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New History Finally Recognizes Afro-Creole Spiritualists

By Paul Harvey

…y and then François “Petit” Dubuclet. Petit handed the records onto his son-in-law René Grandjean, a French émigré and Spiritualist himself. Grandjean later donated the records to the special collections at the University of New Orleans. Grandjean was an amateur historian and acted akin to the Cercle Harmonique’s first archivist. He organized the séance records, made notes in them based on conversations with his father-in-law, and translated a ver…

RDBook: Whither the Religious Left?

By Bill Berkowitz

…n Louis Farrakhan and Rev. Sun Myung Moon in advance of the Million Family March, causing prominent political leaders and entertainers to avoid the event. He has also written extensively about anti-abortion terrorism in the United States. In 1997, Clarkson wrote Eternal Hostility: The Struggle Between Theocracy and Democracy (Common Courage Press), one of the earliest books about the conservative evangelical movement which has become an integral p…

Democratic Faith Outreach: Not Dead Yet?

By Sarah Posner

…is no question looking to ’10 that faith voters will play a key role in a number of races,” Sapp told me today. “We’re working on campaigns in several states already and are in on-going conversations with the Party about creating a more comprehensive program that builds on past success, and we’re hopeful one will be put in place soon.” But Eleison’s clients have tended to be conservative and anti-choice Democrats. Parker Griffith, the Alabama con…

On Cairo Streets, No Support for Islamist State

By H.A. Hellyer

…Mubarak just fled, then the country might fall apart completely. On the pro-Mubarak side . . . actually, there was not much of a pro-Mubarak side to listen to. There were some that had benefitted from his rule, and who simply wanted the status quo to remain — but at least in the neighborhood watch committees, none could bring themselves to really argue for his merits. Particularly after the last few days. Beyond the hardcore in Liberation Square,…

On Women’s Equality Day, Going Back to the Sacred Texts of Feminism

By Betty M. Bayer

…nal efforts to turn back the clock, Maloney made more concrete in those day-to-day losses women experience in business, law, economics, politics, medicine, gender pay differentials, and, one might well add, religion and academics (including offices of administration). Her point was that progress has ground to a near halt. Women hold less than 18% of the seats in Congress and 25% in the state legislature; women compose less than 3% of the heads of…

Some Christian and Muslim Leaders Urging ‘No’ Vote in Australian Mail Ballot on Marriage Equality; and More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…marital relationships are Islamicly impermissible.” Kevin Andrews, an anti-marriage-equality member of Parliament, compared gay couples to the “affectionate relationship” he has with his cycling buddies. “We go cycling on the weekends, but that’s not marriage,” he told SkyNews. Andrews said that marriage equality would be a “pathway to polygamy. Andrews was named “Natural Family Man of the Year” by the World Congress of Families in 2014. Crikey’s…

Burma Bans Time Magazine’s “Buddhist Terror” Issue

By Alan Senauke

…l hostility. One wonders, too, whether we are seeing garden-variety religio- or ethno-centrism—a disease of group identity and privilege that is sadly endemic among humans. Is there also a perverse political motivation, in which the former military junta is “allowing” the violence so they can intervene and reassert their position as the agent of social order in Burma? Considering the Rohingyas in Rakhine state, they have lived in Burma in Rakhine…

An American Muslim Responds to Muslim Orgs Questioning Armenian Genocide

By Haroon Moghul

…your keys, then they’re stealing from you. 37 million people did not absent-mindedly forfeit existence. They were murdered. Armenians were among the murdered. Great numbers were killed, on purpose. There was an Armenian genocide. In 1913, the Committee of Union and Progress, a xenophobic, nationalistic and militaristic junta (in stark contrast to the historically more pluralistic traditions of Ottoman governance), seized the Ottoman Empire and att…

Faith for Fuck-Ups? A New Book Explores a Broader Vision for Christianity

By Jason J. Stellman

…Gen-Xers who can’t help but question the status quo, many of whom are post-evangelical or post-Christian altogether. I want them to know that a bit of free thinking and iconoclasm never hurt anyone, and that God can handle our occasional wrestling against him. He’s not nearly as petty as many of his spokespeople portray him! Are you hoping to just inform readers? Entertain them? Piss them off? I know that my book will be a bit scandalous to those…

Professional Wrestling Doc, Team Taliban, Looks at the ‘Muslim Bad Guy’

By Christopher Anzalone

…case, Urdu), and often entering the ring in robes and kaffiyeh. Alam’s out-of-ring introspection, alluringly captured in Benjamin Kegan’s film, and the fact that he is an open and practicing Muslim, are what make him stand out. While the film contains some truly compelling scenes—as when he recounts the discussion with his parents after telling them that he planned to portray a “terrorist” character—the film’s eleven minutes and change is a major…