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Eid ul-Isa Mubarak. Happy Hanukah. Merry Christmas. Khushiali Mubarak. Eid Mubarak. Happy Kwanzaa

By Hussein Rashid

…never clay. I got my gelt for the holidays, and waited all year to get my latkes. Of course, once I learned of Christmas, it was a very cool holiday. You could ask for what you wanted. While gelt was cool, if it wasn’t real gelt, not much you could do with it. It was never discouraged in my house. Jesus (Isa) is a recognized prophet in the Islamic tradition. We celebrate the birth of Prophet Muhammad and Ali ibn Ali Talib, the Prophet’s cousin an…

RDBook: Technology and Tradition: Carlson’s Indiscrete Image

By Nathan Schneider

…t largely with death. Carlson is a brooding yet incisive philosopher, a professor of religious studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. By connecting Martin Heidegger’s understanding of life in the shadow of death with how certain Christian mystics thought of life under the gaze of God, he uncovered their common approach to human nature. To be made in the image of God, a God whose likeness we see only incompletely and through its ab…

Text of Terror: A Bill Granting LGBT Citizens Equal Rights Evokes Biblical Citation

By Nick Street

…m to have lost their sense for the former. For me—a former seminarian from Alabama who now spends half the year in deep retreat at a Buddhist temple in Los Angeles—venturing into the dark, violent corners of right-wing American culture triggers sensations that are at once alien and familiar. On the one hand, just as a picture-postcard is a meager substitute for the direct experience of a sunset on the beach at Santa Monica, I no longer imagine tha…

Suffering Olympics: Is There Any Point to Comparing the Holocaust to Gaza?

By Jonathan L. Walton

A UC Santa Barbara professor is currently in the midst of a political and academic firestorm. In January, sociology professor William I. Robinson sent what he considered to be a provocative email to 80 students enrolled in his sociology of globalization course comparing photographs of Jewish victims of the Holocaust with similar images of Palestinian victims of Israel’s latest Gaza attacks. Robinson, who is Jewish, offered his own written comment…

Feared Taliban Leader Killed, But Military Strategy is Not the Answer in Afghanistan

By Mark Juergensmeyer

…mbination of intimidation and fear of outsiders. The US military presence, alas, contributes to this paranoia and helps to shore up the very movements that it is trying to destroy. Like the North Vietnamese, many Afghan activists—and an increasing number of Pakistanis—are motivated to fight against the American presence because of their love of freedom. They see the US military, like the Soviet forces before them, as a foreign occupying power. The…

Obama’s Oil-Soaked Prayers

By Johnny P. Flynn

…ght, or sixty days ago when this started. We arrived at this point of helplessness when technology began to overrun our ability to put it within the context of our moral and religious foundations. Other than a few mentions of holy oil and olive oil, the Old and New Testaments and the Qur’an are all pretty much silent on the issue of a petroleum gusher on the ocean floor. Likewise nuclear weapons, human cloning, machine guns and land mines. Cell ph…

Rebooting the Universe: Doctor Who part X, Season Finale

By Gabriel Mckee

…y that we are actually capable of achieving. All of Doctor Who’s season finales have involved ever-increasing crises and disasters. And all of these averted apocalypses have pulled me in, from the massive Dalek fleet of the first season to Davros’ theft of the earth in the fourth. With the actual destruction and recreation of the universe, this season may well have the grandest scale yet—but it says something about this season that, for me at leas…

Galileo’s Issue Was Satire as Much as Science

By Arri Eisen

…ing by one of the folks who, demanding that his hero deserved a better burial place, moved his body to a more fitting resting place a century later, to share eternity with Michelangelo and Machiavelli. Galileo was reburied in a ceremony similar to that used for saints; this and the whole reliquary-rich nature of the museum clearly suggest that Galileo is treated, presented, and thought of as a saint. This for a man who was famously condemned from…

Favorite Places, Favorite Prayers

By Amina Wadud

…ers, one from the Qur’an, one from the hadith and one about the majesty of Allah, also from the Qur’an, but not quite a supplication, it is often repeated after formal prayers in the spot where personal prayers are usually recited. The first one comes from the second chapter of the Qur’an verse : Allah/God does not place upon a soul/person more than it can bear. To it is what it earns and against it is what has been accrued. Our Lord, do not punis…

Studying Religion is Suddenly Popular

By Mark Hulsether

…f years of corporate downsizing. Everyone in academia—from administrators balancing budgets to students managing time—faces acute zero-sum choices about priorities. Parents wonder if studying history, literature, and critical thinking is a safe career move for their children, while gifted students ponder whether pursuing a Ph.D. is a mere postponement of unemployment. Meanwhile politicians clamor for cuts; so that at some schools virtually any are…