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Let’s Get Lost: Mapping Religion in the 21st Century

By Spencer Dew

…ch as Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis’s Digital Atlas of American Religion—to the narrow—the Hindu American Foundation’s map of Hindus worldwide (with accompanying demographic information comparing “Hindus/Asian/Indian” favorably on various socioeconomic rankings to other racial and nationality categories). Unlike other kinds of maps, maps of American religion must negotiate the difficulty of that term—what counts, what doesn’t,…

It’s Not Just About Ground Zero

By Mark S. Byrnes

…cannot claim religious freedom protections under the First Amendment.” As Newt Gingrich did, he asserts that Americans should show their superiority by descending to the level of their enemies: “There is no such thing as freedom of religion in Islam, and it is sheer folly for Americans to delude themselves into thinking otherwise.” (By this standard, the United States should have established gulags for political dissidents during the cold war.) F…

Chicago Synagogue Excoriated For Shift From ‘Non’ to ‘Anti’ Zionism — Maybe the Problem isn’t the ‘Anti’ But the ‘Zionism’

By Shaul Magid

…om their Americanness. Should American Jews be hyphenated citizens? Jewish-American or American Jew; hyphen or no hyphen. Jews as an ethnos, like Irish-Americans, or Jews as carrier of a religion, like American Catholics? The American Jew lives in the anxiety of the hyphen, and flourishes there. The hyphen allows for considerable leeway in terms of legitimate negotiation between one’s Jewish and American identity. Today it seems that the complex n…

Come Let Us Reason Together: A Response to Critics of Evangelical/Progressive Initiative

By Robert P. Jones

…e cut. The project also received statements of support from People for the American Way and NARAL, whose progressive credentials are also presumably challenged by Haffner’s declaration. In contrast to the posture of this new religious left is the more humble, less defensive attitude that is more characteristic of the broader progressive religious movement. Compare the demeanor above, for example, with the sentiments that Sister Joan Chittister, OS…

In a New Manifesto Framing ‘Wokeness’ as Religion John McWhorter Sounds Like Moses Condemning Israel for Worshipping Golden Calf of Black Power

By A. E. Brooks-Key

…e of analysis that I find more troubling. McWhorter deems wokeness to be a new religion. Had he simply declared wokeness a new ideology or simply stayed with his third-wave antiracism construct we could have simply debated the merits of his argument. Yet his declaration of wokeness as religion serves not as honest assessment of religious thinking in the form of social justice activism. Instead, religion is invoked as a ready-made punching bag for…

RDNews: Oct 20, 2008

By Bill Berkowitz

…ion claims that it promotes “Constitutionalist Judicial Nominees,” told OneNewsNow, the online news service of Donald Wildmon’s American Family Association, that the “Ten Commandments would be removed all over the place. ‘Under God’ would be removed from the Pledge of Allegiance. The death penalty would be banned. There’d probably be constitutional rights to all sorts of new things like human cloning and physician-assisted suicide. Racial preferen…

Pope Invites his Flock to Join Facebook: Is the Digital Reformation Here?

By Elizabeth Drescher

…with nearly 80 percent using the internet. According to the Pew Internet & American Life Project, three-quarters of American adults had a Facebook profile in 2009. Which is to say that the internet—and social media in particular—is not entirely wasted on the young. Likewise, Ritchie was right to note that Benedict’s characterization of the “one-sidedness of… interaction” in digital communications betrayed a lack of practical familiarity with socia…

RDPulpit: Israel, The Great Unmentionable

By Peter Laarman

…ecificity, and by my declining to sign a Muslim-drafted open letter to the new American president that names some difficult but necessary truths he will need to confront in relation to Israel’s behavior. A friend who until recently led the Progressive Jewish Alliance in Los Angeles once told me that his outfit was not in the business of changing Jewish views on Israel/the Holocaust/anti-Semitism (which he correctly lumped together as essentially o…

The Desire to Annihilate Gaza Wasn’t Born on 10/7 — It’s Part of a Long Tradition that Includes 19th Century Travel Writing

By Adam Yaghi

…ainly targeted Catholic and Muslim Palestinians. This view was typical for American and European missionaries as well. In the American Christian imagination, Ottoman “Christianity and Islam were coupled,” Ussama Makdisi argues, “as the two pillars of temporal and spiritual corruption that had to be struck down.” Twain’s comic depictions of a desolate, barren, and neglected Palestine later serve as documentary evidence in both Christian Zionist and…

Review: Jews in America: Anti-Semitism, Class Struggle, Secularism

By David Biale

…entity, although it may equally signal the priority of the Jewish over the American. “Jewish Americans,” while superficially equivalent to “Italian Americans,” has never enjoyed the same usage. In titling their PBS documentary The Jewish Americans, these filmmakers have therefore made a telling statement. After three and a half centuries of struggling to become American, the Jews have finally come “home” (incidentally, the title of part three of t…