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Prophecy and Prosperity are Keys to Republican Christian Nationalism According to New Poll

By Daniel Schultz

This morning, PRRI released a new study on religious change in the US with implications for understanding support for White Christian nationalism and its avatar, Donald Trump. Those implications fall into two broad categories: religious change and the faith identity of Trump’s followers. To set the scene for the first category, let’s list some general points of interest: Mainline Protestants outnumber evangelicals by a very slim margin Only nine…

Beck Condemns “Bigotry for Sport” in New York

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…mn the anti-gay attacks on two teens and another man earlier this month in New York. This unimaginable hatred in the attacks that happened in the Bronx left me with a sinking feeling and a burning question: Who are we and who are we becoming? I think before we go any further as a nation, it’s time that we honestly examine ourselves. And to have a complete honest examination, we need to hear both the worst and the best. Hatred is growing in this co…

Exodus “Ex-Gay” Ministry Closes Up Shop

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…nsforming communities.” When LGBT people hear “safe” and “welcoming” and a new organization from Exodus, it’s natural to be suspicious. Julie Rodgers, a speaker for Exodus who has been with the ministry for ten years, since she was 17, says she understands that. “Time will reveal as we begin this new venture,” she told Religion Dispatches. “Alan coming out with this apology and this move is already an enormous step. We’re saying that gay people…

Time for Jews to Abandon the Old Foundation Myth of Israel?

By Ira Chernus

…hs of mutual benefit. Many Jewish peace advocates are not yet aware of the new myth they are implicitly telling, nor of the magnitude of change in Jewish life it can create. But new myths rarely arise by conscious effort. They simply grow organically as people pursue the goals they value most and talk to others about their efforts. Then one day someone wearing the mantle of authority (perhaps even a future prime minister of Israel) looks back and…

The Progress of Christ in Commercial America: A Review of Chris Lehmann’s The Money Cult

By Peter Laarman

…raham (including their shared mentorship of Robert Schuller); He shows how New Thought and prosperity preaching can easily, if not logically, coexist with premillennarian ideas about imminent destruction and judgment; He writes adeptly on the interplay between 1970s economic decline and its imposition of new gender roles, as well as the emergence of the Servant Leadership concept in conservative Protestant thought and in management theory; He care…

New Southern Baptist Curriculum Bashes Gays

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…ul and bullying lesson. The angry tone of this unit undercuts the wisdom of another unit that concludes with a quote from renowned religion scholar Robert Bellah: “We should not underestimate the significance of the small group of people who have a new vision of a just and gentle world. The quality of a culture may be changed when two percent of its people have a new vision.” Hopefully, some of these SBC teens will come to understand that demoniza…

Forget the Pope—We Need a New Caliph!

By Haroon Moghul

…made us realize Muslims could also benefit from genuine suspense and good news about their own religious leadership. Ever since secular Turkish general Mustafa Kemal Ataturk undid the Caliphate and ended the Ottoman Empire in 1924, the Muslim world, or at least the Sunni Muslim world, hasn’t had a Caliph; literally a ‘successor’ (to the Prophet Muhammad). That’s a long time to be alone. In light of America’s re-election of a Muslim President and…

Sex and the Chosen People: Be Fruitful and Multiply, Etc.

By Mandy Van Deven

…ut sex and sexuality. In order to do this, I needed people who absolutely knew their stuff, who could bring out the big guns both in terms of Jewish text and tradition, but also in terms of innovative thinking about gender, sex, and sexuality, who could marry a number of different lenses to create something new. It’s not a strictly academic work by any means; it’s meant to be accessible to people with all sorts of (and no) Jewish backgrounds—hence…

Chris Caldwell Sees Muslim Bogeymen. Again.

By Bruce B. Lawrence

…ke Leiken he too has spent much of the past decade thinking about Europe’s newest and growing minorities, though instead of framing his argument as “Europe’s Angry Muslims,” his new book is titled The Emancipation of Europe’s Muslims: The State’s Role in Minority Integration (Princeton University Press, 2012). Laurence traces what Caldwell denies ever could, or might already, exist: the largely unnoticed ways in which European governments have int…

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

By Paul Harvey

…Judith Weisenfeld NYU Press February 2017 And finally, Judith Weisenfeld’s New World A-Coming: Black Religion and Racial Identity During the Great Migration is, I think, an instant classic. It resurrects worlds of black American new religious movements from World War I to the mid-twentieth century, including the Moorish Science Temple, Father Divine, the Black Israelites (or Black Hebrews), and the Nation of Islam. Here, the emphasis is on what et…