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

By Sarah Sentilles

…rns women, stones them, cuts off their arms, cuts apart their bodies. His crimes are described in vivid detail and, just in case words don’t suffice, the viewer gets images too—photograph after photograph of dead women, dismembered, raped, decapitated, covered in animal blood, skulls smashed, and almost always naked. In the film, this religious violence is supposed to be resisted (after all, it is the bad guy, the Nazi, who engages in it), but it’…

White Evangelical Leaders Already Distancing Themselves from the “81-Percenters”

By Neil J. Young

…mp’s poor showing among non-white evangelicals, particularly Latinos and African Americans, means that his total standing among all evangelicals likely came under 50 percent. But the whole weight of Carter’s argument depends on an inaccurate depiction of the media’s reporting on the election. News media did not report, as Carter asserts, that “an overwhelming number of evangelicals” voted for Trump. Instead, news media, including the The New York…

Five Social Media Trends that are Reshaping Religion

By Elizabeth Drescher

…B guidelines also naively assume that social media engagement will unfold primarily on websites and social networking pages controlled by church authorities at one level or another. While Congregation Etz Chaim, in Lombard, Illinois, has a more sophisticated understanding of the distributed nature of social media communication and engagement, their policy does not address the protection of minors that is clearly a concern among other religious gro…

Pope and Russian Orthodox Patriarch Declare Shared View of Marriage & Family; Government & Muslim Officials Ramp Up Anti-LGBT Rhetoric in Indonesia; Australian Religious Leaders Ask Parliament to Act on Marriage Equality; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…es to censor LGBTIs when it simultaneously runs campaigns like #LoveWins during Pride Week: “Facebook supposedly creates a free social arena through its Love Wins campaign throughout Pride Week but has now peaked with its anti-woman, heteronormative, and morality-based example”. LGBTI groups have been censored by the country’s Facebook management before: Previously during the 2015 Pride Week, the event page “Lesbian Sexual Health: Myths and Truths…

If You Liked The Martian You’ll Love These 3 Sci-Fi Shorts

By Andrew Aghapour

…pular story, “The Egg” has been translated into over 30 languages and adapted into a number of short films. No spoilers. Just read it. Seriously, it’s a trip. What are you waiting for?…

2017 Around the World: Progress and Persecution For LGBT People

By Peter Montgomery

…van society today.” Australia: debates shift to religious rights and next priorities for LGBT movement With marriage equality in effect, debate has shifted to the question of religious exemptions. From The Sydney Morning Herald’s Eryk Bagshaw: The Greens will use Phillip Ruddock’s review of religious freedoms to build momentum for an Australian bill of rights and with Labor’s support it could be put before a Senate inquiry as early as next year. T…

Obama Caves on (Another) Contraception Exemption

By Patricia Miller

…will satisfy religious conservatives. This is about, in the words of pioneering reproductive rights sociologist Kristin Luker, allowing conservative religious employers to make “a symbolic statement (promoting) the idea that women should properly be at home with their families, that motherhood is the most important job for women.” Even the National Catholic Reporter’s Michael Sean Winters, who was one of the fiercest critics of the initial mandate…

Dieting, Sex, Jesus: The Body as Moral Battleground

By Lynne Gerber

…intervention than his theory suggests. The two came together when I read Marie Griffith’s fantastic book Born Again Bodies: Flesh and Spirit in American Christianity. The book discusses many different moments in the vast and varied American religious practices around food, dieting, and the body, including contemporary evangelical weight loss programs. At the time I didn’t know such things existed. But reading the book made it clear that Christian…

Morality and Marriage Vigilantes and More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…tholic marriage service called the Marriage Resource Centre, and run a “marriage enrichment seminar” called SmartLoving Marriage. Chad: Parliament criminalizes homosexuality The parliament approved legislation criminalizing homosexuality; the vote was nearly unanimous. The legislation also increases the legal marriage age from 16 to 18. The ban on homosexuality was initially proposed in 2014, but as a felony punishable by up to 15 years in prison….

Two Women and a Mosque: A Convert Community Grows in Panama City

By Aliyya Swaby

…f the world’s Muslims live outside of the Arab world. And so I was more intrigued than surprised to find a thriving population of Muslim converts while reporting in Panama. Especially since the Panama Canal was finished in 1914, the small Central American country has been a conduit for international travel and trade — the history shows in its demographic diversity. Panama’s Muslim converts work to carve out space for themselves, in a country that…