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Book Burning and the Scapegoating of Islam

By Eric Reitan

…ints out that the crucifixion, while a story of sacrificial scapegoating, deliberately exposes the scapegoat for what he is: an innocent. More significantly, the crucifixion gives to the victim the very voice of God: The passion narratives tell the old story of redemptive violence, but tell it entirely from the point of view of the sacrificed one. Even more dramatically, they tell the story of redemptive violence as a sinful human construct for pe…

New History Finally Recognizes Afro-Creole Spiritualists

By Paul Harvey

…tion of racial identities, and most importantly, the diversity of African American religions. But we don’t examine the diversity within African American religions just for the sake of religious variety. Within various forms of Christianity, Islam, and even hip hop, we examine the interplay between religion, race, colonialism and self-determination. And for one day every semester I get to introduce students to my work on the Cercle Harmonique. They…

RDBook: Whither the Religious Left?

By Bill Berkowitz

…e creation of religious empires. Meanwhile, Warren’s books read more like self-help books than dire warnings of Satanic or Muslim hordes that drive the work of say, John Hagee, and his ideology is about free market fundamentalism more than it is about overt religious and political triumphalism. This, along with an avuncular personality gives him an image of moderation that will fit more comfortably with the corporate wings of both major parties. O…

‘Religious Freedom’: Constitutional Principle or Electoral Politics?

By Frances Kissling

…trategy that is political, but respectful of the constitutional limits on religious freedom. It has correctly taken the position that public policies established to serve the common good require a clear and narrow definition of what is and what is not a religion. We do not just abandon the common good to unexamined claims that a public health or education provider is required by faith not to comply. We are prepared to give an actual religion an a…

A Public Monument to Atheism—In Florida

By Becky Garrison

…think they’ve found a clever way to bring the Commandments in through the back door by invoking a “free speech zone.” They have to understand what that means—free speech means free speech for everyone. Those courthouse plazas may get awfully crowded….

Q Shaman’s New Age-Radical Right Blend Hints at the Blurring of Seemingly Disparate Categories

By Susannah Crockford

…travelled far from its Indigenous Siberian roots. Religion scholar Mircea Eliade helped create the concept of ‘shamanism’ as a universal, ancient religion that was the root of all other religions in an evolutionary schema. The term was taken up by anthropologist-turned-practitioner figures such as Michael Harner and Carlos Castaneda, who helped create what’s now known as core shamanism, neo-shamanism, or contemporary Western shamanism. This varia…

Vietnam, the Analogy

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…story that was told this weekend involved a charismatic young president, relatively new to office, facing pressure from many of his military advisors to commit to significant troop increases in Vietnam. Kennedy resisted, due in no small part to the cautionary advice of some of his closest staff advisors. Well after his assassination, in 1966, President Johnson significantly upped the military ante, and the troop numbers, committing the US to an a…

Arrests Made in Murders of Atheist Bloggers in Bangladesh, But Int’l Response to Violence Remains Anemic

By Murali Balaji

…ct Bangladesh’s Hindus and other minorities from ongoing violence mandate religious freedom and human rights be at the forefront of the U.S. relationship with Bangladesh While the resolution is unlikely to come to the House floor for a vote (due to House Speaker John Boehner’s general refusal to vote on resolutions), it’s an important symbolic step towards recognizing that Bangladesh continues to fight the battles of yesterday with disastrous cons…

Taking On The Religious Right…In Kansas? Yes.

By Daniel Schultz

…ng Topeka for decades. Hanging Westboro around Brownback’s neck isn’t entirely fair, but see the point about bigoted people above. Engle and the rest of the Religious Right deserve to be challenged. Not simply because they have horrible politics, though that’s also the case, but because their values are not universally held. In fact, there are man many folks who are not all about banning abortion, hating gays and lesbians, and generally establishi…

Bishops Have No Religious Freedom Claim

By Sarah Posner

…the bishops have tried to turn it into a political issue, by elevating questions about LGBT rights and access to reproductive care as violations of their religious freedom, which — constitutionally — it is not. Read the whole thing here. …