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July 27, 2012

Was Jesus Lily-White? Author Edward Blum Discusses Race and the Mormon Religion

*R3 Contributor Edward Blum is featured in this Daily Beast piece talking about his new...

July 27, 2012

2012 African American Communication and Culture Division and Black Caucus Outstanding Research Awards

The African American Communication & Culture Division (AACCD) and the Black Caucus of NCA seeks...

July 26, 2012

Evangelicals In Defense of Romney: A Reader

In an earlier post, our editor Andre E. Johnson, suggested that conservative evangelicals are engaging...

July 26, 2012

Transforming Sexual Politics in Africa

Even as delegates gather in Washington, D.C. for the XIX International Aids conference, Political Research...

July 26, 2012

Luke Powery Named New Dean of Duke Chapel

The Reverend Dr. Luke A. Powery of Princeton Theological Seminary will become the new dean...

July 25, 2012

A Killer from the Start?

by Ebony UtleyR3 Contributor and author of: Rap and Religion: Understanding the Gangsta's GodI’ve been...

July 25, 2012

A Buddhist Perspective on Access to Guns

How can we make sense out of the senseless? When a deranged young man opens...

July 25, 2012

Guns, A God Given Right?

by Giovanni Neal (aka, Blame Girl)R3 ContributorIt just sounds silly. Right? As I’ve debated guns...

July 24, 2012

‘God’s Right Hand’ traces Falwell’s influence

In the fall of 1981, Yale president A. Bartlett Giamatti welcomed the university’s new freshman...

July 24, 2012

Romney Campaign’s Race-Baiting Strategy Could Have Dire Consequences for America

The Romney campaign got the memo: Race-baiting and xenophobia work -- at least among the...

July 22, 2012

Jesus and the Pernicious Roots of Private Property

The scathing criticisms of private property that we find in the mouth of Jesus are...

July 22, 2012

Teavangelicals are latest incarnation of religious right and Moral Majority cultural movements

If you follow faith and politics, you have no doubt heard of cultural movements like...

July 22, 2012

Obama, Romney, and Rick Warren’s Religious Test

Saddleback Church’s evangelical mega-pastor Rick Warren has announced that he’ll be holding another presidential forum,...

July 22, 2012

R3 Contributor: Edward Blum

Edward J. Blum (University of Kentucky, 2003) is a historian of race and religion in...

July 22, 2012

Hustling Religion: Rap and the Religious Flava of T.I. and Jay-Z

by Sharon Lauricella and Samuel KyeremeR3 Contributors*A extended version of this post is in press...

July 22, 2012

Welcome our newest contributor: Samuel Kyereme

Sammy Kyereme is a lover of music, people and positive vibrations. He plays five instruments...

July 22, 2012

R3 Contributor: Sharon Lauricella

Sharon Lauricella was recently awarded tenure and promoted to Associate Professor of Communication at University...

July 21, 2012

Why Religion Rules American Politics

Religion is important for American politics because religion is important for Americans.1 Yet, there are...

July 19, 2012

Federal judge paves way for Tennessee mosque to open for Ramadan

A federal judge's ruling Wednesday cleared the way for a controversial mosque in Tennessee to...

July 19, 2012

Why Many Black and Urban Millennials Are Not Leaving the Church

I was born in 1987. Looking back over my childhood, I can proudly say that...

July 18, 2012

Mitt Romney and a Theology of American Exceptionalism

"Let me make this very clear," Mitt Romney declared in a speech he gave at...

July 18, 2012

Romney, Obamacare and Mormonism

n this strange moment in which people still wonder what a Mormon president will do...

July 17, 2012

The context of religion

I had the privilege to spend the last week at the 5th Latin American Conference...

July 17, 2012

Obama, Romney and the Kingdom of God

Twenty years ago, author and psychiatrist M. Scott Peck gave a lecture in which he...

July 16, 2012

Race, Religion and Politics: A Look at the Election Impacts

Racially insensitive attitudes toward blacks cost Barack Obama some votes, and to a lesser extent...

July 16, 2012

Beyond the Black Church, Or, African American Religious Studies: The Next Generation

I study, among other subjects, black Catholics. When I tell people I study black Catholics,...

July 14, 2012

Of Dust and Ashes: A (Re) reading of the Book of Job

by Crystal St. Marie LewisR3 ContributorFrom: CrystalstmarielewisI used to hate the book of Job.It’s about...

July 14, 2012

We Are Penn State!: A Failure of Leadership

by Rashad GroveR3 ContributorThe late Paulo Freire in his classic text The Pedagogy of the...

July 14, 2012

U.S. Confidence in Organized Religion at Low Point

Forty-four percent of Americans have a great deal or quite a lot of confidence in...

July 14, 2012

Misrepresenting the Civil War

David Goldfield’s article “Avoid the Carnage of War” (June 29 Viewpoint) may be provocative reading,...

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