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Post-Paris Reflections: We May Have to Learn to Hope

By Donna Schaper

…hip throughout. Some even speculate that there was a sympathy vote for the French because of the attack. People from all over the world were everywhere, so that you felt you were in a special part of the globe. And you were. Kairos is the right word. And there we were, glistening, fully lit, globally and energetically discussing apocalypse. Glittering. Global. Engaged. Discussing apocalypse. After terrorism. You couldn’t forget the terrorism becau…

How Not To Respond to Haiti

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…e so-called Glorious Revolution in England in 1688, and culminating in the French Revolution in 1789—allied themselves to various degrees with the cause of “secular politics.” If religious conflict was destined to be so violent and so intractable, then best to leave it out of a political process that had peace as its primary aspiration. The Lisbon earthquake violated that peace. As does Haiti today. On the plus side of the ledger, the rights revol…

The Scandal of the Cross

By Jeremy Biles

…” in opposition to the exhibition of Serrano’s photo; Christian protesters numbering about 1,000 commenced a march through Avignon, ending at the gallery. (Lambert and others at the gallery reported that they had been subject to “extremist harassment” by right-wing Christian groups.) Meanwhile, Jean-Pierre Cattenoz, Avignon’s “staunchly conservative” archbishop, has pronounced Serrano’s photo “odious,” demanding that it be removed from the gallery…

How We Got to Super: Grant Morrison’s Visionary Gnosticism

By Jeffrey J. Kripal

…). The word “paranormal” was coined around the turn of the 20th century by French scientists studying these “angry ghosts.” The new word had probably morphed from an earlier one used by a Cambridge classicist named Frederic Myers: “supernormal.” The word did double work for Myers: it offered an alternative to “supernatural,” and it carried distinct evolutionary connotations. Like a wormy caterpillar witnessing the graceful wings and bright colors…

Ground Zero is Sacred Space, But Not Just Because of 9/11

By Randall Balmer

…rious other servants of Baal.” The Jews proposed to erect a synagogue, and French Jesuits from Canada mounted several missionary sorties among the Indians. Many colonists blamed the slave uprising of 1712 on Elie Neau, a Huguenot-turned-Anglican and an early advocate for abolition who ran a school for Africans in New York City. Roman Catholics arrived in greater numbers in the nineteenth century, from places like Ireland, Germany, and Italy. As wi…

Pigging Out: What ‘Radically Unkosher’ Jewish Foodies Like Michael Pollan Are Missing

By Jonathan Schorsch

…slims who don’t eat pig are often still seen as outsiders, as discussed by French political scientist Pierre Birnbaum in his latest book, La République et le Cochon (The Republic and the Pig). English Food writer Jane Grigson reiterates such othering when asserting that “It could be said that European civilization… [has] been founded on the pig. […] There has been prejudice against him, but those peoples… who have disliked the pig and insist he is…

“Religion, O Diabolic”: Lamenting Religious Violence, Then and Now

By Ed Simon

…ble of when they are told they are killing in the name of God. The precise number of casualties is hard to estimate (and largely depends on the ideological position of the source you are consulting). The numbers have been estimated between 2,000 to close to 70,000. One fact that is known for certain though—in Arles, downriver from Lyon, it was impossible to drink the water from the Rhone for three months, since it was so polluted with the remains…

A Pair of Exhibitions Demonstrate How Biases Color the History of Jerusalem

By Gordon Haber

…Jaffa, Intérieur, by Auguste Salzmann (French, 1824–1872). Salzmann was a French painter-turned-photographer and biblical archaeologist. In 1853, seeking to settle certain archaeological disputes of the day, Salzmann schlepped to the Holy Land where he photographed notable buildings, in order, as he later wrote, “to render a true service to science.” Jérusalem, Arc de l’Ecce-Homo, by Auguste Salzmann (French, 1824–1872). The photographs were publ…

Dilemmas of American Empire: Can Obama Pull Off a Game-Changer in Iraq, Iran, and Afghanistan?

By Gary Dorrien

…s of weekly attacks and casualties, averaging 2,000 attacks per month. The numbers then dropped dramatically as ethnic cleansing was completed in many areas, the “surge” of U.S. forces restricted the flow of explosives into Baghdad, the Mahdi Army suspended its attacks, and the U.S. co-opted Sunni insurgents. But violence has spiked again recently; it’s a perilous business to depend on buying off the opposition; and most importantly, the fundament…

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin’s Legacy of Eugenics and Racism Can’t Be Ignored

By John P. Slattery

…they write, praise, and utilize in modern thought. I was introduced to the French Jesuit by one of his most reverent followers and one of my dear friends, Fr. Thomas King, SJ, a longtime professor at Georgetown University and a mystic in his own right. Fr. King published much on Teilhard and, through the inspiration of the French Jesuit, introduced me to the intersection of evolution, theology, and science. King’s favorite work by Teilhard, Mass o…