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America Appears to be Heading for a Religious Civil War

By Nilay Saiya

…autocracy) leave states at a higher risk for civil war. The United States today fits this description perfectly. Indeed, Polity’s analysis places America at “high risk of impending political instability.” This fact alone is cause for grave concern. But it gets worse. The second factor identified by Dr. Walter involves the calcification of identity politics among those who had once been politically dominant but now find themselves in decline. Citi…

The 50 Shades of Evangelicalism

By Jonathan D. Fitzgerald

…he population is the conservative impulse to mix religion and politics. Americans, they suggest, oppose the mingling of the two. And yet Campbell and Putnam’s own data show that the majority of Americans consider themselves religious. Perhaps what many actually oppose is the way certain types of evangelicals mix their religion and politics. R. R. Reno, writing at the blog of conservative Catholic publication First Things, argued in response to Cam…

Why Trump’s Religious Liberty Order is “a Whole Lot of Nothing”

By Sunnivie Brydum

…“license to discriminate” executive order that circulated in February remains unknown, leaving advocates understandably wary about how the president whose supporters boasted that he is the most pro-LGBT Republican in history will curtail the already tenuous rights and freedoms gained by LGBT Americans in the past decade. “When you have a president who fundamentally does not care about public policy, and can be so easily swayed by the people who su…

Militias, Trump, Guns, and ISIS: Too much Masculinity?

By Stewart M. Hoover and Curtis D. Coats

…ve, regardless of what it is. One way to describe what’s happening is that today there is a surplus of masculine purpose. Purposive energy exceeds the capacity to imagine what good purposes to put it to. This might help explain how men today might be drawn to causes that promise opportunities to express purpose. That is what ISIS offers. It is what vigilante occupation of government property offers. It is what “stand your ground” laws offer. It is…

Religion in Tension on World AIDS Day

By Susan Henking

…globally are women, and the syndrome is the leading cause of death among African American women between 25 and 34. Now, in 2008, nearly fifty percent of new US diagnoses of HIV or AIDS occur among black people. Hispanics, as well, are disproportionately affected by AIDS/HIV in the United States. Nearly 50 percent of US infections reported in March 2008 (data for 2006) were male to male infections. (For such data, see here and here). The current gl…

Escalating Afghanistan: What Did You Do in the Class War, Daddy?

By Peter Laarman

…f all income gains between 2002 and 2007 went to the top one percent of Americans. The ratio of CEO compensation to average worker compensation in 1965 (when the catastrophic Vietnam “surge” began) was bad enough at around 25-to-1. Today that ratio is 300-to-1 and soaring, despite the fact that Wall Street’s best and brightest just pushed the economy over the brink. People ask why there is so little outrage over the absurd idea that we can make ou…

Muslims in America, Fifty Years Later: New Poll Shows Pride and Optimism In the Face of Bias

By Edward E. Curtis IV

…e largely law-abiding, exercising their Constitutional rights to religious freedom and freedom of speech, the group’s criticism of American racism and imperialism struck many ordinary Americans as politically radical and thus dangerous. The globe’s most powerful symbol of resistance to U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War was the Nation of Islam’s most famous member, boxer Muhammad Ali. In 1967, Ali refused induction in the U.S. armed forces to pro…

The Undergarments of Absolutism: Why Abdulmutallab Got on the Plane

By Haroon Moghul

…with the West. The ease emerges out of the undeniable underperformance of today’s Muslim world. The Muslim politics of the past, however they seem to us now, sustained sovereign states for centuries; for many Muslims today, that past gives the Muslim a sense of security and dignity which is otherwise painfully lacking—and demands recovering. The continuing presence of Western armies in Muslim countries only supports their point. The deep disagree…

Oral Roberts, Pioneering Christian Zionist

By Shalom Goldman

…kable ‘romance’ between today’s conservative evangelicals and Israel, Pentecostals, particularly those in the Pentecostal Holiness Church (the denomination Roberts was affiliated with before he returned to the Methodist Church in 1968), were deeply interested in developments in the Holy Land. Elements of this interest included a commitment to a Christian mission to Jews and a fascination with the ‘unfolding events of the End Time.’ Roberts visited…

Santorum and the New Catholic-Evangelical Alliance

By Sarah Posner

…s group the Catholic Advocate, and has called for a “Catholic tea party.“) Today, the evangelical-Catholic alliance is hardening around the “religious freedom” issue, and in particular opposition to gay marriage and, most recently, the contraception benefit requirement. Santorum is almost like an accidental beneficiary of this; the GOP base, lacking an evangelical candidate left standing, and dissatisfied with Mitt Romney, has turned to his fideli…