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Blood and Hammers: Elderly Anti-Nuclear Activists Sentenced to Jail

By Kristen Tobey

…heir deeds, has served as the model for about fifty similar actions in the United States since then (as well as related campaigns in a handful of other countries), most recently that of the Disarm Now Plowshares. Like the Plowshares Eight, The Disarm Now Plowshares intended their act of civil disobedience — or “divine obedience,” as Plowshares activists prefer to call their actions — to function as symbolic disarmament, purifying the land and equi…

Good Without God: The Ethics of Atheism

By Becky Garrison

…r a common good? Social entrepreneur Shannon Hopkins has noted that in the United Kingdom, Christians often spearhead social enterprise ventures, and humanist collectives in the United States have created events like the Feast Conference 2009. Occasionally, one can find a convergence of the secular and spiritual. Several Christians involved with The Nomi Network invited me to a recent screening of the film Call + Response. It’s rare to see the fai…

Single Greatest Idea Ever: On the 150th Anniversary of Darwin’s Origin of Species

By Lauri Lebo

…was the only country in which fewer people accepted evolution than in the United States.) According to Ron Numbers’ The Creationists: From Scientific Creationism to Intelligent Design, in the wake of the publishing of Origin, Christians in America were, for the most part, able to make peace with Darwin’s theory and evolutionary principles. It wasn’t until the early 1900s, when a series of religious pamphlets, “The Fundamentals,” were published ar…

Anti-Immigrant Legislator Takes Aim At Arizona Children

By Joanna Brooks

…nited States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States. No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States”—puts pressure on a belief in the divine inspiration of the U.S. Constitution cherished by many conservative Mormons. Some Mormons have already gone on record in opposition to the new bill, sensitized perhaps by negative publicity about Mor…

No Buddhists in Washington?

By Danny Fisher

…rn psychologists and other caring professionals, particularly those in the United States, have found great utility in them. The emergence of such treatments as mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR), mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT), and dialectical behavior therapy (DBT), as well as further developments in other cognitive and behavioral therapies, owe much to Buddhist understanding. There is also a great deal of anecdotal evidence to…

Jewish Past/Israeli Future: A Review of The Invention of the Jewish People

By Shalom Goldman

…oncern for the Israeli future—will be summarily dismissed, at least in the United States. The American fate of Israeli books critical of Israeli policies is predetermined: they are bound to fail—both in the actual marketplace, and in the marketplace of ideas. Israel’s Fateful Hour, a 1984 book by Yehoshafat Harkabi, the head of Israeli Military Intelligence in the 1950s, warned of the dire consequences for Israel of the longterm occupation of the…

Among the Problems with Trump’s Proposed Ban: Who is a Muslim?

By Michael Schulson

…the Muslim terrorist is not susceptible to the traditional analyses of the Free Exercise and Establishment Clauses.” When I called up Gotanda, he emphasized that it was often tempting for Americans to frame race and racialization in familiar black/white terms. There are subtle distinctions to be made here, though. The construction of blackness by white American society has historically been dehumanizing, and it historically has insisted that black…

American Nuns and the Vatican: More Pain than Promise

By Mary E. Hunt

…port” is without any data to back it up, save the most easily quantifiable numbers of people, visits, and the like. Individual reports will go to “those Institutes which hosted an onsite visitation and to those Institutes whose individual reports indicated areas of concern.” No one expects those to be love letters. We Are (Still) All Nuns As I have written here at RD (See, “We Are All Nuns” and other stories. -The Eds) the Visitation was not the o…

Religion in Real Time on CNN’s “Believer”: A Conversation with Reza Aslan

By Kaya Oakes

…s who make the long, perilous journey from Latin America and Mexico to the United States, before they do so, they make a vow to Santa Muerte, make peace with Saint Death. They say to themselves, “I may not make this, there’s a good chance I may die on the way. If I make it to America, I vow that I’ll set up an idol or temple for Santa Muerte.” And that’s precisely why you see so many shrines in the southern United States—because the people who cre…

Do Stormy Daniels’ Beliefs in the Paranormal Make Her Unfit to Testify in Lawsuit Against Her Former Attorney?

By Daniel Wise

…of spirituality as goofy, metaphysical religion has a long history in the United States, reaching back beyond Mesmerism in the eighteenth century and moving forward through Spiritualism, New Thought, Theosophy and New Age spirituality. This type of spirituality, which is often concerned with the movement of energy, therapeutic practices, and the power of mind, seems to be rising in popularity in the United States as traditional religious affiliat…