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Liberals Need Not Choose Between Sexual Abuse Survivors and the Religious Minority Communities That Failed Them

By Afzal Upal

…the Mormons of Islam by some) was founded by Mirza Ghulam Ahmad in Qadian, India in 1889 during the British Raj as an effort to reform Sunni Islam. Most traditional Muslim ulema declared Ahmadis kafir (i.e., non-Muslim, or heretics in Christian parlance) because Ahmad’s claim to prophecy after Muhammad was seen as violating the traditional belief in the finality of prophet Muhammad. When the British left India in 1947, Ahmad’s son and successor (“…

Why are Nuns and Monks in the Streets? (Parts I & II)

By José Cabezón

…ompromises, but many refuse to do so, either leaving to become refugees in India, or else taking to the streets in protests. The CCP prides itself on its willingness to confront reality head on, on its ability to “adhere to the objective nature of things as the basis for accomplishing its agenda.” This being so, the Chinese leadership needs to ask itself whether the present policies are, objectively speaking, working, or whether in fact Tibetan de…

Gambian President Threatens to Kill Asylum Seekers

By Peter Montgomery

…ctivists had also slammed Wurst as the singer advanced in the competition. India: Profile of an Openly Gay Prince Manvendra Singh Gohil, Crown Prince of Rajpipla, India, was profiled this week in Frontiers, a Los Angeles-based publication. Manvendra was born and raised to assume the custodianship of the crown, with all the discipline, expectations and circumspection his catered life allowed. He was always surrounded by servants, so protected that…

The Double Life of the War Criminal

By Laurie Patton

…and forums all throughout Serbia. Like “Dabic’s” focus on awakening in his New Age writings, Karadzic, too, had a renewed spiritual experience and return to the Serbian Orthodox church, just before his nationalist fervor was to take the most violent of turns. Karadzic manipulated an identity so that there was both effective disguise and continuity of purpose. But how could it have truly been the same man? How could the war criminal have even found…

When Religion Becomes a Trap Rather Than a Safety Net

By Holly Welker

…she’s really trying. Ironically, it took her going on a Mormon mission to India with her third husband for us to begin to develop a friendship and appreciate what we have in common. Her mission was a public health mission and she wasn’t allowed to proselytize or even say anything about religion in her emails home. As a result, her emails were filled with stories about the people and life in India. I’ve traveled to Africa to write stories on behal…

A Catholic Bishop on sex ed, where Jewish singles mingle, and Queen Antoinette’s cult?: The Week In Religion… Poetically

By Christopher Marchsteiner

…n a suspended sentence and probation. A controversial religious figure in India claims a video showing him in a sexual act with two women is fake. The swami, who has a huge following in southern India and missions in several countries, was arrested on obscenity charges and has since stepped down from his leadership position “to live a life of spiritual seclusion for some indefinite time.” Although scientists haven’t weighed in on the matter yet…

Trump’s ‘Sh*thole Countries’ is Just a Cruder Term for What’s Been Said in American Churches for Generations

By Kathryn Gin Lum

…shall come up in her palaces,” so missionaries saw the built landscapes of India and China as decrepit and decaying beneath their gilded surfaces. One missionary described his impressions of India as “disgust[ing]” to “every sense”: “I thought, Surely it can get no lower without opening the mouth of hell.” According to nineteenth-century missionaries, it was because “heathens” spent their time worshiping the wrong deities—spirits in nature, ancest…

An American Muslim Abroad, Or, Things I Saw in Dubai

By Haroon Moghul

…rresponding phases of the moon, so one night it may only be dimly lit (the new moon); or fully flooded with light (for the full moon). Returning to my point, namely that the UAE is a more Indian Ocean-oriented, and South Asian, society than a stereotypically Arab one, this mosque clearly continues in the vein of Mughal and Indo-Islamic architecture and owes far less to traditionally Arab-Islamic architecture. Compare to the Taj Mahal, and Badshahi…

Mormon-Born Daya Mata Typifies American Yoga

By Andrea R. Jain

…ansa Yogananda, founder of the Self-Realization Fellowship, was the second Indian guru (Vivekananda was the first) to travel from India to the United States and to attract a large following of Americans interested in yoga. These gurus taught renditions of yoga that were radically different from the systems of stretching and muscle-building postures meant to function as fitness routines that we so often associate with yoga in the United States toda…

Persecution, Betrayal, and the Zero Sum Fight for Global Domination — Day 1 of NatCon 2024

By Annika Brockschmidt and Ben Lorber

…s from the audience. In fact, Hazony opines, national conservatism needs a new, uniting symbol—a flag to rally around. This, he poses, would be helpful to answer the question at the heart of Christian nationalism: “What kind of American are you?” According to Hazony, if you’re the right kind of American, the answer would be to show this new flag and say: “Ten Commandments, that’s us.” ‘Our fight is not merely existential, it’s also zero sum’ Now t…