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“The Lord’s Standard of Morality” Promotes LDS Rape Culture

By Holly Welker

…vertent sight of a naked female thigh. Male missionaries, however, had gym classes scheduled throughout the day. They could and often did walk to and from their classes clad only in the skimpiest of shorts, their T-shirts in their hands or tossed over one shoulder. No one worried about the effect on young women of running into a gang of half-naked men—perhaps because we weren’t considered capable of any action that might endanger either them or us…

A Note to Megyn Kelly & NBC: How to Talk About Conspiracy Theories

By Julie Ingersoll

…cholar I’d like to offer some framing from my Religion and Popular Culture class last term, where we studied a series of conspiracy theories from the Illuminati to Pizzagate. As we often do in religious studies, we started with definitions. Importantly, there is such a thing as a conspiracy. People do conspire to commit crimes, to gain power, and probably to other ends. The difference between a conspiracy, and what we call a conspiracy theory (of…

Publisher Withdraws History of Hinduism, Amid Protest

By Laurie Patton

…which criminalized “the deliberate act intended to outrage feelings of any class by insulting its religion or religious beliefs.” And Section 295A was indeed subsequently enacted by the British because of the escalation of communal violence involving Muslims, Hindus, and other religious groups. As Shoaib Daniyal writes, Even at the time though, there was unease over the implications of the bill. Muhammad Ali Jinnah, who was a member of the committ…

The Gospel Gestalt: From Joyful Noise to Whitney Houston

By Douglas Harrison

…ealthy, white woman of social prominence in the rural South, and a working-class, (sort of) single black mother who profoundly, instinctively dislike one another without ever once openly countenancing race and American race history as a possible explanation for their troubles. Instead, they play out their conflict through their fight over the future of gospel music in the Pacashau, Georgia Sacred Divinity Choir, which, in addition to having the mo…

An American Muslim Abroad, Or, Things I Saw in Dubai

By Haroon Moghul

…helmingly South Asian, especially in Dubai—they form the service and labor class, but many South Asians are wealthy professionals and businesspersons. Dubai and the UAE have historically been more a part of the Indian Ocean economy than the Arab world, which is barely a coherent economic concept (countries like Turkey belong as much to Eastern Europe as the Middle East; the Gulf more to India and East Asia than to Arab and Berber North Africa). O…

What the Fight over Allah says about the Future of Evangelical Christianity

By Richard Flory

…ld ultimately lead not only to the end of Christianity but also the end of American culture—or at least the American culture that the mostly white, middle class evangelical world preferred. By World War II, the concern had broadened to the control of gender and sexuality. New rules were created, governing how and where men and women could interact and dress. Women were required to “cover up” so as to not tempt men with their sexuality, a force tha…

The World’s Most Influential Yoga Teacher is a Homophobic Right-Wing Activist

By Andrea Jain and Michael Schulson

…of pleasure. In other words, in an urbanizing world with a growing middle class, it is a flavor of politics that may be uniquely suited to global trends. An entrepreneur-guru like Ramdev might seem exotic to many American onlookers. But in some ways, he’s one expression of this global shift—a shift that’s perhaps related to the success of Donald Trump and the Brexit campaign—in favor of various forms of xenophobia, nationalism, and even patriarch…

Coffeehouse Churches and the ‘Party-on Messiah’: How I Lost One Leper Messiah, and Gained Another, Part 3

By Mark Dery

…kinned, purple-haired Jesus in the Sky with Diamonds stared soulfully from American newsstands—the Peter Max-style illustration for Time magazine’s cover story on “The Jesus Revolution.” Time dutifully informed Middle America that: Jesus is alive and well and living in the radical spiritual fervor of a growing number of young Americans who have proclaimed an extraordinary religious revolution in his name. […] Christian coffeehouses have opened in…

Don’t Cry For Me Argentina, Cry For the Catholic Church

By Mary E. Hunt

…elationship with the military government. It was fairly common among upper class Argentine families to have one son who was a general and one who was a bishop or cardinal, so the lines were thin between church and state.* The Apostolic Nuncio to Argentina at the time, Archbishop Pio Laghi, was rumored to play tennis with the generals who ruled the country, including Admiral Emilio Eduardo Massera of the junta. The Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo (wom…

Kim Davis, County Clerk, is Not a Person

By Ivan Strenski

…e been unlucky enough to have trespassed. Public offices are not like the “businesses” Tony Soprano “owns,” the use for which you have to pay what he demands on top of the cost of service. Tony’s “businesses” are very personal things, part of himself. And, thinking this way about public offices is precisely what defines “corruption” means. Flip the coin, and just as Kim Davis does not own the County clerkship, despite her mother having served in i…