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Heaven On Earth: A Non-Hysterical History of Shari’ah

By Haroon Moghul

…recalls a deeper point. Every system of criminal justice strikes a balance between two imperatives—the urge to condemn wrongdoers and the concern not to punish in vain—and the techniques to pursue those goals typically evolve in similar forms across different cultures. One consequence is that there are fundamental similarities between the legal aspirations recorded in the Qur’an and hadiths and those expressed by later Western jurists: the notion…

Prophets of the Environmental Apocalypse

By Peter Laarman

…ar anxiety about The End has actually been with us for quite some time—at least from the moment in July 1945 when Manhattan Project mastermind J. Robert Oppenheimer quoted Vedic scripture at Los Alamos: “I am become Death, destroyer of worlds.” Many Americans actually felt pretty good about the nuclear bomb for a little bit, though that changed once those damned Russkies got a bomb of their own. Partly to allay growing fears of annihilation, Presi…

Note to the New Pope: Half of the World’s Poor are Women

By Marian Ronan

…f the ministry of women priests who would marry, absolve, and anoint them, is no service to them. Even as President Ronald Reagan challenged Michael Gorbachev to tear down the wall between East and West, the much-loved Pope John Paul II put every effort into freeing the Catholics of Eastern Europe from religious and political oppression. The new supreme pontiff of the Catholic Church, Pope Francis I, has the opportunity to end another form of oppr…

How Orthodox Christianity Became the Spiritual Home of White Nationalism

By Katherine Kelaidis

…ory perusal of the “alt-right” web reveals a large and growing love affair between the threatening margins of our modern Western political discourse and the ancient Christian faith of the East. The double-headed eagle appears on internet message boards and Orthodox crosses adorn the necks of thugs. What the response of the institutional Church to this courting will be is still yet to be written. Arguably, thus far, it has not been swift, public, o…

Hagee and Others See
End Times in North African Revolutions

By Joanna Brooks

…years ago the prophet Ezekial told us exactly which nations in the Middle East would join forces to start a major war. What you’re seeing on the television screen is exactly this,” Hagee said, stringing together a series of non sequitur headlines to make a case for . . . a case for . . . . Jesus? Almost forty years ago, California Christian pastor Hal Lindsey offered a Cold War inflected vision of the endtimes in his bestselling and widely influe…

The New Age Fantasy of a Celtic Church that Revered Nature and the Divine Feminine Never Existed — So What?

By Ed Simon

…e imagined than real. And yet, despite there being some expected variation between Celtic and the rest of Europe’s Christianity, there’s no substantial theological difference between the Roman Catholic Church of the period and its Irish, Scottish, and Welsh believers. Until the Synod of Whitby in 664, the biggest gulf in Christianity between how it was practiced in the Atlantic Archipelago (what most call the British Isles) and in Rome concerned t…

Arguments That Caste Protections ‘Unjustly Target’ South Asians Don’t Stand Up to Scrutiny

By Pranay Somayajula and Nikhil Mandalaparthy

…u who faced caste discrimination during his time as a student at Cal State East Bay, and he’s not alone in his story. If Hindu Americans such as Pariyar are facing such discrimination, one would expect those who claim to advocate for the interests of Hindu Americans to stand by their side, rather than speak out against efforts led by students like Pariyar. And yet, despite the Cal State Board of Trustees’ unanimous rebuke of their erroneous claims…

Untethering Conscience From Religion: An Interview with Louisa Thomas

By Jeremy Kessler

…slightly—as a man who ran for president six times on the socialist ticket between 1928 and 1948, and who inspired a lot of people. But it’s also about his three brothers, Evan Thomas, the conscientious objector my father wrote about, and Ralph and Arthur, who were soldiers. The book is about their family drama during that time, as each decided what his conscience demanded in these extreme circumstances. All of the brothers were deeply involved in…

Iftar: Breaking Fast

By Amina Wadud

…rayer afterward. And so there is—all five prayers have a time range of at least an hour and a half, so one could be said to have prayed “in the prayer time” according to the Hadith. Praying immediately when the adhan is called or at the start of each prayer time is a plus, but not a mandate. So, I went with the majority. Boy was I sorry. After the days empty stomach it was a heavy burden to go straight into all those movements following the large…

Decolonizing Jewish Studies Part II: A Response to the Backlash

By Gilah Kletenik and Rafael Rachel Neis

…hip to defend it on its merits, rather than fear mongering about “academic freedom” to salvage his reputation and research (which is notorious for fear mongering about the Jewish “future”). There’s a chasm between the openness we’re advocating to dismantle injustices in Jewish Studies and the conceit of a “marketplace of ideas.” The alarm in this bellicose letter is gratifying: it affirms that change is afoot. Jewish Studies, thanks to the courage…