Balancing identity against dogmatism within religious organizations

I have a piece over on Religion Dispatches on the line between reasonable expectations of acceptance of orthodoxy within American religious organizations and religious intolerance.

Op-Ed: The Real Muslims? by Svend White | Religion and Theology | ReligionDispatches

Candace

Chellew-Hodge wrote last week in RD about the dogmatism enforced by
some of the organizations ranked as top Christian employers. This got
me thinking (and chuckling a bit) as I imagined compiling comparable
rankings for Muslim American community organizations (especially given
the financial woes and cross-cultural hijinks one finds in many such
outfits, being early forays into American civic life by a relatively
young community).

More importantly, this got me thinking about
whether Muslim organizations might be said to similarly highjack the
“M-word” (a new TV series?). While I haven’t heard of such heavy-handed
measures being employed in Muslim organizations, I think there is
certainly an analogous expectation of assent to a minimal standard of
doctrinal orthodoxy.

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