https://politicalresearch.org/ The latest research related to demons en https://religiondispatches.org/2024/12/20/hindu-nationalism-poses-threat-democracy-and-muslims-both-india-and-us While rising anti-Muslim violence and sentiment in India has been making global news since Hindu nationalist prime minister Narendra Modi’s first election in 2014, many don’t realize that such policies and attitudes also harm American Muslims. Like many other religious… Fri, 20 Dec 2024 01:46:21 EST Yasmine Flodin-Ali a3242a3a-8d21-42ea-a734-20c09667c433 https://religiondispatches.org/2024/12/10/coverage-tucker-carlsons-demonic-assault-missed-importance-man-he-shared-story “Physically mauled” is how Tucker Carlson refers to the alleged demonic assault he suffered in his own bed a year ago. Carlson’s comments, clipped from a larger documentary, have been covered by a variety of news outlets and social media… Tue, 10 Dec 2024 01:14:09 EST Sarah Riccardi-Swartz 1f351e11-b5e6-4e30-847d-74e1de9b014c https://religiondispatches.org/2024/11/24/trumps-cabinet-and-other-picks-paint-picture-christian-nationalist-kakistocracy Benjamin Franklin’s hope and warning, “A republic, if you can keep it,” resonates with too many of us these days. This has especially been the case watching the president-elect nominate his Cabinet, a wishlist of personnel that perfectly embodies Trumpism’s… Sun, 24 Nov 2024 01:01:51 EST Annika Brockschmidt, Thomas Lecaque c83347ce-8675-4bc3-8a9a-31b4ddc6e168 https://religiondispatches.org/2024/11/11/election-takeaways-too-transgender-or-us-shifting-right-dems-are-determined-learn-wrong I’ll confess something up front. I hate election postmortems. I’m not sure anybody likes them, especially after an election that may be catastrophic for one’s particular demographic . But given that, as usual, the Democratic leadership is already drawing all… Mon, 11 Nov 2024 05:23:42 EST Chrissy Stroop ba392608-cf68-43a7-bbc5-2d1be425120f https://religiondispatches.org/2024/11/01/jezebel-spirit-isnt-just-bible-based-misogyny-its-literal-demon-so-what-happens-when Most people, to the extent that they heard about it at all, probably interpreted the connection between Jezebel and Kamala Harris made by conservative Christians as more or less an expression of sexism and racism filtered through a biblical lens… Fri, 01 Nov 2024 02:19:53 EDT Michael E. Heyes 36888216-9918-4f71-9bc4-b26b9fae9c5b https://religiondispatches.org/2024/10/24/match-made-hell-demons-have-become-serious-force-us-politics-weve-seen-show Since Donald Trump began campaigning, demons have been a small but growing part of political news. You may remember such scintillating stories as the hydroxychloroquine-hawking physician Stella Immanuel warning that “demon sperm” might cause birth defects; a Catholic priest in… Thu, 24 Oct 2024 05:48:46 EDT Michael E. Heyes 8bb8421d-f36b-4992-b076-43ea457d265c https://religiondispatches.org/2024/10/17/packed-threats-political-violence-media-largely-ignore-nars-million-women-rally-dc On October 12th one of the most remarkable political statements of any religious leader in this or any election season was broadcast live from an all-day rally of tens of thousands of people on the Washington Mall. The event, called… Thu, 17 Oct 2024 05:52:56 EDT Frederick Clarkson d7011e5c-ba42-4a40-91e7-5d12eb329deb https://religiondispatches.org/2024/10/09/new-doc-strives-christian-unity-what-if-unity-problem Pundits, academics, and church leaders alike decry our current age as a time of partisan rancor and disunity. People, we are told, are locked in “ echo chambers, ” and they refuse to listen to those with whom they disagree… Wed, 09 Oct 2024 03:38:40 EDT Noah Berlatsky 2dcddaea-7a37-47ab-9f8e-b75a65b9ae98 https://religiondispatches.org/2024/10/07/love-letter-and-challenge-evangelical-women-our-daughters-documents-devastating-cost Being of voting age in an American presidential election year is messy business. This has always been the case. A two-party system often means choosing the lesser of two evils—deciding which of one’s deeply-held beliefs are nonnegotiables and which can… Mon, 07 Oct 2024 03:43:09 EDT Caroline Matas 863fdcb4-93de-44c7-810d-2615fe81b005 https://religiondispatches.org/2024/10/01/have-blessed-day-may-not-be-sign-christian-nationalism-its-not-innocuous-either Is it valid to be annoyed when, as your plane pulls up to the gate at your destination, a flight attendant tells you and your fellow passengers, just before deplaning, to “have a blessed day”? Perhaps this question wasn’t on… Tue, 01 Oct 2024 02:18:55 EDT Chrissy Stroop 984bde28-07d8-43d7-8754-ec192057abb5 https://religiondispatches.org/2024/09/30/no-ordinary-anti-blackness-racist-history-pet-eating-conspiracy By now readers are likely familiar with the claim that Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio are eating peoples’ pets. It goes without saying that these claims are, as the Springfield City Manager put it, “ baseless . ” A week… Mon, 30 Sep 2024 02:33:32 EDT Kyrah Malika Daniels, Dianne M. Stewart 5f3da8e8-6b6c-44fb-820e-3b5444689eed https://religiondispatches.org/2024/08/28/will-iowas-abortion-ban-respect-religious-freedom Iowa’s 6-week abortion ban went into effect last month, meaning that more than 600,000 women of reproductive age now lack access to legal abortion in the state. While the law claims to offer exceptions for medical emergencies, rape, incest, and… Wed, 28 Aug 2024 03:30:38 EDT Christine Ryan 139cf649-0fe7-4f38-a91c-da1c9a459e96 https://religiondispatches.org/2024/08/21/quiet-damage-details-heartbreaking-effect-qanon-five-american-families-critical The outlines of QAnon conspiracy theories are by now familiar to many. The battle of good-versus-evil personified by Donald Trump and the Deep State, which somehow also embroils bizarre and gruesome allegations of child trafficking, drinking adrenaline compounds to get… Wed, 21 Aug 2024 12:00:43 EDT Susannah Crockford 4c8d61cb-aadc-4d87-90fd-e583441711f5 https://religiondispatches.org/2024/08/13/attacks-tim-walzs-lutheran-denomination-are-undermined-reality-i-mean-elca-even-exciting Almost as soon as presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris announced Minnesota Governor Tim Walz as her running mate, attacks focused on his association with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) started to roll in. Harris herself is a… Tue, 13 Aug 2024 04:58:19 EDT Daniel Schultz 1f567825-ffb2-4d33-9457-58dbe0802b0e https://religiondispatches.org/2024/07/29/rising-influence-new-apostolic-reformation-teachings-ominous-sign-us-especially-lgbtq Whether or not anyone recognizes it by name, the New Apostolic Reformation (NAR) is hitting its stride. After his June declaration that “every teacher, every classroom… will be teaching from the Bible,” Oklahoma Superintendent of Public Instruction Ryan Walters, who… Mon, 29 Jul 2024 11:48:35 EDT Jonathon Sawyer 5e940aa4-aa08-44ac-b58e-d8e19bf46bb7 https://religiondispatches.org/2024/07/01/closed-door-conference-poland-shows-how-us-conservative-christian-networks-export On an October night in 2023, Focus on the Family’s Glenn T. Stanton stood on a small stage in a windowless conference room in Warsaw, Poland, and gave a fierce lecture titled “How ‘Trans’ Reality is Dramatically Shifting.” For almost… Mon, 01 Jul 2024 03:56:56 EDT Antonia Gross, Rina Nikolaeva 397ea5b5-c164-4a52-a212-81f1421ce739 https://religiondispatches.org/2024/06/27/putins-year-family-declaration-blends-russian-nationalism-far-right-rhetoric-global-pro On Fridays, Religion Dispatches will present an article from the Spring 2024 issue of our sibling publication, The Public Eye—a quarterly magazine for analysis and commentary on the US and Global Right. On December 31, 2023, President Vladimir Putin wished… Thu, 27 Jun 2024 02:06:51 EDT Irina Smolevskaya fa2dc085-a928-435f-8275-2110d00b64d7 https://religiondispatches.org/2024/06/11/hello-trump-warriors-little-known-preachers-and-rabble-rousers-are-unregulated-id-felons “I don’t care about you, I just want your vote.” That’s the clip from Trump’s Sunday rally in Vegas that went viral: ex-president, navy blazer; open-necked white shirt, the sagging orange lizard hide shadowed by a bright red MAGA cap… Tue, 11 Jun 2024 04:41:30 EDT Jeff Sharlet e77c1358-1960-4e92-a0b9-dac888d52b55 https://religiondispatches.org/2024/06/05/amid-growing-legitimacy-challenges-its-right-and-left-vatican-seizes-control On May 17, the Vatican overhauled its process for evaluating and verifying supernatural phenomena, from apparitions of the Virgin Mary to her statues weeping tears or blood. The guidance released by the Vatican’s Dicastery of the Doctrine of the Faith… Wed, 05 Jun 2024 05:18:02 EDT Emma Cieslik 813b5a7f-dd34-49f4-9ecf-a8198c0f99d0 https://religiondispatches.org/2024/06/03/fox-news-farther-right-calls-violence-and-retribution-follow-trump-verdict When Donald Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee for president, was convicted on 34 felony counts in New York on Thursday, it was to be expected that the Right would take the news badly. And indeed—the various factions of the US… Mon, 03 Jun 2024 06:21:00 EDT Annika Brockschmidt beff88df-e4e0-4ed9-9a9d-34f4a7425664 https://religiondispatches.org/2024/05/28/alarming-new-report-shows-attacks-public-education-are-coordinated-right-wing-think Religion Dispatches recently sat down with Isaac Kamola, associate professor of political science at Trinity College, Hartford, and the director of the Center for the Defense of Academic Freedom at the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) to discuss how… Tue, 28 May 2024 04:45:01 EDT Hialy Gutierrez 5bb9a8f2-9add-46f5-8b13-5d6b40a14065 https://religiondispatches.org/2024/05/23/first-it-was-insurrection-flag-now-supreme-court-justice-alito-caught-flying-another-far Some things regarding the Supreme Court are not surprising. For example: Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito who, along with Clarence Thomas forms the extreme Right flank of this Court (which is saying something), doesn’t like women very much. Or abortion… Thu, 23 May 2024 08:58:44 EDT Annika Brockschmidt dea7d5c3-022f-4f73-9b22-4e6e12cc4482 https://religiondispatches.org/2024/05/23/reporters-guide-new-apostolic-reformation-revised-2025 The story of the New Apostolic Reformation (NAR) lives at the epicenter of the intersection of politics and religion in the US—and reporting about it is as essential as it is challenging. The story of NAR is happening in the… Thu, 23 May 2024 04:58:12 EDT Frederick Clarkson, André Gagné 718434ec-a88e-45dd-910b-153d686ea9bf https://religiondispatches.org/2024/05/22/unified-reich-scandal-feature-not-bug-trumps-brand-american-fascism Donald Trump has shown the public many times who he is and in whose political tradition he’s planted himself. With the debate about the accuracy of using the “f-word” (i.e. fascism) in regard to Trumpism ever raging, the former president… Wed, 22 May 2024 04:28:42 EDT Annika Brockschmidt afce541d-cf29-42de-b09e-188d5bd2650e https://religiondispatches.org/2024/05/10/wheres-wallnau-nar-apostle-takes-aim-swing-counties-battle-mountain-government Just as they prophesied Trump’s victory and collaborated in the 2020 attempted coup, the Trump wing of the New Apostolic Reformation is on the offensive once again, waging a campaign in counties they think will swing the 2024 presidential election… Fri, 10 May 2024 05:22:29 EDT Frederick Clarkson 8198eb41-dfac-463b-b7a7-3c59af04b5d8