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Martyrdom, Racist Violence, and the Role of Art: Kara Walker’s Religious Turn

By Spencer Dew

…g into the hull of slave ship), and tributes to movements such as the 1968 Republic of New Afrika that sought a separate black state within American territory as well as John Africa’s MOVE community (largely destroyed in 1985 with a militarized police action in Philadelphia that destroyed 65 homes). Kara Walker’s work has always spoken the language of urgency—a visceral, force coupled with conceptual strands that the viewer must slowly unravel and…

The Antichrist Trap: Trump Isn’t the Whole Story

By Peter Laarman

…stallizes a certain way of thinking about a path forward for this troubled republic. Leonhardt is certainly not alone in taking this line; he merely drives it home more forcefully than others. The gist is that Donald J. Trump embodies everything that’s threatening to this essentially good and benign nation. According to this view, expelling the 45th president—driving him from office by any means necessary—opens the way to our national salvation. T…

On Zion’s Mount

By Jared Farmer

…f pilgrimage sites that stretch from Joseph Smith’s family farm in upstate New York, to Nauvoo, Illinois (something like a Mormon version of Williamsburg, Virginia), to Martin’s Cove, Wyoming, the site of a terrible handcart disaster in 1856 that has been converted into a faith-promoting heritage site. These and other hallowed places allow Utah Mormons to commemorate the “pioneer trek” to the Great Basin. The sacred narrative of getting to Utah is…

Painting of Jesus holding the US Constitution surrounded by Americans throughout its history.

Columbus Day Celebrates a Christian Doctrine That Authorized Centuries of Violence — and Continues to Threaten American Democracy

By Robert P. Jones

…recipitated by Columbus’s return from his first voyage to the Americas), a new theology crystalized for the New World. While the theological constructions of the Doctrine of Discovery were complex, their logic was straightforward. The principal question for determining whether any newly discovered peoples had human rights Europeans were bound to respect was this: “Are they Christian?” If the answer was negative, Indigenous people were categorized…

Captain America: Civil Religion (And Why Donald Trump Thinks He’s Batman)

By Jeremy Biles

…gent of empire, has comic-book counterparts. According to Jeet Heer at the New Republic, Trump is not only a political pop-culture figure, but one modeled specifically on superheroes and comic-strip/book characters like the moneyed weapons manufacturers Daddy Warbucks (caretaker of little orphan Annie) and Tony Stark (Iron Man), as well as the billionaire vigilante Bruce Wayne (Batman). (Trump once remarked, “Yes, I am Batman.”) “Donald Trump is a…

Meddling Bishops Accuse Clinton of Meddling

By Patricia Miller

…ir beliefs and proper self-governance. In the email exchange between Sandy Newman of Voices for Progress and Clinton campaign manager John Podesta, Newman references the Catholic hierarchy’s opposition to the contraceptive mandate in the Affordable Care Act despite the fact that 98% of Catholic women have used birth control and muses about the need for a “Catholic spring”: There needs to be a Catholic Spring, in which Catholics themselves demand t…

The Politics of Anti-Gay Persecution: Gambia, Egypt, Jamaica, Russia, with a Helping Hand from US Religious Conservatives; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…f a memorandum from President Obama charging US foreign policy agencies to promote LGBT rights said that US efforts have been important to activists promoting equality and facing persecution around the world. Read the Washington Blade’s report here. On Wednesday, the Daily Beast hosted an event called Quorum: Global LGBT Voices that featured interviews with more than 25 activists from around the world to talk about “what is happening on the front…

Chris Caldwell Sees Muslim Bogeymen. Again.

By Bruce B. Lawrence

…ke Leiken he too has spent much of the past decade thinking about Europe’s newest and growing minorities, though instead of framing his argument as “Europe’s Angry Muslims,” his new book is titled The Emancipation of Europe’s Muslims: The State’s Role in Minority Integration (Princeton University Press, 2012). Laurence traces what Caldwell denies ever could, or might already, exist: the largely unnoticed ways in which European governments have int…

Conservative Christianity and Its Discontents

By Karl Giberson and Randall J. Stephens

…, too. Populist historians within evangelicalism, like the prominent Texas Republican, David Barton, promote the idea that America is slouching toward Gomorrah. America is God’s chosen republic, Barton asserts: the nation has been an explicitly Christian country from its earliest days and needs to reverse its sinful migration away from its biblical roots. Professional historians, by contrast (including leading evangelicals like Mark Noll, Nathan H…

Forget “Nasty,” Trump’s Got a “Disgusting” Problem

By Karen E. Park

…tical implications has not gone unnoticed, with the New York Times and the New Republic (among others) having previously written about it. Disgust is both an emotional and visceral response to something that we fear will contaminate us. Rancid food, a decaying corpse, an infected wound—all these call up feelings of disgust in human beings, as do body fluids like blood, semen, saliva, and breast milk. We are disgusted when what’s inside the body co…