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Dispatches From the Site of a Massacre

By Haroon Moghul

…he Middle East, sometimes defined generously to include Berbers, Turks, or South Asians, as a kind of Islamic heartland, where the “real Islam” exists; those from outside the region are assumed to be more recently converted, and thus less authentically Muslim. This frame’s even used by those who consider it charitable: Indonesia’s Islam is often described as syncretic, which means moderate, implying that “real Islam” is 1) not to be found in Indon…

Imagining Fear and Anxiety in Post-9/11 New York

By Haroon Moghul

…Submission is about all of that. You were co-chief of the New York Times’ South Asia bureau. How did your work over there affect your view of New York, of how we remember September 11—and what’s happened since? A novelist is, in some sense, always an outsider—and being abroad, being a geographic outsider, was very helpful in seeing what had happened to America in the wake of 9/11. Not being immersed in the fear, the anxiety, that a lot of America…

Pricking the Conscience of Churches: From AIDS Activism to Ending World Hunger

By Susan Henking

…and it also has an incredible amount of poverty. It is not accidental that South Africa has the highest number of persons infected with HIV—the consequence of apartheid has been poverty, lack of education, unemployment, hunger, and disease. In India, HIV spreads among the most impoverished and poorly educated. This theme of poverty takes me to a few more questions. You co-authored a book entitled Ending Hunger Now with Senators McGovern and Dole….

2011’s Best Books—
Or Just a Great Reading List

By Haroon Moghul

…e was a profoundly influential poet, philosopher, and political thinker in South Asia and the Muslim-majority world, but he is largely unknown outside Muslim conversations. Second caveat: This is not a book that will be easily accessible for those to whom contemporary Islamic thought, or South Asian philosophy, are familiar subjects. Nevertheless, the subject of this work, since Muhammad Iqbal has had a profound impact on contemporary Islam, far o…

The Gospel Gestalt: From Joyful Noise to Whitney Houston

By Douglas Harrison

…and historical forces—religious and secular, black and white, northern and southern, here and abroad. Some of these confluences have carved out deep channels of recognizable musical expression that have historically been talked about—whether implicitly or explicitly—in terms of race (black gospel, Southern gospel, white gospel convention singing, and so on). But gospel has always been more racially complex and culturally polyvocal than most narrat…

An Historic Meeting: African and African Diaspora Women Convene in Ghana for First-Ever Religion Conference

By Rosetta E. Ross

…e activities. Absence of representatives from Southern and Eastern Africa, South America, Asia, Europe, Australia-Oceania, and Antarctica challenged the meeting’s full identity as “African” and “African Diasporan.” As conference organizers, Rose Mary Amenga-Etego, Evelyn Parker, and I began and ended the meeting lamenting constraints that prevented wider representation and anticipating broader participation of women on the continent and in the dia…

Will the Religious Side with Workers?

By Peter Laarman

…kplaces and ship the work to the non-union American South or to the Global South, took their predictable devastating toll on private-sector unionism. Surging public sector unionism during this same period saved the American labor movement from complete collapse. But now these public sector unions are also under the gun in a big way. So my question persists: Where were the vast majority of American religious leaders during these decades of attacks…

How to Craft a D.I.Y. Old Testament

By Benjamin Morse

…me one big collage that needed to be conveyed in these terms. There are a number of winks to the art historian in the book: Adam and Eve as Tahitians once painted by Gauguin, the Matisse dove, the Hebrew woman bent over in front of the pyramid like one of Millet’s Gleaners, and my Malevich Moses. The paper credits read like fashion captions and modestly point out objects that required extra skill: the bouclé Moses wears when he smashes the tablet…

Great White Men, Again?: On Lincoln and Our Civil Religion

By Paul Harvey

…that led to the quote-unquote ‘noble cause,’ and the rise of the Klan and Southern self-protection societies. The abuse of the South after they were defeated was a catastrophe, and helped lead to just unimaginable, untellable human suffering. He has since partially apologized for and retracted those comments, insisting that he should have clarified that he was talking about the congressional refusal to fund the finding and burying of Confederate…

The Evolution of Religion, According to Darwin

By Elizabeth Drescher

…ies? In his field notebooks, Darwin’s first reaction to the rainforests of South America was simply: silence hosannah. When he later wrote about these contrasts between awe and destruction he said, “Both are temples filled with the varied productions of the God of Nature: no one can stand in these solitudes unmoved, and not feel that there is more in man than the mere breath of his body.” He later wondered if his experience of the sublime proved G…