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News Flash: Buddhist-Majority Countries Just as Complicated as Muslim-Majority

By Haroon Moghul

…al belt. But Burma’s Muslims have been suffering from long before. We reflexively associate Buddhism with pacifism and Islam with violence; the regional situation, namely across ASEAN and in neighboring countries, shows that Buddhist-majority countries are as complicated as Muslim-majority countries (both after all being populated by humans). While Thailand fights a Muslim—but not “islamist”—insurgency in its south, it is also a top non-OIC destin…

The Sacred and the Dead: The Trouble with Sugar Magnolia

By Kaya Oakes

…s. The children who came out of these times know the dark side of hippie sexism better than anyone else. I don’t doubt that some of the Dead’s kids and various ex-wives have stories to tell. Plenty of my friends who grew up in Deadhead families do. But the Sugar Magnolia of this song is a fantasy, even if she’s loosely based on Bob Weir’s go-go dancer girlfriend of the time. The woman this song pays tribute to had “got everything delightful” becau…

Buddhism And Politics in Myanmar: An Author Interview

By Matthew Walton

…erstand the phenomenon of “Buddhist nationalism” in Myanmar. What’s your next book? The next book is entitled Buddhism and the Political: Organisation and Participation in the Theravada Moral Universe, and will hopefully be out in 2018 with Hurst. It’s an expansion of the Myanmar book, to look comparatively at Buddhist political thought in Sri Lanka, Thailand, Myanmar, Cambodia and Laos. It develops some of the concepts and frames from this book b…

Death Couture: Not For Halloween Only

By Stephen Andes

…en perception, fueled largely by American fears of an exotic and unknown Mexico. La Santa Muerte, which literally translates to “Holy Death” or “Sacred Death,” is a feminine representation of death—a fate that, like it or not, awaits all people. She is clothed in long grim reaper-styled robes and often carries a scythe in one hand, and either a globe or scales in the other. Often mistakenly translated as “Saint Death,” La Santa Muerte is closer to…

AIDS Anniversary: Thirty is the New Eternity

By Susan Henking

…ed ribbons reappear here, there, and everywhere, sometimes (as recently in San Francisco) in startlingly huge forms. This year, for the 30th, the Smithsonian is undertaking an exposition. Alongside the NASA: Art (another anniversary linked to endings) and the ongoing celebration/commemoration of the Civil War’s 150th, the American History Museum opened an exhibit on June 3 entitled “Archiving the History of an Epidemic: HIV and AIDS, 1985-2009.” I…

Kirk Cameron Joins the Anti-Mormon Chorus
(Sort Of)

By Julie Ingersoll

…ns to put me on the list of speakers. I bought tickets… then there was a mix up… and I was cut from the list, if I had indeed been on a list… but I had some Christians who expressed concern…. and then I read your article and I… decided it would be best for me to wait and see how things play themselves out. Howse asked if Beck’s apparent view that “we all pray to the same God” isn’t by definition false teaching. Cameron demurred a bit and reflected…

The Economy is Sacred, Stupid

By Gary Laderman

…America. A few questions may help make the case about the intimate, if unexpressed, links between money and religion: Is the pursuit of wealth an ultimate value? Is self-worth tied to the accumulation of material goods? How do moral virtues connect to marketplace success? Is money a means to transcend everyday suffering and despair? Would you die to save capitalism? The society we live in, and indeed the political landscape for the foreseeable fu…

Taking the Right-Wing Echo Chamber to the Halls of Congress

By Lauri Lebo

…ative to Barton’s interpretation, or even someone who might just give a straight generally accepted interpretation of legal history, would only interfere with the reality that she and other right-wing Christians have been trying to create. What reality is that? One only has to look to Texas. Barton was an advisor to the Texas Board of Education and is one of the individuals most responsible for rewriting the state’s social studies curriculum to fi…

Rewriting the History of Catholic Schools in America

By Marian Ronan

…ion Tracy Fessenden has demonstrated, even after the King James Bible was excluded from the curriculum, “non-sectarian” textbooks and morals education in public schools would for decades be strikingly “pan-Protestant,” geared to rooting out “sectarian” immigrant religious identity. But even if Hughes was dedicated to American religious freedom, he certainly wasn’t dedicated to the freedom of Catholics within the church. Prior to his battle over th…

Your Money or Your Civil Rights? Gays Vote GOP

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…can voting gays made their case this past week on Michelangelo Signorile’s XM radio show. Jim, in Lexington, Kentucky told Signorile that he voted a straight Republican ticket to “send a message” to the Democrats for not doing enough to advance LGBT rights. “I want to see the Democrats take a big beating like the Republicans did,” Jim said. “so maybe in the future they’ll wake up and start doing what they promised.” “But do you think that Rand Pau…