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Originalism Needn’t Always Result in Abortion Bans — Just Ask al-Qaʿida?

By Nathan French

When it comes to Roe v. Wade, some pro-choice voices have a jihadism problem. Posting about “Shariʿa” won’t help them. Critiquing originalism might. A subset of those infuriated by the leaked draft of a Supreme Court opinion that would overturn fifty years of abortion jurisprudence sought to express their disgust and outrage at the Christian Right and its project by drawing comparisons to Islamic law (Shariʿa), to al-Qaʿida, and to the Taliban. T…

The Lethal Mix of Religion and War, Or, Why the World Ended in 1099

By Jay Rubenstein

…was, at the time, the biggest war in the history of the Middle Ages. After French and German warriors conquered Jerusalem in 1099, there was incredible excitement back home—a sense that one of the most important events in history had just happened and that the people who had fought in this war were among the most virtuous men who had ever lived. When the veterans returned home, however, they acted in ways far from saintly. One of the heroes of the…

Trump’s Magical Appeal: A Dated Anthropologist Offers Clues

By Elijah Siegler

…o this exercise, arguing that Trump’s appeal is best explained through the French sociologist Émile Durkheim. This kind of analysis can seem abstract. But as the public ritual of the Republican National Convention in Cleveland unfolds, religion-oriented analyses of Trump can be useful. As more and more studies are showing, politics isn’t just about policy. It’s also about identity, community, meaning and belief—in other words, the domain of religi…

Answering the Top 5 Questions About ISIS

By Haroon Moghul

…take seriously the idea they are extremists. In addition to killing large numbers of people, trying very hard to commit genocide, burning prisoners alive, and beheading innocent civilians, ISIS also uses rape as a tool of conquest, and slavery as a mechanism of control. All of this behavior is fundamentally in contradiction to core Islamic values and principles. In my longest piece on the topic, I discuss ISIS theology from the perspective of Isl…

The Critiques of Evangelical Writers Opposing Christian Nationalism Fail to Recognize Evangelicalism’s Troubling History

By David Hollinger

…s evangelicalism. One hopes that this collection of writers—notably, David French, Peter Wehner, Tim Alberta, Russell Moore, and David Brooks—succeed in weakening the minority authoritarianism at the heart of Christian nationalism and of Trump’s popularity. But from their writing, one would conclude that people and groups with a novel sensibility had hijacked what had been, until their arrival, a wholesome, democracy-affirming, and love-centered e…

African Religious leaders complain about Obama advocacy for LGBT rights; Ultra-Orthodox Man Stabs Jerusalem Pride Parade Marchers, Again; Struggles over sexuality in Islam, Catholic, Orthodox, Anglican Churches; Global LGBT recap

By Peter Montgomery

…rch drew the attention of Russian media and was reported on by Le Temps, a French-language newspaper based in Geneva, Switzerland. Monday night, in [Ulyanovsk] this city 560 miles west of Moscow, the faithful gathered and started to boo the metropolitan Bishop Anastasius before he could even begin his sermon. Newly appointed at the city’s church, Anastasius has been haunted by a scandal since 2013, in which he allegedly harassed homosexuals at the…

Despite Reversal on Hillary and Hellen Keller, ‘Christian Americanist’ Bias Remains in Texas Curriculum

By David R. Brockman

…on. After the board finished amending the streamlined TEKS this month, the number of Christian references stands at 11, though Hinduism is mentioned only twice, while Buddhism, Confucianism, and Sikhism receive only one mention apiece. And the revised standards still require students to learn about Christianity’s major divisions (Catholicism, Orthodoxy, Protestantism), but not those of other major religions such as Islam (where the Sunni-Shia divi…

Atheism’s Dark Side Aiding the Trump Agenda

By Stephen LeDrew

…y it was reported that “likes” on his Facebook page included Donald Trump, French far-right politician Marine Le Pen, and “atheist scientist” Richard Dawkins. The immediate reaction was to point to the toxic effect nationalists like Trump and Le Pen are having on our political culture, now materialized to tragic effect in what appears to be an ethnically motivated act of violence. But these defenders of a white Christian vision of nationhood have…

The Martyrdom of Cecil the Lion

By Jacob J. Erickson

…cal histories of these animals, hunting, and sport. She observes that in a number of apocryphal stories, lions and Christians (usually women) are thrown into the arena for the entertainment of the Roman Empire. Hunting, executions, and fights used animals and human others for the sake of gruesome entertainment. In many of these stories, the animals refuse to kill the martyr, thereby witnessing to their faith and innocence. But the games reinforced…

The White Nationalist Fantasy of Ancient Christian-Muslim Conflict Would Get an ‘F’ in History Class

By Tony Keddie

…t, nor was it a battle between the Christian West and Eastern invaders, as French nationalists and white nationalists like Steve Bannon have argued. James Palmer, a medieval historian, has noted that Martel was no defender of Christendom, and his ecclesiastical peers denounced his actions. In the historical imagination of white nationalists, however, this event looms large as the earliest example of Euro-Christian resistance against hostile Arab-M…