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Has American Conservatism Abandoned the Christian Right?

By Bradley Onishi

…ny in the deep resonances between Hochman’s and Weyrich’s statements about American conservatism. In a recent guest essay at the New York Times, Hochman argues that contemporary American conservatism has left the Christian Right—which was inspired by Goldwater and built by Weyrich, along with Jerry Falwell, Tim LaHaye, and many others—behind in favor of a more secular, expansive, and dynamic movement that’s protecting a “beleaguered American way o…

American Muslim Community Must Search its Soul After Orlando Massacre

By Omar Sarwar

…ugh for us to talk honestly about socially regressive attitudes within the American Muslim community? The reality is that homophobia in the American Muslim community very likely played a causal role in producing Omar Mateen’s hate crime. It certainly wasn’t the only source of homophobic bigotry influencing him, but it was one such source, and that is reason enough for American Muslims to resist the anti-gay sentiment in their mosques and community…

As Transition Looms, Jewish Studies is Mired in Controversy

By Shaul Magid

…posite. They claim that “historical and critical theory have much to offer American Jewish sociology and American Jewish Studies.” The question is: what tools will be deployed to best navigate that engagement, making explicit what’s at stake and bringing a critical eye to the normative claims embedded in our habits and language? *** One of the questions that has consistently plagued Jewish Studies in the academy is where it belongs. Two possibilit…

The Anti-Gay Highway

By Kathryn Joyce

…portant. When he goes to Uganda, he’s not known as Scott Lively, but as an American evangelical. When Warren goes to Kenya, he’s not Warren, but an American evangelical. As long as they have a church title and stand for conservative politics, they have influence. The Africans don’t always have the resources to follow their statements so they say: this man of God says this is going on in the world. Or Scott Lively goes to the Uganda Anti-gay Confer…

A Victory for Conservatives in Revised AP History Curriculum

By Peter Laarman

…the test will effectively marginalize important ways of teaching about the American past, and force American high schools to teach U.S. history from a perspective that selfconsciously seeks to de-center American history and subordinate it to a global and heavily social-scientific perspective. De-center American history? Heaven forfend! Subordinate our glorious saga to a “global and social-scientific perspective”? Never! National Review’s Stan…

From Confusion to Kardashian: Misreading the Middle East

By Haroon Moghul

…untry in Europe plus the U.S., Canada, and Israel, against the rest of the planet (a world map only underlines this). Even Germany, a historically strong supporter of Israel, chose to abstain instead of voting no, as it was expected to. Hence an undisputed Israeli military victory was also a diplomatic defeat. Writing for the London Review of Books, Adam Shatz explained Israel didn’t win the short war. (How Gazans saw it deserves consideration.)…

Satanic “Black Mass” at Harvard Excites Conservatives

By Joseph Laycock

…he would do if, in the midst of their exercise, something from the etheric plane made itself known.” Greaves laughed and answered, “Well, then I’d have to reassess.” Scalia also produced a hurried series of blog posts obsessing over whether an actual consecrated host will be desecrated in the black mass. Even when Greaves said a consecrated host would not be used, Scalia appeared determined to keep alive the possibility that an actual host desecra…

Found in Translation: How a Thirteenth-Century Islamic Poet Conquered America

By Ryann Croken

…rged a 13th-century Sufi devotee who is devastatingly fluent in postmodern American English. As throngs of Americans now worship Rumi for the way he worshipped Allah—at a time in which “Allah” has become a scary word in the “Western world”—the political significance of Barks’ accomplishment cannot be overstated. Barks, a white man from Tennessee, doesn’t speak or read a lick of Persian, and this fact both complicates and facilitates his ability to…

RDBook: Selling the Good News

By Sarah Posner

…ricks, zeroing in on the specific contribution to the evolution of African-American religion by Jakes, as well as megachurch televangelists Eddie Long and Creflo Dollar. Walton’s particular interest, which he plumbs with extraordinary historical, theological, and sociological insight, is what these paragons of three different strands of the contemporary black church mean for the present and future of African-American religion. His purpose is not s…

Oral Roberts, Pioneering Televangelist, Dies

By Anthea Butler

…and ministry on his television show, and he soon began to feature musical numbers and dancing—behaviors prohibited in traditional Pentecostal denominations—as a way to both reach supporters and promote ORU. Far from the stereotype of the illiterate Pentecostal, Roberts’ plans included not only a university, but the City of Faith, a medical complex which included a nursing school, dental school, and hospital. Believing that God had divinely inspir…