{"id":46,"date":"2010-07-30T16:20:04","date_gmt":"2010-07-30T16:20:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/religionandpubliclife\/2010\/07\/religion-in-the-news-check-it-out.html"},"modified":"2010-07-30T16:20:04","modified_gmt":"2010-07-30T16:20:04","slug":"religion-in-the-news-check-it-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/religionandpubliclife\/2010\/07\/religion-in-the-news-check-it-out.html","title":{"rendered":"Religion in the News–check it out"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Volume 13, No. 1 of Religion
\nin the News<\/a> <\/i>is now online, and before describing its contents, I
\nneed to announce that as of this volume we are cutting back from three
\nto two issues annually. Partly this is the consequence of shrunken
\nresources, but it’s also the case that given the amount of real-time
\nblogging on the religion news of the day (including in this space), the
\nneed for timeliness has decreased. So now RIN will feature more articles
\nper issue and take a somewhat longer view. <\/p>\n

This issue begins with a package of stories on religion and the Haitian
\nearthquake: Leslie Desmangles on
\nhow the disaster has thrust Vodou <\/a>into a public role for the first
\ntime in Haitian history; Shannon Smith on
\nthe sad saga<\/a> of the orphan-seeking Southern Baptists from Idaho;
\nand Elizabeth McAlister on
\nthe kinds of succor<\/a> provided by music.<\/p>\n

For political junkies there’s Juhem Navarro-Rivera’s piece<\/a>
\non what the Trinity ARIS tells us about Latino political affiliation:
\nThe news is even worse for<\/span>
\nRepublicans than you thought. The Uganda Anti-Homosexual Bill is, as I
\nwrite, still in limbo, but Mark Fackler explains<\/a>
\nthe East African context while Jesse Masai interviews<\/a>
\ntop officials of the Anglican Church of Uganda.<\/p>\n

Don’t miss Andrew Walsh’s extended
\nsorting out<\/a> of the latest phase of the Catholic sexual abuse
\ncrisis. Whatever your perspective, I guarantee the piece will help you
\nmake sense of what’s happened since the chickens came home to the
\nVatican roost.<\/p>\n

Christine McCarthy McMorris’ account<\/a>
\nof the deaths by sweatlodge presided over by New Age prosperity gospel
\nguru James Arthur Ray provides a bifocal view of the mainstream and
\nNative American media versions of that tragic story. The state of play
\nof Obama’s version of the Bush Faith-Based initiative is
\nassessed<\/a> by Brendan Kelly. And oh yes, my editor’s
\ncolumn<\/a> returns to the question of the existential condition of the
\nreligious right via David Edwin Harrell Jr.’s important
\nnew
\nbiography of Pat Robertson. Knock yourselves out.
\n<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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He is co-editor of Religion by Region, an eight-volume series on religion and public life in the United States, and co-author of The American Establishment, Making Capitalism Work, and One Nation Divisible: How Regional Religious Differences Shape American Politics. 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