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The Role of American Religious Activists in Uganda Anti-Gay Violence

By Sarah Posner

…re warning has come to pass. As Candace noted, this all has happened while American evangelicals either actively promoted homophobia, downplayed the urgency of the situation, or engaged in dishonest doublespeak after bolstering Uganda’s AHB supporters. As has been extensively documented by Political Research Associates, and as Lou Engle’s visit to Uganda last year made clear, American religious right figures played an important role in fanning the…

Bachmann’s Law School Mentor Asserts Biblical Roots of American Political System

By Julie Ingersoll

…biblical roots (Calvinist, actually) of the American political system and American Law. At the American Vision conference, he presented a belabored discussion of what a church can and cannot do within the guidelines of the IRS rules. He cited the part of the code that prohibits influencing legislation and labeled it “legalese,” before a lengthy parsing of what counts as legislation and then what counts as influencing— none of which substantially…

The King of Irony

By Laury Silvers

…ng brought into America by people from backwards countries threatening our American way of life. As Americans of mixed heritage, we grew up hearing stories about how our Jewish grandparents faced similar prejudice in the early 20th century and how our Irish ancestors faced more of the same when they arrived in the mid-19th century. Chinese workers faced even harsher legal restrictions with the Chinese Exclusion Act and Japanese-Americans were inte…

Mormon-Born Daya Mata Typifies American Yoga

By Andrea R. Jain

…ed States—there is no mention of devotion, unless it is to beauty, fitness, or well-being. But Daya Mata’s death reminds us that yoga has taken a variety of forms in the United States. Like the history of yoga in South Asia, American yoga has no single essence or form. It has meant a variety of things to American practitioners for a long time. Indeed, it’s in and through these countless varieties that yoga has become as American as Elvis himself….

Denying Darwin: Another Peculiar American Institution

By Lauri Lebo

…. When the traffic finally cleared, I noticed flying side by side were the American and the Confederate flags. Greatest Idea Evah Darwin revealed so much of who we are, even though about half of Americans refuse to accept those roots. He has been demonized by religious fundamentalists, who absurdly have attempted to link him to eugenics and Hitler. In addition to the damage they have inflicted on young minds, I find their notions doubly sad for th…

British Culture Wars: An American Import, By Way Of Globalized Theopolitics

By Sarah Posner

…atter of necessity because some of the signatories, no doubt influenced by American evangelicalism brought to Africa and elsewhere, are themselves immigrants to Britain, or at least pastor a community of immigrants.) But like the Manhattan Declaration, the orientation of the Westminster Declaration is framed around the persecution of Christians by (in the case of the Manhattan Declaration) secular society and (in the case of the Westminster Declar…

Islam in Conflict with Democracy? A Response to Stanley Fish

By David True

…conducted peacefully, openly, and with the intent of making our democracy stronger. Our constitutional democracy is not only capable of respecting conscience but of welcoming it into an ongoing conversation about what it means to be an American. American Muslims are just that, American and Muslim, and as both they are well positioned—perhaps uniquely so—to make significant contributions to our democratic society and to the global debate about the…

What American Flag-Worship Looks Like to a New Citizen

By Rosalind C. Hughes

…me. In high school, where he and his friends were among the first African Americans to integrate a previously all-white school, the Pledge was recited before football games; then the National Anthem was sung and the band played Dixie. Will and his friends petitioned the administration to tone down the southern jingoism, but were ignored. It was around that time that he became aware that the same flag that he had grown up saluting featured promine…

The Women’s March, Anti-Semitism, and ‘The Jewish Farrakhan’

By Shaul Magid

…ave not treated them, related to them, or engaged with them as they expect American Muslims and African Americans to now treat Farrakhan. I think the best example of a “Jewish” Farrakhan is Rabbi Meir Kahane. It is said, in fact, that Kahane was once asked in a radio interview in the 1970s, “What is the difference between you and Farrakhan?” To which Kahane allegedly replied, “The only difference between us is that I am right!” A militant American…

Selling the Idea of a Christian Nation: David Barton’s Alternate Intellectual Universe

By Paul Harvey

…egun reinterpreting America’s founding and expansion as God’s plan for his American nation. Mason Locke Weems, the self-styled “Parson” Weems, constructed his own quasi-WallBuilders outfit in the early nineteenth century. As Rebecca Goetz, a historian at Rice University, has written, Weems had a habit of recreating the colonial and revolutionary American world for his readers, and he did it, I think, to show readers a lost world of religiosity and…