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End Times in North African Revolutions

By Joanna Brooks

…know quite what to make of the anti-authoritarian revolutions across North Africa. “Just tell me, is this the kind of thing where missionaries are going to lay dead in the streets of Jerusalem for three days?” a close friend asked me, referring to a sign-of-the-times prophecy popular among LDS people. She smiled, but she was only half-joking. Witness Pastor John Hagee instruct his followers that the Libyan Revolution “proves the absolutely a…

Ugandan Anti-Gay Fallout: New Laws, New Violence, New Underground Railroad

By Peter Montgomery

…a gay Imam in Sweden during Stockholm Pride. The holy man, who is based in South Africa, is also gay and has become a household name among LGBT activists from Muslim countries. Speaking after the ceremony, Algerian-born Zahed told of his delight at the couple’s happiness and revealed his admiration for their bravery in pursuing a new life abroad. ‘I am very grateful for this beautiful wedding,’ he revealed, ‘and to be able to give my blessing to t…

Satire is Religion

By Austin Dacey

…story or to persecuted religious minorities today. I’m not suggesting that South Park has much of a theology beyond a lightweight libertarianism that says we can all get along so long as no one tries to “impose their beliefs” on anyone else. In practice, the creators seemed to acquiesce all too easily to Comedy Central’s imposition of black bars and bleeps on their episode. However, Stone and Parker were exercising their freedom of religious consc…

When God and Gender Mix: New Book Examines the Southern Holiness Movement

By Colin Chapell

…seline” of normative ideas of gender among white Protestants by looking at Southern Baptists and Methodists. By examining the emergent Southern Holiness movement, I was able to see how changes in theology altered—often radically—the ways in which personal identity were perceived. Examining these changes, both in theology and gender construction, thus demonstrated how important faith commitments are to how the faithful view the world. Ye That Are M…

Gambian Voters Reject Anti-Gay Strongman Jammeh; Activists Ponder Trump Impact on LGBT Human Rights; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…hree years after the Supreme Court re-imposed a colonial-era sodomy law. Some activists said that the ruling undermined the LGBT community’s legitimacy and contributed to violence against it. Africa: New issue of women’s journal published Emergence, an artistic journal of Women and Gender non-conforming Africans published its 11th issue this week….

Complicating the Prosperity Gospel Story: A Microeconomics of Pentecostalism, International Edition

By Naomi Haynes

…he biggest misconceptions about your topic? I often hear people talk about African Pentecostal pastors as conmen, or at least people who have gotten rich on the backs of the poor members of their congregations. While there are some prominent preachers who do enjoy celebrity and fame, most Pentecostal pastors that I know are not making a lot of money. During my fieldwork, I lived with a pastor’s family, and I watched them struggle to make ends meet…

Why Aqua Buddha Ad Failed to Harm Rand Paul

By Joanna Brooks

…was, to be sure, a risky strategy for a Democratic Senate candidate in the South: run a sorta-psychedelic television ad depicting your Tea-Party anointed opponent as a groovy turtleneck and corduroy jacket-wearing, idol-worshipping, bondage-indulging svengali. Jack Conway and his strategists hoped the now infamous Aqua Buddha ad would incur doubts among social conservatives about Rand Paul and change the game in Kentucky, where Paul now leads Conw…

Stephen Broden, Beck’s Black Robed Regiment In Action

By Sarah Posner

…tive rights are a conspiracy to commit “black genocide.” The film has been promoted by the Frederick Douglass Foundation, which describes itself as a a Christian organization. (It also supports Allen West, running for Congress in Florida, who writes for a south Florida biker magazine, in which he has written that “the upcoming election is the time to get rid of ‘Barry Obongo,’ and asks readers to imagine having sex with [Democratic Congresswoman D…

Catholic Bishops’ Religious Liberty Fight Enables Anti-Jewish Discrimination (Updated)

By Patricia Miller

…ng to the Washington Post. As Religion Dispatches has previously reported, South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster is seeking a waiver from the Trump administration to allow Miracle Hill Ministries, a social welfare agency that is a major player in the state’s foster care program, to discriminate against non-Christians such as Jews and Muslims. The Greenville News reports that a Jewish woman was turned away as a potential foster mentor for Miracle Hill…

Here’s What Hospital Care Could Look Like in a Post-Roe World

By Elizabeth Reiner Platt

…e Southern Hospitals Report: Faith, Culture, and Abortion Bans in the U.S. South, we found that abortion restrictions at Southern Protestant hospitals—including enormous systems like Baylor Scott & White and AdventHealth—are ubiquitous. These policies typically prohibit any doctor in their facilities from performing an abortion except in the narrowest of circumstances, such as (according to one written policy) when “medically necessary to avert…a…