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Compromising positions : political sex scandals and American Christianity -- Sex scandals, national fantasies, and the stories we tell -- Scandal : the story of wayward men (featuring a full cast, with special guest star, Donald Trump) -- Religion : the story of right and wrong (featuring Mark Foley and Roy Moore) -- Sex : the story of feminists and whores (featuring Anita Hill and Paula Jones) -- Nation : the story of American values (featuring Rudy Giuliani, Newt Gingrich, and John Edwards) -- Media : the story of just desserts (featuring Anthony Weiner and Arnold Schwarzenegger) -- Brett Kavanaugh and the contradictions of American masculinity (featuring Brett Kavanaugh, Christine Blasey Ford, Anita Hill, Clarence Thomas, with a role reprisal by Donald Trump).

'Compromising Positions' argues that sex scandals aren't really about sex. Rather, they are a form of cultural theatre - a moment of highly visible, public storytelling - the purpose of which is to use specific racial and gendered symbols to create a collective sense of national worth and strength. To arrive at this conclusion, the text charts the ways in which attitudes about gender, race, and religion are woven together to create a certain sort of rhetoric about what America is, who is eligible to formally represent it, and what types of religiosity such leaders must display in order to legitimize their power.

Compromising Positions argues that political sex scandals aren't really about sex. Rather, they are a form of cultural theater --moments of highly visible, public storytelling--that use racial and gendered symbols to create a collective sense of national worth and strength. The book shows that Americans condemn or excuse the sexual indiscretions of their politicians depending on the degree to which those politicians reinforce longstanding evangelical symbols associated with "American values" and a "Christian nation.".

Many regard religious experience as the essence of religion, arguing that narratives might be created and rituals invented but that these are always secondary to the original experience itself. However, the concept of ""experience"" has come under increasing fire from a range of critics and theorists. This Reader presents writings from both those who assume the existence and possible universality of religious experience and those who question the very rhetoric of ""experience"". Bringing together both classic and contemporary writings, the Reader showcases differing disciplinary approaches to.

Introduction: "And what kind of society does that create?" / Russell T. McCutcheon -- Good Muslim, bad Muslim : neo-orientalism and the study of religion / Aaron W. Hughes -- Religious studies and the jargon of authenticity / Jason Ā. Josephson-Storm -- Toward a critique of postsecular rhetoric / Naomi R. Goldenberg -- The political utility of the past : the case of Greek fire-walking rituals / Vaia Touna -- Privatized publics and scholarly silos : gender, religion, and their theoretical fault Lines / K. Merinda Simmons -- What's religious freedom got to do with it? On the niqab affair in Canadian politics / Matt Sheedy -- The strange and familiar spiritual journey of Reza Aslan / Martha Smith Roberts -- The journalist-ethnographer, religious diversity, and the euphemisation of social relations / Carmen Becker -- Scopophilia and the manufacture of "good" religion / Leslie Dorrough Smith -- Naturalizing the transnational capitalist class : Reza Aslan's believer and the ideological reproduction of an emerging social formation / Craig Prentiss -- Authentic religion--or, how to be a good citizen / Steffen Führding -- 'Bad religion' on the university campus : "political correctness" and the future of the insider/outsider problem in the study of religion / Adrian Hermann, Stefan Priester -- Studying religion in a post-truth world / Stephanie Gripentrog -- The good, the bad, and the non-religion : the good/bad rhetoric in non-religion studies / Christopher R. Cotter -- The campus as a 'safe space'? A sociology of knowledge perspective on the new student protests / David Kaldewey -- What teaching new religions tells us about the discourse on 'good' and 'bad' religion / David G. Robertson -- Unintentionally constructing 'good' and 'bad' religions in teaching classical European social theories at a Japanese university / Mitsutoshi Horii -- Good and bad, legitimate and illegitimate religion in education / Wanda Alberts -- Benign religion as normal religion / Suzanne Owen.