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Religion Dispatches
Christian Nationalism is like a skeleton key that can help us understand the motivations for some of the worst public policy proposals over the last few years. From anti-masking and challenging public…
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Religion Dispatches
As Passover approaches this weekend I often reminisce about how, as a young child, the highlight of my Easter weekend wasn’t watching the Greatest Story Ever Told , The Robe , or other classic Easter…
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Religion Dispatches
Doing research in a branch of the state library in Berlin a few years ago, I stumbled across a reference to a 1951 book called Are There Witches among Us? It had been published in West Germany by a…
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Religion Dispatches
The headline itself was the stuff of viral internet fodder: Alabama House votes to end yoga ban, but don’t say ‘namaste’ . The news that Alabama’s House of Representatives voted to overturn a quarter…
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Public Eye
Movement Misogyny Delivers Another Massacre
“Aggrieved entitlement” is at play not only in explicitly misogynist attacks, but also in White supremacist groups, which tell White men that they have been unfairly deprived of their rightful place in society.
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Public Eye
Alt Right Attacks on University Professors
In an effort to silence academics, right-wing activists, including many from the Alt Right, have doxed, threatened, and smeared professors across the country, without regard for academic hierarchy, type of institution, or discipline.
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Public Eye
The concept of gender ideology is a right-wing invention that intentionally misrepresents feminist, queer, and gender theory in order to justify discrimination against women and LGBTQ people.
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Public Eye
How the Vatican's Position on Gender Threatens Human Rights
The Vatican’s attempt to conceal the meeting casts Pope Francis as double-faced: publicly courting progressives on one hand, and privately supporting the Christian Right’s anti-sexual rights agenda on the other.
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Political Research Associates
Electoral Lessons from the Religious Right for the Religious Left
The main reason why the Religious Right became powerful is not what most people may think. Some would undoubtedly point to the powerful communications media. Others might identify charismatic leaders, the development of “wedge issues,” or even changes in evangelical theology in the latter part of the twentieth century that supported, and even demanded, political action.
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Religion Dispatches
The three and a half minute clip below, exclusive to RD, is from Bradley Onishi’s opening monologue of the March 17 episode of Straight White American Jesus, a podcast hosted by Onishi and Daniel…
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