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A Peek Inside the ‘Onion’ of Scientology

By Kristin Rawls

…d into the Sea Org, and that may well be the case. I’m not sure how many 12-year-olds are going into the Sea Org any longer. But if they are 16, they’re still kids; and there are a lot of people still in the Sea Org who joined as very young teens. You write that Hubbard thought homosexuality was a “sexual perversion,” but don’t say much about this in the book. How does Miscavige regard homosexuality and how are LGBT people treated by the official…

Markets Stay Calm.
Do Investors Not Understand Religion?

By Peter Laarman

…n a dollop of religious faith. One need only begin with the idea that super-high-income Americans are job creators and that too much federal spending is what is now holding back a robust recovery. People like me might scoff at this kind of talk. But polls show that remarkable numbers of low-income folks have bought into it. These are matters of pure faith that many are willing to accept as “the evidence of things not seen.” Thomas Frank takes it f…

Forward Christian Europe!

By Ludger Viefhues-Bailey

…of religious violence Mark Juergensmeyer noted this penchant both for black-and-white thinking and for giving one’s action meaning in the context of a cosmic struggle as hallmarks of religious violence. This, he claims, is what makes it so pernicious and destructive. Yet the language of ultra-conservative bloggers like Fjordman and of extremists like Breivik is not that of a cosmic struggle but of a historical one, a conflict that is said to origi…

NPR Report on “Ex-Gay” Therapy Omits Crucial Details of Source’s “Journey Into Manhood”

By Warren Throckmorton

…rebral discussion of family dynamics as portrayed by NPR, JIM promotes skin-to-skin therapy, where men retreat for a weekend with other same-sex attracted men to hold each other for the purpose of establishing closeness to other men. They believe such activity establishes a more platonic bond with men which helps extinguish homosexual attractions. Writer Ted Cox infiltrated JIM, and began his account of the weekend by describing the “Motorcycle” h…

The Anglican and the Evangelicals: Insights from the Sudanese Genocide

By Frederick Clarkson

…op them in the early stages. The pioneering work of the privately, but seat-of-the-pants-financed, Satellite Sentinel Project has shown what can be done to document and expose aggressive military postures and on the ground horrors, notably mass graves. Bishop Andudu called on the U.S. government to use its own satellites to document the mass graves and to help to preserve the evidence of war crimes and crimes against humanity. The U.S. government…

South Carolina Fight Club

By Sarah Posner

…“elites,” the radical secularists, the European-style socialists, the anti-colonial Kenyans, the shari’ah law fifth column, the media, John King, Juan Williams, and all the food stamp “thems.” Go read Jamelle Bouie’s account in The American Prospect. He’s been on the trail for the long haul, and has been doing some very keen reporting: I managed to grab a nice spot at the base of the platform where Gingrich would give his address and met Raymond…

“Who Was Muhammad, Was He Violent?”: Teaching Islam Ten Years
after 9/11

By Abbas Barzegar

…e me in the form of 150 students. They are equipped with either their Dante-like prejudgments or their Deepak-like pluralist commitments looking for answers that will further their already hardened positions. For a swath in the middle the jury is still out and they look to me to answer, to level the playing field, to tell the truth: Who was Muhammad, was he violent? What is Jihad? and Why the scarves? It is precisely at this moment that all 150 of…

Risky Business: The Pitfalls at the Corner of Church & Wall Street

By Elizabeth Drescher

…ntually snagged global attention—if mainly of the dismissive you-crazy-kids-and-your-protests sort. What Would Jesus Do Now? Aside from a “sermon” from anti-consumerism performance artist and activist The Rev. Billy (Bill Talen), the protests appear to have been unmarked by any consideration of spiritual or religious perspectives on economic justice. Still, having spent a few days earlier in the month among a group of religionistas invited to atte…

No, I Don’t Owe My Yoga Mat to Vivekananda

By Andrea R. Jain

…yoga was stirring plenty of conversation. Consider Pierre Bernard, a turn-of-the-century American social radical, sexual deviant, and early modern yogi. Bernard discovered yoga in his boyhood when he met an Indian yogi by the name of Sylvais Hamati in Lincoln, Nebraska. Hamati became the boy’s guru, and Bernard mastered many yoga techniques under his guidance. As a young man, Bernard spent years reveling in the public spectacle of his yoga tranc…

Civil Rights’ Roughneck Preacher, Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth (1922-2011)

By Anthea Butler

…death and betrayal of MLK by Ralph Abernathy—not to mention divorce and re-marriage. Along the way, he caused a church split or two. You could say he was a restless man. There was no doubting, however, that he was tough, determined, and sold out to the cause. As a historian, I actually like the no-nonsense, roughneck preacher more than MLK. He didn’t have an easy life. He was a truck driver who went to college at night and was once arrested for…