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The World is (Always) About to End, No Zombies Required

By Kelly J. Murphy

…institutions across the United States, in literature courses and sociology classes and beyond. Scholars like Kim Paffenroth and Kelly Baker, among others, had already firmly established the relevance and importance of studying zombies and other monsters within the field of religious studies more broadly. Yet between the excellent work of CMU’s media team and the strange world of the internet where sometimes the AP picks up a story about a class be…

Beyond the Miniskirt-Wearing Nun: What Catholic Reform Looks Like

By Colleen McDannell

…it was about time that religious historians take seriously mobile, middle-class life in the suburbs, especially in the western United States. What’s the most important take-home message for readers? In spite of efforts to downplay the significance of the Second Vatican Council, for many American Catholics it provided the theological justifications to demand sophisticated religious education, to engage ritually in the sacraments, to be accepting o…

Evolution Challenged in ‘Textbook’ Case: As Goes Texas, So Goes the Nation

By Lauri Lebo

…standards that could very likely determine what your kid learns in biology class in the next decade. For more than a year, board members, led by McLeroy, a Young Earth Creationist, had been leading efforts to preserve wording in Texas’ science education standards that waters down the teaching of evolutionary theory: The student is expected to analyze, review, and critique scientific explanations, including hypotheses and theories, as to their stre…

Pastor David Brooks, Your Sermons Are Growing Stale…

By Peter Laarman

…ust one example, your recent column about disconnected “haphazard” working class men identifies a real problem; there is no doubt on that score. But you place religious practice and affiliation in the category of palliative resources for those being crushed by the new ruthless economy, whereas the religion usually referred to as prophetic—a form of religion we still regard as indispensable—sees faith as much more than a kind of backstop for those…

The Internet Is Not Killing Religion, Religion is Killing Religion

By Elizabeth Drescher

…nows that people like me—“Someone who has taken an introductory statistics class” (But, ha!, some of us had to take it twice! So there!)—“might insist that correlation does not imply causation.” My statistically muddled insistence be damned, however, because Downey doubles down by arguing that “correlation does provide evidence in favor of causation, especially when we can eliminate alternative explanations.” Like pipers, for instance. What is mis…

Was a Teacher Disciplined for Refusing to Apologize for Teaching Science?

By Lauri Lebo

…e on the story here. It’s difficult to tell exactly what took place in the classroom and whether Hensley overstepped her boundaries in a discussion of religion. Nonetheless, this all leads me to wonder, if a student argues in class that the bible is life’s literal blueprint, facts be damned, is it wrong for a teacher, in the course of teaching science, to correct the student’s misinformed worldview? Or, in the interest of not offending the child a…

Hookers for Jesus: Sex and Salvation on the Strip

By Nicole Greenfield

…ng Prostitution, Sex-Trafficking, Slavery Annie Lobért grew up in a middle class family on a tree-lined street in Minnesota. Her upbringing was strict, and she hated the rules that her mother and her father and the church imposed on her. “So naturally when I hit the age of a teenager,” she told Joy Behar in a television interview, “I just went wild.” Lobért did drugs and she slept around. She was insecure and felt unloved, so she started stripping…

In Oklahoma, Another Court Against Using Religion as Justification for Discrimination

By Sarah Posner

…ument as “impermissibly tied to moral disapproval of same-sex couples as a class of Oklahoma citizens. All of these perceived ‘threats’ are to one view of the marriage institution—a view that is bound up in procreation, one morally ‘ideal’ parenting model, and sexual fidelity.” The claim to be “preserving” the “traditional institution of marriage,” wrote Kern, is just a “kinder way” of expressing the state’s “moral disapproval” of same-sex couple…

By His Wounds We Have Already Been Entertained: Tiger Woods, The Masters, and the Ritual of Celebrity Disgrace

By Dan Mathewson and Trina Jones

…daries and exclusions had, at one time, been clearly delimited in terms of class, race, and sex. Tiger is male, so he posed no threat there. And he is clearly and indisputably good at golf, so has never been marginal in that sense. But Tiger is clearly not white. Before proceeding, let’s clarify precisely what and whom we’re talking about here. We understand that Tiger Woods is not the first non-white professional golfer in the history of the spor…

This Year’s Best Books in African American Religion

By Jonathan L. Walton

…many ways this book is both sequel and prequel to Anderson’s contemporary classic Beyond Ontological Blackness. It is a sequel in that Anderson constructs a principled path of moving beyond the flat interpretations of African American religious experience that have been regulated by antiquated notions of “the black church.” Rather, for Anderson, “creative exchange” can be realized in the ambiguous/grotesque moments where beloved community actuall…