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The Strategic Caution of the Muslim Brotherhood

By Zaid Hassan

…the events in Egypt to the Iranian Revolution of 1979: The events of North Africa have a special meaning for the Iranian nation. This is what has always been known as the occurrence of Islamic awakening as a result of the victory of the Islamic Revolution. In a swift response, the Muslim Brotherhood rejected the comparison: The MB regards the revolution as the Egyptian People’s Revolution not an Islamic Revolution… asserting that the Egyptian Peop…

Stronger Than We Look: Ten Tendrils of Hope for 2017

By Peter Laarman

…tring of people’s victories against kleptocratic regimes in Latin America, Africa and Asia (offering hope that operators of Trump’s stripe can’t always get away with it). 9. Bracing scholarship. This year gave us a further flowering of the important new scholarship that goes to the buried truth of White Male Violence Disorder and that also goes to the religious roots of same. I will mention just one new book that will shake the foundations for any…

Year-End Best Books in Race and Religion in American History

By Paul Harvey

…gion in America, focusing here particularly on books focusing on people of African descent. African-American Religions, 1500-2000: Colonialism, Democracy, and Freedom Sylvester A. Johnson Cambridge University Press October 2015 The first one is not for the faint of heart, and not for anyone who wants the comforting story of “from slavery to freedom” reaffirmed. Sylvester Johnson’s African American Religions, 1500-2000: Colonialism, Democracy, and…

Religion and Gender Trouble in the Black Arts: Remembering Toni Cade Bambara’s The Black Woman

By Josef Sorett

…nt gender crisis. Bambara wrote: I am convinced, at least in my reading of African societies, that prior … to the introduction of Christianity, a religion fraught with male anxiety and vilification of women, communities were more egalitarian and cooperative. … There were no hard and fixed assignments based on gender, no rigid and hysterical separation based on sexual taboo. Bambara’s argument was in keeping with a romanticized reading of precoloni…

White Christian Nationalism May Not Be Religious, But It Is Christian

By Murali Balaji

…ewish nationalism in Israel; Islamism in parts of Africa, the Middle East, South and Southeast Asia; Hindu nationalism in parts of India; Buddhist nationalism in Sri Lanka, Myanmar and Thailand—that have grown in recent years are grounded in theology. They’re all connected by a shared sense of grievance and an imagined community based on assumed shared ideals. The New Zealand terrorist might not have been religious per se, but he was 100 percent d…

In Wake of Murder in Uganda, LGBT Group Protests Prayer Breakfast

By Kay Steiger

…works, he organizes their Ugandan National Prayer Breakfast and oversees a African sort of student leadership program designed to create future leaders for Africa, into which The Family has poured millions of dollars working through a very convoluted chain of linkages passing the money over to Uganda. And in his more recent book, C Street: The Fundamentalist Threat to American Democracy, Sharlet delved into even more detail about the anti-gay clim…

For Trump Admin, Immigration is About Race and Identity

By Aryeh Cohen

…s, Jews, and Muslims) stretching across Europe, the Middle East, and North Africa. The common denominator of these institutions is that they did not rely upon political boundaries to relieve suffering. The religious traditions of hospitality, refuge, and sanctuary created the vibrant multiform culture of diversity, welcome, and innovation that many of us claim as American. However, religious traditions of exclusion and purity rear their heads at r…

The “Marginalization” of Tim Keller: When Anything Short of Adulation Is Oppression

By Anita Little

…and gender to put it mildly and was one of the architects of apartheid in South Africa. Several people tweeted sarcastically that even Kuyper would be “too conservative” to qualify for his namesake award, and it would appear that they’re correct. A member of the PTS faculty I corresponded with expressed the issue was not so much with Keller receiving the award but more with there being a Kuyper award at all. Institutions with storied histories su…

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Cheese State Reality Check: On The Wisconsin Idea and the Social Gospel

By Daniel Schultz

…arily social equality. Many of them favored “repatriating” freed slaves to Africa, or allowing them to establish segregated communities within the U.S. More to the point, when the Republican party first began, Wisconsin was almost exclusively white: only 1,171 free blacks were listed in the 1860 census, and just over 1,000 Native Americans, out of a total population of 775,000. The Republican-dominated government tried to keep it that way, with bi…

Four Reasons Why Egypt’s Revolution Is Islamic

By Zaid Hassan

…nfines of narrow realism.” As events unfold like a collapsing dam in North Africa and the Middle East, the questions flow. What is the nature of the revolution in Egypt? By extension, what do changes taking place in the Muslim world mean? What do they mean for the US? What does this mean for the West? Are we witnessing an Islamic Revolution? Is this Iran in 1979 all over again? Is Obama the new Carter? Should we be afraid? The underlying reasons b…