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Against Boiled Cabbage
The story of Swami Vivekananda and his time in America.
by
Michael Ledger-Lomas
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London Review of Books
on
February 2, 2023
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The Shared Religious Roots of Twin Insurrections in the U.S. and Brazil
Americans helped spread a right-wing version of evangelical Christianity in Brazil. Now it has played a role in an insurrection.
by
Raimundo Barreto
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João B. Chaves
via
Made By History
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January 18, 2023
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2022 Saw Conservative Gains on Education Issues. But They May Be Short-lived.
Conservatives’ veneration for the founders opens the door for a secular vision for America’s public schools.
by
Adam Laats
via
Made By History
on
December 30, 2022
The Sanitizing of Conservative Judaism
Conservative Judaism’s origins lie in a donor plan to neutralize and refine the radical Jewish immigrant masses.
by
Allen Lipson
via
Jewish Currents
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October 19, 2022
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A Vital Civil Rights Activist You Never Heard of Has Died
Charles Sherrod wasn’t a big name, but his life has a lot to tell us about the civil rights movement.
by
Ansley L. Quiros
via
Made By History
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October 13, 2022
A Private Matter
Abortion and "The Scarlet Letter."
by
Dana Medoro
via
Lapham’s Quarterly
on
August 3, 2022
The Racist Roots of the Southern Baptist Convention’s Sex Scandal “Apocalypse”
The Southern Baptist Convention is tearing itself apart over its leaders’ long-running cover-up of abusers in its ranks. But there’s a deeper reckoning below.
by
Audrey Clare Farley
via
The New Republic
on
May 30, 2022
The Sects That Rejected 19th-Century Sex
Why three religious groups traded monogamy for celibacy, polygamy, and complex marriage.
by
Stewart Davenport
via
Zócalo Public Square
on
February 14, 2022
‘Don’t Call Me a Saint’
In her lifetime, Dorothy Day rejected canonization for herself. Now revived, this bad idea would only diminish the founder of the Catholic Worker Movement.
by
Garry Wills
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New York Review of Books
on
January 26, 2022
Do Make Trouble
A conversation with the biographer of radical Jewish 'revenge theologian' Meir Kahane.
by
Shane Burley
,
Shaul Majid
via
Religion Dispatches
on
December 17, 2021
The Legacies of Calvinism in the Dutch Empire
In the 17th century, Dutch proselytisers set out for Asia, Africa and the Americas. The legacy of their travels endures.
by
Charles H. Parker
via
Aeon
on
December 9, 2021
The Pantomime Drama of Victims and Villains Conceals the Real Horrors of War
Innocent, passive, apolitical: after the Holocaust, the standard for ‘true’ victimhood has worked to justify total war.
by
Dirk Moses
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Aeon
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May 10, 2021
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Joe Biden's Harshest Critics Are Likely To Be Some of His Fellow Catholics
The fight between Biden and conservative Catholics will be about more than policy.
by
Theresa Keeley
via
Made By History
on
November 30, 2020
Racism Among White Christians is Higher Than Among the Nonreligious. That's no Coincidence.
For most of American history, the light-skinned Jesus conjured up by white congregations demanded the preservation of inequality as part of the divine order.
by
Robert P. Jones
via
NBC News
on
July 28, 2020
How Jesus Became White — and Why It’s Time to Cancel That
Nearly a century later, both ‘Head of Christ’ and criticism of its role in enshrining Jesus as white endure.
by
Emily McFarlan Miller
via
Religion News Service
on
June 25, 2020
The Invisible Landscape: Tracing the Spiritualist Utopianism of Nineteenth-Century America
The hidden history of Utopian Socialism and its close relationship with cultures of esoteric spirituality in the nineteenth-century United States.
by
Edmund Berger
via
Cosmonaut
on
April 11, 2020
Five Ways We Misunderstand American Religious History
From religious liberty to religious violence, it helps to get our facts straight.
by
Thomas S. Kidd
via
Christianity Today
on
November 21, 2019
The Innovation Cult
The function of the "innovation" buzzword is to sustain the myth that business genius creates society’s wealth.
by
John Patrick Leary
via
Jacobin
on
April 16, 2019
Southern Baptist Convention’s Flagship Seminary Details Its Racist, Slave-Owning Past
"We are living in an age of historical reckoning," said Southern Baptist leader R. Albert Mohler Jr.
by
Marisa Iati
via
Washington Post
on
December 12, 2018
MLK: What We Lost
50 years after King's death, his image has been transformed and stripped of its radicalism.
by
Annette Gordon-Reed
via
New York Review of Books
on
October 18, 2018
The Unlikely Endurance of Christian Rock
The genre has been disdained by the church and mocked by secular culture. That just reassured practitioners that they were rebels on a righteous path.
by
Kelefa Sanneh
via
The New Yorker
on
September 17, 2018
Southern Baptists, Gender Hierarchy, and the Road to Trump
Many Southern Baptists in the 1970s supported abortion rights and gender equality. What happened?
by
R. Marie Griffith
via
Arc: Religion, Politics, Et Cetera
on
July 10, 2018
The Life of Pauli Murray: An Interview with Rosalind Rosenberg
The author of a new biography explains how Murray changed the way that discrimination is understood today.
by
Rosalind Rosenberg
,
Alyssa Collins
via
Black Perspectives
on
October 16, 2017
Perry Miller and the Puritans: An Introduction
Historians often treat Miller as a foil, but the Father of American Intellectual history retains untapped potential to inspire new modes of inquiry.
by
Rivka Maizlish
via
U.S. Intellectual History Blog
on
May 8, 2013
The Incredible Life of Lew Wallace, Civil War General and Author of Ben-Hur
The incredible story of how a disgraced Civil War general became one of the best-selling novelists in American history.
by
John Swansburg
via
Slate
on
March 26, 2013
The Lost Mariner
The self-confidence that kept Columbus going was his undoing.
by
Elizabeth Kolbert
via
The New Yorker
on
October 6, 2002
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