The ‘Courage Tour,’ a religio-political rally, is going around battleground states. It is focused on defeating Democrats, but also on defeating ‘demonic forces.’
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America holds a unique place in the faith’s teachings, but awareness of the church’s often precarious place in US culture has made it wary of mixing religion and state.
A biblical scholar traces how images of the ‘city of God’ have shaped American culture – especially when it comes to who should be allowed into the country.
The soldiers and patriots who made the American Revolution a success included people whose faiths faced discrimination, including Jews and Catholics.
Evangelicals are often regarded as a uniform, monolithic group − but there are differences within their politics and social engagement.
Historically, Black Pentecostal-charismatic churches have not put an emphasis on political issues. That may be changing, a scholar of Black Christianity explains.
In 1966, the assertion of Black power was grounded in an appeal to the founding principles of the United States. Black church leaders called for healing internal divisions through engagement.
The most serious challenges for Australia’s political system and social cohesion are not the prospect of a Muslim party or political movement.
More than 2,000 letters between the two founders are available online. Many attest to their deep commitment to religious freedom.
Why has the ICC indictment of Israeli and Hamas leaders drawn so much fire? Understanding the notion of moral equivalence might help explain why.
Reagan and Trump − two of the most media-savvy Republican presidents − used religion to advance their political visions, but their messages and missions could not be more different.
The potential repeal of the ban on female genital mutilation poses a threat to the well-being of girls in The Gambia.
A Christian Palestinian human rights scholar who grew up in Bethlehem writes about the special time of Easter, but also about the restrictions on Palestinian Christians.
False ideas about the extinction of the white race, spread around the late 19th and early 20th centuries, gave rise to xenophobic and anti-immigration conspiracy theories.
The 2024 elections may see a more intense end-times rhetoric, claims of divine support and a failure to condemn the rise in Christian nationalism, writes a religion scholar.
A scholar of American evangelicalism explains House Speaker Mike Johnson’s connections with Ark Encounter and the Creation Museum.
With modern borders drawn up by colonial powers, some African governments have turned to religion to try to forge national unity since independence.
The faith’s association with conservative politics has stayed strong for decades, but could become a liability, a political scientist argues.
Perhaps the combination of religious rhetoric and secular laws is a winning electoral strategy.
The relationship between faith, politics and LGBTQ rights is more complicated than it can appear at first glance.
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Professor of Practice, Danforth Center on Religion and Politics, Washington University in St. Louis
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Professor of Public Theology and Director of The Bernardin Center, Catholic Theological Union
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Director of the Center for Religion, Law & Democracy, Willamette University
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Packey J. Dee Professor of American Democracy, University of Notre Dame
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Professor of History and African-American Studies, University of Montana
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Associate Teaching Professor in Religious Studies, Arizona State University
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Adjunct Professor of Religious and Theological Studies, St. Edward's University
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Associate Teaching Professor of Political Science, Penn State
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Assistant Professor, University of South Dakota
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Associate Professor of Religious Studies, University of Colorado Boulder
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Professor of Sociology and Secular Studies, Pitzer College
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Associate Professor of Rhetoric, Baylor University
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Anthropologist & Assistant Professor, Department of Marketing Communication, Emerson College
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Professor of history, Queen's University Belfast
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Senior Lecturer in Modern History, Monash University