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No, CNN, Saudi Arabia and Iran Have Not Been Fighting For “1,000 Years”

By Haroon Moghul

…away with by the Sunni Ottoman Caliphate, not Iran. Meanwhile, the Islamic Republic of Iran dates to and marks its independence on April 1, 1979. Iran is, of course, an ancient civilization, but up until the 1500s, Iran was a majority-Sunni country, until the Safavid dynasty, originating in the Caucasus, forcibly converted Iran to Twelver Shi’a Islam. How this paragraph passed muster is not beyond me, though. We’ve a tendency to prefer lazy stereo…

Trump Smashing Religious Right Formula to Bits

By Sarah Posner

…egaphone to call for banning Muslims from the United States. Yesterday, in promoting his plan to ban Muslims, Trump cited a dubious poll conducted for the “very highly respected” Center for Security Policy in support of his proposal. While the Center for Security Policy and its president, Frank Gaffney, indeed are respected and promoted in certain circles, in 2011 Gaffney was banished from the Conservative Political Action Conference because Ameri…

Mao, Meet Confucius: China’s Religious Revolution

By Kwok Pui-lan

…religious sphere to allow for greater social participation and cultural renewal. He said the government should be tolerant of different forms of existence of religion in China: traditional religions, new religious movements, and the hybrid movements in between. Religion and State Power Other scholars argue that religion is not a reactionary force, but is beneficial to China’s rise to power. Several months before the 60th anniversary of the found…

How Hell Has Shaped America

By Kathryn Gin Lum

…at of hell was necessary to compel the orderly behavior of citizens in the new, monarchless republic. And they worried that the damnable sins of its individuals would spell the downfall of the nation itself. To put it simply: hell was not antithetical to, but rather part and parcel of, the modern nation-building project in the US. Did you have a specific audience in mind when writing? I wanted to reach both a scholarly and a general audience, so I…

Claiming That ‘We Birthed a Nation From Nothing’ CNN’s Rick Santorum Gives a Master Class in Christian Nationalism: An Open Letter to CNN

By Andrew L. Seidel

…representative of the principles on which America was founded, especially New Amsterdam, which would become New York City. And when our founders looked back at the Pilgrims and Puritans, they saw theocracies and persecution. The popular myth regurgitated by Santorum, your senior political commentator, claims those theocracies as forerunners of the American Experiment when really, the founders viewed them as examples of what to avoid. The myth als…

The Hollowness of the Southern Baptists’ New Racism and Sexual Abuse Amendments

By Miguel A. De La Torre

…and sexist largely in their favor and were designed at the founding of the Republic to afford them with unearned power. Absent from their declaration is any commitment to participate in the tedious task of using their white cisgendered privilege to dismantle these same social structures. Racial discrimination is more than a bias disposition; it’s more than simply calling me a “spic.” Racial discrimination also includes the political pronouncements…

The Key to Understanding the Federalist Society Isn’t Originalism — It’s This 800-Year Old Tradition

By Peter Schwartz

…much when he half-facetiously wrote the following, in response to my 2021 New Republic article on originalism and natural law: [Schwartz] singles out First Things (“the most intellectually serious and influential journal of the religious right”) as particularly nefarious, leading the way toward (this will shock readers) a politics informed by natural law. I’m happy to endorse his warnings to those on the left. Despite this frank acknowledgement b…

Is This Tiny Divided Orthodox Nation the Next Front in Russia’s Religious War?

By Katherine Kelaidis

…hop is. Just a year later, however, a group of clergymen, unhappy with the new metropolis—and, seemingly, its metropolitan—asked to join the Romanian Orthodox Church. This request was granted by the Patriarch of Romania, who established the Metropolis of Bessarabia. The Moldovan government initially resisted recognizing the new metropolis, but was forced to by the European Court of Human Rights following a lengthy legal battle. Today, the Russian-…

Newt Gingrich’s Hero, a Religion-Crushing Dictator

By Haroon Moghul

…religion, and American identity isn’t too far off the mark. Just now, The New Yorker‘s Connie Bruck posted a brief comment on Gingrich the man, as he sees himself: Gingrich has seen himself in messianic terms for much of his adult life; one of his models has been Kemal Ataturk, the founder and first President of the Republic of Turkey, who assumed dictatorial powers to mold the country as he saw fit. Gingrich, who is afraid a secular dictatorshi…

The 50 Shades of Evangelicalism

By Jonathan D. Fitzgerald

…he Ambiguity Back in March and again in April, Timothy Noah writing in the New Republic, observed how the mainstream media, and particularly the New York Times, misuse the word “Christian,” using it as a synonym for “Christian Right” or “Christian conservative.” Seventy-eight percent of the American population, he points out, identify as Christians, though far fewer fit into those sub-categories. Roughly one-third of that 78% call themselves evang…