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Identifying With God: Jay-Z’s Power to Profit

By Ebony Utley

…stands, and can be petitioned with any request—even for help in an illicit underground economy. Doing Wrong for all the Right Reasons Serving God and money is Jay-Z’s way of addressing the contradiction that comes from living in a neighborhood where there are a thousand ways of believing and little evidence that conditions are improving. Jay-Z lyrically balances the external forces of poverty and oppression with the adrenaline rush and capitalist…

Political Reporters Start Reading Religious Right Books

By Sarah Posner

…erica whose support the candidate should cultivate. Stanley, then the president of the SBC, “is said to be ‘intrigued’ by the [Pat] Robertson candidacy but ‘leaning to George Bush.’” Oh, yeah, that guy, Pat Robertson! Remember when he ran for president? Wead continued: Dr. Stanley is the key to building relationships with the seven or eight pastors of the largest SBC churches. Like Stanley, these pastors will probably endorse someone for president…

Beyond Alarmism and Denial in the Dominionism Debate

By Anthea Butler

…his conversation, but to get us going, what is the NAR, and how did Wagner come to found this movement? What is Wagner’s background? Is he a theologian? A missionary? An entrepreneur? Anthea Butler: Yes, I was a Master’s student at Fuller working the switchboard part-time, and the number one phone call that came through went something like this: “Can you connect me to C. Peter Wagner’s Church Growth Institute? I’d like to buy some materials.” No…

Religious Affiliation, ‘Mankind’: India’s Anti-Corruption Activist Leads Second Freedom Struggle

By April L. Bogle

…after our interview I joined Bedi and about 50 other people, mostly nonresident Indians who all have completed the 10-day Vipassana meditation course, at a private home for a one-hour silent “sit.” Afterwards, we gathered around Bedi to hear the now-famous story of how she had brought meditation practice to Tihar Jail, a facility of 10,000 people, including women and their children. Bedi was appointed Inspector General of Indian Prisons in 1993, a…

Are Religious Leaders Prepared to Engage “Religious Liberty” Questions Post-Hobby Lobby?

By Carolyn Davis

…titled to the ethical autonomy to elect from the full range of legal and recommended medical services afforded under the law. For the numerous religious leaders committed to the free exercise of religion in a pluralistic society, the ongoing consequences of the Hobby Lobby decision should be encountered as deeply distressing. And yet, the heavy burden of unpacking the implications of Hobby Lobby (and subsequent cases) has generally fallen to think…

At the UN, Conservative Christian Agenda Cloaked in Human Rights Language

By Austin Dacey

…ngs. But if you had listened carefully, everything would have started to sound a bit off. The text being read was in fact not the 1989 human rights treaty but instead “A Declaration on the Rights of Children and Their Families: A Call From the Children of the World.” The subject of the event was not as the protection of children as such but the “protection of the family,” and the non-governmental organization hosting it was called the UN Family Ri…

How Breivik’s “Cultural Analysis” is Drawn from the “Christian Worldview”

By Sarah Posner

…Islamic incursions as well: Now we, the West, find ourselves increasingly under siege, no longer the world’s master, merely one contender among many—one sinking down as others rise. . . The most immediate challenger is Islam, and here the challenge is not likely to be peaceful. Islam is today expanding outward in every direction from its traditional heartland: south into black Africa, east into Southeast Asia and the Philippines, north into Europ…

Jesus Hates Taxes: Biblical Capitalism Created Fertile Anti-Union Soil

By Peter Montgomery

…d [Family founder Abraham Vereide] to a meeting of congressmen who would become students of his spiritual politics, among them Virginia senator Absalom Willis Robertson—Pat Robertson’s father. Vereide returned the manufacturers’ favor by telling his new congressional followers that God wanted them to break the spine of organized labor. They did. One of the most striking examples of this theory reaching into the political realm is found in an early…

There is No Religious Freedom: A Lesson from a ‘Pastafarian’ Stunt

By Austin Dacey

…special protection—such as exception from generally applicable laws—while denying it to comparable secular commitments? In a recent exchange with William Galston in Dissent magazine, Colin Koproske and I survey various arguments for the specialness of religion. We are still looking for one that works. Beginning with a series of articles in the mid-1990s and culminating in Religious Freedom and the Constitution, Christopher Eisgruber and Lawrence…

Errol Morris’ Tabloid Sensationalizes Mormonism and ‘Cult’ Deprogramming

By David Mihalyfy

…od footage, and news clippings. Then and now, McKinney and her accomplices undeniably lived and enacted, at least in part, the cult deprogramming narrative. Ultimately, contextualization is an endless task, and a filmmaker must make difficult choices. In this case, however, if viewers don’t possess knowledge of cult deprogramming, the chain of events that lies at the heart of Tabloid becomes less explicable and McKinney’s actions are less justifia…