https://politicalresearch.org/ The latest research related to fundamentalism en https://religiondispatches.org/2018/03/27/when-you-argue-fundamentalist-you-dont-know-what-youre-asking One of the biggest questions I received after writing about Trump, evangelicals, and the end of the world for RD was this: how do we talk to people who see the world as collateral damage in the pursuit of the… Tue, 27 Mar 2018 01:51:51 EDT Nelle Smith 457ce1eb-cf07-41cf-be6e-c10bba19d5e7 https://religiondispatches.org/2018/03/12/forgotten-nones-high-cost-fleeing-fundamentalist-religion According to a recent study, those who have a stable religious or secular identity generally report greater well being; however, those who consider leaving religion but stay, tend to experience poorer mental health over time, compared to those who are… Mon, 12 Mar 2018 03:47:26 EDT Andreea Nica 3503f5b6-a2c1-4dca-a50c-a355bdb1ce4b https://religiondispatches.org/2016/11/30/re-branding-not-cure-campolo-claiborne-miss-core-problem-evangelicalism There certainly was a time when leading evangelicals railed against money grubbing and corporate domination, but that time is long past. Wed, 30 Nov 2016 03:27:56 EST Peter Laarman eb73c381-ea3a-4b2a-92c0-09bbf5c8a919 https://religiondispatches.org/2016/04/20/looking-islam-all-wrong-places-response-nabeel-qureshi Nabeel Qureshi made his debut into the evangelical anti-Muslim apologetics market with his conversion narrative Seeking Allah, Finding Jesus, published in 2014. In the past, Qureshi has professed charity towards Muslims themselves even as he accuses his former religion of… Wed, 20 Apr 2016 06:00:12 EDT Jonathan Homrighausen, Elijah Reynolds 446c198b-3b4d-46e1-8ef6-8ffb07ea842d https://religiondispatches.org/2015/06/26/anti-gay-evangelicalism-norm-less-rosy-take-evangelical-tipping-point “I held my tongue as she told me, ‘Son, fear is the heart of love.’ So I never went back.” – Death Cab for Cutie, from “I Will Follow You into the Dark” (2005) Ahead of today’s historic Supreme Court… Fri, 26 Jun 2015 09:23:08 EDT Chrissy Stroop dfa7536f-3ac5-469c-90bb-b1cb60bcd939 https://religiondispatches.org/2015/06/01/why-christian-fundamentalism-still-big-deal-us-politics-and-how-it-got-way An interview with Jonathan J. Edwards on “Superchurch: the Rhetoric and Politics of American Fundamentalism” Mon, 01 Jun 2015 05:39:14 EDT Eric C. Miller b022e4ec-1378-4db4-bff4-023106731ab0 https://religiondispatches.org/2015/05/27/did-duggars-fundamentalism-cause-sexual-abuse-not-so-fast Now that the sexual abuse allegations against Josh Duggar have resurfaced and made the news, many people are inquiring whether the Duggars’ belief system perpetuates sexual abuse. In light of other high-profile sexual abuse scandals among the Duggars’ associates—most notably… Wed, 27 May 2015 11:52:18 EDT Sarah Morice-Brubaker 0097b038-5fd7-45dc-924a-aaba7518c8a7 https://religiondispatches.org/2015/03/06/bill-oreillys-biblical-misremembering The Bible is full of mistakes. Fri, 06 Mar 2015 02:13:51 EST Jess Peacock 08f8933b-bb9e-4ea9-9c80-655ac4b0b8bb https://religiondispatches.org/2015/02/23/graeme-wood-isis-no-such-thing-objective-critique The debate continues to deepen over Graeme Wood’s Atlantic cover story on ISIS: Murtaza Hussain has noted how Wood ignores debates among Islamic intellectuals, Juan Cole argues for the fringe status of the group, likening them to Kentucky snake handlers… Mon, 23 Feb 2015 03:52:48 EST Eric M. Gurevitch ca77d282-c9fd-4af2-b36e-b83bafb7c04d https://religiondispatches.org/2014/12/02/its-apocalypse-stupid-understanding-christian-opposition-obamacare-civil-rights-new-deal Even if we haven’t listened, every generation of evangelicals and fundamentalists says it: Their apocalyptic theology makes them more active not less. Tue, 02 Dec 2014 03:57:22 EST Daniel Silliman 4bcc2270-6afa-4b9b-994c-b69c8ca13177 https://religiondispatches.org/2014/09/23/cyclops-baby-apocalypse-another-day-isis-fundamentalism Earlier this month, Vocativ reported on rumors circulating on Twitter and some Islamic websites that a baby born with a rare birth defect known as cyclopism is actually the Muslim anti-Christ. According to this speculation, the baby is the Masih… Tue, 23 Sep 2014 10:32:52 EDT Joseph Laycock b1ff853f-a07a-43e7-8dc5-329ed206ccd4 https://religiondispatches.org/2014/09/04/black-and-white-and-blood-red-roots-isis The latest gruesome video released by ISIS showing the beheading of American journalist Steven Sotloff, just thirteen days after the execution of James Foley, is a stark reminder – if such reminders are necessary – of the blood-thirsty brutality of… Thu, 04 Sep 2014 11:15:47 EDT Hasan Azad 6f0a222c-e283-4485-8abd-b3accf6cefc6 https://religiondispatches.org/2014/07/28/when-religion-becomes-trap-rather-safety-net “My situation isn’t isolated to Mormonism. But to suggest that it doesn’t exist in Mormonism is just bullshit. Abuse of power happens in every religion.” Mon, 28 Jul 2014 12:56:36 EDT Holly Welker f3c98fa8-4229-472e-bf7e-573e4ffd6f6a https://religiondispatches.org/2014/04/07/noah-cosmos-controversies-not-about-biblical-literalism The Noah controversy has more to do whether or not Aronofsky approached the sacred text with the proper reverential attitude, placing himself under the authority of scriptural truth; Biblicism is the issue, not biblical literalism. Mon, 07 Apr 2014 02:32:53 EDT Dan Mathewson 6fa25143-d812-4b91-a7b0-dca6f0f31e7e https://religiondispatches.org/2013/08/20/stephen-pinkers-controversial-polemic-defense-scientism-bad-they-say Well, yes and no. Tue, 20 Aug 2013 02:10:34 EDT Michael Schulson c7a086fe-b8e9-4731-b411-033343abbab3 https://religiondispatches.org/2013/06/24/muhammads-doubt Is there any there there without it? Mon, 24 Jun 2013 05:04:44 EDT Lesley Hazleton 6cbbbfbb-48ac-403b-a92f-9344a81d3898 https://religiondispatches.org/2013/02/04/sin-not-crime-conversation-patrick-cheng “For me, as a queer person of color and an Asian American who is also gay, I often feel like I’m never able to bring the two together, I’m always forced to choose. Will I be Asian American today or gay today? In the LGBT community, even where I feel really safe, I rarely hear anything that affirms my cultural background or the racism of notions of beauty in the community.” Mon, 04 Feb 2013 12:21:14 EST Candace Chellew-Hodge 9bfa3b76-26f8-4391-897e-06d0f0f8ebb4 https://religiondispatches.org/2012/11/05/real-reason-vagina-gate The Souther Baptist Convention’s Lifeway Christian Resources refused to stock Rachel Held Evans’ book ostensibly because it contains the word “vagina.” Or is it that a female writer will only be acceptable if she recites SBC rhetoric, fully supports SBC leaders, and knows her place at home and at church? Mon, 05 Nov 2012 06:58:13 EST Jerry Faught 16e6f147-1459-4229-b09c-27146f1951c5 https://religiondispatches.org/2012/10/09/forget-debates-and-dialogue-about-lgbt-justice-religious-right-isnt-listening For those still in denominations like the United Methodists that are not accepting of LGBT people, go to your church and put a note in the offering plate that says you won’t give until things change. Every time we’ve tried that, the pastors have called people in immediately to talk to them and it opened up a dialogue in that church that was serious because they could see that that could spread among other people who are pro-gay. One thing you can do is withhold your money. Why are we supporting our own oppression? Tue, 09 Oct 2012 06:39:16 EDT Candace Chellew-Hodge 4e1cb59e-748e-4836-8357-a360b5e9027f https://religiondispatches.org/2012/09/10/not-gods-army-front-lines-fight-against-proselytizing-us-military Our job is to keep separate the spiritual and temporal, church-state, metaphysical and physical where all the nuclear weapons are. We’re doing this in the technologically most lethal organization ever created by humankind—our U.S. military. Mon, 10 Sep 2012 05:13:45 EDT Candace Chellew-Hodge 0932a254-9259-41e7-ad78-630cabef7aac https://religiondispatches.org/2012/01/09/bible-good-book-god-didnt-write-it “Christianity is not supposed to make you secure. Christianity is supposed to give you the courage to walk into an insecure world knowing that you’re not alone and to embrace the radical insecurity. If you’ve got to spend your time proving that you’re better than someone else—males are better than females, whites are better than blacks, heterosexuals are better than homosexuals—you’re always building yourself up by pushing somebody else down. But, you shouldn’t need to build yourself up unless you’re radically insecure. Religion feeds into that radical insecurity with triumphalism—ours is the only religious route you can take to get to God. That’s a really strange idea.” Mon, 09 Jan 2012 01:23:15 EST Candace Chellew-Hodge 4a974eb8-4866-4624-a9ab-0a0dd9076cbd https://religiondispatches.org/2011/11/30/new-york-times-columnist-peter-steinfels-letter-rd-author-response Mark D. Jordan’s recent RD op-ed garnered a response from Peter Steinfels, whose final New York Times column was referenced in the article. Here are both Steinfels’ letter, and Jordan’s response. Wed, 30 Nov 2011 02:02:46 EST Mark D. Jordan fb921b19-49c7-4e12-bf64-c877ef46e0b9 https://religiondispatches.org/2011/10/31/atheism-doomed Is militant atheism, like religious fundamentalism, the last gasp of a dying worldview? Mon, 31 Oct 2011 01:28:12 EDT Paul Wallace 9b351f63-1af1-4694-8b58-9b31c9774ddf https://religiondispatches.org/2011/06/16/mass-bible-based-sexual-dysfunction-root-culture-wars-frank-schaeffer-breaks-it-down “If anyone can look at the way religion has treated and treats women and not be pissed off, they have something wrong with them. So, yes, I intend on pissing off every misogynist homophobic religious conservative and/or empire-building neo-conservative imperialist supporter of our permanent war economy stuck in the ideological straightjacket that I used to so proudly wear.” Thu, 16 Jun 2011 10:43:33 EDT Frank Schaeffer 96368eac-715b-4f4e-ba66-707d56a19bae https://religiondispatches.org/2011/06/02/coming-out-christian-campus-then-and-now People kept asking, “Why would you go to a Christian school if you’re gay?” The question is unfair. So many factors—funding, family, a deep connection to the religious culture—could place a student at Harding. While more and more students may show up their first year of college with self-awareness about sexual identity, as they do at the public university where I teach, I know it is difficult to come to terms with yourself if you grow up in fundamentalist Christian culture. Many of us come out while in college; at Harding finding ourselves in a world in which something fundamental about ourselves is a category of silence at best, more likely a category of condemnation and stigmatization. Thu, 02 Jun 2011 11:01:52 EDT Ed Madden 13a62012-e18b-441d-b5ef-9c9321675ca9