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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

…t that was about it. The event was scarcely reported elsewhere. In the New York Times the report about the event was a small item obscured by more salacious reports related to Trump-dominated domestic politics. ISIS was over. But no one seemed to notice. Perhaps that’s because few people are persuaded that ISIS is really over. They know that pockets of ISIS control have survived along the Euphrates River border between Iraq and Syria, and that spo…

Capricology: A Robot is Being Tortured

By Henry Jenkins

…on here to the riddling competition which is being staged inside the game world of New Cap City as the cross-dressing MC tests the mettle of Daddy Adama, consistently defends Tamara’s honor and memory against the kind of “sick game” that Daddy Graystone is subjecting the Zoebot to in cross-cutting scenes. I particularly loved the scene between the two Adama brothers this week. Sam’s discussion of what allows him to kill in cold blood—that he can…

World Vision Rescinds Decision to Employ LGBT Marrieds

By Elizabeth Drescher

…onservative Evangelical Christians. In a statement released yesterday, the World Vision president Richard Stearns followed the well-worn Evangelical tradition and offered a weepy apology to conservatives who were outraged by the earlier decision to allow compassion to trump conservative correctness in its employment policies: We are brokenhearted over the pain and confusion we have caused many of our friends, who saw this decision as a reversal of…

No Garden to Get Back to: Understanding Post-Avatar Ecological Depressive Disorder

By Ryann Croken

…ry, you lose yourself in the hypnotic colors and cadences of this majestic new world, ego subsumed in bioluminescent wonder, sense of self humbled and transformed by an enchanting, nurturing, all-encompassing immanence. Then the lights turn on in the theater, and you find that your sneakers are sealed fast to a Pepsi-sticky floor. You exit the building, and step out not onto pure soil, but filthy, ungodly concrete, littered with cigarette butts an…

Pope Francis, the Bouncer

By Anthea Butler

…orming the Curia, and reforming the world are two very different things. (Truthfully, reforming the world might be an easier task.) Righting the Vatican is a enormous task. While Evangelii Gaudium is a good beginning, the more compelling action taken by the Vatican last week was the implementation of a task force for the protection of children. Suggested by the council of eight Cardinals the Pope has appointed, it remains to be seen whether or not…

Peter Berger, Sociology’s Defender of God (1929-2017)

By Mark Juergensmeyer

…o provide. Again, religion was at the heart of Berger’s thinking about the world, including the global world of our 21st century era. In the lead essay for a book on Religion in Global Civil Society that I edited, Berger notes that “whether civil or uncivil, there can be no doubt that religion today is being globalized to an unprecedented degree” (p15). Trying to make sense of this new reality, like the many social realities that fascinated him ov…

Chris Caldwell Sees Muslim Bogeymen. Again.

By Bruce B. Lawrence

…ke Leiken he too has spent much of the past decade thinking about Europe’s newest and growing minorities, though instead of framing his argument as “Europe’s Angry Muslims,” his new book is titled The Emancipation of Europe’s Muslims: The State’s Role in Minority Integration (Princeton University Press, 2012). Laurence traces what Caldwell denies ever could, or might already, exist: the largely unnoticed ways in which European governments have int…

A New, Softer Prosperity Gospel Still Can’t Deliver On Its Promises of Health and Wealth

By Verdell A. Wright

…rosperity gospel does precious little to urge adherents to create a better world for themselves or their neighbors. It posits Trump as someone to admire rather than oppose. It makes racism, sexism, and poverty personal issues instead of societal sins. To continue to support theologies of prosperity is to ignore the evidence of the financial peril that many people people—including those who voted for Trump—now live with. In a time when so many peop…

To Fight White Supremacy We Must Resist Essentialism: The Author Responds

By Andrea R. Jain

…rsy on Yoga and White Supremacy Reveals Problem of Yoga Discussion.” In February of this year, I wrote on RD that Fox News journalist Caleb Parke egregiously misrepresented an article on yoga and cultural appropriation by Shreena Gandhi and Lillie Wolff. I argued that Parke offered a “very simple and misleading” picture of Gandhi and Wolff’s arguments, and I stood firmly behind what I took to be the main thesis of Gandhi and Wolff’s article: white…