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Does Record Number of Religious “Nones” Mean Decline of Religiosity?

By Elizabeth Drescher

…Two-thirds of those surveyed (66%) say religion is losing its influence in American life, with more than half citing an excessive focus on rules (51%) and an inappropriate concern with money and power (51%). But do such data really tell us much about American religiosity—about religion as it is lived in the United States today? A number of what I would see as problems in the Pew report suggest to me that our growing fixation with religion-by-the-n…

The King of Irony

By Laury Silvers

…ng brought into America by people from backwards countries threatening our American way of life. As Americans of mixed heritage, we grew up hearing stories about how our Jewish grandparents faced similar prejudice in the early 20th century and how our Irish ancestors faced more of the same when they arrived in the mid-19th century. Chinese workers faced even harsher legal restrictions with the Chinese Exclusion Act and Japanese-Americans were inte…

Mormon-Born Daya Mata Typifies American Yoga

By Andrea R. Jain

…ed States—there is no mention of devotion, unless it is to beauty, fitness, or well-being. But Daya Mata’s death reminds us that yoga has taken a variety of forms in the United States. Like the history of yoga in South Asia, American yoga has no single essence or form. It has meant a variety of things to American practitioners for a long time. Indeed, it’s in and through these countless varieties that yoga has become as American as Elvis himself….

Denying Darwin: Another Peculiar American Institution

By Lauri Lebo

…. When the traffic finally cleared, I noticed flying side by side were the American and the Confederate flags. Greatest Idea Evah Darwin revealed so much of who we are, even though about half of Americans refuse to accept those roots. He has been demonized by religious fundamentalists, who absurdly have attempted to link him to eugenics and Hitler. In addition to the damage they have inflicted on young minds, I find their notions doubly sad for th…

British Culture Wars: An American Import, By Way Of Globalized Theopolitics

By Sarah Posner

…atter of necessity because some of the signatories, no doubt influenced by American evangelicalism brought to Africa and elsewhere, are themselves immigrants to Britain, or at least pastor a community of immigrants.) But like the Manhattan Declaration, the orientation of the Westminster Declaration is framed around the persecution of Christians by (in the case of the Manhattan Declaration) secular society and (in the case of the Westminster Declar…

Islam in Conflict with Democracy? A Response to Stanley Fish

By David True

…conducted peacefully, openly, and with the intent of making our democracy stronger. Our constitutional democracy is not only capable of respecting conscience but of welcoming it into an ongoing conversation about what it means to be an American. American Muslims are just that, American and Muslim, and as both they are well positioned—perhaps uniquely so—to make significant contributions to our democratic society and to the global debate about the…

What American Flag-Worship Looks Like to a New Citizen

By Rosalind C. Hughes

…me. In high school, where he and his friends were among the first African Americans to integrate a previously all-white school, the Pledge was recited before football games; then the National Anthem was sung and the band played Dixie. Will and his friends petitioned the administration to tone down the southern jingoism, but were ignored. It was around that time that he became aware that the same flag that he had grown up saluting featured promine…

‘The Quiet Damage’ Details the Heartbreaking Effect of QAnon on Five American Families — But Critical Questions Linger

By Susannah Crockford

…selyn Cook’s premise in The Quiet Damage: QAnon and the Destruction of the American Family. Through carefully researched individual narratives, Cook tells the story of people who got into QAnon and then rejected—or were rejected by—family members, and the grief and damage that ensues from these domestic ruptures. The Quiet Damage: QAnon and the Destruction of the American Family Jesselyn Cook Crown July 23, 2024 It’s hard going to read compounding…

Selling the Idea of a Christian Nation: David Barton’s Alternate Intellectual Universe

By Paul Harvey

…egun reinterpreting America’s founding and expansion as God’s plan for his American nation. Mason Locke Weems, the self-styled “Parson” Weems, constructed his own quasi-WallBuilders outfit in the early nineteenth century. As Rebecca Goetz, a historian at Rice University, has written, Weems had a habit of recreating the colonial and revolutionary American world for his readers, and he did it, I think, to show readers a lost world of religiosity and…

Addressing the Culture War Without Touching the Culture War

By Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins

…economy that provided most people with at least the hope of sharing in the American dream.” However, the justification for American values and ideals were no longer fixed, so Marsden maintains, in a higher law or ideology. The American Enlightenment ideal of a universal order had been replaced by a philosophy of pragmatism and moral relativism that stressed individual self-fulfilment. This would make a common program for reform impossible. Marsden…