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South Asian Religious Leaders Challenged to Take on Stigma and Discrimination: Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…o Nazis and Communists. Last week British official released figures on the number of same-sex couples who got married between March 29 – the first day marriage was legally available in England and Wales, and June 30. Of the 1,409 marriages, 56 percent were to female couples. According to Gay Star News, about 120,000 people are in civil partnerships, which they will be able to convert to marriages beginning in December. Costa Rica: Survey Shows Spl…

Big White Evangelical Turnout for Midterms

By Sarah Posner

…liminary exit polling shows that if Jones is right about overall declining numbers of white Southern evangelicals, they nonetheless turned out in much higher percentages than in Jones’ data, exerting an opposite force from the one Jones predicted. 1. ARKANSAS. In his October 17 Atlantic piece, Jones wrote: In Arkansas, where Republican and freshman Representative Tom Cotton is locked in a tight race with two-term Democratic Senator Mark Pryor, the…

End Times on the Gulf Coast

By Lauri Lebo

…Gulf Coast. The streets are all but deserted. Parking spots closest to the beach are always available. Helicopters fly up and down along the coast all day, monitoring the spread of the oil. I pulled into a parking lot for the Gulf Shores National Seashore and the woman there tells me the beach is closed. “The slick’s coming in pretty bad,” she said. She’s supposed to charge me $5, but refuses. “Are you sure? You guys are hurting for money,” I say….

SC Southern Baptist Convention Head: Gingrich’s Adultery Okay, Romney’s Mormonism Not

By Joanna Brooks

…ping anti-Mormonism, this little gem came across the wire: the new head of South Carolina’s Southern Baptist Convention (the largest religious group in the state) says that for many faith-motivated voters, Mitt Romney’s Mormonism would be a greater moral problem that Newt Gingrich’s serial adultery. Rev. Brad Atkins told a local South Carolina newspaper franchise that conservatives could “process and pray” their way through Gingrich’s adultery but…

Will Mormon-on-Mormon, Hunstman v. Romney Primary Save the GOP from the Religious Right?

By Joanna Brooks

…, Jr., took his first serious public steps towards declaring candidacy, in South Carolina (as we predicted he would back in February here at RD). After spending the week filing paperwork to create a federal political action committee, Huntsman spoke last Saturday at the University of South Carolina’s commencement. On Sunday, he attended services not at his local LDS chapel but at the non-denominational Seacoast megachurch in suburban Charleston. (…

Ten Books to Read After You’ve Watched “Lemonade”

By Nyasha Junior

…uman Consciousness Love’s study is an ethnography of Yoruba communities in South Carolina and New York. She examines Yoruba as practiced by African Americans by focusing on their encounters with the Odu, unwritten sacred “texts.” Since their forced arrival, many Africans in American have turned to the sacred to redefine the self and remake the world. The history of oppression and its resistance is replete with examples of African Americans gatheri…

The Tragedy of Religious Freedom

By Patrick Hornbeck

…iversity, asked the Supreme Court to review a state high court ruling. The South Carolina Supreme Court had resolved a property dispute between the groups by waiving the requirements of South Carolina’s trust laws in favor of the national church’s internal rules concerning church property; These may be tragedies, at least in DeGirolami’s sense, but they’re also conflicts about religious groups’ right to self-determination. Let me explain why. Lega…

How Do We Break the Cycle of Religious Violence in South Asia?

By Sunita Viswanath

…and global headlines of mob violence and lynchings. For those of us in the South Asian diaspora, these headlines are painful to read. For some of us, our friends and family back home are under threat. But unfortunately, not everyone agrees on how to break free from this cycle. The predictable cycles of religious violence in South Asia can be described fairly simply. First, a member of a religious or ethnic minority is accused of offending the reli…

Does War Make Sense? Science and Religion on the Battlefield

By Nathan Schneider

…an we are,” lamented General John Abizaid at a 2007 conference in Virginia Beach. Bousquet also quotes the 9/11 plotter Khalid Sheikh Mohammed boasting, “I know that the materialistic Western mind cannot grasp… how this works.” Such savvy, so removed from MIT or the complexity theorists at the Santa Fe Institute, runs in tension with Bousquet’s master narrative that links scientific war-making with elite scientific fads. But works like Olivier Roy…

Can Expelled Teach Us a Thing or Two?

By Arri Eisen

…ans would be attracted to, appreciate and consider careers in science (the number is decreasing annually). I bet we’d have more productive conversation among students and leaders of science and religion around the many profound issues in our nation that engage both: abortion, medical care, stem cells, homosexuality, and genomic research. The battle rhetoric would fade and, more than likely, movies like Expelled wouldn’t be made in the first place….