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UPDATED: Religion Has Been Framed; Covering the Aga Khan’s Visit

By Hussein Rashid

…es it should be a major news story. Unfortunately, his message of tolerance, peace, pluralism, and education do not fit in the conflict framework. I see people who have much smaller constituencies and less of a legitimate claim to leadership on TV spewing vile rhetoric that gets covered because it fits the frame. The frame of religion in conflict is one that is not only favored by those who don’t know about the faith, but is also propagated by the…

New Reports Reveal Global Persecution of Nonbelievers

By Austin Dacey

…satirizing religious rituals and sanctities and prophets” under articles 98, 160, and 161 of the Egyptian Penal Code. According to Egypt News Daily, the prosecution first sought to charge him in connection with disseminating Innocence of Muslims but when this accusation was proven false, they revised their strategy to target the content of Saber’s video blog. Though sentenced to three years and released on bail he was subsequently locked up due to…

Americans Say Religion is “Losing Influence”

By Diane Winston

…news or find ways to live in a messy both/and reality. (I am assuming not all these people are right-wingers.) I don’t want more top-down coverage about the end of religion. I’d like more bottom-up stories about what kinds of religion, or irreligion, get people through their day—along with analyses of religion’s ever-evolving role in politics, culture and society. As for branding, “Post-Religion Dispatches from a More or Less Still Religious Worl…

Sacred&Profane: The Living Dead

By Gary Laderman

…sight, either as exemplars to be followed, in the case of Christian heroes, or, in the case of Christian laity, as still-vital relations to be shown proper respect, or even, as in the case of popular folk traditions, as malicious forces to be guarded against by the living. In America, what we know as Halloween grew from an amalgamation of these traditions, carried over to the New World by Irish and English immigrants, and tied to autumnal celebra…

The Real Goal of Pro-Life Movement Support for Scott Brown: Kill Health Care Reform

By Sarah Posner

…campaign pledge to vote against abortion funding in health care reform (and, of course, his opposition to reform generally) led the anti-abortion Susan B. Anthony list to proclaim this morning that his victory was a “WIN for women.” Not because he meets the organization’s stringent anti-abortion requirements for its full support (think Sarah Palin) but because he serves the movement’s goal in the short term: kill health care reform, and if they ca…

The 17th Century Roots of Roy Moore’s Refusal to Concede the Election

By Karen E. Park

…tiently for the Lord. That’s what we’ve got to do. And he inclined it to me, heard my cry, brought us out of a horrible pit out of clay and set my feet on the rock and established my goings and put a new song in our mouth. A hymn praising to our God. Many shall see it and hear it and shall be moved by that, if you will. Moore is “waiting on God” to deliver the Senate seat to him despite his clear loss because he does not believe in the democratic…

Travolta Airlifts Scientology, Supplies, to Haiti

By Becky Garrison

…ntology, “Teams of Scientology Volunteer Ministers from throughout the U.S., Mexico, Europe and elsewhere will provide administrative and organizational support to the medical teams, distribute supplies, and provide trauma relief and grief counseling to the victims and their families.” Upon further examination, whatever genuine relief they might provide appears to be offset by their efforts to promote their religious beliefs. For example, during m…

Sacred&Profane: Wilco Worship and the “Churn” in American Religion

By Gary Laderman

…the land of no religion, faith, as a domesticated catchword for Christians, Jews, Muslims, Buddhists and Hindus of every stripe and strand, is out the window. When faith, affiliation and tradition no longer apply, the possibility for religious life is not dead but remains vital and viable. Without a religion to tie you down, one can still be religious and access something sacred in some form or other. Signs of religious life without religion are…

Orthodox Jews Begin to Reckon with Sexual Abuse

By Paul Berger

…ur of the rabbi’s female relatives. Two more of the rabbi’s sons, Yechezkel, 24, and a 15-year-old who cannot be named for legal reasons, have already turned themselves in to police. The case is certainly odd. 58-year-old Rabbi Kranczer, of Midwood, has 14 children and the abuse, according to the New York City Police Department, has been limited to incidents within the rabbi’s family. But the hunt for Kranczer comes at a time when federal agencies…

Change v. Change at NPR

By Warren Throckmorton

…to help people prioritize their feelings. Those who become priests and nuns, for example, prioritize religion over sexuality. All this suggests that what many people think of as “conversion” therapy is really not. The lines are blurry between conversion and identity therapy and between real and effective change in sexual orientation, identity and priority. A story that helps us understand the differences might uncover that in the public debate, ma…