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I’m Dreaming of a White Christ(mas)

By Evan Derkacz

…laus. Harris didn’t like growing up thinking that black Santa wasn’t the real Santa, so she proposed that maybe Santa should be a penguin. In response, Fox News reporter Megyn Kelly infamously declared that Santa was white and buttressed her argument by asserting that Jesus was white as well: “Just because it makes you feel uncomfortable doesn’t mean it has to change. You know. I mean, Jesus was a white man, too. It’s like we have, he’s a historic…

For Sale to the Highest Bidder: The Trail of Tammy’s Tears

By Jonathan L. Walton

…lion. And while I am certain that reels of film displaying Jim’s snake-oil sales pitches and Tammy Faye’s mascara trail of tears may not be high on the budget agenda of many during these trying economic times, these tapes should not be easily dismissed. This footage constitutes the valuable primary source material for scholars and researchers interested this important American religious phenomenon. In some ways, media empires such as PTL helped to…

Jesus, Santa, and Now Sound of Music‘s Mother Abbess?

By Shannen Dee Williams

…regation in its religious ranks, thousands of black women have dared to profess the sacred vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience in the Atlantic World. In doing so, they provided a powerful refutation to whites who characterized Africa-descended people as sub-human and used the ideology of white supremacy and racist manipulations of the Bible to justify African enslavement and racial segregation. Although the overwhelming majority of the world’…

As Transition Looms, Jewish Studies is Mired in Controversy

By Shaul Magid

…n Studies and other fields of Area Studies. In 1966 Arnold Band, then a professor of Hebrew Literature at UCLA, published an essay noting the early proliferation of Jewish Studies positions in American universities even before the establishment of Jewish Studies programs, and called for a symposium to discuss how to respond to this impending need. This symposium took place in September 1969 at Brandeis University. The symposium, the proceedings of…

His Holiness, Inc.: The Dalai Lama as a Spiritual Mega-Brand

By Elizabeth Drescher

His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso, began a two-week U.S. speaking tour by meeting with President Obama last Friday. After annoying the Chinese government with a private presidential audience, he quickly winged it west to offer enlightenment to the devoted and the curious on the Left Coast, traveling from receptive audiences in Berkeley, Santa Clara, and Los Angeles before a swing through the heartland on his way back to D.C. for a f…

The Sacred and the Dead: How an Iranian-Jewish Angeleno Discovered Her Tribe

By Saba Soomekh

…communities, dating back 2,700 years to when the Jews were exiled from Jerusalem and settled in the Persian Empire. From the 16th century, Iran was ruled according to Shiite Islamic doctrine, and the lives of Jews and other religious minorities were marked by periods of persecution and legal prohibitions. All of that changed when the Pahlavis came to power and attempted to eradicate religion from the public sphere. Reza Pahlavi (r. 1925-1941) and…

Colonialism and the Crisis Inside the Crisis of Catholic Sexual Abuse

By Kathleen Holscher

…olic priests who, during the twentieth century, were employed across 6 dioceses in Pennsylvania. It records their alleged crimes—and those of bishops who protected them—in excruciating detail. From the vantage point of Albuquerque, New Mexico, where I live and teach, the grand jury report provides not only a horrific portrait of some parts of Catholic life in a mid-Atlantic state; it offers reminders too of the devastating and often overlooked his…

Will Infamous ‘Candy Cane Memo’ Resurrect Flailing ‘War on Christmas’?

By Joseph Laycock

…ether a specific symbol denotes a state endorsement of religion. As law professor Jay Wexler wrote, “The endorsement test makes judges render decisions that are more like interior decorating than constitutional law.” In this case, the attempt to maintain the separation of church and state by creating these lists arguably violated that separation by using the authority of the state to dictate what these symbols “really mean.” In addition, Snopes th…

It’s Only a Game: How Not to Think about Video Game Violence

By Joanna Brooks

…lifornia state law (passed in 2005 but never enforced) that prohibited the sales of violent video games to minors. Writing for the majority, Justice Antonin Scalia presented the 7-2 ruling as a defense of free speech and the free circulation of ideas. That’s been a consistent theme for the Roberts court, which in recent years has in the name of freedom of speech legalized the sale of animal torture videos and struck down limits on corporate politi…

Church and State in Mexico: A Political Party Wavers on Women’s Rights

By Ruth Samuelson

…elated to an epileptic episode in 2007.) That visit’s telling, says Pedro Salazar Ugarte, a legal scholar with the National Autonomous University of Mexico. Although he can’t back it up with evidence, Salazar Ugarte has an inkling that Peña Nieto has already allied himself with the Church. Besides the Vatican visit, Salazar Ugarte says there are other signs: Catholic leaders have attended some of Peña Nieto’s most important speeches, birthday cele…