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The Mystic in the Rye: JD Salinger’s Religious Fiction

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…ur Glass clearly felt that you could be “too happy” (perhaps ‘serene’ is a better word for the state he wished to cultivate). Buddy swerved from that path. Perhaps. Oh this happiness is strong stuff. It’s marvelously liberating. I’m free, I feel, to tell you exactly what you must be longing to hear now. That is, if as I know you do, you love best in this world those little beings of pure spirit with a natural temperature of 125, then it naturally…

Yes, the Navy Yard Shooter Was a Buddhist

By Joshua Eaton

…h an atrocity—despite Buddhism’s history of violence in places like Burma, Japan, Tibet and Sri Lanka [see: Monks With Guns: Discovering Buddhist Violence, by Michael Jerryson in RD]. However, when the perpetrator is a Muslim we assume, as a matter of course, that religion was their primary motivation—despite the verses in the Qur’an that say murdering a single innocent person is the same as murdering all of humanity. Of course, there is nothing t…

Ian Buruma on the Political Excesses of Religion

By Lisa Webster

…uck me, traveling through Texas, was that you look at billboards along the freeways, and the way that the new religions, the evangelicals, promote themselves, is exactly the way that banks do. They talk about “extra interest” from God, and it’s all individuals becoming religious because they think they can get a personal benefit out of it—and the people offering the benefit are making money out of it. So it’s a business. And that’s very different…

Better Science Through God?

By Nathan Schneider

…f evidence that invites one to qualify Fuller’s claims, but he does little better than to ignore it. To say that there are continuities between the history of theology and the history of science doesn’t mean you have to rule out discontinuities too. Fuller for instance chooses not to accept Hans Blumenberg’s powerful case, in his sprawling The Legitimacy of the Modern Age, that there was a basic rupture between the transcendence of Christian theol…

Can Poetry Heal the Planet?

By Gary Gach

…r-long experience of What Is. Call it Surreal Dharma Jazz, for want of any better rubric. Consider this fragment: “…following the old alphabet home vertebra by/ vertebra, genus by genus, up the serpent/ into the skull—‘bowl of stars’…” Hear how landscape and inscape, here, are as one. And then it draws upon the phenomena of language itself (“the old alphabet”), that leads us back to the literal spine along which life evolves (“genus by genus”)—cap…

“Those Federer Moments”: Sports, Sex, and the Gender of Grace

By Franklin Strong

…of the occasion. I mean, Carli Lloyd’s third goal, the one where, breaking free from a defender near midfield, she looked up and, noticing that Japan’s goalkeeper was stationed too far forward, sent a shot over that goalkeeper’s hands and right into the goal. You never see a play like that; it indicated that, in that moment, Lloyd was so dialed-in, so far above her peers, that she could do anything. It was like when, after an easy semifinal win, F…

Countering the “Countering Violent Extremism” Program

By Elizabeth Shakman Hurd

…piritual reform” during the Cold War. And Anna Su’s recent book, Exporting Freedom, examines the US-occupied Philippines, Japan and Iraq. “[N]o doctrinal position or school can be identified as causing the actions of jihadi groups.” Since 2009, US military chaplains have engaged with local religious leaders overseas to advance American strategic objectives: gathering cultural intelligence, promoting religious tolerance, and patching up relations w…

“Kill the Gays” Bill May Pass Ugandan Parliament Within a Week

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…ow, Box Turtle Bulletin’s Jim Burroway points out: the provisions barring ‘promoting homosexuality’ would potentially punish even lawyers who defend LGBT people in court. Uganda’s legal fraternity is expected to point out that the proposed law would be completely unfair. To them. With the world’s eyes turned upon Japan as it recovers from its natural disasters – and works to prevent an all-out nuclear disaster – the Ugandan Parliament may finally…

Six Overlooked Gems from the Future of World Religions Report

By Timothy King

…s Muslim Plurality For the first time ever (or perhaps just since sometime between 1000 and 1600 CE when The Plague decimated the European Christian population, according to footnote #2 of the report), in 2070 there will be more Muslims in the world than Christians. Between 2010 and 2050 the Muslim population is projected to grow by 73%, far outpacing the total population growth rate of 35%. Islam is not likely to keep up that growth rate forever…

At the UN, Conservative Christian Agenda Cloaked in Human Rights Language

By Austin Dacey

…e). The positive-negative distinction is often mapped onto the distinction between supposedly positive social, economic, and cultural rights and supposedly negative civil and political rights— a flashpoint since the Cold War confrontation between communism and the capitalist democracies. (For a succinct critique of this mapping, see Jack Donnelly, Universal Human Rights in Theory and Practice.) Perhaps unwittingly, the Declaration’s take on childr…