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Church and State in Japan: The Case of the Yasukuni Shrine

By Mark R. Mullins

…f aggression, he stopped making visits to the shrine from 1975 on. While many Japanese may be offended that a relative has become part of such a questionable pantheon, those who belong to the alternative associations of bereaved families are opposed to all that the Yasukuni Shrine stands for, particularly the glorification of so many tragic deaths and promotion of the view that Japan’s past wars were all about liberating Asia from Western colonial…

Mormonism’s Black Issues

By Joanna Brooks

…horities. African-American Mormons and their allies have also undertaken a number of unofficial efforts to raise consciousness about Black Mormon experience and concerns, like the well-received 2007 documentary Nobody Knows: The Untold Story of Black Mormons. (Experts estimate there are now about 1 million Mormons of African descent worldwide.) But without an official, explicit clarification of earlier teachings on race, many older Mormons continu…

Cruz and the Evangelical Illusion

By Sarah Posner

…“We brought them with no expectations and we were highly pleased with the number who decided Ted is the right man to be of the president of the U.S.” When judging these statements (particularly the words “very diverse,” “significant standing” and “the number”), keep in mind that Barton is known (among evangelicals) for playing fast and loose with facts. Three years ago, the evangelical publisher Thomas Nelson halted publication of one of Barton’s…

Who Bombed the Boston Marathon?

By Mark Juergensmeyer

…n. In my own studies of terrorism related to religion, I have found that many if not most of the perpetrators do not make any public statement following the act. Part of the reason, of course, is that they do not want to say anything that might help authorities locate them and bring them to justice. The manifesto of the Unabomber contained a sufficient number of clues to his identity that eventually someone—his own brother—recognized the familiar…

It’s Not About Cake: Anti-Gay Vendors Want a Constitutional Right to Discriminate

By Sunnivie Brydum

…vice-providers like bakeries and florists, dress-shops, hair salons, and “any number” of other businesses could claim that their services are in fact a form of constitutionally protected artistic practice. “The claim at issue here sounds as if the business can put up a sign in its window that says, ‘We sell cakes for heterosexuals only,’” Melling explained, taking ADF’s logic to its natural conclusion. “There’s an immediate consequence of that, an…

It’s Not Me, It’s You: Catholic Values Dumping Trump

By Patricia Miller

…… millions of White Catholics who had shifted to the GOP since 2009, for any number of reasons, are coming home for this election like prodigal sons and daughters of the Democratic Party. Or, as Tim Kaine put it in a conference call on Friday with Catholic leaders, “Realities do have to be looked at from a faith perspective and we can’t let bad behavior go unpunished.” The call was part of the Clinton campaign’s stepped-up Catholic outreach, and…

Dispelling the Zombie Myth of White Evangelical Support for Trump

By Robert P. Jones

…There I concluded: There is no evidence that higher church attendance has any mitigating effect on racist attitudes; if anything, the opposite is true…. For White evangelical Protestants, holding racist views is nearly four times as predictive of White evangelical Protestant identity among frequent church attenders as among infrequent church attenders (White Too Long, 176-177). Among White evangelicals, PRRI research confirms that frequent church…

Why Religious Exemptions Matter

By Sarah Posner

…ations, it clearly looks like the administration is trying to maximize the number of women who have coverage. Women who work for religious employers, such as universities and hospitals, that have a separate tax-exempt existence from a church, will have access to contraception coverage separately from their employer’s plan. But Catholics for Choice is raising a broader, long-term question: under what circumstances should religious exemptions be gra…

Gambian Prez Rails Against Gay ‘Evil Empire’; Irish Priest Comes Out During Mass; Trans Talk on Tunisian TV Sparks Debate; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…e attempts to divide us, that we stand together for the truth! There are many issues on which we may disagree; there are many issues of geopolitics that there may be differences of opinion in this room, but what we are united on is the fundamental truth that is at stake in this century, and that is the truth of the beauty and dignity of marriage and family. And I believe, instead of fear, or being depressed, or being negative, we need an optimism…

The End of Trust: YouTube, Lies and Videotape

By Trey Lyon

…ubling to me, and not for the same reasons as it may be to you. There are any number of fact-checking errors with this video — the sources are unviewable in detail, and when they are discernible, they refer to journals that have no scholarly backing. There is no German Office report suggesting they will become an “Islamic state by 2050”, only a few sociologists and cultural experts suggested that, not the “German Department of Statistics, but Deut…