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Mumbai, Five Months After: Searching for a Coherent Stance on Religious Violence

By Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad

…mised their rejection of hegemonic discourses on the problem of Muslims in Western societies rejecting the historical continuities of those societies—there has been a marked growth in support of governmental initiatives in Britain that force Muslims into a freshly-constructed imaginary of the British nation. But if there is an authentic progressive Left left in Britain or America, it is one that must continue to wrestle with the tension between re…

Decolonizing Jewish Studies Part II: A Response to the Backlash

By Gilah Kletenik and Rafael Rachel Neis

…olars of a historically marginalized Jewish culture tried to claim space. “Western” is suspect and political. It falsely erases the non-“Westernness” of Jewish cultures produced outside of the boundaries conventionally tagged “Western.” Jewish Studies must confront the vestiges of its European founding and its concomitant privileging of the Ashkenazi, European, and white. These prejudices still impact research priorities, curricular expectations,…

If Kirill’s Bizarre Sermon Blaming War on Pride Parades Comes as a Surprise, it’s Time to Learn the History

By Katherine Kelaidis

…Failure to understand the Islamic view of history was a grave fault of the Western powers. Today the same could be said of the Orthodox view of history. For example, if you’ve never heard of the Crusaders’ Sack of Constantinople in 1204 mentioned above, now is the time to learn. Yesterday, Patriarch Kirill was talking to the home crowd, both in Russia and beyond. And while it was truly bizarre to blame the Russian invasion of Ukraine on gay pride…

RDBook: Is Nothing Secular? A Review of Jewel of Medina

By Gordon D. Newby

…o have even a modicum of a religious education. While not “history” in our Western sense, it is the “true” past to millions of Muslims. In the Sunni tradition in particular, the knowledge of the early Islamic world, especially as it is used to promote proper behavior, remains in the anecdotal, atomized form, and should only be put into narrative history by those qualified to do so, the educated, religious elite. The first attempt to write a full n…

Imagine There’s no Islam…

By Martin E. Marty

…ges of powerful Europeans.” Eastern Christians would not have welcomed the Westerners, and Western Christians as readily killed the Orthodox and burned their cities as they did those of Muslims. That was long ago. More recently, in the age of oil, would Christian economic interests in the Middle East have welcomed Western dominators? He cites chapter and verse before he answers “No!” “Then there is Palestine.” Would Christians, after millennia of…

Two Cheers for British Museum’s Sanitized Hajj Exhibition

By Nabila Pathan

…unch is worth remarking upon, especially when the post-9/11 divide between Western and non-Western civilizations is often presented as a clash in the mediascape. In fact, the project has received widespread positive exposure in the mainstream Western press, unprecedented for an Islamic cultural subject matter. It has even featured prominently in the UK’s Daily Mail, widely regarded as fearmongering and ‘othering’ when it comes to the Muslim commun…

Orthodox TV Channel Offers Gays One-Way Ticket Out of Russia; And More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…From the Independent: Ms Merkel said after the vote: “I hope that the vote today not only promotes respect between different opinions but also brings more social cohesion and peace.” The Chancellor also said she supported the bill’s introduction of full adoption rights for same-sex couples – a move she had previously opposed – and was fighting anti-LGBT discrimination. When opposing same-sex marriages she has cited German law, her values as an eva…

Leaving Empire: The Risks of American Insularity

By Ryann Croken

…ricans are, as a whole, less globally aware than average citizens of other Western nations. 3. The rest of the Western world views global travel as an investment, rather than a luxury. Accordingly, many of these countries make it possible for their citizens, even in tough economic times, to take time out of their lives at home to travel or volunteer abroad. 4. The United States lacks the will and the cultural infrastructure that would make this po…

Islam in Conflict with Democracy? A Response to Stanley Fish

By David True

…e West (Oxford, 2010), “Muslims do not conceptualize Islam in terms of the Westernized sociological categorization of religion which places the individual at the centre of all analyses.” This isolated statement may well be read to suggest that Muslims fundamentally deviate from Western norms, no matter their culture, history, type of Islam, or even socioeconomic variables. There is something to the point about difference, but it should be seen as…

The Russian Patriarch Just Gave His Most Dangerous Speech Yet — And Almost No One in the West Has Noticed

By Katherine Kelaidis

…he sermon online in English and it’s received little coverage by any major Western media outlet (this Reuters article might be the only exception). It’s understandable why. Patriarch Kirill isn’t deploying the familiar rhetoric of the Culture Wars, “gay pride parades,” and Western decadence. He’s speaking in terms of the obscure history of the Christian East, a history largely unknown in the West. But do not be fooled; what he’s saying is extremel…