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The Lethal Mix of Religion and War, Or, Why the World Ended in 1099

By Jay Rubenstein

…man being, I’ve always wanted to write like Raymond Chandler. What’s your next book? I want to write a sequel to Armies of Heaven, a book that will study the first fifty years of the crusader kingdom of Jerusalem. The central question will be, “How in this world do you run a successful government originally founded on an Apocalypse?” As with the First Crusade, there will be blood-soaked battlefields, scheming churchmen, and wondrous signs in the s…

Why the Next Archbishop of Canterbury Should Be African

By Jesse Zink

…liation in countries like Zimbabwe. Meanwhile, of course, the opposite is true for the church in the Euro-Atlantic world. Johnson’s disappointment about the future of the Nigerian Church could best be applied to England, where fewer and fewer people attend church and surveys show young people don’t see the need for faith. The European Union’s constitution omits any mention of Christianity, the historic faith of the continent. Yet Europe still cont…

Why I’m Grateful for 2012, The Rapture, and other Millennial Delusions

By Jay Michaelson

…2 chatter seems to have died down somewhat. But there are still plenty of true believers. On the religious right, the world basically ended already: on November 6, with the reelection of a Kenyan Muslim Socialist to the presidency of the United States. The degree of the tragedy depends on the degree of the extremist describing it. For Republicans, it was a rude awakening—though judging from the ways the GOP has blamed the defeat on Hurricane Sandy…

Obama Gets Religion in Indonesia

By Hussein Rashid

…Indonesia as an equal in his speech. Unlike Cairo, where the (Arab) Muslim world was treated as unequal potential partners, the Indonesians are treated as a country worthy of America’s respect. Cairo was aspiration, and Jakarta was the real. There are huge differences in political processes in play. Indonesia is a democracy with strong civic institutions and a thriving civil society. The Arab world is dominated by autocracies, while Afghanistan an…

Top Ten Peacemakers in the Science-Religion Wars

By Paul Wallace

…h staff on how to incorporate science into curriculum at all levels of instruction, holding forums in churches on a range of scientific topics, and generally bringing the excitement of modern science to congregations everywhere. 5. Chris Stedman, interfaith activist and super-swell atheist guy, for decoupling atheism from science, and for being the face of a kinder, gentler atheism This year saw the softening of the atheist universe. Perhaps the F…

Family Planning is Vatican’s Blind Spot on Environment

By Frances Kissling

…sing economic activity and growing numbers? Is the growing gap between the world’s rich and world’s poor in their reliance on natural resources a consequence of those growths?” This is not the Vatican’s first rodeo; it has been dealing with environmental questions for quite some time. In 2009, Pope Benedict released the encyclical “Caritas in Veritate” on the international economic order, the fourth chapter of which focused on the environment. Pop…

Goy to the World: What Does Hanukkah Have to Teach Us About Living in Empire?

By Garret Keizer

…a of the day. Had Thomas Friedman lived in 165 BCE, instead of saying “The world is flat,” he would have said, “The world is Greek.” Which it was, more or less, though the Seleucid rulers and their Judean collaborators made the point with a vengeance. They forced traditional Jews to eat pork under pain of death; mothers who insisted on the “barbaric” practice of circumcision were punished by having their infant sons hung dead around their necks. (…

Is Liberalism Islamic?: An Interview with Mustafa Akyol

By Haroon Moghul

…thing more specific: authoritarianism in Islamic law and culture. In other words, this book is not about why Muslims should reject terrorism—the overwhelming majority of the world’s Muslims already do that. But not all of them tend to be that liberal when it comes to issues such as apostasy, blasphemy, sin, or different interpretations of Islam. That’s why one scholar said that there is a problem of “illiberal moderates” in the Islamic world. That…

Reports of the Death of ISIS Have Been Greatly Exaggerated

By Mark Juergensmeyer

…and in January 2018 a new video posted by ISIS called on assassinations of world leaders from Putin and Erdogan to Trump and the Pope. My student assistants who have been monitoring ISIS-related chats on Twitter and Telegram report that the postings are as frequent and dedicated as ever, vowing to continue the struggle against the kafir anywhere in the world. So in that sense, ISIS does live, since it never really died. It’s the label for a virule…

Capricology: A Robot is Being Tortured

By Henry Jenkins

…prevents him from embracing the violence of Tauran masculinity in the real world, and becoming as ruthless as he needs to be to find the truth. For me, Caprica is becoming as much about the fluid borders between games and reality as it is about the boundaries between human and machine— both are key questions for our time. One last thought: I am really intrigued by Tamara’s mark, which she leaves on the walls of New Cap City. In some ways, it is a…