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New Book by Olivier Roy Argues that Aggressive Attempts to Christianize the West Actually Hasten Secularism

By Ivan Strenski

…satiable liberalism. In the mass media, Christian conservatives, such as Fox News’s Laura Ingraham and Sean Hannity, level daily attacks on skeptical liberalism’s ever-expanding search for new frontiers of human choice, especially in the domains of gender and sexuality. There, they rail against the increasing devotion, not only to sex and gender equality and fluidity, but also to fears of catastrophic climate change and New Age dietary practices,…

What Fidel Castro’s Death Means for LGBT Rights in Cuba and More, in This Week’s Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…nd supporters of the regime. United Nations: African Group effort to block new SOGI expert defeated Thai diplomat Vitit Muntarbhorn, the new UN Independent Expert on the protection against violence and discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity, used his first official speech “to criticize antiquated laws, illiberal intepretations of religion and stereotyping,” according to a report from the Office of the High Commissioner for…

Gay Chutzpah: An LGBT Synagogue Thrives

By Susan Henking

…al of conducting original research in that field of social life. Though unexpectedly and to an extent against some critical opinions about my choice, I feel my CBST ethnography became the hallmark of my work. Myself, I am somewhat “schizophrenic” as my professional identity is divided between the Israeli field of research (that also made me adopt my name, Shokeid, years ago) and the more recent involvement with the LGBT field that started with my…

Art(ful) History in Texas

By Lauri Lebo

…oo far, and no reputable publishing house will present history in the context that the new standards demand. But in an interview this week, McLeroy indicated that the battle over textbooks is only one part of the conservative agenda. The ‘Supplementary’ Strategy McLeroy is particularly pleased about a new provision that will allow the board to adopt supplemental materials, since last week the board voted to delay indefinitely the purchase of new…

‘Putin’s Children’ Push ‘Traditional Values’ in Latvia; Jewish Reparative Therapy Group Finds ‘Haven’ In Israel; Sikh Activist in UK Supports LGBT South Asians; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…n sexual minorities, which led to the introduction of an amendment to ban “promotion” of sex in schools. The group’s public lectures went, however, less noticed, but were more aggressive. Their videos can be found on YouTube. In them, Kornetova tells stories of “juvenile justice.” Customarily, this phrase is used to mean laws aimed at protecting children’s interests, but the defenders of “traditional values” interpret it as a form of limiting pare…

A New Thing: On the Quest for a Biblical Politics

By Garret Keizer

…an always do a new thing—who is doing one now. 4. Perhaps no contemporary example better illustrates our estrangement from this tradition than the current debate over gay rights, gay anthropology, and gay vocations that has divided most mainline Protestant churches. Predictably the “traditionalists” seize upon any stray verse in Leviticus or Romans that would seem to condemn homosexual love. Or else they beg the question through a dubious reading…

New History Finally Recognizes Afro-Creole Spiritualists

By Paul Harvey

…ariety. Within various forms of Christianity, Islam, and even hip hop, we examine the interplay between religion, race, colonialism and self-determination. And for one day every semester I get to introduce students to my work on the Cercle Harmonique. They read a small collection of the séance records I’ve translated, and in class we discuss the Spiritualists, the significance of their spirits guides, the messages they received, and their context….

From Organized Religion to Organizing Religion: Brian D. McLaren Wants Christians to Be Better

By Peter Laarman

…the “suicide machine.” He offers just a couple of pages on what he calls examples of a “new” economic activism (boycotts, “buycotts,” socially-conscious investment, worker justice movements) and says nothing about their relative effectiveness. He does not address the extent to which economism—reducing everything to its use value—is now deeply inscribed in our whole way of thinking about the world, shaping not just our conscious choices but even o…

It’s Up to You, New York… To Oppose Islamophobia

By Randall Balmer

…sition from people like Sarah Palin, Newt Gingrich and the demagogues at Fox News was predictable, but what I find deeply disquieting is a recent poll showing that a majority of New Yorkers oppose the project. Such sentiment is not worthy of New Yorkers, and it violates this city’s long tradition of religious tolerance, dating back to the early decades of the seventeenth century. When Jonas Michaëlius, the first Dutch minister in New Netherland, c…

Rage Against the New Age Machine: Three Days at the Osho International Meditation Resort

By Diane Winston

…to a larger property and denied visas to foreign acolytes. The center’s tax exempt status was rescinded, and religious leaders railed against Rajneesh’s heterodox teachings. Faced with open hostility, the guru and his closest associates decamped from Pune to a 64,000-acre spread in Oregon. Dubbed Rancho Rajneesh, the commune was envisioned as the hub of a self contained city. When locals resisted the planned expansion, the Rajneeshiis (as discipl…