At Salon, Troy Williams retells an old Mormon tale and chastises likely Republican candidate for president, Mitt Romney, for abandoning his religion's socialist…
Modern Mormons and socialism
religion in the U.S.
Muslims and the Republican party
Nona Willis Aronowitz, at GOOD, discusses the impact that Republican, anti-Islamic rhetoric has had on Muslim voters.
Looking at religiosity and the Bible Belt
Richard Florida follows up on what exactly the recent Gallup poll on differences in religiosity by state tells us about…
The power of pluralist thinking
It is hard to remember, but religious pluralism meant something quite different fifty years ago. We have, I would argue,…
Rising alternatives to organized religion
In a recent issue of TIME, Amy Sullivan writes of a 2009 study by the Pew Forum on Religion &…
Religious freedom between truth and tactic
In the last issue of First Things, a self-described coalition of “Catholics and Evangelicals together” defends religious freedom. The coalition…
The naked public sphere?
In light of Rick Santorum's recent comments on religion and the public sphere, we asked a small handful of scholars…
The contraception mandate
In what is latest in a series of conflicts between the Obama administration and the Roman Catholic Church, a recent…
Do candidates need the Catholic vote anymore?
Ed Kilgore argues that American Catholics no longer represent a voting constituency that is significantly different from non-Catholics.
Catholic bishops take aim at White House
On Monday, November 14th, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) met in Baltimore to begin day 1 of its national meeting…