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The Failure to Focus on — And Yes, to ‘Cancel’ — Right Wing Antisemitism is a Problem

By Elad Nehorai

…th a big assist from centrist and liberal pundits policing what they call “free speech,” has been incredibly effective at neutralizing this cultural need and at creating cultural boundaries that allow them to promote toxic ideologies and spread bigotry without consequence. This is why trans people are being targeted: the Right has drawn their line in the sand. And in so doing, they’ve affected the mainstream as well. Trans and queer rights are sud…

RDBook: Sex, Power, and the Future of the World: An Interview with Michelle Goldberg

By Mandy Van Deven

…ch attention? I’m not sure I agree. I write quite a bit about the alliance between conservative Muslims and Christians to fight women’s rights at the UN. I also deal with the connection between Islam and female circumcision. The chapter about India’s missing girls is set in the context of Hinduism and Sikhism. That said, the international anti-abortion, anti-family planning movement is largely driven by Catholic and evangelical groups. One major t…

Imagine No Religion: Sustaining Morality Without God

By Konstantin Petrenko

…nspeakable atrocities; many of them in the name of atheism. The difference between successful secular nations and the Communist states, however, lies not in their rejection of religion, but in how they approach freedom of conscience and religious liberty. Whenever the state tries to enforce ideological or religious conformity, such policies will always result in tragedy. This was the case in Stalinist Soviet Union and Maoist China, but the same wa…

World Congress of Families Blessed By Georgian Orthodox Patriarch and George W. Bush; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…announced that it will annul the convictions of about 50,000 men convicted between 1946 and 1969 under former laws banning gay sex, which dated to 1871. It will pay some financial compensation to those who are still alive. Russia: Who’s Killing Gay Journalists? The Daily Beast’s Anna Nemtsova asks, “Who’s Killing Gay Journalists in Russia?” “With two journalists dead at the hands of strange men—including a Hitler-loving ultranationalist—Russia’s L…

What Happens When We Use Horror Movies to Interpret the Real World? 10 Questions for the Authors of ‘The Exorcist Effect’

By Eric Harrelson and Joseph P. Laycock

…ture. There is definitely more work to be done to analyze the relationship between religion and horror in places like Japan, Korea, Turkey, and Iran. What are some of the biggest misconceptions about your topic? We really hope no one thinks we are advocating censorship. We view censoring movies or books or music as a reactionary move that doesn’t address the core issues of the problems it purports to solve. Furthermore, stigmatizing film, music, a…

There’s No Business Like the Bible Business: 200 Years of the ABS

By Paul Harvey

…stian nation. While always willing to work with anyone interested in Bible promotion, the ABS, as Fea explains, “has always gravitated towards the particular expression of Christianity that its board and staff believed to be the moral guardians of America’s status as a Christian nation.” A particularly fascinating narrative line of the book is about the ABS’s key role in “innovation, both in American Christianity and the nation as a whole.” Fea de…

Sacred Real Estate: What Makes Washington’s WWII Memorial So Dreadful?

By Michael A. Elliott

…f the National Mall. That is a shame, because he and his comrades deserved better. But Savage’s book also reminded me not to fret too much about this missed opportunity. Monument Wars shows that no matter how sacrosanct they have become, places like the National Mall are also unpredictable and fluid. The Lincoln Memorial, for instance, has acquired a whole new symbolic register thanks to its role in the African American freedom struggle of the las…

Monks With Guns: Discovering Buddhist Violence

By Michael Jerryson

…essays that illustrate the violent history of Buddhism across Mongolia, Tibet, Japan, China, Korea, Thailand, Sri Lanka, and India. Our intention is not to argue that Buddhists are angry, violent people—but rather that Buddhists are people, and thus share the same human spectrum of emotions, which includes the penchant for violence. Although the book only arrived at bookstores last month, it apparently touched some nerves in the academic communit…

Religious, Spiritual, and “None of the Above”: How Did Mindfulness Get So Big?

By Nalika Gajaweera

…ce. Many Western convert Buddhists, for instance, keep a friendly distance between their own conceptions of the core features of Buddhism and the mystical ideas of karma and rebirth that are so earnestly held by more traditional Buddhist communities. “I don’t think Buddhism is very useful to people as a belief system,” Pablo Das, a senior teacher at the LA-based Buddhist meditation society Against the Stream, told me in the upstairs lounge of the…

The Problem with AMC’s Sci-Fi Hit Humans

By Andrew Aghapour

…y changing world. She had wanted to be a doctor, but now Synths do the job better than any human can. “There’s nothing I could do that a synth can’t do better,” she complains to her boyfriend, as they sit overlooking a golf course. The synth caddies, she remarks, can hit holes-in-one every time. What will our usurpers look like? This proliferation of androids forces us to ask a very specific set of existential questions about our relationship to t…