...for instance, the remarks of John Piper, former pastor of Bethlehem Baptist Church in Minneapolis, Minnesota, at the National Ligonier conference in 2007, citing a previous speech by Michael Novak...
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Oprah: The Gospel of an Icon ![]()
by Daphne Brooks
OMG: Oprah Winfrey, pop religion, and the temple of our familiar
...it’s because of what seems like a conflict in ideals”). For me, her question led to more questions. For instance, are there particular types of marketplace objects (like bicycles!) that...
Ecologies of the dead and living: Mourning out of place
Dust to dust: A religion of return migration
here & there ![]()
by Ruth Braunstein
Christian leaders support voting rights for ex-felons
...camps, convened in Washington. And in a rare instance of true bipartisanship, the group voiced support for legislation—including the Democracy Restoration Act—specifically tailored to meet the needs of the most...
Oprah: The Gospel of an Icon ![]()
by Leigh Eric Schmidt
Oprah the Omnipotent
Kathryn Lofton’s new book on Oprah Winfrey sparkles with coruscating turns of phrase and often glittering analysis of American religion and consumer culture. “Oprah is an instance of American astonishment...
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by Jake Alter
The Son of Sam’s evangelical following
...deplore his murderous past, have become friends, acquaintances and in some instances a kind of ad hoc set of assistants. This circle of admirers, to a great degree, is made...
Beyond critique ![]()
by Katerina Dalacoura
The secular in non-Western societies
The Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, and the wider Islamist movement of which it is an instance, are in many ways a secular phenomenon. If we define “secularity” not only as...
Beyond Religious Freedom ![]()
by Elizabeth Shakman Hurd
Beyond Religious Freedom—An introduction
...practices, and institutions that cannot be reduced to either of those two sides. And yet, so many contemporary governmental efforts depend on a particular instantiation of that binary to “solve”...
Antiblackness as religion: Black living, Black dying, and Covid-19
Bearing witness to testimonies of antiblackness