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‘We’re Through the Looking Glass Now’: Talking Deradicalization with Dr. John Horgan

By Gordon Haber

…the conversation, I spoke to Dr. John Horgan, a Professor of Psychology at Georgia State University, who studies deradicalization—or more specifically the “pathways into, through and out of terrorism.” In his research, Dr. Horgan interviewed former violent extremists such as al-Qaeda operatives and IRA assassins, looking to discover their paths to a new identity. We should be careful not to label all American extremists terrorists. But we can cert…

Tyler Perry’s Museum of Blackness

By Sevonna Brown

…a place not even the mob would think to look—in Madea’s (also Tyler Perry) Georgia home. As the unaware and reluctant witness, George is forced to figure out how his company pilfered millions of dollars. The black church is important to the storyline. A frantic Jake Nelson, who invested funds in George’s company to raise money for his father’s church, finds out from Brian that the company was a scam. Jake then scrambles to get the money back befor…

God’s Law is the Only Law: The Genesis of Michele Bachmann

By Sarah Posner

…by Jindal, now the governor of Louisiana, Nathan Deal, now the governor of Georgia, and Mike Pence, a conservative hero who’s now running for governor of Indiana. While campaigning for president, Bachmann took up the “tyrannical judges” mantle, this time in connection with the Iowa Supreme Court’s ruling that the state’s gay marriage ban was unconstitutional. She applauded the ouster of “black-robed masters,” the three Iowa judges who had ruled sa…

Tebow’s Tears: Is God Really a Gator Fan?

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…y will speculate that Tebow sensed the tribulation that was to come in the Georgia Dome on Saturday and chose the verse accordingly: On the gridiron, tribulation; but peace in Christ Jesus. Still, that seems more like reading omens than Christian Bible study. Bumper-Sticker Spirituality I have struggled in the past several weeks to come to terms with my own apparent prejudices. Something about these painted Bible verses offends me, and I have not…

American Idol(atry): McCain-as-Jesus

By Brian Kaylor

…on the latest season of American Idol, the Republican state chairwoman of Georgia was engaged in paying reverence to a different type of American idol. In a bizarre moment in the world of mixing religion and politics, Sue Everhart compared Republican presidential candidate John McCain to Jesus and America to God. Addressing McCain’s patriotism and devotion to America even while being tortured as a prisoner of war in Vietnam, Everhart stated, “Joh…

In Latest Round of LGBTQ Discrimination Cases Before SCOTUS, Religion Is ‘The Elephant in the Room’

By Patrick Hornbeck

…lving a gay skydiving instructor from New York, a gay county employee from Georgia, and a trans funeral home director from Michigan, turn on the interpretation of a provision of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The law provides that employers may not discriminate “because of” an employee’s or prospective employee’s “race, color, religion, sex, or national origin.” The fired employees are arguing that courts should interpret the word “sex…

Christian Nationalism Hurts the Children It Claims to Protect — As Author Lillian Smith Understood 80 Years Ago

By Matthew Teutsch and Emma Williams

…passed across the nation to overhaul the education system and prevent the promotion of diversity, equity, and inclusion. A governor-appointed commission in Georgia voted to remove the words “diversity,” “equity,” “inclusion,” and even “social justice” from teaching standards, while Louisiana, Rep. Clay Higgins proposes that public libraries be replaced with church-owned alternatives claiming that libraries have become “liberal grooming centers.”…

Who Says the Tea Party is Not a Religious Movement?

By Joanna Brooks

…rmon-belt than they do from Professor Ruprecht’s vantage point in Atlanta, Georgia. To this religion scholar and contemporary cultural critic it seems pretty clear that: A) the Tea Party movement is not monolithic but rather deeply inflected with and informed by local and regional histories, concerns, rhetorics, and cultural nuances; and B) among its LDS supporters in the American West, the Tea Party bears features of a religious movement. Espec…

By His Wounds We Have Already Been Entertained: Tiger Woods, The Masters, and the Ritual of Celebrity Disgrace

By Dan Mathewson and Trina Jones

…eekend at its traditional site, the Augusta National Golf Club in Augusta, Georgia. The big news this year was that Tiger Woods, he of recent sex scandal fame, came out of his four-month-long, self-imposed exile to compete for one of golf’s most prized possessions, the green jacket awarded to the winner of the Masters. According to the Great Public Ritual of Celebrity Disgrace, this tournament represented Tiger’s first, tentative and chastened ste…

“Project Blitz” Seeks to Do for Christian Nationalism What ALEC Does for Big Business

By Frederick Clarkson

…al relations are properly reserved to such marriage.” Preserving Religious Freedom Act (a/k/a/ Religious Freedom Restoration Act or “State RFRA”): “This act is intended to ensure that this State applies at least the same level of religious liberty protections applied at the federal level in order to ensure that State and local governmental entities will not restrict a person’s free exercise rights more than the federal government.” The model bill…