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Jesus, Carpet Bomb My Heart: An Undercover Muslim in Detroit

By Haroon Moghul

…irmed the importance of what I was doing. I needed to see this for myself. Americans, and American Muslims especially, need to know how certain interpretations of professedly apolitical Christianity become allied to a far-right agenda of foreign wars and domestic austerity, glorifying the rich while demonizing the poor. Political Christianity’s treatment of Islam is one of the few points, and perhaps the only point, at which right-wing, political…

As Midterms Approach, White Christian Nationalism is Mainstream for the GOP — And it’s Only Getting Worse

By Annika Brockschmidt

…n, where he regularly preaches the Gospel of the Redoubt.” While dreams of American Theocracy are being fostered in the American Northwest, sociology professor Cynthia Miller-Idriss’s presentation focuses on how the far-right White nationalist fringe is responding to the themes and narratives of White Christian nationalism. The common denominator, which makes proponents of White Christian nationalism more susceptible and potentially open to moving…

QAnon Didn’t Just Spring Forth From the Void — It’s the Latest From a Familiar Movement

By Adam Willems

…bodies and sexuality. It’s a narrative framework that tries to protect the American people by discouraging invasion, impregnation, or insemination, by religious and sexual outsiders. So we tell ourselves these stories about what happens when white American women and children are either forced into—or choose to come into—sexual contact with religious outsiders who are also raced. The violation of a Betty Mahmoody [the author of Not Without My Daugh…

We Can’t Spiritualize Our Way out of American Polarization

By Chrissy Stroop

…t amounts to little more than “the power of positive thinking” or with any number of programs that bring people together for dialogue across political and religious divides. These problems don’t have convenient “spiritual” solutions. For a set of highly privileged Americans, I can understand why Worthen’s prescriptions might hold a certain attraction. But whatever one’s attitude to metaphysics and religion, it’s necessary to face the truth that Am…

Strange Bedfellows: The American Far-Right and Today’s Jihad Do Have Something in Common — Just Not What You Think

By Suzanne Schneider

…insight, even as critics cautioned against this framing. Not only does the American past and present offer plenty of parallels and predecessors that help explain the Capitol assault, but the recourse to terrorism tends to dehumanize and pathologize. Whether they’re viewed as evil incarnate, religious fanatics, nut-jobs, or “wackadoodles,” pathological explanations for political violence remain alluring despite their well-known empirical limitation…

Op-Ed: God’s Will in Iraq: Sarah Palin and America’s Global Mission

By Joel Schalit

…more. In the American case, one might argue that with every US Presidency, Americans become more religious. What Americans hear in the utterances of young Protestant politicians like Sarah Palin is how far the re-enchantment of American politics has progressed. At the end of the Bush era, what we’re beginning to bear witness to is a language, and a politics, so thoroughly devoid of liberalism that it can somehow sanction the brutality and the dest…

American Horror Story: Hotel and Monotheism’s Dirty Little Secrets

By W. Scott Poole

…how’s theology, or rather this season’s anti-theology, of the living dead. American Horror Story: Hotel has so far fooled most horror fans. Some feared that Lady Gaga would, in a very literal fashion, steal the show from us that’s become much beloved for its boundary-pushing, genre bending insanity. But, even that very meta-moment in which she portrays a century-old vampiress riding nearly nude into a 70s Studio 54-style club on a giant horse like…

Don’t Worry, Be Happy: How Amazon, Google & Neuroscience Threaten American Buddhism

By Curtis White

…s calls “the happiness industry.” Not surprisingly, this is something many Americans are eager to hear: mindfulness can give you sukha vedana, that “happy feeling.” Putting aside the metaphysical question of what in the world we mean by the word “happiness,” there’s the anterior fact that Buddhism isn’t about becoming happy. Happiness and unhappiness are what the Buddha called “Worldly Winds,” like success and failure, gain and loss. Buddhism’s in…

YouTube Terrorism

By Bruce B. Lawrence

…e of duty for the first time in 33 years. Three others perish with him. An American consulate is destroyed. At the same time, an American flag is torched, while another diplomatic post, an embassy, is stormed in a neighboring Arab Muslim country. Days later, further outbursts against American officials and diplomatic sites occur in two other Arab Muslim countries. The headlines are here stripped of their local names, not to protect the innocent bu…

History Matters: On the 400th Anniversary of Plymouth We’re Still Clinging to Destructive National Myths

By Ed Simon

…ion of the story. The claim that the Mayflower uncomplicatedly led towards American democracy, even while the Compact which organized their mission is justly celebrated for its nascent egalitarianism, is to read the past backwards in light of the future. Perseveration on English settlers ignores the equally important, or often more important, role of Spanish, French, and Dutch (among others) colonial projects in much of what would become the Unite…