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African Religious leaders complain about Obama advocacy for LGBT rights; Ultra-Orthodox Man Stabs Jerusalem Pride Parade Marchers, Again; Struggles over sexuality in Islam, Catholic, Orthodox, Anglican Churches; Global LGBT recap

By Peter Montgomery

…adejo of Oyo, who is Nigerian, responded to Obama’s advocacy saying, “Most Africans care about religious values, about the family, about the complementary nature of man and woman and the culture that makes us Africans. Why can we not choose what ‘benevolence’ to accept from the West? Why can we not just be helped to fight corruption, terrorism, unemployment disease and illiteracy?” “Nobody should be killed for private wayward or immoral behaviors…

Racist Hanukkah

By Anthea Butler

…eaches continue without questions and scrutiny? How will they respond when African Americans begin to ask questions about the treatment of African refugees in Israel? The issue of immigration for many nations, including Israel, is fraught. When the immigration issue becomes racialized, it escalates to a whole other level. Add religion, and the mix only becomes that much more volatile. While the Holy Land may hold a special place in the hearts of m…

The Best Books Media of 2008

By Jeff Sharlet

…historian at the University of Rochester Frederick Douglass Institute for African and African American Studies. From Democratic Party outreach to evangelical voters to the smackdown of Jeremiah Wright to Tucker Carlson’s assertion that “black churches are basically political organizations,” we encountered a maelstrom of media references to the “black church” in 2008. For anyone who followed this coverage and questioned what such a monolithic term…

Richard Land Steps Down, But Not Out of the Culture Wars

By Aaron Weaver

…rew Hogue politely pointed out that not one of Land’s twenty employees was African-American—as late as 2009, the highest ranking African-American at the SBC headquarters in Nashville was the head janitor. While passing a racial reconciliation resolution was clearly a top priority for Land, there is little proof that actual racial justice was anywhere near the top of his agenda. Without question, Land will be remembered for his important ro…

Morality Police, Jihadists, Religious Competition, Grindr, & Americans Abroad: Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ifferences index divergent ideological stances with respect to a putative “African” sexual culture, as well as historical tensions within and between Christianity and Islam in Nigeria. The claim that homosexuality is “un-African” is widely understood as marking resistance to the neocolonial imposition of liberal Western values. Yet one of the leading proponents of this claim, Nigeria’s former Anglican Primate Peter Akinola, has explained that his…

Global LGBT Recap: Religious Leaders Support Persecution as Countries Vie in Homophobia Olympics

By Peter Montgomery

…any other basis – we need to unleash the full potential of everyone. As an African who has been around a long time, I understand the resistance to these ideas. But I can also step back and see that the larger course of human history, especially of the past century or so, is one of expanding human rights and freedoms. African leaders should be at the helm of this, and not hold back. Not at this critical moment. Chissano ended his letter quoting Nel…

Where Polls and Surveys Fall Short: A Conversation with Robert Wuthnow on “Inventing American Religion”

By Andrew Aghapour

…eligiosity, prayer. And yet when you look at the occasional major study of African Americans, with a large number of respondents and some white Americans for comparison purposes, the evidence suggests that African Americans are much more religious on average than white Americans in terms of how many hours in a given week they may spend at the church, or how important it is to them, or how often they see church friends, and so forth. That’s an exam…

Reimagining Twentieth Century Harlem as a Jewish Mecca

By Jeffrey Gurock

…e neighborhood, the tensions that flared up between the two groups, Jewish-African American interaction in the music and theatrical scene and, of course, charts the beginnings of Jewish return to Harlem during this present-day gentrification of New York City. What’s the most important take-home message for readers? There has never been one Jewish voice or vision nor one African American voice or opinion about the textured and complicated relations…

GLBT Activists and the Black Church: Can We Talk?

By Jonathan L. Walton

…f the black church, citing literal biblical interpretations on the part of African Americans. And one Los Angeles Times columnist even proposed that a “black Elton John” would blunt homophobic sentiment among African Americans. Such suggestions, I contend, are about as viable as Prince in penny-loafers. They just don’t make sense. First, black folks are no more biblical literalists than any other group. This is to say, they appeal to literal inter…

Reflections on an Ineffective Negro Leader

By Jonathan L. Walton

…inspiration, appeasement and accommodation; inspiring and appeasing their African-American constituency while accommodating the powers that be. Think Booker T. Washington who, with his famous 1895 Atlanta Compromise Address, appealed to the economic aspirations of African Americans with his Tuskegee model of vocational training and gospel of entrepreneurialism. Yet it was this same Negro leader who was willing to assuage the anxieties of poor whi…