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Seeing What They Wanna See: Religion Surveys Reflect Surveyors

By Nathan Schneider

…,461 compared to 1,721—and it has been conducted over almost two decades, while Baylor’s first numbers come from 2006. Because researchers will inevitably craft their survey according to their own interests and assumptions, the ARIS doesn’t give respondents a list of religious identities to choose from. Instead it asks, simply, “What is your religion, if any?” and categorizes the results after the fact. “What we get is true, democratic vox populi,…

The Sacred and the Dead: Ten Writers on the End of an American Adventure

By The Editors

…RD editor Cathleen Falsani has collected a set of reminiscences—intimate, philosophical, devotional—that engage this question. Deadhead or civilian, believer or skeptic, we hope you’ll join us as we mark the conclusion of this singular American pilgrimage. ________ #1 : It’s (Not) Just a Box of Rain by Cathleen Falsani Inside the sound, swaying and dancing and spinning with abandon, many of the Dead’s fans discovered something more transcendent th…

Forgiveness

By Amina Wadud

…a sin or a wrong doing and Allah. He then elaborated the best way to make this dhikr: one hundred repetitions; and the best times to make it: after fajr prayer before sunrise, and after ‘asr or the afternoon prayer. I’m not a diehard about all these details, except to say that the 100 repetitions are pretty standard. The specific times are a plus, I guess. I am just not capable of being that literal. But then again I guess that’s okay too, because…

Trump, Islamophobia, and the Philly Pig’s Head Incident

By David Krueger

…rbidden in Islam and this is rightly understood as an act of desecration. Philadelphia police are investigating both incidents. The year 2015 has seen a shocking rise in anti-Muslim sentiment not only in Philadelphia, but across the United States. In the aftermath of the shootings at two military installations in Tennessee, the owner of a Florida gun shop declared his store a “Muslim-free zone” and he continues to sell Mohammed targets on his webs…

The Latest to Botch Mormonism: Garry Wills

By Joanna Brooks

…Constitution. According to Wills, an 18-year-old Mormon student once told him that: “Like his fellow Mormons, he held that the Declaration of Independence is divinely inspired—in that sense, it is part of Mormon Scripture.” Except for the fact that it really isn’t part of Mormon scripture, either in doctrine or practice. Wills continues: The young man was learning Portuguese, to do his missionary year in Brazil, for which he left before graduatio…

DeMint Uses Christian Reconstructionist Mailing List To Raise Money For Angle

By Julie Ingersoll

…ars into the Nevada Senate race — along with several others like it — to achieve conservative victory. This plan includes running statewide television and radio ads, sending direct mail to targeted voters, and operating phone banks — all geared toward defeating Harry Reid in November. DeMint apparently does not think the Reconstructionists are an irrelevant fringe movement, as many others seem to think, since he’s paid money to email them and appa…

Friending Pope Benedict on Facebook?

By Kate Childs Graham

…e pope heed Lam’s advice and embark on the wonderful world of blogging? Will he use this twenty-first century means of communication to express obsolete ideology? Or would blogging help the pope realize that some of his teachings are a wee bit outdated? What next, Pope Benedict on Facebook? If so, you can bet your mortgage that plenty of “good” Catholics will be editing their profiles before they ”friend His Holiness.”…

Planned Parenthood ‘Stung’ By Lila Rose

By Bill Berkowitz

…choice movement. Crutcher waged a similar campaign for several years, and while his efforts were much ballyhooed in the conservative press, little ultimately came of it… [Crutcher’s] efforts were, however, carried out over the telephone and the conversations were primarily with receptionists. Rose takes the effort farther. Video is far more compelling than recordings of phone calls. According to the Los Angeles Times: Rose, the third of eight chil…

Denying Communion to Prochoice Politicians

By Frances Kissling

…ular thorn in their side. Former Cardinal Theodore McCarrick (and Cardinal Hickey before him) was adamant in his refusal to deny communion to legislators who disagreed on abortion or other issues. Anti-abortion groups such as the Catholic-led American Life League were so furious with this position that they took out full page ads in the Washington Times and other papers calling on the Vatican to discipline McCarrick in 2004, even picketing his ret…

How Do We Break the Cycle of Religious Violence in South Asia?

By Sunita Viswanath

…weeks ago, I spoke on the phone with a leader of New York City’s Bangladeshi Hindu community, who was extremely resistant to making the connection between the persecution of his fellow Hindus in Bangladesh and the persecution of Muslims in India. He insisted, “Please don’t tell me about India. I only want to focus on my people, Hindus in Bangladesh.” I suggested that there was folly in focusing on the minorities in Bangladesh without considering…