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7 Women Scholars On the Gender Divide in Religious Studies, the Power of Mentors, and Leading While Female

By Rebecca Barrett-Fox

…aint of migrants in Mexico, and how his ascension in importance in the Mexican canon has rescaled the town he comes from. People don’t think about religion as a mechanism for urban restructuring and rescaling. They don’t realize that there is a global religious map with its own unique hot spots that differs from the global economic or political map. I am also really interested in where people learn cosmopolitan skills and practices. There is a lot…

‘My Name is Legion’: Sources and Forces of White Supremacy in the U.S.

By R. Drew Smith

…t to the university brought long-overdue national attention to this Republican callousness. More recently, three Republican senators, Ted Cruz, Rand Paul, and Rick Santorum (all currently running for US president) received campaign donations during the last several years from the head of the Council of Conservative Citizens, a white supremacist group reported to have served as an inspiration for the 21-year-old white supremacist arrested for the n…

Religious Leaders Need ‘Empty the Pews’ Which Chronicles the Darker Side of the ‘Nones’ Phenomenon

By Kaya Oakes

…nalist Lauren O’Neal decided to compile an anthology of essays by exvangelicals, former Catholics, and others who have moved out of institutional Christianity and into the liminal spaces where Nones are usually grouped. As they write in the introduction, when they met, they discovered they had both moved away from the worst aspects of Christianity, what they called “the repression, the shame, [and] the hypocrisy,” due to the realization that many…

Francis Must Make Changes to Have a Real Effect

By Patricia Miller

…s remained fairly steady in recent decades is “the disproportionately high number of Catholics among immigrants to the U.S.,” which has masked “the large number of people who have left the Catholic church.” According to Pew, approximately one-third of those raised Catholic have left the church and 10 percent of all Americans are former Catholics. If you were a business losing one-third of your customers, wouldn’t you want to make some changes? Sur…

The Vatican v. Protestant Free Thinkers

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…d to recant in 1633), and the argument over who started it all. (The complicated case of Giordano Bruno is treated at Volume I: 862-972 [he was repeatedly imprisoned after 1593, placed on trial in 1598, then killed in 1600], the posthumous case against Copernicus’s book is treated at II: 1473-1481 [it was prohibited in 1598], and yet most curiously, Galileo’s case is not treated at all. Volume 4 provides an Appendix with a fascinating “Index of Fo…

The Anti-Trans Hate Machine’s Conspiracies Don’t Stop at the US Border

By Annika Brockschmidt

…ition to trans rights. She’s also a staunch anti-choice activist. A significant number of the other signatories are members of a right-wing German think tank called, innocently enough, “Netzwerk für Wissenschaftsfreiheit” (Network for the Freedom of Science). This Network peddles reactionary talking points about allegedly “left-wing” universities and “cancel culture” while its website treats “race science” as legitimate scholarly discourse. The an…

Raelians’ “Clitoraid” Met With Suspicion in Burkina Faso

By Joseph Laycock

…urch as their sexually repressive nemesis and have engaged in several anti-Catholic campaigns, including a “parade for apostasy” held in Canada in 2002, in which high school students were given crosses and invited to burn them. It is unclear if the Catholic Church was actually involved in the government shut down of the pleasure hospital, though Boisselier made similar conspiratorial claims when explaining why Clonaid refused to present the eviden…

Religious Opposition To LGBT Equality Softening

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…of same-sex relationships is highlighted by the image of liberal, evangelical, Catholic and other Christians marching together at Pride. In recent years, the small number of Christians who turn up to protest against Pride have been vastly outnumbered by the Christians participating in it. Hill also noted religious support in the UK last April for a new law “to allow religious elements in civil partnerships, while last year the Quakers became the…

Updated: G-O-D Plays a Bit Part in First GOP Debate

By Daniel Schultz

…thumbs-on-the-scale, don’t you think? I admittedly did not watch the undercard of the Republican debates last night. I had more important things to do, namely preparing for the main event by creating a quick-paste shortcut for each of the candidates’ names and fixing a stiff gin and tonic. Apparently, it wasn’t stiff enough. After two hours, there were still nine doughy white guys and Ben Carson on my screen, all of them spouting platitudes. Exce…

Harry Reid vs. Islamic Cultural Center

By Joanna Brooks

…t’s not a proud day for freedom of religion when a prominent member of the number two most disliked major religion in America effectively sides against a honest project by the number one most disliked major religion in America. Especially when Mormons have just recently come through our own years-long struggle to build an LDS temple in Center City Philadelphia after Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter tried to extract a six-figure sum from the Churc…