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When Blasphemy Was a Riot (But Didn’t Cause One)

By Sophie Gherardi

On the morning of a devastating attack on the offices of Charlie Hebdo in Paris, we offer profound condolences to the families of those killed and the worldwide community of journalists. Here, below, is a piece from two years ago, a bittersweet reflection from a fellow French journalist on the occasion of a previous controversy. _____________ When you are on a pile of powder, you don’t scratch a match and call it liberty. —Daniel Cohn-Bendit, ico…

You’re Either Committing Ethnic Cleansing or You’re Not

By Haroon Moghul

…ian Muslim woman who falls in love with her Serb captor earned Angelina Jolie’s first effort as a filmmaker, In The Land of Blood and Honey, some early controversy—and understandably so. Imagine a movie about a Jewish woman held in a concentration camp who subsequently develops feelings for her Nazi warden, who reciprocates, and is thus conflicted about his place in the war. It isn’t impossible, just improbable. Thankfully not the crude romance it…

No, I Don’t Owe My Yoga Mat to Vivekananda

By Andrea R. Jain

…ournalist Ann Louise Bardach, suggests that the answer is simple: Swami Vivekananda, the early twentieth century sage and ambassador of Hinduism. I wasn’t surprised, since Vivekananda is often valorized as the great deliverer of yoga to “the West” or the “Father of modern yoga” in the popular press. But frankly, I’m tired of hearing it. And it’s just not true. Bardach, who is at work on a biography of Vivekananda, doesn’t simply suggest that conte…

Jews and Baseball: A Reflection on a Longtime Love Affair

By Rebecca T. Alpert

Walking down the street in my neighborhood a few years ago I was warmly greeted by the president of my synagogue, who cheerily introduced me to her new male companion. “You’ll like Rebecca,” she said. “She’s the one who gives those baseball sermons on Yom Kippur I was telling you about.” The man smiled knowingly. I smiled as best I could, trying to suppress my desire to say what was on my mind, which was something like, “Goddamit, I gave a sermon…

Coming Out Twice: Sexuality and Gender in Islam

By Susan Henking

…ility of having to “come out twice”—with the likely chance of encountering either homophobia or Islamophobia (or both), depending on the context. But in recent years, a new discussion of Islam and sexuality has emerged, led in large part by professor Kugle, who teaches South Asian and Islamic Studies at Emory University. Having written many books on Islam, including Homosexuality in Islam: Islamic Reflection on Gay, Lesbian and Transgender Muslims…

About That “Pledge in Solidarity to Defend Marriage”

By Sarah Posner

…s unconstitutional. The pledge makes the now (sadly) common comparison between religious right activists protesting what they claim are the trampled civil rights of marriage equality opponents and Martin Luther King, Jr. If they don’t quite envision themselves penning another Letter from a Birmingham Jail, they do picture themselves sitting in jail due to the supposedly heavy hand of a religion-hostile government, and fighting a cause they claim i…

Blessed With a Dark Turn of Mind: Gillian Welch’s Spiritual Strivings

By Paul Harvey

…the best kind of record: one that lures you in and soothes you with harmonies and banjo, only to leave you wondering what the hell just happened.” —Kitty Empire, review of The Harrow & the Harvest in The Observer, June 26, 2011 That’s a good question to ask of someone who sings of spending seven years with her companion on the burning shore, with Gatling guns and paint, working the lowlands door to door, like a Latter-day Saint. And that’s before…

A Secret Family History Shows “Regular” Life Under the Reich: Sarah Wildman on Paper Love

By Sarah Posner and Sarah Wildman

…ad) chronicles her quest to find the woman her grandfather left behind in Vienna when he escaped the Nazis in 1938. It’s part memoir, part personal history, part World War II history, and part globetrotting detective story—and completely riveting. Wildman’s quest began after the deaths of her grandparents, when she opened a box labeled “Correspondence: Patients A-G.” Since her grandfather was a doctor, the box, at least from the outside, seemed un…

Does Hitchens Have a Prayer?

By Garret Keizer

…erstanding it. Two days ago when I was told that Christopher Hitchens has been diagnosed with cancer of the esophagus and that this has sparked a discussion about whether people ought to pray for him, my first reaction was a stupefying bewilderment. I can’t say that I’ve entirely recovered. I’m still not sure what I’m missing. Presumably the question exists only for persons who believe in prayer, and more specifically in intercessory prayer. It ca…

Postcard from the Vatican

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…t lack of clerical concern or oversight. Outrage that the Vatican has not been doing more, or saying more, about it. Still more recently, there has been some admission by the Church’s most vocal critics that they are no longer sure what “doing enough” in the face of this massive structural calamity would even look like. Well now we know what the Catholic Church intends to do, or least we have been privileged to a much clearer picture of Benedict X…