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Is Terry Jones the Death Rattle of the White Male Protestant?

By Gary Laderman

…e symbolic head of the body politic? And it is certainly the case that the Republican Party has been taken over by a predominantly white, religiously conservative, and aggressively nationalistic Tea Party hoping to snuff out any signs of political muscle by moderates. But rather than provide succor and reassurance for WMHCC, the Tea Party has its own agenda—willing to sell out their souls to big money, fixate on the national debt while the rest of…

Is ISIS Islamic? Is it a State?

By Mark Juergensmeyer

…salvation for those recruited into its ranks. In a recent essay in The New Republic, Graeme Wood described the core supporters of ISIS as an uneasy coalition of three groups: psychopaths, believers and pragmatists. The pragmatists are largely from Sunni regions of Syria and Iraq who have been disenfranchised by the Shi’a regimes of Bashir Assad in Damascus and Nouri al Maliki in Baghdad. On the other hand, the psychopaths and believers are often f…

Georgia Legislator Behind Bill Criminalizing Miscarriage is Christian Reconstructionist

By Julie Ingersoll

…te legislature’s website claims he “has been called ‘the conscience of the Republican Caucus’ because he believes that civil government should return to its biblically and constitutionally defined role.” That same website has a nifty little option that allows you to sort proposed bills according to their sponsors; so it was easy to get a sense of what he means by government’s biblically-defined role. He sponsored legislation to eliminate restricti…

Beck: Muslim Brotherhood Is Like ACORN

By Sarah Posner

…because they provide food to people. And we’d never want a charity to give anyone food! “Please,” he concluded, “if you want to save the Republic, please, food storage.” Listen here: …

4 Reasons Why Egypt’s Revolution Is Not Islamic

By Haroon Moghul

…atible. On the other hand, Egypt is a proudly Arab society (hint: the Arab Republic of Egypt) which has never seen Islam as incompatible with their specific ethnic and national project. Arabness and Islam are hard to pull apart, such that the late Michel Aflaq, the founder of the Arab nationalist Ba’ath Party—he was a Christian—praised Islam as an achievement of the Arab cultural genius. (Many Muslims wouldn’t take too kindly to such a reading, bu…

Why is Huntsman’s Mormonism “Tough to Define”?

By Joanna Brooks

…vocabulary to describe. Early Thursday morning, Matthew Bowman at the New Republic tried to spin the differences between Romney and Huntsman as generational and Huntsman’s more easygoing Mormon style as evidence of the LDS Church’s evolution from mid-20th century models of “business Mormonism” to a more cosmopolitan 21st century outlook. (Both Romney and Huntsman are baby boomers. Generational? I’m not so sure.) But Time’s profile of Huntsman (al…

Tim Pawlenty, Bad Fundamentalist

By Michael J. Altman

…hat Pawlenty misses. He’s a bad Fundamentalist. Even if, like Fundamentalists, we only apply common sense philosophy to the Founders and their documents, our answers about how they saw God functioning in the new republic would be as complex as any Fundamentalist interpretation of the Book of Daniel. Fundamentalists valued precision and complexity. Pawlenty only gives vague notions of a “founding under God.”…

Torture Denial: U.S. Flunks the Religious Acid Test

By Peter Laarman

…han other nations. Note that “different” is the word that our politicians, Republican and Democrat, use to mean distinctly better than other peoples. And what an amazing level of self-deception that is, say the world’s other peoples, shaking their heads over white America’s delusional self-love. I believe that what most dismays international observers of today’s America—and I refer to people who want to admire our country more than they now do—is…

Mao, Meet Confucius: China’s Religious Revolution

By Kwok Pui-lan

…Several months before the 60th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China in 2009, Liu Peng argued that spiritual vacuum is the weakest link of China’s meteoric rise. A senior research fellow at the Institute of American Studies, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Liu says religion can provide civic and moral education to ease rampant social problems and spiritual dis-ease. He urges the government to adopt more liberal policies…

The Politics of Anti-Gay Persecution: Gambia, Egypt, Jamaica, Russia, with a Helping Hand from US Religious Conservatives; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…f a memorandum from President Obama charging US foreign policy agencies to promote LGBT rights said that US efforts have been important to activists promoting equality and facing persecution around the world. Read the Washington Blade’s report here. On Wednesday, the Daily Beast hosted an event called Quorum: Global LGBT Voices that featured interviews with more than 25 activists from around the world to talk about “what is happening on the front…