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RICK PERRY: THE REPUBLICAN JUDAS?
By Louis A. Ruprecht Jr., Georgia State University In an essay I recently published at “Religion Dispatches,” I used Gary Laderman’s fascinating concept of “Republicanicity” as the launch-pad for the...
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Occupy Wall Street: Between “Church” and “Sect”
By Ben Brazil, Religion Bulletin A month ago, when the Occupy movement was beginning to gain traction, Matt Stoller penned an influential response to criticism about the movement’s lack of a clear,...
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Duty Down Under
Louis A. Ruprecht, Jr., Georgia State University I suppose it was inevitable. Since nature and the military both abhor a vacuum, the recent announcement of the military draw-down in Iraq almost...
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The Sacred and the Strange: Occupying the Tea Party Rhetoric?
By Kate Daley-Bailey American Nazis support the Occupy Wall Street Movement? This headline ripped through the conservative news outlets like wildfire. Christmas came early for Fox News. My curiosity...
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Why the Poor are Just Plain Lazy: Newt Gingrich and the Calvinist Roots of...
By James Dennis LoRusso, Emory University With all of the talk about the need for jobs and income inequality, the latest figure sitting in the front car of that roller coaster otherwise known as the...
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By Heather Abraham Fighting Monks? Roman Catholic, Armenian, and Greek Orthodox Monks battle each other with brooms. Why are they fighting? For the ultimate prize: Sacred Space! The 1500 year old...
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Why Do Southerners Call Mormonism a Cult? A brief history of anti-Mormonism
By Joanna Brooks, Religion Dispatches Patrick Mason is the Howard W. Hunter Chair of Mormon Studies at Claremont Graduate University and author of The Mormon Menace: Violence and Anti-Mormonism in the...
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Whose Church?
Louis A. Ruprecht Jr., Georgia State University Riding through some winter-soaked mountain villages in the hills of Corfu with a friend, I passed a gorgeous and surprisingly large Byzantine church,...
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Trans-Vaginal Politics
Maureen Dempsey, RNC-OB Friday morning, on the Huffington Post, the first story to catch my eye was this: “David Albo, Virginia Lawmaker, Says Wife Wouldn’t Have Sex Because Of Transvaginal Ultrasound...
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Not All Choice is Free: Why demand religious exemption for contraception, but...
By Louis A. Ruprecht, Religion Dispatches On November 2, 1984, Velma Barfield became the first woman to be executed in the U.S. since 1962, and the first to be executed in the State of North Carolina...
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On Trayvon Martin, Perceived Identities, and Zombie Imaginaries
By Kenny Smith, Religion Bulletin In his recent comments on the Fox News Channel’s FOX & Friends morning show, Geraldo Rivera claimed that the shooting of Florida teenager Trayvon Martin was...
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ROY MOORE, REDIVIVUS
Louis A. Ruprecht Jr., Georgia State University One of the dangers in reporting on the Republican presidential primaries, and now the looming presidential election season, is that national issues and...
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A QUESTION OF PRIORITIES
By Louis A. Ruprecht Jr., Georgia State University President Obama’s Press Secretary, Jay Carney, put it this way: “The President believes that everyone who serves the American people by working for...
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“You Can’t Reason with a Crazy Person”: The Un-politics of American political...
By James Dennis LoRusso, Religion Bulletin Were you to travel one segment of the Eisenhower Expressway in Illinois this morning, you might discover a curious billboard. The display features a mugshot...
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Religion, Politics & Patronage: The Galileo Affair
By Alex Johnson Galileo Galilei once said that, “There is no event in nature, not even the least that exists, such that it will ever be completely understood by theorists” (Drake 91). This is...
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The Olympics: Religious Glory to National Pride
By Alec Degnats Recently the British newspaper The Telegraph reported on a growing scandal involving the Olympics and religion. At the 2012 games (as with every Olympics) a “faith badge” was designed...
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Roy Moore, Redidivus
Louis A. Ruprecht, Jr., Huff Post Religion One of the defining issues over the past several election cycles has been how best to conceive the relationship between local and centralized power in this...
View ArticleTibetan sets himself on fire in front of shrine in Nepal
By Manesh Shrestha, for CNN Kathmandu, Nepal (CNN) — A Tibetan man set himself on fire in front of a famous Buddhist shrine in the Nepalese capital on Wednesday, police said, becoming the latest...
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Divided by Faith?
by Craig Martin, Religion Bulletin It seems to be a common sense notion that people fight over differing religious beliefs. Consider the following paragraph from an NPR news story, which I take to be...
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Jesus’ Remains: Teaching Multiple Jesi
By Kate Daley-Bailey, Religion Bulletin Motivated by not a little shameless self-promotion and a pseudo-masochistic desire for undergraduate feedback on my work, I ventured to present my Introduction...
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