drug war https://politicalresearch.org/ The latest research related to drug war en From Christian Temperance to D.A.R.E. — The War on Drugs Has its Roots in White Christian Nationalism https://religiondispatches.org/2023/07/13/christian-temperance-dare-war-drugs-has-its-roots-white-christian-nationalism Ana Marie Cox recently noted in The New Republic that conservative legislators in Florida and Texas have been resurrecting doctrines from the original Drug War that would permit authorities to prosecute even mild participation in drug use, such as handing… Thu, 13 Jul 2023 03:22:57 EDT Andrew Monteith 0469b5ee-498d-46af-9498-b1f432937000 Anti-Gay Campaign In Indonesia Leads to Arrests; Mexico's Religious Right Wars Against Secular State & LGBT Equality; Muslim Preacher Sparks Controversy in UK Re Death Penalty For Gays; Global LGBT Recap https://religiondispatches.org/2016/10/16/anti-gay-campaign-indonesia-leads-arrests-mexicos-religious-right-wars-against-secular Indonesia: Arrests Reflect Impact of Ongoing Anti-LGBT Panic Two men, aged 22 and 24, were arrested after people complained after they posted a photo of them kissing on Facebook. Religious and political leaders have pushed a campaign of homophobic rhetoric… Sun, 16 Oct 2016 11:29:41 EDT Peter Montgomery c5a060ca-b997-4e4b-98cc-5545ebfb4454 Justice v. Revenge: The Question Beneath the Question of Prison Reform https://religiondispatches.org/2015/07/23/justice-v-revenge-question-beneath-question-prison-reform This article is part of It’s Your Fault, The Cubit ’s series on blame in contemporary society. In her contribution to the series, journalist Xarissa Holdaway examines the American prison system and the fragile relationships among rehabilitation, containment, and revenge… Thu, 23 Jul 2015 12:38:59 EDT Xarissa Holdaway 6c010600-fc5f-4a2c-951e-ada5f1a9e873 Death Couture: Not For Halloween Only https://religiondispatches.org/2012/11/02/death-couture-not-halloween-only The highway that leads from the Mayan ruins of Chichen Itza back to the resort-lined coast of the Yucatan Peninsula runs straight through several small towns. And there beside the Virgin of Guadalupe and San Judas Tadeo a gargantuan lawn statue of La Santa Muerte—Mexico’s patroness saint of death—looms over the rest. Fri, 02 Nov 2012 11:58:34 EDT Stephen Andes 115f8b52-d335-4bae-aa3e-0f063a4a3129 Can a Progressive Atheist Defeat the Democrats’ “Family” Man in NC? https://religiondispatches.org/2012/04/17/can-progressive-atheist-defeat-democrats-family-man-nc Is the faith-talking, centrist, “new breed” of Democrat like Heath Shuler on its way out? Tue, 17 Apr 2012 03:25:31 EDT Sarah Jaffe 00cb038e-fc0f-4e9a-aad9-8a57926ef861 Mexico’s Own Satanic Panic https://religiondispatches.org/2012/04/12/mexicos-own-satanic-panic Mexico may have experienced its own “Manson moment” last month when eight devotees of “ Santa Muerte” were arrested for the murder of three people, allegedly as human sacrifices. While the media has been fairly restrained in covering this event, these murders will likely have lasting consequences for alternative religion in North America. Like the Manson murders, the Santa Muerte murders present a concrete instance of violence that can be used to support much broader claims about the dangers of the religious and cultural Other. Thu, 12 Apr 2012 10:54:14 EDT Joseph Laycock 2c14e204-7d8e-40bc-b897-0140669d63ec A Pope, a Poet, and a Drug War https://religiondispatches.org/2012/03/21/pope-poet-and-drug-war For the poet Javier Sicilia, a grieving father whose son was murdered by thugs last year, the pope’s visit is historic as well. Yet for him, and for those wounded voices he seeks to amplify, the pontiff’s arrival has less to do with pushing back secularism than with long-overdue attention to the ravages of Mexico’s drug wars. Wed, 21 Mar 2012 04:48:55 EDT Stephen Andes e103ff03-c350-4125-be38-29e99ff65d86 When Religion Kills: The Narco-Traffickers of the Borderlands https://religiondispatches.org/2011/08/29/when-religion-kills-narco-traffickers-borderlands When Anders Breivik slaughtered over 70 people in Norway last month, he did so in the name of the Knights Templar. Known for their extreme violence, this was the Roman Catholic crusading fraternity dedicated to the protection of Christian pilgrims in the Holy Land. Medieval military orders do not commonly hit the headlines, but oddly—as was noted in the Christian Science Monitor in late July—the Knights Templar were also implicated in another context, in another country, the same week that Breivik’s Manifesto began to circulate. Mon, 29 Aug 2011 09:29:12 EDT Luis Leon 1bb05393-2023-4a4d-aa98-daab74b7c8a0 Hope for an End to Mexico’s Narco-Violence: Response to Jennifer Scheper Hughes https://religiondispatches.org/2010/09/08/hope-end-mexicos-narco-violence-response-jennifer-scheper-hughes Reasons for cautious optimism. Wed, 08 Sep 2010 11:19:05 EDT Stephen Andes 32cc28ae-31b8-4e96-a959-26c27a6d46b4 Narco-Violence and the Failure of the Church in Mexico https://religiondispatches.org/2010/09/07/narco-violence-and-failure-church-mexico The mood in Cuernavaca was subdued this week after four decapitated bodies were discovered, hung from their feet from an overpass in yet another set of drug-related assassinations. Turf-battles between rival drug cartels have plagued the once-tranquil “city of eternal spring” since… Tue, 07 Sep 2010 04:02:56 EDT Jennifer Scheper Hughes 9630bcb4-1c07-4c34-9d43-ad4ae433cfdb Immigration Reveals the Many Faces of Jesus https://religiondispatches.org/2010/05/26/immigration-reveals-many-faces-jesus What does compassion really mean? Wed, 26 May 2010 09:56:01 EDT Candace Chellew-Hodge c8752c16-fa3f-4e5d-98fb-719c8f75811e