https://politicalresearch.org/ The latest research related to secularism en https://religiondispatches.org/2024/03/27/prophecy-and-prosperity-are-keys-republican-christian-nationalism-according-new-poll This morning, PRRI released a new study on religious change in the US with implications for understanding support for White Christian nationalism and its avatar, Donald Trump. Those implications fall into two broad categories: religious change and the faith identity… Wed, 27 Mar 2024 02:32:05 EDT Daniel Schultz 59b22e1d-db76-4c5b-814c-34bffebbc543 https://religiondispatches.org/2022/02/04/secularism-us-larger-more-diverse-and-more-dynamic-ever-you-wouldnt-know-it-media “I’m done waiting for mainstream media to cover nonreligious people and secular issues fairly and accurately,” says Sarah Levin , a woman who wears a number of hats in the institutional secular world. “I’m done waiting for them to stop… Fri, 04 Feb 2022 03:36:32 EST Chrissy Stroop 73de9be0-855e-4cba-b481-3a7546e21d9a https://religiondispatches.org/2018/02/20/atheists-color-transcend-opposition-religion-and-white-atheist-privilege-working-social I’m a black atheist who works in urban public schools of color that systematically funnel young people into juvenile jails and prisons. The school district I work in spends more on school police and paramilitary equipment than it does on… Tue, 20 Feb 2018 02:38:59 EST Sikivu Hutchinson 65120337-9163-4411-a860-3acee3542323 https://religiondispatches.org/2017/05/15/better-or-worse-rise-professional-wedding-celebrant “Morning Joe” co-anchors Mika Brzezinski and Joe Scarborough made headlines when they announced their recent engagement. A second wave of headlines revealed a proposition they’d received from someone who’d offered to officiate: none other than President Donald Trump. (These two… Mon, 15 May 2017 01:00:25 EDT Carlos Wilton eb7d9d5c-c6e7-4c65-aed4-b89178245c20 https://religiondispatches.org/2017/05/11/catholic-citizenship-massimo-faggioli-role-public-theologians-today Massimo Faggioli’s new book, Catholicism and Citizenship: Political Cultures of the Church in the Twenty-First Century, is based on a series of lectures and essays the Villanova professor began publishing and delivering during the 50 th anniversary of Vatican II… Thu, 11 May 2017 12:32:31 EDT Kaya Oakes 8910682f-ac94-4030-8172-555b6e352c13 https://religiondispatches.org/2016/10/07/jesus-atheists-and-agnostics-and-nones-and-everyone-else “There is absolutely nothing to stop us ‘seculars’ from following Jesus.” Fri, 07 Oct 2016 01:14:37 EDT Tom Krattenmaker 8ba6e63a-599b-4d8e-9ba4-ffa7bae8f8eb https://religiondispatches.org/2016/09/14/hijabilivesmatter-burkini-ban-black-hair-and-meaning-natural A woman’s bare head in France is no more “neutral” than white skin in the U.S. Wed, 14 Sep 2016 03:00:17 EDT Shaina Hammerman 10798271-010e-4ed5-ad6e-fc579d2fb4d1 https://religiondispatches.org/2016/06/29/should-nasa-have-given-11-million-theology-institute In 2014, NASA gave $1.1 million to the Center of Theological Inquiry , an independent institution “rooted in Christian theology.” The grant supports an initiative to study “the societal implications of astrobiology.” Surprisingly, it took more than a year for… Wed, 29 Jun 2016 06:10:00 EDT Michael Schulson c8a7eef3-6a38-450c-af28-a28fa6e3ec84 https://religiondispatches.org/2016/01/29/are-all-religious-experiences-reducible-16-desires For quite some time now, there’s been an irritating trend in the social sciences. In every generation, someone new comes along to explain how all of religion exists in order to satisfy this one particular human need. According to nineteenth-century… Fri, 29 Jan 2016 05:18:36 EST Andrew Aghapour 9d83ee37-a4a3-48f7-a947-b930be12f77f https://religiondispatches.org/2016/01/15/anglican-bishops-punish-episcopal-church-over-lgbt-inclusion-secularizations-role-moving Anglican Communion: Episcopal Church ‘Suspended,’ Anti-Gay Bishops Not Satisfied We reported last week that conservative Anglican bishops were threatening a walk-out of this week’s primates’ gathering, and talking about splitting the communion over issues including the Episcopal Church’s ordination of… Fri, 15 Jan 2016 11:53:01 EST Peter Montgomery de16cc46-396c-4e0c-8b31-4d9892f9cbad https://religiondispatches.org/2016/01/06/no-sunni-and-shia-muslims-have-not-been-fighting-forever Several days ago, before the Saudi government’s execution of prominent Shia religious leader Nimr al-Nimr took tensions between Riyadh and Teheran to a new high, a reader emailed me a deceptively ordinary question. It’s worth a second look, not only… Wed, 06 Jan 2016 01:34:45 EST Haroon Moghul b76b08df-c014-4333-aa04-f13d95b1d354 https://religiondispatches.org/2015/12/22/festivus-atheist-santa-and-invention-blasphemy A Q&A with S. Brent Plate Tue, 22 Dec 2015 11:00:50 EST Anita Little df0840dc-47b9-4212-ad20-970681aa9605 https://religiondispatches.org/2015/12/10/debunking-myth-democracy-incompatible-islam An excerpt from Asma Afsaruddin’s new book, “Contemporary Issues in Islam.” Thu, 10 Dec 2015 06:18:04 EST Asma Afsaruddin dc2380a2-0390-4a9d-a1a9-c69eb32a6ba7 https://religiondispatches.org/2015/12/07/how-are-nones-raising-their-children What inspired you to write Losing Our Religion: How Unaffiliated Parents Are Raising Their Children ? It was really my daughter’s questions that got me started with this. Sheila was three years old—that age when kids will ask why, why… Mon, 07 Dec 2015 01:55:31 EST Christel Manning 92e2ee0f-4d52-4a1c-b381-475b55c053a8 https://religiondispatches.org/2015/11/25/how-thanksgiving-became-all-dinner-no-worship Or, why we’re glad American culture settled on “Thanksgiving” over “Fasting and Humiliation.” Wed, 25 Nov 2015 08:36:26 EST Bruce David Forbes 57930533-780b-407e-917a-83229073da6d https://religiondispatches.org/2015/09/15/why-scientists-should-be-agnostic-or-why-lawrence-krauss-still-windbag A few months ago, one of us (okay, Andrew), referred to the esteemed physicist and public intellectual Lawrence Krauss as “a windbag.” One of us (Michael) can attest that Andrew is among the kindest, most thoughtful people he knows. So… Tue, 15 Sep 2015 08:43:15 EDT Andrew Aghapour, Michael Schulson 07a7ae03-e3b5-4181-8441-29464cd4d75e https://religiondispatches.org/2015/08/27/teaching-plato-palestine-can-philosophy-save-us-our-differences Imagine, for a moment, if, during the tense final hours of the recently concluded negotiations between Iran and the P5+1 world powers, Secretary of State John Kerry and Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif decided to set aside their remaining… Thu, 27 Aug 2015 04:10:05 EDT Jerome E. Copulsky fa70d2f4-6ecd-40ba-a7cb-c5ac2de92571 https://religiondispatches.org/2015/03/27/debate-rages-india-over-conversion-secularism-and-spiritual-violence Does an anti-conversion campaign threaten India’s secular ideals? Fri, 27 Mar 2015 01:49:03 EDT Murali Balaji ba8887d4-df1e-486b-ab2a-405d1b832b50 https://religiondispatches.org/2015/02/09/french-theologian-urges-islam-self-critique-fails-notice-log-own-eye In a piece published in Le Point on January 12 th (translated and reprinted in Sightings on January 30 th) eminent philosopher-theologian Jean-Luc Marion declared, “France is at war; we can no longer doubt that this is the case.” This… Mon, 09 Feb 2015 11:34:35 EST Daniel J. Schultz 59c6d82f-9e8e-44a6-b5bd-eeb3ba73feb5 https://religiondispatches.org/2015/02/04/david-brooks-rant-emptiness-secularism-poppycock New York Times columnist David Brooks is way behind the curve when it comes to post-theistic ethics and religion. In yesterday’s column, ” Building Better Secularists,” what he actually builds is a caricature of “secularists” which he then proceeds to… Wed, 04 Feb 2015 01:45:18 EST Daniel C. Maguire 3b7da043-4555-4796-b465-b2d275312445 https://religiondispatches.org/2015/01/26/get-hebdo-cartoons-you-must-get-laicite Laïcité is not equivalent to the American notion of “secularism.” Mon, 26 Jan 2015 12:39:17 EST Stephanie Frank 74d3e890-ec3d-4467-9151-c6db0968ef41 https://religiondispatches.org/2014/08/12/its-theology-not-baseball-misunderstanding-iraqs-sectarian-conflicts Nothing is as conducive to global radical mobilization as an exclusive theological summons. Tue, 12 Aug 2014 12:37:13 EDT Amyn B. Sajoo 2c975bbd-f8bf-4fb3-8437-7b2bf61cee5d https://religiondispatches.org/2014/05/20/tea-party-senate-candidates-dissertation-nostalgia-populist-christian-nation Ben Sasse, winner of last week’s Republican Senate primary in Nebraska and likely the next senator from that state , is a Tea Party hero with an unusual credential: a PhD in history from Yale . Sasse—a proud anti-choice activist… Tue, 20 May 2014 03:11:31 EDT Sarah Posner dfa17d87-0a6f-4665-83a8-4ca7ba52daaa https://religiondispatches.org/2014/05/13/does-secularism-have-role-egyptian-struggle With Egypt’s presidential election a few weeks away, former Field Marshal Abdul-Fattah el-Sisi seems all but unstoppable. In an interview with Egyptian television this week, the career military chief sounded confident in the elimination of what is effectively the only… Tue, 13 May 2014 01:48:43 EDT Austin Dacey 03ce98fa-9aba-404c-85d1-1027afe607b2 https://religiondispatches.org/2013/08/19/where-world-barack-hussein-obama When all you have left is a drone, every problem looks like collateral damage. Mon, 19 Aug 2013 01:01:09 EDT Haroon Moghul 003cec3d-6f5c-4ab5-84c3-98ebc240c40c