“Will the Supreme Court once again favor the rights of Christians over everyone else?” By Caroline Mala Corbin, professor of law at the University of Miami School of Law https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/supreme-court-prayer-case-rights-christians-football-coach-rcna25673 This unit we read and discussed Martins three subjects of how to discuss religion including legitimation, authority and authenticity. In his last chapter of his […]

1 In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. 2 And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. Gen 1:1-2 (kjv) Answers in Genesis (AiG) is a young earth creationist organization which operates theContinue reading “The Ark Encounter: Legitimation of a Six Thousand Year Old Earth”

Get it from the source! We’ve spent the past few weeks learning about legitimation, authority, and authenticity claims. I believe that the most interesting application of these topics is to the sense of nationality and groupthink as a whole. I came across a speech given by President Biden at the Royal Castle in Warsaw, PolandContinue reading “Biden’s Address in Poland as Pertains to Religious Studies”

The artifact I chose to demonstrate the concepts of legitimation, authority, and authenticity is the Republican Jesus joke that is common on many social media platforms. There are many variations of it, but I chose the three images below to demonstrate the underlying principle of it.  Republican Jesus is a satirical depiction of a version … Continue reading “Republican Jesus”

The cultural artifact being examined is this opinion piece by The New York Times: “Abortion Has Never Been Just About Abortion” by Thomas B. Edsall The article “Abortion Has Never Been Just About Abortion” by Thomas B. Edsall discusses the intricacies of the abortion debate, as well as the deeper strategies and conversations within each … Continue reading The Abortion Debate: Legitimation, Authority, & Authenticity Claims →

Protestants Abroad: How Missionaries Tried to Change the World but Changed America “Between the 1890s and the Vietnam era, many thousands of American Protestant missionaries were sent to live throughout the non-European world. They expected to change the people they encountered, but those foreign people ended up transforming the missionaries. Their experience abroad made many of […]

By, soupsteve311 March, 30, 2022 The Construction of Communalism in Colonial North India “This book charts the history of the term communalism and the politics and attitudes it seeks to encapsulate. While attending closely to the social, economic, and political issues underlying Hindu and Muslim struggles, it investigates and meanings different participants in the sectarianContinue reading “Ethnicity, Religion, or Community: Sikh Identity in India and Beyond”

Muslim Cool: Race, Religion, and Hip-Hop in the United States by Su’ad Abdul Khabeer Summary: “Drawing on over two years of ethnographic research, Su’ad Abdul Khabeer illuminates the ways in which young and multiethnic US Muslims draw on Blackness to construct their identities as Muslims. This is a form of critical Muslim self-making that builds […]

Book One: Christian Slavery Conversion and Race in the Protestant Atlantic World by Katharine Gerbner Katherine Gerbner is a teacher at the University of Minnesota and authors Christian Slavery Conversion and Race in the Protestant Atlantic World which explore the relationship between Christianity and slavery. Gerbner focuses on the conversion of slaves to the Christian […]

In this post, I will use three books as a way to demonstrate the way in which religion functions as a tool to carve out social space for gender-based groups Pious Fashion How Muslim Women Dress Liz Bucar Main Argument: In Pious Fashion: How Muslim Women Dress, Liz Bucar examines the relationship between gender roles […]