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Ten Books to Read After You’ve Watched “Lemonade”

By Nyasha Junior

…nd leaders of lowcountry faith systems. Stephanie Y. Mitchem University of South Carolina African American Folk Healing Mitchem looks at historical and contemporary African-American folk healing practices. She links these alternative medicine practices alongside of “conjure” and “hoodoo” as forms of embodied spirituality. African American women have found ways to work around their marginalized status, including use of folk knowledge in the develop…

Will Mormon-on-Mormon, Hunstman v. Romney Primary Save the GOP from the Religious Right?

By Joanna Brooks

…, Jr., took his first serious public steps towards declaring candidacy, in South Carolina (as we predicted he would back in February here at RD). After spending the week filing paperwork to create a federal political action committee, Huntsman spoke last Saturday at the University of South Carolina’s commencement. On Sunday, he attended services not at his local LDS chapel but at the non-denominational Seacoast megachurch in suburban Charleston. (…

Crisis Pregnancy Centers and Obama’s Faith-Based Initiative

By Sarah Posner

…ion. Goldberg argued that because of the religious nature of CPCs, the new South Dakota law violates church-state separation; Amanda Marcotte similarly made the point that “by passing this legislation, South Dakota has managed to forefront the theocratic bent of the anti-choice movement.” More detail on CPCs can be found in RD contributor Kathryn Joyce’s expose of CPCs in Ms. last year detailing ties to anti-abortion extremists, and RH Reality Che…

The Tragedy of Religious Freedom

By Patrick Hornbeck

…nsuccessful. Although it’s an imperfect analogy, consider the claim of the Southern restauranteur who in the 1960s denied service to African Americans on the ground that his religion mandated the separation of the races. (A unanimous Supreme Court called the restauranteur’s defense “patently frivolous.”) Today, there is a similar but not identical logic in some of the controversies on which I have previously reported, especially those of the baker…

Alienating Even the Sadistic Trumpian Right, How Did Kristi Noem Miscalculate So Badly With Her Puppy Killing Story?

By Annika Brockschmidt

…ing about.” Neither did his fellow Republicans, Marty Jackley (the current South Dakota Attorney General, who lost to Noem in the 2018 GOP gubernatorial primary) and Chris Nelson (who ran against her in the 2010 GOP House primary contest). The sentiment was echoed by Noem’s former Democratic opponents. Only Reynold Nesiba, a Democrat in the South Dakota Senate, told CNN “This is a rumor that’s been around for years about her acting in anger to put…

The Rundown Truth: Scientology Changes Strategy in War with Media

By Hugh B. Urban

…ogy and its history of “fair game,” the church did virtually nothing after South Park aired a viciously satirical episode in 2005. The episode not only ridiculed Hubbard and his celebrity followers such as Tom Cruise but, amazingly, also revealed the most highly confidential level of the church’s advanced technology known as “OT III,” which contains the secret history of the cosmos and the origin of human suffering. The fact that Scientology left …

Trump’s Muslim Ban and the History of Stolen Citizenship in America

By Hussein Rashid and Murali Balaji

…am have existed in this country since the 1600s, coming over with enslaved Africans, while Hinduism and Sikhism have been present here since the 1800s. Moreover, lest we forget, the entire Southwest was once part of Mexico. By idealizing a heteronormative white Christian state, Trump is embracing a view of America that never existed, and is assuring a large swath of the country that it can avoid diversity and demographic change. In doing so, he is…

Global Warming Denialists the New Creationists?

By Lauri Lebo

…ns. (Hat tip to Ed Brayton at Dispatches from the Culture Wars.): Wow! The South Dakota legislature has declared, by majority vote, that the ancient pseudoscience of astrology “can effect world weather”! Astrology, of course, is a superstitious belief that the movements of stars and planets can affect our daily lives here on Earth, a belief that has no basis in science. Some people—including, apparently, the South Dakota legislature—still take it…

With Methodist LGBTQ Vote and GOP Support for Trump, White Protestantism Has Hit Bottom

By Peter Laarman

…t 56% and 53% respectively. White liberals can and and do blame the Global South churches for this outcome, although progressives of color correctly point to the legacy of colonialism at work in the resistance of Global South Christians to LGBTQ+ acceptance. But all of the progressives ought to be able to see where the critical swing votes came from. There’s a hardcore Good Ol’ Boy cohort within the American church: powerful congregations, pastors…

Unbuckling the Bible Belt: “Nashville” and the Nones

By Carrie Allen Tipton

…oduct forms both existential center and moral compass, the show brings the South into conformity with the shifting demographics of the rest of the country. In a throwback to 19th century German Romanticism, “Nashville” gives us southern-fried humanism bound up with the ultimate transcendent value in country music—authenticity. Imparting an ethical framework, a raison d’ètre, a redemptive impulse, sacred spaces, prophetic voices, and the possibilit…