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Seven-in-Heaven Way, Hybrid Pope, & “Chrislam”

By Michael J. Altman

…while, the Latter-day Saints are launching a million-dollar ad campaign in New York City. While the Crystal Cathedral has fallen on hard times, its Spanish language service is booming. A Malaysian reality show searches for the best preaching Muslim woman. In Tajikistan, the parliament is considering a bill to keep kids out of churches and mosques. Secularism is on the way out in Bangladesh. In Egypt, the Muslim Brotherhood has expelled a senior me…

Feminist Critics of Wearing Hijab in Solidarity Fall Into Same Old Traps

By Mariam Durrani

…al forms of violence. As a researcher who works with young Muslim women in New York City, some who wear the hijab and some who do not, it makes me squirm to hear the echo of arguments that surfaced in 2001: that the US must continue the war on terror in order to liberate and save Afghan women. But in the case of Nomani and Arafa, it is no longer as simple as a white imperialist nation seeking to rescue the brown, Muslim people from themselves. Her…

Peru’s Civil Unions Bill Killed as Bishop Calls Sponsor ‘Faggot’; Germany Fines Men For Trying To Force Gay Muslim Teen Into Hetero Marriage; LGBT Global Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…a video interview with Ugandan equality activist Frank Mugisha, who was in New York earlier this month to receive the Jolli Humanitarian Award. In the interview, Mugisha blames the rise of homophobia in Uganda on “extreme religious leaders,” the majority of them from the United States. He said it is important for allies to speak up and give hope to young people, including sports and entertainment figures whose solidarity can have a impact on publi…

If Modesto’s Public Schools Can Teach World Religions, It Can Happen Anywhere

By Jonathan Homrighausen

…this course so successfully. Modesto is no Berkeley, no San Francisco, no New York. Modesto is known for its low literacy, high crime, and conservative religious and political temperament. The Modesto I grew up in was not a city of open-minded religious pluralism. Modesto is the city where, as a teen, I was invited by a friend to a service at his church. It turned out to be a performance of “Heaven’s Gates, Hell’s Flames,” a dramatization of the…

Recent Debates Highlight Democrats’ Antisemitism Blind Spot—But It’s Not What You Think

By Nylah Burton

…ael. American Jews have a home—America—and it’s worrisome for the Mayor of New York City (which is home to the largest Jewish population of any city, including in Israel) to claim that Jews aren’t safe there. And yet, De Blasio’s comments have not and likely will not be rebuked by the Democratic Party for invoking antisemitic tropes. For Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg, the reason why is two-fold, telling Religion Dispatches that “I think most Democrats do…

Trump Pulls a Huckabee on Religion

By Sarah Posner

…ooks, she said, and “Dr. Ben Carson is a hero for us.” Trip Gabriel at the New York Times similarly finds Carson supporters in Iowa unfazed by his comments linking gun control to Nazism or comparing abortion to slavery: Mr. Carson’s provocative comments on topics like Nazism and slavery, which pundits and commentators regularly denounce, seem only to deepen the enthusiasm his evangelical base feels for him. He has connected with Republican women h…

Civil Unions Battle Heats Up in Italy; Church Leaders in Malawi Defend Criminalization of Homosexuality; Report on LGBT Student Group Sparks Backlash in Indonesia; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…makers “have pressures on them, political, cultural, from the church.” The New York Times’ Jim Yardley took an look at divisions over the legislation in Italy, an outlier among western nations in lacking legal recognition for same sex couples, partly because, Yardley writes, “of the lingering influence of the Roman Catholic Church.” In the past, the Catholic Church would probably have played a major role in opposing the legislation (as happened in…

Palin Tries to Join the Mishpachah

By Sarah Posner

News reports yesterday were chattering about Sarah Palin touring New York wearing a Star of David around her neck. Palin wore the same one when she toured Israel in March. Here’s an Associated Press video of Palin discussing the symbolism of the Statue of Liberty yesterday, while wearing the Star of David in question: While Palin’s display of this particular piece of her jewelry collection in places where she would expect to encounter a lot of Je…

Rapture Theology as Cultural Critique: What Camping’s Prediction Tells Us About Ourselves

By Rosamond C. Rodman

…y 21, while the kids thought the whole thing ridiculous (but got a trip to New York out of it). Inadvertently, their coverage revealed what rapture and other religious rhetorics can produce: social and familial re-engineering. Harold Camping’s prediction, upon which it is so easy to heap contempt, nevertheless succeeded in revealing a sensitive psycho-social barometer and a sharp cultural critique—which is what religious rhetoric at times excels a…

The Great Disappointment: When the World Fails to End on Schedule

By Randall Balmer

…Miller was a farmer and self-anointed Bible interpreter from Low Hampton, New York, near Lake Champlain. Whereas Camping’s prediction (as I understand it) was based on his dating of Noah’s flood, Miller devised a complex numerological formula based, at least in part, on the reign of Artaxerxes and the “seventy weeks” mentioned in the book of Daniel in the Hebrew Bible. All of that computed to sometime between March 21, 1843, and March 21, 1844. W…