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Year-End Best Books in Race and Religion in American History

By Paul Harvey

…eration. The result is a landmark work in the field, and the creation of a new paradigm that will initiate conversations and foster intense arguments. Between the World and Me Ta-Nehisi Coates Spiegel & Grau July 2015 The latter portion of the book focuses on state-sponsored harassment of civil rights leaders. COINTELPRO, not surprisingly, plays a major role. The important point here, though, is not that the FBI invented anti-black surveillance an…

Church of Pain: Religion, Ritual, and the Body in the New Serial Spin-Off, “S-Town”

By Spencer Dew

…hour to a tattoo artist, McLemore submitted to the needle, sometimes for a new piece, sometimes merely for more ink on top of old, a tattoo sunk on top of an existing tattoo, turning his body into a black palimpsest. Sometimes, even, the needles were empty, no ink at all, “no point to the tattoo,” as the artist says, except the pain itself, a simultaneous centering of the self and a distraction from consciousness—a kind of “therapy,” for an invete…

The Economy is Racism: Ending Race-Based Economic Violence is the Real Challenge of This Moment

By Peter Laarman

…today than those feckless Abolitionists did back then amounts to a low bar, please think again—and don’t flatter yourself. There are no shortcuts and no quick fixes to be had in meeting the challenge we face now. It’s going to be a revolution—a new social contract with new power arrangements—or nothing. Beware of any faith leader who tells you otherwise. God is once again “trampling out the vintage“: nothing less than the complete overthrow of whi…

The Political Strategist’s Conversion that Led to Ron Paul’s New Faithiness

By Sarah Posner

…ul’s opposition to the Iraq War got his attention, said Wead, who says he knew that there were no weapons of mass destruction, and that “we were conned.” Wead, who was instrumental in intertwining religious conservatives in presidential politics, now says he’s undergone a conversion: he thinks evangelicals have been led astray by the culture war focus on establishing a “Christian nation.” He pointed to Paul’s support for building mosques, despite…

Graham’s Muslim Brotherhood Conspiracy Theory Not New

By Sarah Posner

…Muslim Brotherhood has infiltrated the U.S. government is “new.” It’s not new — Graham certainly didn’t invent it — and that’s important not just because what Corn writes isn’t accurate. It’s essential to understand the interaction between evangelical powerbrokers, who were once thought to direct the conversation, and the right-wing echo chamber in which evangelicals are now often the echoers, rather than the directors. Corn: In an interview last…