Religion Dispatches
…Crucified, but “Disappeared” The fourth and final filmic gospel comes from South Africa. But this is no gospel of John after three synoptics. Instead, director Mark Dornford-May has made Son of Man (2006), the story of Jesus set in present-day South Africa. The message of Jesus is thus shifted to a specific political reality and offers an alternative view of the messianic nature of Jesus. Jesus is black, as is Mary, Joseph, and the disciples, and…
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…chattel slavery came quickly to white people in North America in both the South and the North. In a very real sense, the brutal slavery practiced in the islands migrated to the mainland, with South Carolina functioning as an extension of Barbados during the late 17th century. White colonists everywhere marveled at the strength and endurance of kidnapped Africans subjected to the most extreme conditions. But we must be clear that the buying and se…
Read More…le Bachelet, Chile’s president-elect, is a supporter of marriage equality. South Africa: “Corrective Rape” on Rise? UK’s Independent published a story this week on violent “corrective rape” against lesbians in South Africa. The story is based on two years of reporting by photographer Clare Carter. “Even in the two years I was there the stories I was hearing were getting worse,” Carter told the Independent. “Corrective rape is getting more violent….
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…ning to my point, namely that the UAE is a more Indian Ocean-oriented, and South Asian, society than a stereotypically Arab one, this mosque clearly continues in the vein of Mughal and Indo-Islamic architecture and owes far less to traditionally Arab-Islamic architecture. Compare to the Taj Mahal, and Badshahi and Jama’ Mosques of South Asia (India and Pakistan.) Another argument for Shah Rukh Khan as Caliph. ⬆ The world’s tallest building,…
Read More…the locals: Martin Mawyer, the group’s [CAN’s] president, said they chose South Carolina for the promotion because the state is home to Holy Islamville, a Muslim village in York founded by Sheikh Mubarik Ali Gilani. Villagers say the settlement is a peaceful place of introspection and worship that welcomes people of all faiths. But Mawyer and other critics suspect the 34-acre village serves as a radical Islamic training ground stocked with weapon…
Read More…rising, that this disgraceful smear has taken form less than a week removed from the release of a poll showing our campaign with a significant lead. It is quite simply South Carolina politics at its worst.” Maybe, or for South Carolina, perhaps it’s just business as usual. …
Read More…mpaign has published an in-depth report on the World Congress of Families. South Asia: International Consultation on Religion and Sexual Minorities The first-ever regional consultation under the UN’s Multi-Country South Asia Global Fund HIV Program brought faith leaders together with government and civil society representatives from Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal and Sri Lanka.on August 18 and 19 in Dhaka, Bangladesh. According to a…
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…know little about its anti-intellectual instigators. We, as members of the South Asia Scholar Activist Collective, seek to change that by publishing a timeline that tracks the harassment of South Asian academics in North America as part of a larger project we call the Hindutva Harassment Field Manual. The assaults on academic freedom that we document are orchestrated by far right groups and individuals who promote the political ideology of Hindutv…
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…d in late October, and President Trump supported his primary run, visiting South Carolina to campaign for him. But it’s unclear whether South Carolina’s voters will support a candidate who permits agencies to turn children away from needed services or turn away potential mentors and parents. The State reported that the Department of Social Services reached a settlement agreement in 2016 in a federal suit alleging “dangerous deficiencies” in its pr…
Read More…een set up by a network of Sikhs and was programmed to run for governor of South Carolina by outside influences in foreign countries. He claims she is hiding her religion and he wants the voters to know about it. Just this past week I had remarked to a friend of mine that I found it remarkable that Haley had the lead in the four-way Republican race for governor since, one: she’s a woman, and two: she’s an ethnic woman at that. If she were a Democr…
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