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RD10Q: The Politics of Secularism
A more nuanced understanding of what 'secularism' means in terms of international politics is the first step to a more pluralistic, and tolerant, world view...
Conservative Christian Book on Obama's Faith
Author Stephen Mansfield is getting hate mail. Why does the religious right think that this ex-pastor will roast in hell?
RD10Q: W.E.B. Du Bois, American Prophet
Was Du Bois, leading African American intellectual and civil rights activist, an atheist?
RDBook: The End of the World As We Know It
"Famine, Death, War, and Pestilence" in "Wastelands," a new anthology of postapocalyptic fiction...
RD10Q: On The Fall of the Evangelical Nation
Journalist Christine Wicker thinks that the influence of the Religious Right, now on the wane, has been disastrous for American Christianity.
RDBook: Power Belongs to God
In The Family Jeff Sharlet explains how a little-known group links religion and power to cultivate influence...
RDBook: Evangelical Christianity and Democracy in Africa
How do Africa’s churches affect its politics? This anthology sets out to answer this question...
House Made of Words: Momaday’s Novel Turns 40
House Made of Dawn inaugurated the so-called “Native American Renaissance”...
RDBook: 10 Questions on A Call for Heresy
Anouar Majid invites us to consider for the possibility of real communication—unscripted, improvisational, unorthodox—among Muslims and non-Muslims in America.
RDBook: 10 Questions on The Devil in Dover
Laurie Lebo traces the backstory of the pivotal case: a perfect storm of religious intolerance.
RDBook: 10 Questions on Global Rebellion
Religious rebellion against the secular state isn’t actually about religion...
RDBook: The Lost Scopes Archive
A new book on the Scopes “Monkey Trial” reveals history through people, images, and good old soap opera.
Pierrette Sotelo on the role of progressive religious activists in the immigration debate...
RDBook: Apocalypse Without God
Mark C. Taylor discusses how trends in today’s world are not “outside” religion, but are part of the history of religious thought.
When it comes to subtle racism and able-ism in church communities, “even very well-meaning dominant groups are oblivious to their own power.”
Communist leaders in the Soviet Union tried to bolster their legitimacy through an appeal to atheism, but God was not on their side.
RDBook: 10 Questions on “God Needs No Passport”
Religion plays a central role in making transnational lives possible, something migration scholarship has not really explored.
RDBook: 10 Questions on Sexual Ethics and Islam
Asked about other titles she’d considered, Ali replied, “I would have accepted any title that didn’t have ‘veil’ in it.”
Reading Amy Sullivan’s The Party Faithful and Bishop Paul Moore’s spirituality and sexuality...
RD Book: Class Conscious
Review: D. Michael Lindsay’s Faith in the Halls of Power and Sean McCloud’s Divine Hierarchies.