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‘Cult’ Is an Inaccurate, Unhelpful and Dangerous Label for Followers of Trump, QAnon, and 1/6

By Catherine Wessinger

…isseminated by powerful media representatives on Fox News and One American News Network (OANN), along with a not insignificant number of elected members of Congress. A great deal of the concern on the part of white people is over their potential loss of status in America. This concern is being expressed in current Trumpist Republican efforts to curb access to voting by people of color and the social panic being fomented about “Critical Race Theory…

The Harlot Shall Be Burned with Fire: Biblical Literalism in The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

By Sarah Sentilles

…ther than on her lifted backside. To communicate the terror of the rape scenes all you need is a good actor, and the director surely had confidence in Rooney Mara, whom he’d worked with a year earlier on The Social Network. Every frame, every camera angle, every scene in a feature film is intentional, which leads me to wonder what Fincher wanted us to make of these scenes. He knows how to create tension with clothed characters, which is apparent n…

Hajj Journal: Using the Toilet at the Grand Mosque

By Amina Wadud

…nately for me, this toilet visit was from a place just next to the green line. The green line marks a distance in saiy where the pilgrim is supposed to run, because this is what Hajar did.* That way, when I returned I was not lost. That is, if you don’t count my trip to the fourth-floor balcony by accident! I had no trouble locating my deserted spot once I got to the correct floor. As I said, just in time—as the only man in this cluster was practi…

Are We Entering the End Times for Mainline Seminaries?

By Elesha Coffman

…tuencies, institutional upheavals are reminders that big trends like mainline decline don’t just affect poll numbers, but actual people in actual places. That school you’ve heard of—though no one you know attended it—and that church you drive by daily—though you never entered it—might one day be gone, or converted into lofts, or have its sign replaced by one in a language you can’t read. Seismic waves are lessened the farther you stand from the ep…

Hobby Lobby: Key to a More Liberal and Less Religious America?

By Rebecca Sager

…te hearts and minds, and moving people out of the pews across America. The number of nones (people with no religious preference) is on the rise, with over 20% of all Americans claiming this status, and many point to the increased politicization of religion as the cause. This trend of legal victories will, in the long run, very likely create a more secular America. Recent data indicate that this process is already clearly under way. A poll just rel…

Global Anti-Gay Forces Plot Against ‘Satanic’ Equality Movement

By Peter Montgomery

…, and the island’s conservative Orthodox Church has described it as an “illness which needs treatment”. A delegation headed by the Bishop of Tamassos presented a petition to the Presidential Palace earlier on Saturday voicing opposition to legislative changes. Some 50 people belonging to a fringe religious group organised a counter march in Nicosia and there were scuffles with police when they tried to approach the place where the gay pride was du…

New Poll: Evangelicals Backing Trump

By Daniel Schultz

…71-27 Hispanic vote in 2012. Since both those groups are projected to make up the same portion of the electorate in 2016, if not larger, it might not be white evangelicals or Nones who determine the outcome this November. Don’t look now, Lucy: Charlie Brown may have traded in football for fútbol. Surprise!…

Blood and Politics — Christian White Nationalism in the Age of Obama

By Bill Berkowitz

…re are neo-Confederates and White nationalists who believe that “Christian-ness” is one aspect of their Western civilization—along with respect for tradition, authority, and Whites-only citizenship rights. For this wing of the movement, best exemplified in my book by a now-deceased Washington Times columnist Sam Francis, opposition to abortion is less a theological imperative and more a program plank alongside support for gun rights and opposition…

Why We Won’t Let Jonestown (Or 9/11 or Sandy Hook) Die

By Kelsey Osgood

…uch else to deal with. As Jim Jones Jr., the adopted son of Jim and Marceline Jones, tells Ms. Fondakowski, “Just put your cap forward and keep moving.” But perhaps the best way to understand this text is to view it as the story of a small group coming to grips with a mass cultural trauma. As a number of notable sociologists put forth in their book Cultural Trauma and Collective Identity (University of California Press, 2004), society, to put it s…

Growing Up Cult: A Memoir of Life with Sri Chinmoy

By Brittany Shoot

…e word ‘spiritual’ is one that I cannot separate from my life with Sri Chinmoy. I am happily living a secular life. I don’t have any desire to follow a religion or dogma. I find happiness, peace, and love in the mundane details of life: laughing with my baby daughter, attending a new play, or dancing to my favorite music….