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“Taking aim” at both the Religious Right and the New Atheists, a new book aims to make progressive politics safe for the religious, and religion safe for progressive politics.

Whether or not we believe in evil as a supernatural force it cannot be denied that when we as a culture project the idea of evil outwards, onto others, it gives us license to engage in extreme forms of cruelty—witch-hunting, racism, nationalistic hatred.

On the Kennedy paradigm, the abortion myth, Johnson’s moral compass, blithe affirmations of faith, and Billy Graham’s hypocrisy…

Anouar Majid invites us to consider for the possibility of real communication—unscripted, improvisational, unorthodox—among Muslims and non-Muslims in America.

Pierrette Sotelo on the role of progressive religious activists in the immigration debate…

Religious rebellion against the secular state isn’t actually about religion…

Laurie Lebo traces the backstory of the pivotal case: a perfect storm of religious intolerance.

Asked about other titles she’d considered, Ali replied, “I would have accepted any title that didn’t have ‘veil’ in it.”

Religion plays a central role in making transnational lives possible, something migration scholarship has not really explored.

Communist leaders in the Soviet Union tried to bolster their legitimacy through an appeal to atheism, but God was not on their side.