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Kill Your Patriarchs: An Interview with Michael Muhammad Knight

…biography of Malcolm X and you have all the core books for a course on modern Islam in America. Since MMK is an autodidact, he does not see what is happening as unique to Islam in America, but part of larger trends in Islamic intellectual thought. He weaves in references to al-Hallaj, the malamati—Sufis who sought disapproval, lest all they seek was approval—and various theological debates. In the fall of 2009 he will be starting a Masters program…

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Harold Camping, Prophet of Apocalypse, Dies at 92

…ively on dating creation and Noah’s flood. In 1970, he published The Biblical Calendar of History, a work he revised and re-published several times. These studies are dense and complicated, and seem mostly impenetrable and pointless to outsides. The fundamental presupposition, though, on which all this work is based, is that the Bible is inerrant, perfect in every detail, and logically consistent. The payoff of all this attention to obscure detail…

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Atheist Schism?

…e and male. The idea crystallized as most atheist organizing does—over the Internet. Feminist blogger Jen McCreight had already been brainstorming with other activists about a new secular social justice group. But it was McCreight’s personal frustration with online harassment that led her to write a blog post demanding a ‘third wave’ of atheism. We throw up billboards claiming we’re Good Without God, but how are we proving that as a movement? Litt…

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Saudi Activist Manal Al-Sharif Freed from Prison

…ven smuggled bombs underneath their veils. Today, Saudi women use the anonymizing quality of the veil to push back against the extreme anti-feminism that experts say has more to do with Saudi politics than it does Islamic scripture or history. Across Saudi Arabia, women are taking the keys and the cameras and making tracks on the desert. Veiled in black, they are everyone’s daughter and sister. Made powerful by YouTube, Twitter, and Facebook, they…

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Pro-Gay Marriage Mormon Keeps Faith Despite Church Pressure

…ake disciplinary action. It’s a touchy subject to write about. I have to admit it’s always puzzled me that a global church of 14 million members bothers itself with the doings of a minority of liberals in the United States. And I can only imagine how this all looks to people not of the Mormon faith. But according to Melanie, the story of the circumstances that led her to take the video down is not as important as the story of why she put it back u…

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Twitter of Faith: Microblogging the Divine

…influence a society’s agenda—with real effects. As such, microblogging represents an important part of the faith media menu and a spacious portal for thinking about religion, media and culture….

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RDPulpit: You Lost the Debate

…ations about whether Governor Sarah Palin would trip on her red heels and fall flat on her designer glasses, whether Senator Joseph Biden would show himself to be a condescending windbag, many important values-related issues were passed over. This is a lost opportunity, something that citizens, especially religious ones, will have to regain on our own. I will start the conversation in hopes that it will be joined widely. The bar was set so low as…

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Introducing The Cubit, RD’s New Religion & Science Portal

…ust fine. Here at The Cubit, Religion Dispatches’ new religion and science portal, we view much of the religion-versus-science debate as hopelessly myopic. Yes, humans are a product of evolution, global warming is real, and vaccines do not cause autism; but religion and science nevertheless remain diverse, messy, and ever-evolving concepts. When we typecast them as epistemological sumo wrestlers locked in an eternal struggle, or portray them as ha…

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The Myth of the ‘Lone Wolf’ Terrorist Continues with New Zealand Attack

…d racist ideologies in mind, others were simply raging against society. In almost all cases, though, these have been instances where alienated individuals have struck back at a society that they thought had abandoned them. And they perpetrated their attacks in a way meant to impress a specific audience. As noted earlier, this is the most basic definition of terrorism: a public act of violence meant to be intimidating. What makes the terrorism of r…

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