Jay Jennings (Temple): The Prejudice Paradox: How Religious Motivations Explain the Complex Relationship between Religion and Prejudice. Douglas Ambrose (Hamilton): Religion, Nationalism and American Identity: Reflections on Mark Noll’s America’s God. Matthew R. Miles (BYU): Social and Political Exclusion: How America's Religious Interact with Open Atheists. Jack Jenkins on why all of the atheists in Congress are closeted. Why aren’t more Americans atheists? Turns out it has nothing to do with science — and everything to do with politics. Jack Jenkins on the politics of every major U.S. religion, in one chart. The introduction to The Politics of Evangelical Identity: Local Churches and Partisan Divides in the United States and Canada by Lydia Bean. A look at how white evangelicals think they're discriminated against more than blacks, Jews, and Muslims. The Evangelical Persecution Complex: Alan Noble on the theological and cultural roots of a damaging attitude in the Christian community. If democracy is a crime under Religious Right’s Biblical law, what is the punishment? Frederick Clarkson wants to know. Were there dinosaurs on Noah’s Ark? Jeffrey Goldberg visits Kentucky's creationist museum, a conservative base in the culture war. Aniruddha Das and Stephanie Nairn (McGill): Conservative Christianity, Partnership, Hormones, and Sex in Late Life. What happens when evangelical virgin men get married? Secular female sociologist Sarah Diefendorf found out. Andrea Bennett and Kim Fu on how when young Mormons are sent around the world to attract new adherents to the Church, sometimes they end up questioning their own faith. When “do unto others” meets hookup culture: Conor Friedersdorf on how Christians could talk to America about sex.
