Religion Dispatches
Dawkins, Hitchens, Dennett—the new atheists are often out of their depth when it comes to real engagement with religious ideas. And what if the new atheism is not so much about theology as about politics?
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Review: D. Michael Lindsay’s Faith in the Halls of Power and Sean McCloud’s Divine Hierarchies.
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Is a faux ‘religious left’ being manufactured as an official counterweight to the religious right in the media? Religion Dispatches talks with veteran religious right-watcher Frederick Clarkson about a new book of essays on revivifying a religious left.
Read MoreReading Amy Sullivan’s The Party Faithful and Bishop Paul Moore’s spirituality and sexuality…
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A law professor goes on the road to visit the landmarks of the history of church/state issues in America and hijinks ensue.
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A growing movement among conservative Christians exhorts women to give up the foolish notion of independence and subordinate themselves to their husbands. In this excerpt from Quiverfull: Inside the Christian Patriarchy Movement, Kathryn Joyce connects the dots between cinnamon buns and submission.
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What’s the connection between feminism and the war on terror? How do indigenous activists use US influence to effect change in their own governments? Why was George H.W. Bush nicknamed “rubbers”? The author of a new book on reproductive rights in the global context answers these questions and then some.
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It was never about “gays vs. God” for lesbian and gay Christians. In Bulletproof Faith, a lesbian minister urges us all to become fundamentalists—but not the kind you think.
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Darwin’s abhorrence for slavery, and his determination to counter the wrongs being done in the name of science, was a spur to his research on evolution. He was committed to proving that humanity had a common ancestor.
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In an interview with Bruce Ledewitz on his forthcoming Hallowed Secularism, the law professor tells RD that the so-called New Atheists want to lead secularists, many of whom know very little about religion, into opposition to religion. But for secularism to be healthy, he says, it must learn from the wisdom of the religious traditions.
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