Republicans struggle to find a convincing reason not to take action on climate change, so they tend to recycle excuses. In the 2014 election, one line in particular caught on—the two top Republican ...

Religion has become a major feature in our nation and on the major news networks. The issue of the mosque adjacent to the twin towers’ former location has certainly intensified feelings. The big word ...

I was quite pleasantly surprised to see an article about atheists a few weeks ago in the Sunday paper, on Page A2. It is the first time I recall atheists being mentioned in the Republican Herald, ...

Last week, Texas Republican Lamar Smith, chairman of the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, wrote an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal comparing climate change to religion. Smith argues ...

In the wake of another terrorist attack on the West coming from Daesh/IS, pundits and politicians on the right are ramping up calls for greater surveillance of Muslim communities, eliminating Muslim ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Journal Information Contagion is the journal of the Colloquium on Violence and Religion (COV&R;), an international association of scholars founded in ...