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Dispatches From the Rhodian Shore: A (Tough) Love Letter to Religious Studies

By Todd LeVasseur

…and role of nature, matter. How we discuss the natural world across social science and humanistic disciplines, matter, as seen here in the undervaluing of nature in economics. Most of the rest of my argument builds on data point number 5, focusing on how religious studies (as if that’s a monolithic thing) to date has talked about the natural world. I share the below as someone who is at the core of my training a religionist who’s vested in using e…

Latina in America: What CNN Got Wrong

By Michelle Gonzalez Maldonado

…e Latino/a intellectual was consulted. I kept waiting for the writers, the scholars, the artists in our community to appear on the screen. This documentary did not reveal the beauty of our culture, the diversity of our culture. As a Cuban-American who lives in Miami I realize that as a resident of the gateway to Latin America I am fairly sheltered regarding the rampant racism and prejudice against Latino/as in the United States. But after watching…

Is Abortion No Longer Significant for Evangelicals — or Has it Just Become Like Water?

By Bradley Onishi

…%). When Coney Barrett was nominated in September of 2020, Trump’s polling numbers among white evangelicals had dipped to a low of 55% in August 2020. However, once her nomination was made public that number rose to the normal average of 71%. Coney Barrett’s record on reproductive rights was a central issue in her confirmation hearings, as Anna North points out at Vox: Barrett, a Catholic and member of the religious group People of Praise, has als…

A Twisted Love Story: How American Evangelicals Helped Make Putin’s Russia and How Russia Became the Darling of the American Right

By Katherine Kelaidis

…merica. Once a church almost exclusively made up of immigrants and their descendants, these Americans with no historical ties to Orthodoxy, became a majority in a number of Orthodox jurisdictions in the United States and brought with them their cultural baggage—most importantly the Culture Wars. The changes were obvious and immediate, both in traditional Orthodox countries and in the diaspora. Of course, Orthodoxy has never been gay-affirming (des…

How a Ruling for Masterpiece Cakeshop Could Embolden White Nationalists

By Sunnivie Brydum

…loyed to undermine state—or even federal—protections aimed at combatting discrimination against any number of marginalized populations. “The cultural and political prominence of religious freedom as an American ideal draws people to it,” Wenger said. “The reason people appeal to it for all sorts of purposes is because it’s so culturally, politically, and legally powerful.” Indeed, as Wenger’s book documents in deep historical detail, the bedrock A…

Proposition 8—the Rematch?

By Bill Berkowitz

…can do that in their mother tongue, it’s much more powerful.” Breakaway Episcopalians—Part II: As discussed here last week, conservative clergy have decided to form an entity separate from the official Episcopal Church. According to the Christian Science Monitor, a “network of groups from the United States and Canada… [prepared to] unveil a draft constitution for a unified entity that they hope will be recognized by Anglicans elsewhere in the worl…

Do Atheists Belong in the Interfaith Movement?

By Chris Stedman

…ce, but are we so desperate for acceptance that we’ll allow others to condescendingly misdescribe us as adherents of a faith? Sorry, but I can’t get too excited about being permitted to drink at the Whites Only fountain because we can ‘pass.’” I’ll set aside my distaste for the bizarre (and far too common) parallel made between the atheist movement and the civil rights movement and address the meat of the argument: the fear that, in order to maint…

Conservative Christianity and Its Discontents

By Karl Giberson and Randall J. Stephens

…e Santorum is speaking for them. What are teachers to make of a claim by a scholar with scientific credentials who assures them that evolution is controversial—especially if that scholar is a religious believer who holds a PhD and shares their faith commitments? Anti-intellectualism is deeply rooted in American evangelicalism, reaching even into the classrooms of popular schools, like Cedarville University and Liberty University (the largest evang…

Are We Entering the End Times for Mainline Seminaries?

By Elesha Coffman

…hat does it mean when a school of God shutters? Students and faculty at Episcopal Divinity School in Boston are still reeling from the announcement that it would cease granting degrees after 2017 and is exploring options for its students, faculty, campus and remaining endowment. This announcement followed the similar, but more startling, May news that the country’s oldest graduate school of theology, Andover-Newton, would sell its campus, phase ou…

White Evangelical Leaders Already Distancing Themselves from the “81-Percenters”

By Neil J. Young

…ction. News media did not report, as Carter asserts, that “an overwhelming number of evangelicals” voted for Trump. Instead, news media, including the The New York Times, Washington Post and Fox News, to name a few, all made clear time and again that a majority of white evangelicals supported Trump. It’s true that in prior election cycles the media has not been good about distinguishing “evangelicals” from “white evangelicals”—a confusion that sch…