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For nearly a century, many historians of gold rush San Francisco seemed intent on standing Santayana's celebrated axiom on its head: the more they studied the past, th emore they tended to repeat it. Specifically, historians who studied the great 1856 vigilance committee tended to imitate their subject and divide into two armed camps. In 1856, the pro-vigilance Chronicle thundered, "This community must be purged from its dregs, the creatures, whoever they are, who have poisoned the fountains of society and made the place as loathsome as a charnel house." Most subsequent historians, led by Hubert Howe Bancroft, took to Fort Gunnybags. They argued that the pervasive presence of crime and political corruption in San Francisco left law-abiding citizens no other choice but to step outside the letter of the law to preserve its spirit.

Thousands of Indonesian men now identify as both "gay" and "Muslim." How do these men understand the relationship between religion and sexuality? How do these understandings reflect the fact that they live in the nation that is home to more Muslims than any other? In this article, I address questions such as these through an ethnographic study of gay Muslims. I argue that dominant social norms render being gay and being Muslim "ungrammatical" with each other in the public sphere that is crucial to Muslim life in Indonesia. Through examining doctrine, interpretation, and community, I explore how gay Muslim subjectivity takes form in this incommensurability between religion and desire.

Introduction / Christopher G. Ellison and Robert A. Hummer -- Religion and family life outcomes -- Religion and the timing of first births in the United States / Lisa D. Pearce -- Religion and child rearing / Duane F. Alwin and Jacob L. Felson -- Religion and adolescent sexual behavior / Mark D. Regnerus -- The influence of religion on ties between the generations / Valarie King -- Religion and family values reconsidered : gender traditionalism among conservative protestants / John P. Bartkowski and Xiaohe Xu -- From generation to generation : religious involvement and attitudes toward family and pro-family outcomes among U.S. Catholics / Amy M. Burdette and Teresa A. Sullivan -- Religious intermarriage and conversion in the United States : patterns and changes over time / Linda J. Waite and Alisa C. Lewin -- Childhood religious denomination and early adult asset accumulation / Lisa A. Keister -- Religious affiliation and participation as determinants of women's educational attainment and wages / Evelyn Lehrer -- Religion, family, and women's employment among Muslim and Christian Arab Americans / Jennan Ghazal Read -- Religion and health outcomes -- Religion and depressive symptoms in late life / Neal Krause -- Religion and physical health among U.S. adults / Marc A. Musick and Meredith G. F. Worthen -- Religious involvement and mortality risk among pre-retirement aged U.S. adults / Robert A. Hummer, Maureen R. Benjamins, Christopher G. Ellison, and Richard G. Rogers -- Religious attendance and cause-specific mortality in the United States / Richard G. Rogers, Patrick M. Krueger, and Robert A. Hummer -- Race, religious involvement, and health : the case of African Americans / Christopher G. Ellison, Robert A. Hummer, Amy M. Burdette, and Maureen R. Benjamins -- Jewish identity and self reported health / Isaac W. Eberstein and Kathleen M. Heyman -- Religion, sexually risky behavior, and reproductive health : the Mormon case / Tim B. Heaton -- Religion and the new immigrants : impact on health behaviors and access to health care / Helen Rose Ebaugh -- Looking ahead -- The religious demography of the United States : dynamics of affiliation, participation, and belief / Darren E. Sherkat -- Future directions in population-based research on religion, family life, and health in the United States / Christopher G. Ellison and Robert A. Hummer

Many Christians feel that they are being opposed at every turn by what seems to be a well-orchestrated political and cultural campaign to de-Christianize every aspect of Western culture. They are right, and it goes even further back than the Obama Administration. In Worshipping the State: How Government is Replacing Religion, Benjamin Wiker argues that it is liberals who seek to establish an official state religion: one of unbelief. Wiker reveals that it was never the intention of the Founders to drive religion out of the public square with the First Amendment, but centuries of secularists and liberals have deliberately misinterpreted the establishment clause to serve their own ends: the de-Christianization of Western civilization. The result, they hope, is government as the new oracle. Personal faith in a deity is replaced with collective dependence on government, and the diversity of religious practices and dogmas is reduced to a uniform ideological agenda. The strategy is two-pronged: drive religion out of the public square through law and by encouraging popular derision of the faithful; then, in religion's place, erect the Church of the State to fill the human need for a higher power to look up to. But what was done can be undone. Outlining a simple, step-by-step strategy for disestablishing the state church of secularism, Worshiping the State shows the full historical sweep of the war to those on the Christian side of the cultural battle--and as a consequence of this far more complete vantage, how to win it.

Exceptionalism and civil religion -- The origins of American exceptionalism -- Expansion, slavery, and two American exceptionalisms -- The chosen nation -- The commissioned nation -- The innocent nation -- The nation and her land -- The glorious nation -- Open exceptionalism and civic engagement

Religion and Politics in the 21st Century is composed of a number of articles that were presented during the 2012 international conference on ""Religion and Politics in the Globalization Era"" organized by the Centre for Political Analysis in Cluj-Napoca, Romania. With careful attention given to 21st century religious resurgence and its dynamic interactions with political structures and the public sphere, the present volume captures a wide variety of perspectives on contemporary religion and p