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Why Has the Critique of Hypocrisy Run Out of Steam?

By Christopher Douglas

President Donald Trump recently led a ceremony on National Prayer Day, just a day after his lawyer admitted in a television interview that, contrary to previous declarations, the president had indeed paid off an adult film actress to keep quiet about a purported affair while his third wife was pregnant. Questions about the payment from journalists to the president were met with calls of “shame” by attending evangelicals—shame on the journalists f…

Why Has the Critique of Hypocrisy Run Out of Steam?

By Christopher Douglas

President Donald Trump recently led a ceremony on National Prayer Day, just a day after his lawyer admitted in a television interview that, contrary to previous declarations, the president had indeed paid off an adult film actress to keep quiet about a purported affair while his third wife was pregnant. Questions about the payment from journalists to the president were met with calls of “shame” by attending evangelicals—shame on the journalists f…

Kanye West’s Critique of Prosperity Preaching

By Josef Sorett

…tory of rap music, if for no other reason than the release of Kanye West’s debut album, The College Dropout, which featured the song “Jesus Walks.” This single signaled a new development in rap music, a genre that in its earlier years was firmly aligned with the visions of racial opposition and religious nationalism articulated by black Muslims, especially NOI and Five Percenters. As much as the song indicated a spiritual shift in hip hop—making J…

Thoreau’s Ferocious Critique of Philanthropy Does Not Make Him “Selfish”

By Alda Balthrop-Lewis

…t carve out more free time to think, to wrestle with the moral questions. Jedediah Purdy gives a nod to Thoreau’s legacy as a “genuine American weirdo” and reclaims Thoreau as someone who, far from retreating into self-centered isolation, wrote obsessively about his fellow citizens and how best to relate to them. Donovan Hohn even gives him back his humor—where Schulz wrote, “Thoreau regarded humor as he regarded salt, and did without”—gleaning pa…

Rapture Theology as Cultural Critique: What Camping’s Prediction Tells Us About Ourselves

By Rosamond C. Rodman

It has been a week since Christian radio broadcaster Harold Camping predicted the rapture, and we’re all still here. As the media has played its role as skeptic, and as religious leaders and scholars have engaged in apologetically-driven debates with Camping, something else has gone without comment. In fact, what has emerged in the fuss and flap about the rapture are revelations not about life in the next world but about life in this one. Camping…

How to Separate Jewishness from Zionism

By Shaul Magid

Now that the firestorm has largely died down over Peter Beinart’s The Crisis of Zionism we may be primed for new thinking in the debate about Jewish identity in the Diaspora in the next generation. Beinart’s Crisis is critical of present-day developments, but he writes from within Zionism, and is committed to the principles upon which the state of Israel was founded. Philosopher Judith Butler’s new book, Parting Ways: Jewishness and the Critique…

French Theologian Urges Islam to Self-Critique, Fails to Notice Log in Own Eye

By Daniel J. Schultz

In a piece published in Le Point on January 12th (translated and reprinted in Sightings on January 30th) eminent philosopher-theologian Jean-Luc Marion declared, “France is at war; we can no longer doubt that this is the case.” This war, according to Marion, has three fronts: first, the defense against terrorist attack; second, the war to defend secularism (laïcité); and third, the urgent need for Islam to “open itself to critique.” But who is th…

However Dull or Ham-Fisted, TV is not Oppressing Mormons — In Fact, We Have a Duty to Scrutinize Religious Institutions That Endanger Vulnerable People

By Megan Goodwin

Jana Reiss, a senior columnist for Religion News Service, recently surveyed a number of recent television programs that “present Mormonism in an unflattering light.” The column’s headline claims “Mormons are being oppressed and mocked on TV. We’re not alone.” Let’s review the tape. Mocked? Maybe. If nothing else, Hulu’s Under the Banner of Heaven certainly made a mockery of my already-scant patience. Oppressed? I don’t think that word means what…

A Portrait of Islamophobia?

By Mariam Durrani

Click to enlarge. On December 5th the New York Times published an editorial on its front page for the first time since 1920 to criticize politicians and call for more stringent gun control and regulation. But that was only half the story. The rest of the front page [image, right] featured four photographs, three of the apartment previously belonging to the San Benardino shooters and one of the female shooter’s face. The largest image of the apart…

Graeme Wood on ISIS: No Such Thing as Objective Critique

By Eric M. Gurevitch

…en over Graeme Wood’s Atlantic cover story on ISIS: Murtaza Hussain has noted how Wood ignores debates among Islamic intellectuals, Juan Cole argues for the fringe status of the group, likening them to Kentucky snake handlers, and, most recently, Daniel Haqiqatjou and Yasir Qadhi have argued for the need to put the Atlantic article in the wider context of anti-Muslim discourse produced after 9/11. Wood’s fundamental point is that the U.S. has misu…