At Religion Dispatches, Sarah Posner dismisses the possibility that, with Sarah Palin as its leader, the Christian right could become a women's movement
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Twitter and the death penalty
by Jake AlterEarlier this week, The Washington Post's religion blog, "On Faith," posed a question regarding Utah Attorney General Mark Shurtleff's controversial tweet following the execution of convicted killer Ronnie Lee Gardner.
June 23, 2010
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Notes from the field
by The EditorsOver the course of the next three months, a small group of SSRC graduate student fellows associated with “After Secularization”—a summer research fellowship on new approaches to the study of religion and modernity—will be blogging regularly for The Immanent Frame. Read all of the latest contributions to “Notes from the field.”
June 23, 2010
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8: The Mormon Proposition
by Jake AlterJoanna Brooks, a scholar of religion who grew up in a conservative Mormon household, writes about Mormon opposition to same-sex marriage, which she argues is regularly ignored by progressive Americans as fringe politics.
June 23, 2010
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Christian voices oppose educational reform
by Amanda KaplanPresident Obama's recent initiative, Race to the Top, has received growing opposition from the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the US. Maintaining that competition is detrimental to education, this organization exceeding 45 million members wrote to the White House, "outlin[ing] its reasons for opposition, which include democratic governance of public schools over marketplace pressures, each child's right to educational opportunity, the use of business-style jargon and evaluations in the discussion of education reform, and the disrespect shown by the reform movement toward public school teachers and principals."
June 23, 2010
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Beyond the God gap
by Ruth BraunsteinPublic Religion Research and Third Way have jointly released a new report, Beyond the God Gap, which presents new research on "the beliefs and values underlying attitudes toward politics and cultural and domestic policy issues among white evangelical Protestants, white Mainline Protestants, African American Protestants, and Roman Catholics (Latino and non-Latino), which together account for about three-quarters of the U.S. population."
June 24, 2010
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A Response to Susan Jacoby on the Oil Spill
by Sam HanSusan Jacoby, author of The Age of American Unreason and a contributor to the On Faith column at The Washington Post, has recently argued that the oil spill (more like a leak in my opinion) is being headed by Unreason.
June 24, 2010
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Is internet dependence sacrilegious?
by Amanda KaplanCommenting on Nicholas Carr's The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains, Religion dispatches' Jonathan L. Walton cites an absent discussion: the relationship between texting, twittering, and tweening and religious worship.
June 24, 2010
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“Did Moishe Rosen die a Jew or a Christian?”
by Jake AlterMoishe Rosen, a controversial figure and founder of Jews for Jesus, died this past May. At The Guardian, Jonathan Romain discusses the movement and its controversial standing within the Jewish community.
June 24, 2010
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Mapping religion in American places
by John SchmalzbauerFrom H. Paul Douglass to Nancy Ammerman, sociologists have mapped the spiritual and religious ecology of American places. In the 1990s, the Polis Center’s Project on Religion and Urban Culture at IUPUI painted a systematic portrait of religion in Indianapolis. Led by a team of sociologists and historians, it produced university press books, videos, photography […]
June 24, 2010