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Heaven On Earth: A Non-Hysterical History of Shari’ah

By Haroon Moghul

…akistan, my experience was frequently disappointing. Although teachers and students acknowledged the importance of open-mindedness, their attitude toward the wider world was characterized by suspicion; and though they spoke with pride of Islam’s past, their familiarity with Muslim scholarship typically did not extend beyond a handful of well-known religious works. It was a long way from the ninth-century heyday of Islamic power, when Baghdad schol…

Where Did White Evangelicalism’s Hatred of Critical Race Theory Really Begin?

By Andre E. Johnson

Critical Race Theory (CRT), the academic study in which students and scholars examine how race and racism function, is under attack by conservatives who claim that CRT promotes a distorted view of American history through a racial and ideological lens. According to the Washington Post, conservative activists and politicians use the term as a “catchall phrase for nearly any examination of systemic racism in the present.” It’s often “portrayed as t…

Denying Darwin: Another Peculiar American Institution

By Lauri Lebo

…one of my talks, I joined a group of University College of London graduate students at a local pub. Gemma Gordon and Lindsay Hodgson, both products of England’s public schools, shared stories of being taught about the Bible in the classroom. But they also studied the Koran and the Torah. They learned about Hinduism and Buddhism. All students must take a comparative religions class. The notion that this isn’t the case in the United States is surpri…

Police Response in Uvalde Prompts Question: To Serve and Protect Whom?

By John Stoehr

…y. It was the teachers, who were not armed, who did the most to save their students. The real heroes are dead. The cowards are alive. But the living get to write history. White power incarnate As a matter of fact, police departments across the country do as much to influence public opinion as they do “crime fighting.” Their influence is so great the public finds it completely understandable when cops refuse doing their jobs in the face of mere scr…

When Rabbis Seized Control of the Synagogue: The Role of Authority in American Judaism

By Zev Eleff

…question. I suppose, as a teacher and scholar, my role is always to engage students and readers. Entertaining, then, is a core component in any successful scholarly enterprise. My book—I think anyway—doesn’t have an agenda. As a historian, I am moved to discover (or rediscover) new ideas and facts and reconstruct a historical moment with theses and other scholarly scaffoldings. That’s my truest agenda. If I, as a historian, and the reader, as a st…

The Humanities Make Life Bearable

By Peter Laarman

…es increasingly mirror the corruption of the corporate world, with growing numbers of senior administrators pulling down fat salaries while academic proletarians actually do the undergraduate teaching in humanities departments? Did it occur to them that there might be a problem with the way even some elite colleges now show their contempt for humanities instruction by relegating it to MOOCs? Or with the way students are effectively forced to take…

Evangelical “Sexual Purity” Is Not About Sex—It’s About Power

By Sara J. Moslener

…gues are able to use Virgin Nation to conduct their own conversations with students and readers. My unofficial audience is the group of people I mention above. Those who, like me, have been working to reclaim their adolescence from the fear-based rhetoric of the movement. (Before I ever started this project I watched Randall Balmer’s interview with Josh McDowell in Balmer’s video series, Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory. In that interview Balmer asks…

Sometimes, Sides Must be Taken: Obama and Lincoln

By Michael A. Elliott

…my flailing syllabus on more than one occasion. The Lincoln that I give my students is the Lincoln whom I acquired via Gary Wills, Harry V. Jaffa, and probably a host of other historians whose hagiography I have come to accept as my own. This is a Lincoln who shapes a secular creed for the United States, who canonizes the proclamation of equality in the Declaration of Independence as its central scripture, and who, in doing so, adds his own words…

God’s Heart Has No Borders

By Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo

…you had to leave out? Yes, lots. Over the years, and with the help of USC students, I collected more information than I could handle in the book, given the page limitations. For example, I gathered interviews with many priests and religious leaders who participated in the Immigrant Workers Freedom Ride, but none of that material appears in the book. I also followed and participated in some of the activities of two other religious groups working f…

“Ex-Gay” is Anti-Gay, Disguised as Compassion

By Tanya Erzen

…ministry the Exodus youth Web site asks, “What would you do if one of your students came to you and said, ‘I need to talk because I think I’m gay?’” It exhorts pastors to be a “person they can go to for help and advice.” And that accurate information will “breed a heart full of compassion.” Their ideal role for churches includes: “We are a safe place to be open about your struggle! Our vision is for the local church is to be the first place that a…