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Leave Your Stereotypes at the Door: 10Q on “Keeping it Halal”

By John O'Brien

…ind of powerful, stereotype-defying truths—still very necessary, unfortunately—that well-done ethnography can reveal. What’s your next book? My next project will be sort of the reverse of this book, in which I’ll investigate how people from the “West”—the US and the UK, mostly—adjust to and manage cultural tensions when living in an “Islamic” context, that of the United Arab Emirates. I’ve spent over a year hanging out and talking to people at a s…

Lost and Found: Despite the Hope, Morality, and Meaning Inspired by Deconversion, Why is Respect Only For Those Who Find God?

By Robert Repino

…r how Douthat would react if someone suggested that Christians are more likely to believe in bullshit? And do we need to wonder how he would respond if someone referred to increased church attendance as “grim”? This is, after all, the same man who suggested people should go to church, even if they don’t believe, “for the sake of their country, their culture and their very selves.” Also at the Times, Nicholas Kristoff frames the decline of religion…

Tennessee Anti-Evolution Update

By Lauri Lebo

…ose who tried to silence Rhea County schoolteacher John Scopes for teaching evolution in 1925, by limiting even an objective discussion of the scientific strengths and weaknesses of evolutionary theory,” Fowler wrote last month in an op–ed in the Chattanoogan. But “strengths and weaknesses” are merely code words to try to water down the teaching of evolution. The American Association for the Advancement of Science, has issued a statement against t…

Religious Discrimination and the Violence Against Women Act

By Sarah Posner

…rvices; and (3) that “the Applicant is a religious organization that sincerely believes that providing the services in question is an expression of its religious beliefs; that employing individuals of a particular religion is important to its religious exercise; and that having to abandon its religious hiring practice in order to receive the federal funding would substantially burden its religious exercise.” This week’s letter from the coalition o…

6 Reservations About U.S. Intervention in Libya

By Haroon Moghul

…get involved in police actions with astonishing regularity. We intervene selectively, we make huge mistakes, but we insist our intentions are good. I recall something about a certain road being paved with good intentions, but it must not be an American road, since it’s so hard to get those paved these days. The United States was able to eliminate Libyan air defense systems in days, and this wasn’t even a full-scale war. Qaddafi has been reveale…

Is Alcoholics Anonymous a Religion?

By Galen Watts

…wn and widespread program of recovery from the disease of alcoholism (a widely-held concept it helped to normalize) in the world today. AA has recently received a wave of criticisms which, in different ways, target what have been perceived to be its religious components. Some have argued that AA lacks scientific credibility and offers a treatment for alcoholism that is thoroughly “irrational.” The claim is that evidence-based research has proven t…

#Occupy: A Deeper Form of Protest?

By Jay Michaelson

…t’s notice that the financial crisis and “Wall Street” itself are also in self-delusion. Generally, Wall Street apologists insist that boom and bust cycles are inevitable—all circle. In fact, however, the latest bust was made far, far worse by the unreasonable amounts of risk which banks and other financial institutions were allowed to take on, because of deregulation. That deregulation was the result of concerted effort—line. Wall Street says it’…

How Fitbit Helps a Conservative Evangelical College Monitor Students’ Bodies For Christ

By Jonathan Root

…ould argue that it’s the other way around. At ORU, modern technology is merely catching up to evangelical Christianity’s longstanding tradition of monitoring student bodies. The Student Body at ORU Students at conservative evangelical universities today can generally expect two things: to receive a good liberal arts education and to have their behavior heavily regulated. Though codes of conduct may vary, evangelical universities like ORU, Liberty…

In Crisis, Catholic Church Plays ‘The Jew’

By Benjamin Weiner

…rst time that Christianity has played “the Jew.” One could argue that the religion itself is founded on an appropriation of Jewish identity, with one Chosen People (refined, rather than rejected by, Christianity) replacing another, under a new dispensation. Historically, however, it has been a triumphant church laying claim to the victor’s mantle. Here, in the heart of a wounded church, a play is being made for the shroud of the victim. Victimiz…

Jerry Falwell Jr. Is Corrupt, but Liberty U’s Problems Go Far Deeper

By Will E. Young

…ntracts to family friends; and how he ordered his staff to violate IRS tax code. Falwell’s been able to get away with such behavior partly because he doesn’t fear his board of trustees, which is essentially just a collection of close friends of the family. As noted above, Mark DeMoss, the one trustee who did speak up in disagreement of Falwell’s endorsement of Trump, was immediately removed from the board—a testament to Falwell’s Trumpian fragilit…