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Obsession with Attackers’ Backgrounds Misses the Point of Terrorism

By Ali Olomi

…irst theaters for jihadis, there wasn’t a single suicide bombing. Both the United States’ and Pakistan’s intelligence services sought to bring the tactic to the mujahideen through texts and training, yet it wasn’t an easy sell. Hezbollah, who early on adopted suicide bombings, eventually abandoned the tactic for more traditional paramilitary methods. The reason jihadist groups imported terrorism from their nationalist counterparts was that they sh…

A Devil’s Dozen of the Best ‘New Religion Journalism’ Books of the Decade

By Ed Simon

…au Little, Brown and Company 2015 One Nation, Under Gods: A New History by Peter Manseau (2015) – By far the most academic book on this list, Peter Manseau’s One Nation, Under Gods is a prime example of not just the ways, but indeed the requirement, that scholarship works best when it breaks out of the ivory tower and engages more of a public audience. Currently the Lilly Endowment Curator of American Religious History at the Smithsonian Museum of…

The Shared Assumption Behind Creationism and Anti-GMO in Europe

By Michael Schulson

…n whatever elements they can use within their own cultural context. In the United States, it’s very important to creationists that one can give at least the impression of [creationism] being a science. So you have the development of scientific creationism, intelligent design, under the pressure of the First Amendment. But you don’t have something like that in England. English creationists are much less worried about making sure that their beliefs…

We’ve Finally Begun to Confront White Christian Nationalism; But What About Its Source Text?

By Dianne M. Stewart

…undated America’s TV screens. At the time Wright was the pastor of Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago, where the Obamas held membership, and many Americans were appalled at his excoriating remarks about the United States’ racist, nativist and imperialist acts against African, Asian and Indigenous peoples domestically and internationally. The optics were bad, but America’s perception was based on short cherry-picked video clips from two of…

United By Hate for Proposition 8

By Jonathan L. Walton

As we close in on the November 4th general election, much attention has been paid to the possibility of a “Bradley Effect.” Named for former Los Angeles Mayor Tom Bradley who lost his 1982 gubernatorial bid despite having a lead in the polls, today some still wonder if racial fears will trump public professions when voters step inside voting booths on Tuesday. Yet in California, several conservative groups are counting on what political scientist…

Religion in Tension on World AIDS Day

By Susan Henking

…movement challenged the Catholic Church’s role in AIDS/HIV politics in the United States; in doing so, they challenged, as well, who “owned” the Church. As one organizer argues in the film (and here I paraphrase): “They are not the Church. We are the Church.” While a single example, this statement reminds us, today, on World AIDS Day 2008, that throughout its history, AIDS/HIV has been entangled with religion—for good and ill. As we move into the…

Muslims in America, Fifty Years Later: New Poll Shows Pride and Optimism In the Face of Bias

By Edward E. Curtis IV

…xing crown. In 2017, even though no Muslim American critic of U.S. foreign policy has the international stature of Muhammad Ali, the very presence of Muslims in the United States is seen by many to be a national security threat. The 2017 Pew poll paints a picture of unprecedented anti-Muslim discrimination, hate crimes, and bias in the country. As in 1967, today’s F.B.I.—whether overseen by Democrats or Republicans—actively engages in counter-inte…

Gun-Wielding White Couple Make Perfect Protagonists for Republican Convention’s ‘Great American Story’

By Andrew Whitehead and Samuel Perry

…In our new book, Taking America Back for God: Christian Nationalism in the United States, we show that Christian nationalism was one of the strongest predictors of support for Trump in 2016, and continues to be for the political wedge issues he routinely highlights. Trump and his supporters have repeatedly emphasized the dangers Christian Americans supposedly face if he’s not reelected. For Trump followers, Christianity is fundamental to telling t…

Latina in America: What CNN Got Wrong

By Michelle Gonzalez Maldonado

…ltered regarding the rampant racism and prejudice against Latino/as in the United States. But after watching the CNN documentary I am overwhelmed with the urge to never leave Miami, because clearly the majority the United States clearly hates Latino/as. In addition, I finished the documentary thoroughly depressed. Is this really who we are? NO! I want to scream. Latino/as in religion, or more accurately, Christianity, were discussed the first even…

America, Religious Values, and the Death Penalty; Or, If it Was Good Enough for Jesus and Socrates…

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…ve injustice. Evolving Standards of Decency Over the past forty years, the United States Supreme Court has returned repeatedly to that dilemma as it tries to hammer out a view of the death penalty that will fit within our Constitutional system; as well as addressing what it famously referred to as “evolving standards of decency that mark progress of a maturing society.” That phrase appeared in the first major death penalty case to be heard in resp…