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The Eddie Long Scandal: It is About Anti-Homosexuality

By Pamela R. Lightsey

…ssues at stake here, however there have always been the “other issues” the African American community has wanted to discuss. Any “issue” was considered more important than gay rights. For years African Americans advocating for gay rights have been told, “That’s not our issue” “We have too many other important issues to deal with in our community. We can’t put gay rights at the forefront.” We have pleaded with the African American church and its le…

New World A-Coming: How Black Religion Helped Shape Racial Identity

By Judith Weisenfeld

…xt book? I’m just getting started on a book about the intersections of race, African American religions, and psychiatry in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century United States. I’m interested in the way that psychiatric theory framed African and African diaspora religious practices in relation to ideas about normal and disordered minds, and in the treatment black people deemed to be suffering from religiously grounded mental illness recei…

Why Hulu’s “Handmaid’s Tale” May Be the Wrong Adaptation for Trump Era

By Christopher Douglas

…-life stance became the default position of white evangelicals, and then a central platform of the Republican Party. The Handmaid’s Tale was Atwood’s thought experiment about what it looked like for the state to take women’s fertility choices away from them. She listened to what the Christian Right was saying about sexuality, gender roles, patriarchy, homosexuality, and the God-given differences between men and women, and imagined an extreme versi…

Global LGBT Recap: Adventists Talk About, Not To, LGBT People; British Muslim Group Welcomes Gay-Rights Activist; Homophobia Exports Continue

By Peter Montgomery

…ast week condemning anti-gay laws in Nigeria and Uganda. In response, the African, Caribbean, and Pacific Parliament reportedly “said it will discourage African heads of state and government from attending the EU-Africa summit scheduled for May should Western nations impose sanctions on Uganda and Nigeria. Navi Pillay, the UN’s Human Rights chief, met with Nigeria’s justice minister last week and slammed the country’s new anti-gay law, saying it…

Mad About Secularism: Turkey and the Global Politics of Religion

By Linell Cady

…shut down fifteen years later for violating the secular principles of the republic. This history now threatens to repeat itself. Although very much a national crisis, the global echoes are unmistakable. The indictment charges Mr. Erdogan and his governing party with responsibility for shifting perceptions of Turkey. Because of him, states the indictment, Turkey is now viewed as a “moderate Islamic republic,” and suggests that this is now the offi…

French Theologian Urges Islam to Self-Critique, Fails to Notice Log in Own Eye

By Daniel J. Schultz

…to engage. These new measures, which aim to support teachers and inculcate Republican virtues, include a “zero tolerance” policy towards behaviors that denigrate the values of the Republic, forms of punishment whose goal is to integrate through community service, specific forms of “moral and civic education,” and, as a centerpiece of this state pedagogy, a secularism day [une journée de la laïcité] on December 9th which will commemorate the 1905 s…

Ahmadinejad’s Call For “Compassion” is a Cynical Display, Critics Say

By Ebrahim Moosa

…atant Khalq prisoners (all of them Iranian citizens opposed to the Islamic Republic), this turned out to be literally a matter of life and death. Khomeini offered all Khalq prisoners an ultimatum: recant and denounce the Khalq or face summary execution. In the heat of that national crisis of war and extreme danger to the fledgling Islamic Republic, Montazeri turned dissident. In a letter included in his Persian-language biography, he told Khomeini…

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

By Susannah Crockford

…onal ascension leading to galactic ascension; chakras; the universe; light codes; overcoming negative emotion; 100th monkey collective; the flower of life and sacred geometry; the divine is within; be your own guru; astrology; and so on. He advertises his now-defunct website starseedacademy.space, and promotes Life-Wave patches, a multi-level marketing scheme that he claims cured his father of cancer and liver disease. A starseed is a person who b…

Lesbians Sue Lesbians, Sodomites to Follow?

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…and lost). As late as 1996 in Atlanta, the Olympic team from the fledgling republic was forced to march under F (for FYROM: Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia) instead of M (for Macedonia). It eventually got so tiresome to write FYROM, or to say the whole name, that people just started saying “Macedonia,” for short. And that’s roughly how the battle was lost. There are countless other examples of place-names gaining a sexual resonance. “Greek”…

Red Pop and Freedom: How (And How Not) to Celebrate Juneteenth, a New Federal Holiday

By A. E. Brooks-Key

…, notes that red-colored food and drinks draws upon the diasporic roots of African-American and American foodways. Enslaved Africans sent to Texas, the westernmost of the former Confederacy and cotton kingdom, were drawn from Yoruba and Kongo people for which red held spiritual meaning of sacrifice, transition, and power. In his insightful New York Times article, “Hot Links and Red Drinks: The Rich Food Tradition of Juneteenth” soul-food expert Ad…