http://www.ssrc.org/blogs/immanent_frame Secularism, religion, and the public sphere Fri, 18 Jul 2008 11:48:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en http://www.ssrc.org/blogs/immanent_frame/2008/07/10/the-dobsonobama-rorschach-test/ http://www.ssrc.org/blogs/immanent_frame/2008/07/10/the-dobsonobama-rorschach-test/#comments Thu, 10 Jul 2008 20:51:06 +0000 John Schmalzbauer http://www.ssrc.org/blogs/immanent_frame/?p=292 Sojourners magazine. Citing the religious activism of Frederick Douglass, William Jennings Bryan, Dorothy Day, and Martin Luther King, Jr., Obama went out of his way to praise the social engagement of evangelicals like Rick Warren, T.D. Jakes, Jim Wallis, and Tony Campolo. At the time, Obama's speech was hailed by evangelicals and others as a model of religious political engagement. But that wasn't the reaction Focus on the Family's James Dobson had this summer after hearing the speech for the first time. Though the Dobson/Obama debate is itself worthy of analysis, it is even more useful as a Rorschach test for contemporary evangelicalism.]]> http://www.ssrc.org/blogs/immanent_frame/2008/07/10/the-dobsonobama-rorschach-test/feed/ http://www.ssrc.org/blogs/immanent_frame/2008/06/03/the-preacher-and-the-politician/ http://www.ssrc.org/blogs/immanent_frame/2008/06/03/the-preacher-and-the-politician/#comments Tue, 03 Jun 2008 11:43:49 +0000 Dwight Hopkins http://www.ssrc.org/blogs/immanent_frame/?p=252 http://www.ssrc.org/blogs/immanent_frame/2008/06/03/the-preacher-and-the-politician/feed/ http://www.ssrc.org/blogs/immanent_frame/2008/05/29/misrepresenting-islam/ http://www.ssrc.org/blogs/immanent_frame/2008/05/29/misrepresenting-islam/#comments Thu, 29 May 2008 23:15:29 +0000 Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na`im http://www.ssrc.org/blogs/immanent_frame/?p=249 Suggestions that Presidential candidate Barack Obama was a Muslim seemed to have subsided when his controversial pastor, Reverend Jeremiah Wright, walked onto the stage. But even as Obama defended his Christian faith, and his choice of churches, speculation about his connection to Islam continued on-line as well as within the mainstream press, including an Op-Ed entitled “President Apostate” in The New York Times (May 12, 2008) by the military strategist and historian Edward Luttwak (and, exactly a week later, in a May 19 Christian Science Monitor Op-Ed entitled “Barack Obama–Muslim Apostate?“). Now, as if to flip the Muslim coin, Mr. Luttwak, Ms. Burki, and others speculate that Muslims will hold Mr. Obama to a higher religious standard because he does not embrace the religion of his father. [...]]]> http://www.ssrc.org/blogs/immanent_frame/2008/05/29/misrepresenting-islam/feed/ http://www.ssrc.org/blogs/immanent_frame/2008/05/19/obama-wright-and-trinity/ http://www.ssrc.org/blogs/immanent_frame/2008/05/19/obama-wright-and-trinity/#comments Mon, 19 May 2008 14:00:57 +0000 Randal Jelks http://www.ssrc.org/blogs/immanent_frame/?p=244 http://www.ssrc.org/blogs/immanent_frame/2008/05/19/obama-wright-and-trinity/feed/ http://www.ssrc.org/blogs/immanent_frame/2008/05/13/being-benedict/ http://www.ssrc.org/blogs/immanent_frame/2008/05/13/being-benedict/#comments Tue, 13 May 2008 13:45:50 +0000 Cecelia Lynch http://www.ssrc.org/blogs/immanent_frame/?p=242 http://www.ssrc.org/blogs/immanent_frame/2008/05/13/being-benedict/feed/ http://www.ssrc.org/blogs/immanent_frame/2008/05/02/a-progressive-evangelical-movement/ http://www.ssrc.org/blogs/immanent_frame/2008/05/02/a-progressive-evangelical-movement/#comments Fri, 02 May 2008 04:02:24 +0000 Rebecca Sager http://www.ssrc.org/blogs/immanent_frame/?p=231 http://www.ssrc.org/blogs/immanent_frame/2008/05/02/a-progressive-evangelical-movement/feed/ http://www.ssrc.org/blogs/immanent_frame/2008/04/25/an-indifferent-pope/ http://www.ssrc.org/blogs/immanent_frame/2008/04/25/an-indifferent-pope/#comments Fri, 25 Apr 2008 12:57:37 +0000 Scott Appleby http://www.ssrc.org/blogs/immanent_frame/?p=236 http://www.ssrc.org/blogs/immanent_frame/2008/04/25/an-indifferent-pope/feed/ http://www.ssrc.org/blogs/immanent_frame/2008/04/22/bush-benedict-and-freedom-as-gods-gift/ http://www.ssrc.org/blogs/immanent_frame/2008/04/22/bush-benedict-and-freedom-as-gods-gift/#comments Tue, 22 Apr 2008 11:00:56 +0000 Thomas Banchoff http://www.ssrc.org/blogs/immanent_frame/?p=230 and religious considerations"? Considerations shared with a particular religious organization, the Roman Catholic Church? This was news, or seemed to be. [...]]]> http://www.ssrc.org/blogs/immanent_frame/2008/04/22/bush-benedict-and-freedom-as-gods-gift/feed/ http://www.ssrc.org/blogs/immanent_frame/2008/04/20/obamas-reductionist-moment/ http://www.ssrc.org/blogs/immanent_frame/2008/04/20/obamas-reductionist-moment/#comments Sun, 20 Apr 2008 13:44:26 +0000 John Schmalzbauer http://www.ssrc.org/blogs/immanent_frame/?p=226 http://www.ssrc.org/blogs/immanent_frame/2008/04/20/obamas-reductionist-moment/feed/ http://www.ssrc.org/blogs/immanent_frame/2008/04/18/trust-me/ http://www.ssrc.org/blogs/immanent_frame/2008/04/18/trust-me/#comments Fri, 18 Apr 2008 13:32:29 +0000 Penny Edgell http://www.ssrc.org/blogs/immanent_frame/?p=217 http://www.ssrc.org/blogs/immanent_frame/2008/04/18/trust-me/feed/