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How America Really Lost Its Mind: Hint, It Wasn’t Entirely the Fault of Hippie New Agers and Postmodern Academics

By Christopher Douglas

…0s that would become the primary sources of American unreality were hippie New Age hostility to science and reason, and the new academic fashion of postmodern relativism. The former was tolerant of all kinds of outlandish ideas, often non-Western imported religious fragments, and challenged the presumptions of conventional psychiatry and medicine; this emergent counterculture was a “new generation of longhaired hyperindividualists who insist on tr…

Pelosi Attacker’s New Age Spirituality and Belief in QAnon is no Contradiction

By Susannah Crockford

…lity.” What are called conspiracy theories by outside observers operate in new age spirituality as a form of theodicy for why their predicted new age of peace, light, and love has yet to emerge. There’s a long history of right-wing esotericism informing the “secret teachings” that DePape espoused, drawing together UFOs, Atlantis, and antisemitism. The Manichaean understanding of world politics and history as determined by a battle between the forc…

Sikh Temple Shooting: Two Massacres and the Virtual Transformation of Trauma

By Shruti Devgan

…hael Page, was motivated by xenophobia. On the other hand, the massacre in India 28 years ago was a culmination of tensions between the Indian state and the Sikh community. The most sacred of all Sikh places of worship or gurdwara had been occupied by the Indian army under state surveillance in June 1984. The anger at the desecration of the gurdwara found an extreme response when prime minister Indira Gandhi was assassinated by two of her Sikh bod…

Heaven On Earth: A Non-Hysterical History of Shari’ah

By Haroon Moghul

…s for just as long. Assessing the reasons for that heritage and developing new ways to honor its spirit would benefit everyone. Some people say the Arab Spring killed al-Qaeda; do you think that’s true? Do you think the Muslim world, by which I mean not just Muslim countries but Muslim communities and institutions, has the resources and intellects to fight off extremism? Only a fool, a fanatic, or a politician would presume to predict the future…

Does Religion Condemn Homosexuality?

By Michael Bronski

…h sacred texts as the Kama Sutra and Krittivasa Ramayana. It was not until India came under British colonial rule—with its Christian assumptions about sex—that Section 377, the first Indian law banning “carnal intercourse against the order of nature,” was passed, in 1860. The efforts of modern-day Indian activists—both Hindu and non-Hindu—for sexual rights finally led to the overturning of Section 377, in 2009. A religion is not practiced in a vac…

Muslims for Trump

By Haroon Moghul

…on’t report on, or give the time and attention it deserves. (Thank God for new media.) In the 1980s and 1990s, many Sikhs in India found themselves at odds with the state. But New Delhi not only began cracking down on militant separatists—the Indian government would call them terrorists and, in some instances, have legitimate reason to—but peaceful Sikhs too. Tarred by association, a fate many minority communities know too well. Increasing numbers…

Tony Perkins Will Fit Right in at Religious Freedom Commission

By Caroline Matas

…at Trinity College in 1999 pointed to the USCIRF’s focus on Christians in India—who made up 2.3 percent of the population, as opposed to the more sizable Muslim minority in India—as an example of the commission’s particular concern over anti-Christian propaganda and legislation. While Obama-era appointees introduced a broader spectrum of ideological stances and religious affiliations to the commission, its membership nevertheless remained largely…

Tony Perkins will Fit Right in at Religious Freedom Commission

By Caroline Matas

…at Trinity College in 1999 pointed to the USCIRF’s focus on Christians in India—who made up 2.3 percent of the population, as opposed to the more sizable Muslim minority in India—as an example of the commission’s particular concern over anti-Christian propaganda and legislation. While Obama-era appointees introduced a broader spectrum of ideological stances and religious affiliations to the commission, its membership nevertheless remained largely…

Podcast: Eboo Patel on Islam, Pluralism, and the “Faith Line”

By Robert P. Jones

…sm: In my mind, I’m part of the story of America, I’m part of the story of India, and I’m part of the story of Islam. It was in the Holy Qur’an, which is the book that animated my ancestors, that I found the fullest description of that and that I found language that I considered home…. I love America because it gives me, the child of immigrant Muslim parents from India, the chance to participate in its progress and to carve a place in its promise….

Op-Ed: God is Green

By Ayesha Mattu

…se Shukla is Hindu and Bee is Muslim, groups with a history of conflict in India. This interfaith alliance is also important because the environment doesn’t acknowledge human-made borders, nationalities, or theological differences. The devastation of wheat crops yesterday and far away will affect our bread prices here tomorrow. Hurricane Katrina taught us that in the heart of the richest nation on earth, we are heartbreakingly vulnerable. And, as…