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Global Precap: 5 Religion and LGBT Stories to Look For in 2015

By Peter Montgomery

…ily, Religion and Society. Also organizing the Salt Lake City event is the Utah-based Sutherland Institute, whose president Paul Mero has argued that a free society cannot endure if it tolerates “bad behavior.” Being in the U.S., and in the global home of the Mormon Church, is likely to bring added attention to this year’s summit, which will push the religious right’s claims that LGBT equality and religious liberty cannot co-exist. The World Congr…

Conservative Bishops Headed For Synod Victory?; Indonesian Sharia Official Says Gay Caning Law Meant To ‘Safeguard Human Dignity’; Slovenian Court OK’s Referendum on Marriage Equality Law; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…r counterparts from around the world, gathers next week in Salt Lake City, Utah, the first time one of its annual summits has been held in the U.S. WCF officials have responded to sharp criticism about the anti-gay work carried out by its partners and participants by declaring themselves committed to respect and civil dialogue. That claim does not stand up to the clear record of WCF partners, allies, and speakers, many of whom have praised and def…

Denying Darwin: Another Peculiar American Institution

By Lauri Lebo

…battles over religion and science. Fundamentalist Fervor According to Ron Numbers, in his book The Creationists: From Scientific Creationism to Intelligent Design, the rise of Christian fundamentalism in America didn’t really start in earnest until the early 1900s. For the most part, Christians were not biblical literalists and accepted science—including the ideas that the earth was very old and that living creatures changed through time. A typic…

Why the King Hearings Should Matter to Mormons

By Joanna Brooks

…ing LDS Church official, was elected to serve as Senator from the state of Utah. Government leaders, politicians, Protestant churches, and business leaders petitioned Congress that Smoot was unfit to serve because of his affiliation with Mormonism and its outlaw practice of polygamy. What followed was a four-year show political show trial involving more than 100 witnesses that put every dimension of Mormon life under national scrutiny. But there a…

Immigration Issue Divides Arizona Mormons

By Joanna Brooks

…ities. And there are just about as many Mormons who live in Mexico and Central America as there are in the state of Utah….

Barbara Ehrenreich’s Bright-Sided Explores the Dark Side of Positive Thinking

By Michelle Goldberg

…m of self-enforced mind control. In 2007, she points out, an employee at a Utah-based company called Prosper Inc., which specializes in corporate motivation, was waterboarded as part of a business exercise—his colleagues were urged to fight for sales as hard as he’d fought for air. Rather than offering a refuge from the acquisitive creed of positive thinking, much of the evangelical world has embraced it, though not as egregiously as pentecostals…

From Murderous to ‘MORG’: Mormonism Meets the Press

By Joanna Brooks

…act of the 1857 Mountain Meadows Massacre—an attack by Mormons in southern Utah on a wagon-train from Arkansas—on the 2012 campaign. This split between Mormons imagined as murderous bearded polygamists and clean-cut company men reflects a larger division in coverage of Mormonism this season between the sensational and the sanitized. And it’s no wonder that political journalists and religion scholars alike are expressing hunger for something more….

Mormon-Born Daya Mata Typifies American Yoga

By Andrea R. Jain

…iritual leader was no longer an Indian guru but a former Mormon woman from Utah. Mother of Compassion Daya Mata came to occupy the leadership position after years of devotion to Yogananda as her guru. A member of a prestigious Mormon family in Salt Lake City, she was seventeen when she first heard Yogananda speak, and she knew immediately that she wanted to follow him as her spiritual guide. She moved to Los Angeles and joined his Self-Realization…

Mormon Rejection of Trump Provides Insight into Muslim Extremism

By Haroon Moghul

McKay Coppins has a neat article on Buzzfeed about why so many Utahn (and Idahoan) Mormons seem to be so immune to Donald Trump? (Consider this to be my indirect and strong endorsement of The Wilderness: Deep Inside the Republican Party’s Combative, Contentious, Chaotic Quest to Take Back the White House, Coppins’ fantastic exploration of the Republican race to 2016.) And while not all Mormons are political conservatives, many if not most of them…

‘Murder Among the Mormons’ Episode 3 Recap: What is Genuine?

By Benjamin E. Park

…l and cultural context, it does at least raise issues that transcend 1980s Utah. Mormonism is often characterized as the “American Religion,” with good reason. The denomination finally gained a place in the cultural mainstream by championing ‘wholesome’ values at the heart of conservative society. The Mark Hofmann saga, though, demonstrates that the tradition can at times embody some of the more regrettable aspects of the nation’s religious cultur…