Trump is Just as Christian as Evangelicals?

By John Stoehr

…t none of that, what we are seeing now makes a lot more sense. All of this talk about a biblical understanding of Donald Trump as the chosen one makes more sense. This “biblical understanding” is a rationalization for a conclusion they’d already come to, which is a conclusion with little grounding in religion. It has more to do with power politics. Put another way, more accurately: power politics is their religion. So it doesn’t matter that Trump…

You Are Being Organized by Something: 10 Questions for Kathryn Lofton on Consuming Religion

By Kathryn Lofton

…that whatever work I am doing is best conveyed through the way we tend to talk when we talk about research. So, to illustrate my point, let me answer the question first the way I think we tend to speak, and then answer it the way I think is true. What we say: I am always working on several things at once. Right now, I am continuing a longstanding exploration of Bob Dylan, his fandom, and his artistic iconicity; I am thinking about the queer histo…