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Church Controversy is in Georgetown’s DNA

By Peter Manseau

…ample in John Carroll’s Georgetown. Created at a time when Protestants outnumbered Catholics 20 to 1 in the U.S., Georgetown was from the outset not a site of challenge to religious liberty, but a testament to it—as it continues to be today. The religious liberty Georgetown represents, however, is not simply a matter of the right of each religious group to have its way. It is instead, like both the Church and the nation of which the university is…

To Serve God and Wal-Mart: The Making of Christian Free Enterprise

By Diane Winston

…istian) service and free enterprise, college business programs also taught students to be wary of government encroachments in the form of taxes, regulations, or oversight. But these same programs gladly took government aid and encouraged students to use federal funds to further their own professional goals. Government was a one-way street: the expectation was that it should support entrepreneurship without expecting anything in return. It was the…

Why ‘Do You Believe in God?’ Is at the Heart of Our Religious Problem

By Michael Jerryson

…3-week courses was “Religious Approaches to Death.” I remember my freshmen students complaining that they had to visit funeral homes for their field trips, while other classes were able to enjoy the many outdoor features in Saint Petersburg, a gulf coast city famous for, among other things, averaging 361 days of sunshine per year. However, through our readings and trips, we learned how important it is to talk about death, to plan for it, and to un…

Close Encounters

By Amina Wadud

…defeat obstacles. Then one day he discovered this spot, where if a certain number of things come into play at the right time, or you push the buttons in some series of pushes, the little guy just morphs into another parallel dimension. Now, without this dimension you never complete the game, defeat the dragon, save the princess, or whatever it was. I was fascinated by the way this happened on the screen. Like the fractal, it was a visual display o…

“Burka Avenger”: Pakistan’s Middle Class Gets a Feminist Cartoon

By M. Sophia Newman

…eadily, the rate was still only 54.9% nationally by 2009, with just 52% of students reaching grade five. Unsurprisingly, girls have been disproportionately effected, partly because of Pakistani Jihadists’ staunch opposition to female education, typified by the Taliban shooting of teenage education activist Malala Yousafzai. But the big picture masks significant regional variation. In the Northwestern Frontier Province, where literacy is 50%, only…

Decolonizing Jewish Studies Part II: A Response to the Backlash

By Gilah Kletenik and Rafael Rachel Neis

…dies minimally entails making it more accessible to non-white scholars and students and to the study of non-white lifeworlds. This isn’t just about “Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion” (DEI) or questioning the ways that “merit” obscures structural inequities. Confronting racism encompasses probing how our conceptual paradigms reproduce racializations and racisms. DEI often perpetuates extractive models of labor in which people of color are just adde…

Lesbian Panic Reaches Apogee With Kagan Rumors

By Susan Henking

…her universities and colleges are intentionally recruiting gay and lesbian students. Want to find a gay-friendly campus? Yes, you can. Pat Griffin has asked, in regard to coaches: “Closeted Lesbian Coaches: Chicken Shit or Caught in a Web of Homophobia and Sexism?” As for the rumors about Kagan: there are also complaints. “One day, please, could we just name an OUT person to something prominent, please?” some say, just a tiny bit wistfully. Once t…

How Religion Shaped American Jewish Masculinity

By Sarah Imhoff

…ead it. As a teacher, I’ve often wished that there was better stuff for my students to read to help them understand how different masculinity can be in different places and times. Are you hoping to just inform readers? Entertain them? Piss them off? My main goal was to inform, even to reorient people’s thinking about how American Judaism came to be the way it is. But the book makes a few foundational assumptions that might piss off certain corners…

Two Wars and No Peace in Sight: The Role of Faith-Based Pacifism

By Richard Ricketts

…work? Are you trying to create activists? My primary goal is not to make students into activists, but that may happen when students read about some of these cases and movements. I would like to see people acting on their convictions but, of course, that could take a lot of different forms. I see my role as a combination of a storyteller and a social analyst. In the movements that I have written about, there was always an important story to tell….

What’s Behind a Conservative Mormon’s Call For “Religious Freedom” Advocates to “Stand Down” on LGBT Rights

By Sunnivie Brydum

…rescinded Obama Administration guidance relating to equal access for trans students, and suggests that “these issues” should be decided on a local level, by the individuals directly involved. He offers a hypothetical where one school in a district might decide to adopt trans-inclusive policies, while another rejects those same policies. He acknowledges that “it sucks” for trans students attending the non-affirming school. “But, holy cow, as a reli…