In a photo essay at Tikkun Daily Blog, photographer Julia Dean and writer Jay Adler portray the American Indian Church in San Carlos, Arizona. Katharine Sontag introduces the photo essay...
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Parodic politics
by Melissa Wilcox...early 1980s and, along with Gay Men’s Health Crisis in New York City, were the first to develop sex-positive safer sex materials. They continue to produce and distribute these materials,...
Obama’s reductionist moment
by John SchmalzbauerIn his ill-chosen remarks to an April 6, 2008 San Francisco fundraiser, Barack Obama showed the danger bad social science poses to progressive politics. Commenting on jobless communities in rural...
Contrasting progress on democracy in Tunisia and Egypt
by Alfred Stepan...six, largely political, reasons. Most importantly, the military is not complicating the transition to democracy. Tunisia not only has a small military of only about 36,000 men, but since independence,...
Complicating hate speech matters
...Manglerud in Oslo East in 2013. The establishment of this unit has meant that the number of hate speech prosecutions and convictions under Norwegian General Code Section 185 has significantly...
Religion for commoners
by Nathan Schneider...Partly as a result of Raymond’s essay, the code underlying Netscape went open source, and the community-maintained Firefox browser was born. Much of the Internet—from Linux servers to Android phones—now...
Corporation as sect
by Kathryn Lofton...point. The point is that the tax code commands that religious organizations give a certain account of themselves in order to have certain benefits. In order to give Hobby Lobby...
Egypt’s revolution and the new feminism
by Margot Badran...stage of building a new Egypt began. The youth-driven Revolution of 2011, with its call for freedom and justice, is inscribing a new feminism, with a fresh lexicon and syntax....
Values and violence: Thoughts on Charlie Hebdo
...California, Santa Barbara. Cécile Laborde, Professor of Political Theory, University College London Vincent Lloyd, Assistant Professor of Religious Studies, Georgia State University Tariq Modood, Professor of Sociology, Politics and Public...
A theodicy of the unliving, or, Why I won’t teach my Black Lives Matter class anymore
...and, by the time we are done, they can articulate the religious dimensions of antiblackness, particularly when it comes to state-sanctioned violence. Many students—quite a few of whom are black...