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Who Could Possibly Take Issue With ‘Human Dignity’? Beware of Trojan Horses

By Peter Schwartz

…nd in Humanae Dignitatis, the 1965 papal encyclical establishing religious freedom as the preeminent human right, confirms that “human dignity” possesses uniquely incantatory and “self-evident” meaning for conservative Catholics. In moral terms, Richard Neuhaus wrote, “the dignity of the human person is affirmed most importantly not in the assertion of one’s autonomy but in the protection of others who are most subject to having their dignity viol…

Are You There God? It’s Us, Googling

By Michael Schulson

…ristian—50% correct!—and it knows that I’m searching from an IP address in East Tennessee). Advertising comes into play here, too. When I asked Google “Why does God allow suffering?” the first hit was a sponsored result for the website of David Jeremiah, a conservative evangelical preacher in California. Do these websites actually shape people’s responses to deep theological questions? Can search results and search engine optimization influence th…

Finding the Missing Airliner with Coconuts

By Joseph Laycock

…zation has forced a conversation about what constitutes “real Islam.” Southeast Asia is home to many Islamic practices that are vernacular and syncretic which present a problem for legalistic models of Islam, such as Salafism. Before the age of new media, Muslims in Europe or the Middle East could not have cared less about how a Malaysian bomoh reflects on their tradition. But as much as some Muslims might regard figures like Mat Zin as obnoxious…

How Does Mormonism Shape Romney’s Foreign Policy?

By Joanna Brooks

…a relationship of convenience than an article of faith. It saves him, at least, from having to articulate a post-Bush conservative foreign policy vision, as some have asked him to do. But he’s a pragmatist not a visionary, and in this his foreign policy resembles his economic policy: it’s designed in its public presentation to appeal to key voting demographics, but essentially values-neutral and centered on defending and promoting the interests…

Big Love, Saudi-Style

By Haroon Moghul

…concern for the overwhelming majority of Muslims. When I mentioned traveling the Muslim world, include in those itineraries American and European Muslims. It’s pretty much a non-practice. Until someone comes along and produces the Big Love of the Middle East; there are, after all, substantive differences. The four wives cannot be related. There cannot be more than four wives. And they must all be maintained at the same standard. So when it comes…

Did the Dalai Lama Just Call for an End to Religion?

By Richard Schiffman

…ma seems to be saying that religion needs to work harder to bridge the gap between the story that it tells and our actions in the world. It is not enough to provide believers with a comforting world view; religion should give people tools to act upon the sacred ideals that it preaches. The way to accomplish this, according to the Dalai Lama, is spiritual practice. “We are now in the twenty-first century,” writes Tibet’s leading monk. “The world is…

Bangladesh’s Atheist Blogger Still Wants to Talk

By Austin Dacey

…d philosophy. And that will only be possible in a truly secular Bangladesh—freedom of speech, equal rights for everyone. I know we have to suffer a lot for this dream. But we have to fight for it.” According to another legend of the martyrdom of al-Hallaj, he smiled when his feet were cut off, saying, “With these feet I used to travel the earth. I have other feet that are traversing both worlds at this very moment. Cut off those feet, if you can ….

Until the World Laughs with God

By Nathan Schneider

…, led to mass demonstrations and boycotts of Danish products in the Middle East, while The Life of Brian was, for a time, banned by jurisdictions in the United States and Britain for poking fun at the Gospels. The 1999 Kevin Smith movie, Dogma, only partly dulled the anger of Catholics by pointing out that “even God has a sense of humor” in an opening disclaimer. The claim of the outraged, which has often become cause for rare interreligious agree…

Why are Nuns and Monks in the Streets? (Parts I & II)

By José Cabezón

…in the Tibetan ethnic areas of Sichuan, Qinghai, and Gansu provinces on Tibet’s eastern frontier. Protests have even occured in Beijing. Taken together, these demonstrations—more than two dozen confirmed thus far—represent the strongest Tibetan response to Chinese rule since the March 1959 uprising that led to the Dalai Lama’s exile from his homeland. The Chinese government’s response to the demonstrations has been swift and severe. Initially con…

The Story of a Post-Holocaust Group Seeking Revenge Against Nazis is Part of the Story of Israel Itself

By Shane Burley

…bors; and the frequent bulldozing of the homes of families it suspects of abetting terrorism. When Hamas fires rockets over the border into Israel proper, they pale compared to the IDF’s shock-and-awe response, which presumes that an overwhelmingly violent counter-attack will make Israel safer. The motivating logic of Revisionist Zionism, which assumed the Jewish right to every inch of Mandatory Palestine and Transjordan, was that only Jewish stre…