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With Demons Held Responsible These Days for Everything from Covid to LGBTQ Rights, Take a Visual Tour of the History of Demonization

By Ed Simon

…demonization had profoundly violent effects on marginalized communities as European Christians imagined the Devil as distinctly non-European. *** *** An anonymous fifteenth-century Flemish painting of a young witch having cast a love potion, so as to compel the young man at the door into her bed chamber. The original is held at the Staatliche Museum in Leipzig, Austria. For most of the Middle Ages, to believe in witchcraft wa…

How a Bill O’Reilly Bestseller Helps Explain the Anti-Semitism Behind the Poway Shooting

By Tony Keddie

…ed the Middle Ages and come down to us.” Renan was one of the first of the European nationalists to argue that the Semitic race was inferior to the Indo-European race. In The Aryan Jesus, Susannah Heschel has identified Renan’s racial turning point: for the French nationalist, Jesus’s protest against the money-changers at the Temple somehow proved that “Jesus was no longer a Jew.” As Halvor Moxnes has shown in Jesus and the Rise of Nationalism, Re…

The White Nationalist Fantasy of Ancient Christian-Muslim Conflict Would Get an ‘F’ in History Class

By Tony Keddie

…ce here on RD, “Muslims were as likely to fight for and with Christian-led European militaries as they were against them.” Universals are never correct, and they’re often dangerous. The Making of Christian-Muslim Borders It was during the tenure of the caliph ‘Abd al-Malik (685 to 705) that a distinctive Muslim identity started to be shaped in contrast to Christianity. The coins minted in this time and the inscriptions installed in the new Dome of…

The Critical Role of Jews in Defining Modernity

By Chad Alan Goldberg

…According to this view, the modern/traditional dichotomy has its roots in European encounters with the non-European world. These encounters were undoubtedly one matrix, but not the only one. My book argues that the historical relationship between Jews and gentiles is another background condition for the production of this dichotomy. Furthermore, this background condition was chronologically primary and not reducible to European colonialism, imper…

What’s Rome Got to Do With It?: Bannon, Burke, and Douthat’s “Trumpian” Pope

By Patricia Miller

…n, and other political bodies. As Sophie in ‘t Veld, a Dutch member of the European Parliament, has noted: We are witnessing the emergence of the European equivalent to the “religious right” in the US. Areas affected by this rise include women’s rights, gay rights and sexual and reproductive health rights as well as healthcare (such as contraception, abortion, condoms and IVF). … Invoking religious freedom, the lobbies are negotiating exceptions t…

Gambian Voters Reject Anti-Gay Strongman Jammeh; Activists Ponder Trump Impact on LGBT Human Rights; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…uraging. … The court is giving the message that Romania is a member of the European countries that share common values, such as the free movement of people together with their families.” She said she was confident that the European court would consider free movement “a fundamental right” and recognize a husband regardless of the sex of his partner. Opposition to same-sex relationships is often fierce in Romania, where homosexuality was only decrim…

Serra’s Actions Aren’t the Only Reason to Lament His Canonization

By Jacqueline M. Hidalgo

…ulations too often presumed a Church where one must also become culturally European to enjoy full membership. In canonizing Serra in the way that he did, Pope Francis doubly whitewashed colonial Christianity by smoothing over the crimes Serra and his fellow Franciscans committed in the name of the good and by promulgating a Spanish immigrant as the saintly representative of a Spanish-speaking population in the U.S. that is by no means exclusively…

Is Islamic Homophobia a Western Import?

By Omar Sarwar

…also seeks to explain how we’ve arrived at the present moment, where large numbers of ordinary Muslims display homophobic attitudes. Some academics recognize the need to strengthen EHT by offering a more sophisticated analysis of the psychology underlying the internalization of colonial homophobia. “The trouble with this account is that it renders colonized Muslims intellectually fragile, even masochistic, in the face of imperial might.” They argu…

Did the Church Create or Co-Opt Human Rights?

By Austin Dacey

…ionist—to address global socioeconomic inequality. From what I can gather, European historians differ in the amount they are willing to credit the personalists for papal talk of dignity and rights. In his critical commentary on Moyn’s work, for instance, James Chappel observes that in the 1930s, “the language of ‘rights’ and ‘the human person’ was quite widespread throughout European, especially German-speaking, Catholicism, which renders the Pope…

Could a Real Life Jurassic Park Help with Climate Change?

By Michael Schulson

…mmigrant hustle of old New York, some preindustrial culinary paradise, pre-European North America, or the eastern European shtetl, shortly before the arrival of the Enlightenment. And, as with Shapiro’s mammoths, you can only pull yourself into the past by using the techniques of the present and future. Hipster chic and paleo dieting couldn’t exist without the affluence and leisure delivered by an industrialized market economy. Both national parks…