At Religion Dispatches, Sarah Posner dismisses the possibility that, with Sarah Palin as its leader, the Christian right could become a women’s movement
Posts Tagged ‘Sarah Palin’
January 6th, 2010
American Jews and Sarah Palin
posted by John SchmalzbauerThis month’s Commentary features a provocative piece (click on the link and scroll down) by Jennifer Rubin on Jewish reactions to Sarah Palin.
December 8th, 2009
A tale of two Franks
posted by John SchmalzbauerFranklin Graham and Frank Schaeffer are outspoken sons of famous evangelical leaders. President of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, the former is a supporter of Sarah Palin and generally regarded as more conservative than his dad. A convert to Eastern Orthodox Christianity, the latter is one of Palin’s most vocal critics and dramatically more liberal than his late father, the Calvinist apologist Francis Schaeffer.
October 21st, 2008
A speck, a fleck, and—voila!—a governor
posted by Jason BivinsClifford Geertz said it first (riffing on Ryle): the difference between twitches and winks could only be accomplished by “sorting out the structures of signification” through “thick” descriptions. So there she is, winking at all of us, giving a “shout out” to third graders (no spousal dap that could be misconstrued as a “terrorist fist jab”). What, then, is the “speck of behavior” and “fleck of culture” that gives rise to Governor Palin’s winks? And what “webs of significance” have academics made from the lines spooled out in this nasty season, from the often moribund dyad “religion and politics”? [...]
October 16th, 2008
A tale of two mavericks
posted by Matthew Avery SuttonLong before field dressing moose and shooting wolves from helicopters became part of American political parlance, a United States senator with White House ambitions sat down in his Washington D.C. office with the most powerful pentecostal woman in the country. The nation was facing an unprecedented economic crisis and tremendous social unrest. The senator probably hoped that the pentecostal maverick might strengthen his ticket by helping him win votes in the west and among women. The senator was not John McCain and the woman was not Sarah Palin.[...]
October 3rd, 2008
Palin & religion roundup
posted by Jonathan VanAntwerpenAt here & there, The Immanent Frame’s newest collaborative venture, Nicole Greenfield has collected a second installment of articles on Sarah Palin, religion and American politics. Read Laura Duane’s first installment here.
September 29th, 2008
What does Azusa have to do with Washington?
posted by Randall J. StephensDoes a candidate’s faith matter? That seems to be one of the more pressing questions being asked in opinion pieces and on blogs these last few weeks. Republican Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin’s evangelicalism has raised eyebrows on the left and hopes on the right. [...]
September 25th, 2008
Perplexed by Pentecostalism
posted by John SchmalzbauerLost in the discussion of Sarah Palin’s religion is an appreciation for the diversity of American Pentecostalism, past and present.
September 24th, 2008
Talking right, stumbling left
posted by W. Bradford WilcoxSarah Palin’s popularity and notoriety has many sources, but one source of her Red America popularity has not been sufficiently well understood in the last three weeks: Her pro-family ideals and the more complicated realities of her family life make it easy for many working-class whites—especially evangelical Protestants—to identify with her.
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