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Vainglory Days: A Foremost Expert on Religious Violence Offers Clues to How QAnon Might End

By Mark Juergensmeyer

…o back to work the next day as if nothing had happened. And no one will be the wiser. But wherever its current adherents do end up, QAnon as a movement will not last. *** The essay was based on Mark Juergensmeyer’s forthcoming book When God Stops Fighting: How Religious Violence Ends published by the University of California Press. His most recent book is the related God at War: A Mediation on Religion and Warfare published by Oxford University Pr…

Lesbian Nuns: Still Immodest After All These Years

By Susan Henking

…ook but I was surprised at the extent and variety of contexts in which the book appeared. I expected the book might be read in history, religious studies, women’s studies, and sexuality studies courses. I did not expect that the book would have a wide readership outside of academic circles, so when it did, it was really gratifying. Among the most moving experiences I’ve had is meeting women in non-academic settings who mention the book and tell m…

2022 American Values Survey Offers Some Good News — And Some Bad

By Daniel Schultz

…to put to rest the noxious fiction that being to the Left of center killed American Christianity (a fiction historian David Hollinger challenges in his forthcoming book covered here on RD). But there’s more to the story. Again and again, what we see in the responses is a willingness on the part of White evangelicals to embrace whatever bogeyman the Republican party throws their way. It could be immigrants, transgender individuals, educators, propo…

Does NIH Head Francis Collins Believe in Intelligent Design?

By Eric Reitan

…as accomplishments. Of course, Bloom might challenge the idea that theism offers the best way to account for such a standard. Maybe it can be grounded in the practical demands of reason, as Kant argued. But whatever one thinks of the merits of the argument, two things are clear. First, it’s not a design argument. Second, it’s hard to see how scientific findings about our innate moral dispositions have any bearing on it. In fact, scientific eviden…

Leave It to Trump to Split a Catholic-Evangelical Bloc That’s Generations Old

By Neil J. Young

…ector of Catholics in Alliance for the Common Good, called the Trump-Pence ticket the “most anti-Catholic GOP presidential ticket in modern history” because of not only Trump’s many shortcomings but also Pence’s record of blocking the Catholic Church’s efforts to resettle Syrian refugees in Indiana. Trump’s poor standing with Catholic voters resembles his “Mormon problem,” as I have written about. Taken together, the Catholic and Mormon rejection…

The British (Bible) Invasion: KJV 400-Year Anniversary Rolls On

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…is the first to admit to all of the violence and mayhem unleashed by this Book of Books, after all. From America to Nigeria Bragg’s admiration for the United States runs deep; it is our cultural youthfulness that seems to attract him. Americans seem to symbolize the innocence of childhood, and the untutored spiritual aspiration of adolescence. And there are many places in which he seems to feel that the KJV, that supreme achievement of British sc…

Peter Beinart’s Controversial The Crisis of Zionism: Right Diagnosis, Wrong Treatment

By Shaul Magid

…he critics, it appears, care far less about Israel than they do about what American Jews think about Israel. If Beinart’s book were an indictment at all it was not of Israel, but of American Jewry. And the anger it evoked tells us more about what the fervent American Jewish pro-Israel critics really care about. Some years ago I presented an academic paper at an American Academy of Religion conference comparing Mordecai Kaplan, the founder of Jewis…

How to Choose a Tour Company for Your Hajj

By Amina Wadud

…pt (in 1981-2) because the total airfare was like 250 US dollars. I had my air ticket before I applied for a visa locally. In the end, the quota prevented me from going, despite the “reasons” given. We don’t have a quota in the United States. So when I first went online to get general information (earlier this year while still in Indonesia listening to my friends’ incredulity), none of the US companies even had their 2010 hajj packages online yet….

‘Anti-Romeo’ Vigilante Squads Target Men Suspected Of Being Gay; More in the Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…other things. “The state has gone too far by interfering on the private affairs of its citizens and making their personal matters a public affair. This will eventually lead to discrimination and injustice against vulnerable groups, including LGBT [lesbian,gay,bisexual,transgender] communities,” ICJR said on Friday. The Aceh Public Order Agency, or Wilatul Hisbah, arrested two male students suspected of being in a relationship, the paper reports. T…

Creationism and Evolution are Competing ‘Myths’

By Kelly E. Hayes

…events. AiG’s goal is to reverse this relationship in order to reconstruct American society along the lines that its members find more congenial. The tension between these two strategies produces some of the Creation Museum’s more baffling moments. In certain galleries, creationist assertions are presented as legitimate equivalents to scientific explanations of biological, geological, or cosmological phenomena. In others, the creationist worldview…