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Robert Bellah’s Powerful Legacy: A Mixed Blessing for Religious Studies?

By Ivan Strenski

…“academic” or “scientific” study of religion need to confront the facts of student interest as represented in the case of Capps’ course. It is not enough to dig in our heels, soldier on, and ignore the facts of student interest. Capps clearly struck some kind of chord. What was it? Maybe, it was the wrong one? But, the desire, indeed, craving, for bringing moral (and religious) seriousness into the classroom must surely be a focus of our reflectio…

Latest “Religious Freedom” Bills Reveal a New Strategy

By Sunnivie Brydum

…s student groups at public universities and high schools to turn away LGBT students, ostensibly in the interest of permitting “students to voluntarily express religious or political viewpoints.” Kentucky’s new law is just the latest salvo in a growing trend that uses weaponized “religious freedom” legislation to target specific state functions or agencies, effectively gutting existing LGBT protections in those areas. South Dakota led the way, foll…

Talking Salsa with Douglas Hofstadter, Enigmatic Author of Gödel, Escher, Bach

By Eliot Raynor

…about your relationship with your written work. As I’m sure you know, many students take your courses because they’ve read your books. Well, it’s interesting; the other day some students mentioned this when I asked them why they took my course. They went around the table, and they were all saying, “oh I took this course because I heard of Douglas Hofstadter.” They didn’t all say that, but golly, 90% of them did. I mean, it’s flattering, but I don’…

The Gospel According to
Paul Ryan

By Daniel C. Maguire

…d have gotten a failing grade and a letter sent to his parents saying this student is not serious and is wasting your tuition money. Sadly, though, Ryan is serious. His mission is to further the corruption of conservatism. “Conservative” is not a dirty word. Dwight Eisenhower was a good conservative when he warned about the heist being pulled off on the American people by the “military-industrial” complex, a heist that is ongoing, and dripping…

As Culture War Rages, What’s the Status of LGBT Rights on Catholic Campuses?

By Jamie L. Manson

…staff of DePaul’s LGBTQ Center was declined, but the university’s Dean of Students, Art Munin, said via email, “The principal function of the office is to provide a safe place for students to meet and engage with each other and to provide educational opportunities for the campus.” DePaul is run by the Vincentians, a religious community founded by St. Vincent DePaul, who, according to the school’s mission statement, “instilled a love of God by lea…

Christian Punk Meets American Pop; Evangelicals in the ’Burbs

By Brittany Shoot

…too artist) and articles that tried to claim Jesus as the original punk. A student in Florida was suspended from school for distributing the zine, in part because the principal misunderstood what the art signified—he was afraid it was blasphemous. The 700 Club featured the suspended student because they felt his religious rights were violated by the school. This was one of the moments where political and cultural activism intersected. You remain q…

Galileo’s Issue Was Satire as Much as Science

By Arri Eisen

…some of this monk’s brethren had presided over it around 380 years ago. My student wanted to know what this 21st-century monk thought about the whole thing. Just this summer, Florence reopened its history of science museum in grand style. The irony of renaming the museum for Galileo given the whole history of Galileo and the Church is rich and thick as Roman summer heat. Some would say it’s more than ironic that for years it was only Galileo’s mid…

Is ‘Western Self-Hatred’ the Problem in the Gaza War Protest Movement?

By Shaul Magid

…Movements’ Next Phase on College Campuses.” The report traces a series of student groups in conversation over the next stage of the protest movement, which they say is largely about “a wider global malaise, the manifestation of capitalism, colonialism, and white supremacy they see embedded in Western society.” Is this all “anti-Western”? In a way—but not the way Persico thinks. And it’s focused on Israel, though certainly not predominately so. Th…

Power, The Presidency, and Social Change

By June O?Connor

…her at a liberal arts college in Chicago. Diane Allen, an African-American student energized by the Black Pride Movement, asked me to direct an independent study course on the writings of Dr. King. Feeling young, overworked, inexperienced, and ignorant, my first inclination was to say, “no, I’m sorry but I won’t have time,” or “I haven’t read his writings,” or “you waited too long to ask me; I’m fully booked for this semester.” Instead, I said, “l…

White Nationalist Ideology Shines Through at Elite MAGA Conference: Inside NatCon Part II

By Ben Lorber

…to leave NatCon III I marvel, once again, that a conference which cost non-students at least $300 to attend, held at a $400-per-night luxury resort hotel with a lavish pool and golf course in Miami, attended by many of the movers and shakers of conservative politics, could fashion itself as ‘anti-elite’ in any meaningful way. One college student I speak to on my way out, shares my incredulity. With his long hair and bohemian vibe, I rightly suspec…