religious history

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  10/10/19
  

  Panama celebrates its black Christ, part of protest against colonialism and slavery

  by S. Kyle Johnson

  Panama’s “Festival del Cristo Negro,” the festival of the “Black Christ,” is an important religious holiday for local Catholics. It honors a dark, life-sized wooden statue of Jesus, “Cristo Negro” – also known as “El Nazaraeno,” or “The Nazarene.”

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  10/8/19
  

  Fundamentalism turns 100, a landmark for the Christian Right

  by William Trollinger

  Christian fundamentalists have become a politically powerful group since the movement’s foundation in 1919.

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• 9/22/19
  

  The Separation of Church and State is About Freedom For Religion not Freedom From Religion

  by Christopher Binetti

  History shows that the State is more of a threat to the Church than vice-versa.

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• 9/15/19
  

  The Stasi's Cold War Espionage Campaign Inside the Church

  by Elisabeth Braw

  How the Stasi infiltrated churches to suppress dissent in the German Democratic Republic.

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• 9/8/19
  

  The U.S. a Christian Nation? Not According to the Founders!

  by Harlow Giles Unger

  Pence and Sessions are but two prominent Americans in and out of politics today who continue refueling a centuries-old controversy over the role of religion in American life.

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• 9/8/19
  

  The Democratic Presidential Candidates’ Ivy League Problem – and the Party Divide It Signals

  by Daniel K. Williams

  Every Democratic presidential nominee for the past thirty years has had a degree from either Harvard or Yale. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  8/21/19
  

  White evangelicals once admitted they were wrong about Nixon. Will Trump come next?

  by Anja-Maria Bassimir and Elesha J. Coffman

  White evangelicals voted 84 percent for Richard Nixon in 1972 and 80 percent for Donald Trump in 2016. And many of the leaders stood by Nixon as scandals swirled around him, just as they have with Trump.

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• 7/28/19
  

  (Re)-Claiming a Radical Evangelical Heritage at Christian Colleges

  by Louis B. Gallien, Jr.

  The recent controversies at my alma mater, Taylor University, over the invitation of Vice President Mike Pence’s to deliver their Commencement Address have illuminated the continued fissures at evangelical Christian colleges.

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• 7/21/19
  

  The Power of Microhistory: An Interview with Bancroft Prize Winner Douglas Winiarski

  by Elisabeth Pearson

  "I think my book will resonate with readers attuned to the politics of religious difference and the troubling connections between religion and violence in our own times."

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• 7/21/19
  

  Climate Change and the Last Great Awakening

  by Douglas S. Harvey

  The Last Great Awakening, if it is to be massive and successful, must involve profoundly altering our personal behaviors and inner lives while seriously committing to living in a sustainable way.

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• 7/21/19
  

  "If ever I felt that I ought to be five priests it was that week:" Chaplains in World War 2

  by John Wukovits

  Though they conducted many rigorous tasks, the chaplains cherished the knowledge that they had comforted dying young men, and subsequently their families, in their final moments.

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• 6/30/19
  

  The Case for Religious Progressivism

  by Walter G. Moss

  Those who argue, “We should keep religion out of politics,” are being simplistic. One can more properly cite individuals like Frederick Douglass, Dorothy Day, Martin Luther King Jr., Barack Obama, and Pope Francis who counter that the spiritual and moral values commonly advocated by major religions should inspire our politics.

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• 6/16/19
  

  The Vatican's Latest Official Document Is An Insult to the LGBTQ Community and History

  by Ed Simon

  Our understandings of romance, family, sexuality, and gender have been in flux in the past – within the Church no less – and no amount of thundering about “How the Vatican views it now is how it has always been” can change that.

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• 6/4/19
  

  How Should Historians Respond to David Garrow's Article on Martin Luther King, Jr.?

  by Andrea S. Johnson

  How can and should historians address the history of gender and sexuality when it intersects with the histories of the civil rights movement, gender, American religion, and the development of the surveillance state?

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• SOURCE: Inside Higher Ed
  5/24/19
  

  A Donor's Demands, a Revoked Chair

  A religion professor at the American University in Cairo says the university had no right to revoke his chair title after he resisted a donor's demands that he teach Islam in a preferential manner.

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• 5/12/19
  

  Jane Manning James and African American Women in the Mormon Church

  by Quincy D. Newell

  Jane Elizabeth Manning James, a free black woman who converted to Mormonism in the early 1840s, provides a little-known vantage point from which to tell a story of Mormonism that takes the church’s racial history into account.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  5/2/19
  

  How Franklin Graham betrayed his father’s legacy

  by Nancy Beck Young

  Instead of treating issues of sexuality with compassion, Graham has weaponized them.

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  4/28/19
  

  The Other Notre-Dame Was Not Rebuilt

  by Amy Wilentz

  Perhaps France should help Haiti, its former colony, rebuild the cathedral lost in the 2010 earthquake.

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  4/24/19
  

  A 500-Year-Old Tale of Intrigue, Greed and Betrayal

  “The Lost Gutenberg” revolves around Margaret Leslie Doheny’s pursuit of her trophy and what became of it after her death.

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• 4/21/19
  

  The Middle East, Land Disputes, and Religious History

  by Zaman Stanizai

  Can a land be claimed on the basis of the scriptural myths of one religion with implied exclusion of all other religious communities?