by joelabrown | Jul 17, 2017 | American religious history, July 2017, Religion and Politics
Andrew Hartman (Illinois State University) responds to Russell Johnson’s (University of Chicago) essay, “The Struggle Is Real: Understanding the American ‘Culture War,’ ” which is featured in the July issue of the Forum. Three recent books all claim the culture war is...
by joelabrown | Jun 14, 2017 | American religious history, June 2017, Material culture, Race and Religion
The June issue of the Forum features Kelly J. Baker’s essay, “The Artifacts of White Supremacy.” Discussions about racism—and white supremacy in particular—tend to treat it as a matter of belief, while there’s considerably less talk of how...