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Russian Zombies Follow in Pussy Riot Footsteps

By Joseph Laycock

…international phenomenon. Last November, nearly 10,000 people assembled in Mexico City to imitate the living dead, though Russia has attempted to suppress the spreading zombie phenomenon. Yakovlev received permission from the city to organize a “Zombie Parade” earlier this summer, but his permit was revoked. It is not entirely clear why the city decided to shut down the zombie parade, but it appears to have been in response to a coalition of relig…

“How the Mormons Make Money” Speaks Volumes About Romney

By Joanna Brooks

…trus, sod, timber, and cattle operations in the US, UK, Canada, Australia, Mexico, Argentina, and Brazil. As a religious organization, the LDS Church is exempt from paying taxes on leased real estate properties and donated stock holdings. The LDS Church gives an estimated $52 million annually in humanitarian relief, about .7% of its annual income. Bloomberg notes by comparison that the United Methodist Church gives about 29% of its annual income t…

Something So Broken: What’s Frightening About Beasts of the Southern Wild

By Michael Pasquier

…d ones trapped beneath the sea.” In many ways, Beasts is a thematic and stylistic extension of Glory at Sea, which takes place in a levee-less enclave called the Bathtub, where a girl named Hushpuppy (played by Wallis) lives with her neglectful but loving father Wink, played by New Orleans baker-turned-actor Dwight Henry. Father and daughter, together with other outcasts of the Bathtub, face the possibility of cataclysmic flooding and state-impose…

RDBook: Evangelical Christianity and Democracy in Africa

By Luke Ssemakula

…evangelicals have appeared to make some impact on democratization: Brazil, Mexico, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Chile, and Peru in Latin America; Nigeria, Kenya, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, and South Africa in Africa; and, China, India, Indonesia, South Korea, and the Philippines in Asia. Each study in the project addresses the extent to which evangelicalism, a religious movement based on biblical orthodoxy, has helped or hindered the inauguration and…

RDBook: Sex, Power, and the Future of the World: An Interview with Michelle Goldberg

By Mandy Van Deven

…vailing power arrangements. Partly as a result, conservative and fundamentalist forces accuse feminists of being American imperialists. In Nicaragua, Daniel Ortega’s Sandinista government cloaked its draconian abortion ban in anti-colonialist rhetoric—even though his policy mirrored that of the hated United States! At the same time, both American conservatives and representatives of the Vatican revel in posing as the staunch defenders of tradition…

Gordon Gekko Gets God: The Heritage Foundation of Theology

By Peter Laarman

…s Forbes’ conservative Christian publisher Rich Karlgaard who quipped that listening to a pastor preach on business is like listening to a eunuch lecture on sex: neither has hands-on experience. The failure of the logic is obvious but the next section is revealing for an author who once worked at the world’s foremost anti-evolution “think tank,” devoted to the replacement of universally-accepted science with Christian beliefs: No serious Christian…

Why Did the Pope Choose Cuba?

By Michelle Gonzalez Maldonado

…peaking Latin America, where the majority of Catholics live. The choice of Mexico, with the second-largest Catholic population globally, seems obvious. What isn’t obvious is the decision to visit this island nation where Catholicism has struggled for the past 50 years. The answer is found in the verb tense. The Church in Cuba is no longer struggling. The papal trip is getting significant coverage by the media because it’s Cuba, as opposed to, say,…

No to Church, Yes to Jesus?

By Elizabeth Drescher

…lian church talked warmly about annual youth group service trips to Haiti, Mexico, New Orleans, and other “areas in need.” He insisted that these trips had been incredibly important in his personal and spiritual development. But, he said, they were basically extracurricular activities. You went on these trips, and did a presentation at church one week, then that was it. It was just a thing they did for the youth to develop Christian values of char…

Global LGBT Recap:Culture War Exports, Mob Violence and Kidnapping as Weapon of Homophobia

By Peter Montgomery

…andan boyfriend faces more serious charges and has received death threats. Mexico: Church and Mayor Running Anti-Gay Billboard Campaign Gay Star News reports this week that a Christian church has teamed up with a mayor to launch an anti-gay billboard campaign in the state of Chiapas, opposing laws on abortion, gay marriage, and legalization of marijuana, which the billboards say violate God’s law. The billboards include a Bible verse that says the…

7 Women Scholars On the Gender Divide in Religious Studies, the Power of Mentors, and Leading While Female

By Rebecca Barrett-Fox

…nishing up an article about Santo Toribio, the patron saint of migrants in Mexico, and how his ascension in importance in the Mexican canon has rescaled the town he comes from. People don’t think about religion as a mechanism for urban restructuring and rescaling. They don’t realize that there is a global religious map with its own unique hot spots that differs from the global economic or political map. I am also really interested in where people…