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For Buddhism, Science is Not a Killer of Religion

By Paul Wallace

…n Monday he explained that it came out in their conversation that he loved science and enjoyed dialoguing with scientists. She was horrified to hear this, he said. Further, she insisted that science was a “killer of religion” and that he had better just stay away from it altogether. He was dismayed that one should think that the two most significant and comprehensive fields of human thought could not be reconciled. He may have felt dismayed at the…

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

By Edward E. Curtis IV

…ms in most mainstream media outlets, whether liberal or conservative, unconsciously reinforce negative stereotypes. Coverage of Islam is associated more often than not with violence, gender discrimination, political instability, intolerance, and other qualities that most Americans find troubling. Six out of every ten Muslim Americans surveyed said that the media’s coverage of Muslims is unfair. Even as the 2017 Pew poll shows a Muslim American pop…

Creeping Shari’ah… Ahem, Excuse Me… Biblical Law

By Julie Ingersoll

…Opponents of the plans argue that inmates in faith based programs enjoy a number of perks and better facilities than other inmates. But whatever the case, Scott’s plan would turn more of the state’s obligation to run the criminal justice system over to religious organizations. According to the St. Petersburg Times Scott’s proposal is part of a “growing national conservative movement known as Right on Crime, which argues that too many prisoners ar…

Forget Right or Wrong

By Elizabeth Drescher

…researchers share the unsurprising finding that “young adults engage in a number of religious practices less often than do older Americans.” What they may mean to say is traditional religious practices: weekly attendance at religious services, weekly scripture reading, daily prayer, and weekly meditation. (My guess is as good as yours on the greater expected frequency of prayer in the survey.) The Pew survey design is problematic—and this is wher…

The Episcopal Church ‘Takes a Flying Leap’ into Controversies Old and New

By Elizabeth Drescher

…largely inaccurate opinion piece in the Wall Street Journal, Jay Akasie described Jefferts Schori as a “secretive and authoritative… potentate” leading the denomination over a cliff. Well, then… As has been the case since women were granted unrestricted access to the full life of the Church in the 1970s, and through the long debates over the rights of lesbian and gay Episcopalians through the intervening years, controversy at this year’s General…

PRRI’s Robert P. Jones Discusses Authoritarianism, Christian Nationalism, and What the 2024 Election is Really About

By Daniel Schultz

…y dropped since you last measured them. The Child-Rearing Authoritarianism Scale score in particular stood out. Do you have a sense of what drives those shifts? I can only conjecture here, but the threat of violence in the United States and political terms is no longer an abstract problem after January 6, 2021, right? We’ve seen the actual possibilities there and one of our two leading candidates for president saying things like, “If I don’t get e…

What’s in a Name? Religious Nones and the American Religious Landscape

By Richard Flory

…temple, or mosque. Finally, and perhaps most telling, people that religion scholars (like myself) designate as Nones rarely think of themselves in that way. This in itself isn’t too insightful, since most scholarly categories are at least once-removed from real life. Yet, in this case, I think it illustrates the point: how people understand the role of religion in their lives is often much different than what scholars are able to express through t…

RD News Round-Up—Oct.14, 2008

By Bill Berkowitz

…ake Maine energy independent. End discrimination against private religious schools and home schools. ++++++++++ Resurgent Anti-Semitism in Wake of Wall Street Meltdown According to the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), there has been a spike in anti-Semitism—particularly on the Internet—in the wake of the financial crisis. “We know from modern history that whenever there is a downturn in the global economy, there will be an upturn in the level of anti…

How a Powerful ‘Ex-Gay’ Pastor is Chasing the Latino Vote

By Katherine Stewart

…ic and Pentecostal vein, and these are explicitly multiracial movements. A number of the more farsighted leaders are therefore making a conscious effort to include and empower nonwhite individuals and groups. At the very least, they are doing what they can to collect their votes. Jim Domen is one such leader. A California pastor and the founder of a group called Church United, he has built his voter-outreach machine around the idea of racial inclu…

Rome Has Spoken and Rome Is Finished: The Vatican’s Sexual Abuse Summit ‘Failed Miserably’

By Mary E. Hunt

…ed minors and some covered it up. What’s so mysterious about that? A large number of minors have been sexually abused by a large number of clerics. Period. Full stop. It’s simply the beginning of a hideous story that includes the abuse of seminarians, nuns and other women, children of priests, and more, all of whom merit summits of their own. Francis’ discussion of power fell flat. He claimed that the sexual abuse of minors is an abuse of power. H…