This Week In Religion and Politics

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Where pulpits, courts, parties, and movements collide, this show follows the research behind the headlines on faith, power, identity, and democracy.

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September 22, 2026Can Israel's Religious Leaders Move Compromise? Plus: Christian Nationalism
This week, sacred authority looks less automatic than conditional: leaders, symbols, and nationalist faith claims matter most when political context lets them.
Covers 2026-09-14 to 2026-09-21; 5 free papers from 40 selected papers.
Where pulpits, courts, parties, and movements collide, this show follows the research behind the headlines on faith, power, identity, and democracy.
Episode covers 2026-09-14 – 2026-09-21.
Top papers
Politicized Religion, Armed Conflict, and Planetary Health: A Seven-Dimensional Framework for Analysis and Peacebuilding
How Pro-contact Norms and Intergroup Anxiety Predict Interest in Intergroup Contact: Similarity and Variability across Outgroups
The National in the Triptych of Religion, Race and Caste: Kaye, Phule and Savarkar
Religious authority and political solutions to conflict: experimental evidence from religious leaders in Israel
The Limits of Incumbent Blame Games in Times of Crisis: Experimental Evidence from Electoral Autocracy
Themes: religion, peacebuilding, social cohesion, Nigeria, Buddhism, nationalism, Islam, politics
Methods: qualitative, historical analysis, survey, case-study, experimental, observational
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September 18, 2026Identity Cues + Tunisia’s 2022 Constitution
Across new work on vaccine messaging, Asian American voters, Lagos faith leaders, and Kaïs Saied’s Tunisia, identity becomes an instrument for persuasion, coalition-building, public health, and state power.
Covers 2026-09-07 to 2026-09-14; 5 free papers from 40 selected papers.
Where pulpits, courts, parties, and movements collide, this show follows the research behind the headlines on faith, power, identity, and democracy.
Episode covers 2026-09-07 – 2026-09-14.
Top papers
Artificial intelligence agents are responsive to identity cues in persuasive health communication
On the Differentiation Between Morality and Politics: Reassessing the Idea of the Axial Age
Political Fracturing
within
the Asian American Electorate
From Pluralism to Autocracy: De-Constitutionalization of the Debate over Religion and State in Kaïs Saied’s Tunisia
The international and transnational politics of the far right: an emergent research program
Themes: nationalism, Islamic education, religion, democracy, authoritarianism, conflict resolution, cultural diversity, xenophobia
Methods: qualitative, case-study, survey, historical analysis, library research, experimental
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September 07, 2026Whose Sincerely Held Beliefs Count? Plus: Great Lakes nationalism
A leaner week centers on exemption requests in the United States and religion’s entanglement with nationalism, state power, aid, and accountability.
Covers 2026-08-31 to 2026-09-07; 5 free papers from 14 selected papers.
Where pulpits, courts, parties, and movements collide, this show follows the research behind the headlines on faith, power, identity, and democracy.
Episode covers 2026-08-31 – 2026-09-07.
Top papers
Whose Sincerely Held Beliefs Count? Political Ideology Shapes Perceptions of Religious Exemption Requests.
Faith, Flags, and Fragile States: A Philosophical, Economic, and Political Analysis of Religion and Nationalism in Africa’s Great Lakes Region
Religious Belief and Science: A Reference Handbook
Putin’s Totalitarian Dreams
Periodicals of the Russian Diaspora as an Institution of Transnational Civil Society in the 1920s–1940s
Themes: religious exemptions, political ideology, sincerely held beliefs, biases, social judgments, religion, nationalism, Africa
Methods: qualitative, historical analysis, survey, experimental, philosophical analysis, comparative analysis
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September 03, 2026Do Smartphones Polarize Politics? Plus: Indonesia–Malaysia Religion Playbooks
New papers trace how digital platforms and state institutions convert religious and political identity into mobilization, legitimacy, and division.
Covers 2026-08-24 to 2026-08-31; 5 free papers from 40 selected papers.
Where pulpits, courts, parties, and movements collide, this show follows the research behind the headlines on faith, power, identity, and democracy.
Episode covers 2026-08-24 – 2026-08-31.
Top papers
Smartphones and Polarization: Cross-Country Evidence
Islamic Business Ethics, Muslim Feminism, and the Rhetorical Construction of Entrepreneurial Legitimacy: Evidence from Emirati Women
Revisiting Racialized Religious Contexts and Perceptions of White Discrimination and Privilege
Reimagining public understanding: Toward an institutional model.
Beyond Wildlife Values: Social and Ecological Dominance as Ideological Foundations of Wildlife Value Orientations
Themes: Nigeria, Indonesia, religion, social media, democracy, Africa, affective polarization, peacebuilding
Methods: qualitative, case-study, survey, historical analysis, philosophical analysis, quantitative
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August 25, 2026Who Speaks for the Sacred? Plus: Sacred Geography + Fragile Thrones
This week follows how sacred authority is rebuilt through temples, miraculous claims, bureaucracies, classrooms, and democratic strain.
Covers 2026-08-17 to 2026-08-24; 5 free papers from 40 selected papers.
Where pulpits, courts, parties, and movements collide, this show follows the research behind the headlines on faith, power, identity, and democracy.
Episode covers 2026-08-17 – 2026-08-24.
Top papers
HAJJ ADMINISTRATION IN ISLAMIC ECONOMICS GOVERNANCE: A QUALITATIVE STUDY OF INSTITUTIONAL PRACTICE AND PUBLIC WELFARE IN TALIABU ISLAND REGENCY
Crucifixes and Snowflakes: Exploring entanglements between music and religion in diverse schools
Contestation of Religious Authority in Serat Cebolek: State Legitimacy in Mataram
Ḥākimiyya
as a philosophy of history: Divine sovereignty and the marginalization of human agency
Förord: Att sätta religion på plats
Themes: religion, religious authority, colonialism, Christianity, identity, polarization, Nigeria, political stability
Methods: qualitative, case-study, survey, historical analysis, textual analysis, ethnographic
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August 17, 2026Who Decides Belonging? Plus: Nordic Veils and Israeli Principals
This week, religion and politics meet in the institutions that decide who belongs, from Nordic veil bans and Israeli school principals to Sindh villages and trans Jewish liturgy.
Covers 2026-08-10 to 2026-08-17; 5 free papers from 40 selected papers.
Where pulpits, courts, parties, and movements collide, this show follows the research behind the headlines on faith, power, identity, and democracy.
Episode covers 2026-08-10 – 2026-08-17.
Top papers
Suffering, Trauma, and Relational Integration: Re-Envisioning Spiritual Care and Psychoanalysis in a Decolonial Age
Virtuous Worldviews and Bottom-up Deliberation: Origins of Liberal Democracy in the "Iliad" and the Hebrew Bible
Transcendent Lobbying: Jewish Prayer for Trans People as Resilience, Embodiment, and Sacred Alignment
Taking out the church, bringing in the state
Navigating Ambiguity: Street-Level Managers Discretion in the Implementation of Religious Policy in Divided Societies
Themes: interfaith dialogue, pluralism, secularism, religious freedom, religious harmony, conflict resolution, reconciliation, politics
Methods: qualitative, case-study, historical analysis, survey, descriptive, desk research
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August 13, 2026Who Counts as “True Americans”? Plus: Kazakhstan’s Interface Rules
This week follows identity becoming governance, from a 17,403-person 2024 US survey on ascriptive martial republicanism to Kazakhstan’s state-religion interface rules.
Covers 2026-08-03 to 2026-08-10; 5 free papers from 40 selected papers.
Where pulpits, courts, parties, and movements collide, this show follows the research behind the headlines on faith, power, identity, and democracy.
Episode covers 2026-08-03 – 2026-08-10.
Top papers
“True Americans” at the ballot box: ascriptive republicanism, Christian nationalism, and the populist right in 2024
Solidarity in Crisis: Challenges in Fostering Muslim Solidarity in Malaysian Refugee Policies
Populist realism, civilizationalism, and the right: On the intellectual history of contemporary US foreign policy
Iranian elite sportswomen: Docile yet defiant bodies
Revolutionizing Time, Reforging Social Orders: State-Building Success and the Enforcement of Symbolic Programs in Revolutionary France
Themes: religion, social justice, nationalism, peacebuilding, Indonesia, polarization, secularism, political theology
Methods: qualitative, case-study, survey, ethnographic, document analysis, content analysis
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August 05, 2026Do Religious Networks Hold Up Democracy? Plus: Urban Religious Freedom
New work shows religion shaping politics through networks, urban governance, protest incentives, censorship workarounds, and competing images of authority.
Covers 2026-07-27 to 2026-08-03; 5 free papers from 40 selected papers.
Where pulpits, courts, parties, and movements collide, this show follows the research behind the headlines on faith, power, identity, and democracy.
Episode covers 2026-07-27 – 2026-08-03.
Top papers
Most people who agree with you won’t protest: Predictors of marches and demonstrations from six decades of research
Nature-based relational peace cultivation in Northern Ireland and South Africa
Transforming the Right to Religious Freedom in and through Cities
The Social Infrastructure of Indonesian Politics: Religious Networks, Elite Brokerage, and Democratic Governance
Anti-catholicism and the psychology of prejudice: A case study in secular blind spots.
Themes: social cohesion, democracy, political engagement, political polarization, democratic governance, social justice, pluralism, religion
Methods: qualitative, case-study, survey, content analysis, library research, historical analysis
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July 13, 2026Conspirituality + Catholic Racial Democracy: Faith Becomes Alignment
From COVID-19 conspiracy beliefs to interwar Brazil and pesantren television framing, this week follows religion as a public technology for coalition and legitimacy.
Covers 2026-07-06 to 2026-07-13; 5 free papers from 40 selected papers.
Where pulpits, courts, parties, and movements collide, this show follows the research behind the headlines on faith, power, identity, and democracy.
Episode covers 2026-07-06 – 2026-07-13.
Top papers
Breadth and Depth, Perfectionism and Paradox: Reading Black Politics by a Darkened Light
Conspirituality: Predicting COVID-19 Conspiracy Beliefs Using, Spirituality, Purity, and Political Orientation
“Sacré Mormont”: Disciplinary constellations and rhetorical contestations around nature in the context of accelerated urbanization
A Symposium on Melvin Rogers’s The Darkened Light of Faith: Race, Democracy, and Freedom in African American Political Thought
Catholic Racial Democracy: Social Imaginaries and Anti-Protestantism in Interwar Brazil
Themes: Catholic Church, Religious Education, secularism, COVID-19, political orientation, religion, social justice, family dynamics
Methods: qualitative, case-study, survey, quantitative, critical discourse analysis, theoretical analysis
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July 06, 2026Selective secularism? Plus: Modi-centered imperial spirituality
This week traces selective secularism in German courts, majoritarian secularism in Nepal, and Modi-centered imperial spirituality in India.
Covers 2026-06-29 to 2026-07-06; 5 free papers from 40 selected papers.
Where pulpits, courts, parties, and movements collide, this show follows the research behind the headlines on faith, power, identity, and democracy.
Episode covers 2026-06-29 – 2026-07-06.
Top papers
Polarization and Political Violence: When Polarization Turns Violent
The role of partisan news and political parasocial relationships in shaping meta‐perceptions: Cross‐national evidence
Is God Still Rusyn? Religious and Ethnic Context of Rusyn Identity in the Chomutov Region
Arbejderbevægelsens syn på kristendommen ca. 1870-1920
Selective Secularism and the Governance of Religious Diversity in German Case Law: A Case-Illustrative Socio-Legal Analysis
Themes: religion, political theology, ethics, political communication, digital media, Christianity, democracy, social media
Methods: qualitative, case-study, survey, historical analysis, content analysis, mixed-methods
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