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Atheists Ignore Islamophobia at their Peril

By Chris Stedman

…strategic opportunity to highlight the parallels between their own experiences and those of other disenfranchised religious minorities—they’re opting out of an opportunity to do what is right, to take the moral high road, and to demonstrate what we keep telling the rest of the world: that atheists can be “good without God.” There’s been a great deal of discussion in the atheist movement recently about social justice focused on anti-atheist bias,…

Why Religious Exemptions Matter

By Sarah Posner

…and Drug Administration.) Other organizations raising similar objections include Concerned Women for American, Americans United for Life, and the American Center for Law and Justice. As to private employers, the proposed rule takes note of the fact that private employers are not entitled to religious exemptions under other federal laws, such as Title VII, prohibiting discrimination in employment. Based on that precedent, the administration declin…

Speaking for Hinduism in the Absence of a Conversation

By Murali Balaji

…act her interpretations diverge from lay historical accounts, lived experiences (including of the Dalits and women she claims to speak for), and years of scholarship. It would be akin to the American Academy of Sciences giving equal credence to Ken Ham’s theory doubting global warming as it would the decades of research proving the reality of global warming and climate change. Jerryson broadens his critique of HAF’s stance to assert that the study…

Forced Cremation of Covid Dead in Sri Lanka Further Marginalizes Muslim Community

By Andrea Malji and Amarnath Amarasingam

…well. And after the April 2019 Easter terrorist attacks, anti-Muslim violence once again erupted on the island. With the rise of the pandemic, misinformation about coronavirus has been seamlessly incorporated into existing prejudice against Muslims. The government’s policy of forced cremation during the pandemic will only serve to further marginalize Muslims and create further fractures within the community paving the way for future communal conf…

Breivik’s Religious Pluralist Vision: A COEXIST Bumper Sticker Without the Crescent

By Michael J. Altman

…lobal Islamic Ummah.” While Breivik wants to ban race-mixing and limit the number of non-Europeans in his future Europe, he is quite happy to offer assistance “to our Buddhist and Hindu brothers if they request our help against Jihadi attacks or campaigns.” In the end, as long as everyone stays within their own ethno-religious territory, all is well. Fences make good neighbors in the wake of the clash of civilizations. Breivik hoped conservatives…

Record Numbers Voted for More Death and More Racism; Can We Really Just Come Together as a Nation?

By Peter Laarman

…; communities whose members can’t work from home, whose kids can’t do distance learning, and who increasingly suffer hunger and homelessness as the pandemic raged on. A fair summary of the Trumpians’ ethics during the time of Covid 19: Better them than us. We owe them nothing. Fast forward to this very day. All of the statewide election results may not be in, but the big election result—the mind-boggling result—is already plain. This election find…

Pro-Choice, Pro-Life, and Pro-Home Birth

By Katherine Don

…ssisted birth or a hospital birth. To complicate the issue even further, since insurance coverage is another factor that dictates what type of birth a woman has access to, “choice” also refers to insurance reform issues, in addition to the right to informed consent over procedures such as episiotomy, cesarean section, and induced labor. But when the language of choice extends to the pregnancy spectrum, pro-life and pro-choice individuals within…

5 Reasons You Shouldn’t Overthink the New Pew Data’s Impact on Politics

By Sarah Posner

…ut still around a quarter of the U.S. adult population). But their overall numbers are up because they have experienced net gains from religious switching. Here “evangelical” includes the Southern Baptist Convention, the Assemblies of God, Churches of Christ, the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod, the Presbyterian Church in America, and “0ther evangelical denominations and many nondenominational congregations.” Sixty-two million Americans fall into t…

Republicans “Evangelizing” Catholic Voters

By Patricia Miller

…fficking. As I note in Salon: According to Pew, between 2009 and 2014, the number of white Catholics who said the Obama administration — and by inference the Democratic Party — was “unfriendly to religion” more than doubled from 17 percent to 36 percent. This suggests that the war on religion is resonating with Catholic voters who increasingly see themselves on the losing side of a culture war and feel the need to assert their religious identity i…

Before Black Twitter: How the Early Black Press Shaped American Discourse Around Race and Religion

By Benjamin P. Fagan

…readth, but it means that there are lots of papers that I didn’t have a chance to include. I would have really liked to spend some time with Frederick Douglass’ Paper, or the Christian Recorder, but happily Eric Gardner has recently published an excellent book on the latter paper. At one point I also considered taking the book into the second half of the nineteenth century, since black newspapers appeared throughout the South immediately after the…