Evangelicals and the 2012 election: The kingdoms of faith and politics By Marcia Pally We are now past the half-mark in the Republican primaries, and it seems that evangelicals are following tradition—or stereotype–as the religious voting-bloc outlier. Yet a look […]
Machiavelli on the Potomac: What Will Donald Trump Do Now? Marcia Pally Religion & Ethics Friday 27 January 2017 Marcia Pally is a Professor at New York University in Multilingual Multicultural Studies and a permanent Fellow of the New York Institute […]
NOTE TO GOP VOTERS: “POLITICAL FREEDOM” COMES WITH SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY BY MARCIA PALLY ` Religion Dispatches, NOVEMBER 16, 2015 The Republican contest in this presidential election, as in many before, is between degrees of small-government-ism. To be sure, the party […]
The tragedy and futility of Trumped-up solutions By Marcia Pally Religion News Service, December 9, 2015 (RNS) Pigheadedness is on a roll. At the end of October, we were assured by the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals that harassing Muslims […]
‘Throw the bastards out’: an American tradition from settlers to Trump by Marcia Pally Thursday 8 September 2016 11.00 BST This past summer, I was guest-teaching in Europe. When the talk of the town wasn’t Brexit, it was the US […]
We have a right to pigheaded ideas. Now what should we do? By Marcia Pally Religion News Service November 4, 2015 (RNS) We are very fortunate to have free speech rights. It allows us to say things others find sinful or […]
Would Jesus support health care reform? Interview with Marcia Pally By John Blake, CNN June 28, 2012 CNN) – He was a healer, a provider of universal health care, a man of compassion who treated those with preexisting medical conditions.We […]
The Religious Re-direct: Religions and elections in America By Marcia Pally Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Oct. 30, 2010 For over a century, religiosity in America has been greater, more committed, and more populist than in any other industrialized country. Though today, […]
Religion as practical scapegoat: A response from relational theology By Marcia Pally Presented at the German Federal Cultural Foundation Conference: “Trial of Faith – On Religion and Growth,” Cologne June 12-14, 2015. https://www.kulturstiftung-des-bundes.de/en/magazine/magazine_24/the_practical_scapegoat.html Looking at European debates about religion, one […]
Muslims, Evangelicals and the countering of prejudice: A conversation with Prof. Marcia Pally and Prof. Mustapha Tlili, New York University By Chantal Bax, April 2012 Muslims and Evangelicals – one may not think that these two groups have much in […]