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RDBook: Evangelical Christianity and Democracy in Africa

By Luke Ssemakula

…mbia, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, and South Africa in Africa; and, China, India, Indonesia, South Korea, and the Philippines in Asia. Each study in the project addresses the extent to which evangelicalism, a religious movement based on biblical orthodoxy, has helped or hindered the inauguration and consolidation of the democratic movement in the global South. This newest volume, on Africa, is edited by Oxford emeritus Terence O. Ranger, and it complemen…

Hagee and McCain Part Ways

By Ira Chernus

…that first came to mind started with the letter “I”: Iraq, Israel, India, Indonesia. Of course I quickly thought of exceptions to the rule, like Lebanon, Sri Lanka—and the United States of America. Europeans tell us that they don’t understand why we insist on bringing religion into politics. Their situation is certainly different from ours; according to a 2005 poll, only about half of the people in EU member countries “believe in a god,” a number…

Is Islam Eco-Friendly?

By Amina Wadud

…eligion. I was just reading about Kristiane Backer who is an “Eco-Muslimah promoting the green message of Islam.” She recently launched the “Inspired by Muhammad campaign.” I agree with her that that Muslims have a poor record of environmental preservation. They just have not seen the bigger picture. We’re heading on a path of destruction and until and unless we do something about it, things will continually get worse. This is also about process e…

The Lesser and the Greater Pilgrimage

By Amina Wadud

…d months the better, and then hajj some other year—until my recent stay in Indonesia. I met an Indonesian fashion designer who had one of those life-altering experiences about 15 years ago, after flaunting around in Milan, Italy, where she studied fashion. From that moment on, she had made umrah every year and has made hajj a few times. I could not imagine what it would be like to do this every year, even while her children were too small to walk…

It’s Theology, Not Baseball: Misunderstanding Iraq’s Sectarian Conflicts

By Amyn B. Sajoo

…mes, the two are inseparable — sharing a common enemy, pluralism. Of late, Indonesia and Malaysia have flirted with such behavior. This trend is hardly confined to Muslim-majority societies. Buddhist Myanmar and Sri Lanka, Hindu India, and Christian Uganda and Zimbabwe have done their share of official hate-mongering. So has the United States’ principal ally in the Middle East, Israel. As David Sheen has noted in these pages, none other than the f…

Good News Bad News

By Amina Wadud

…e dates for the hajj; or maybe for a girth of time or a specific duration. Indonesia renders a 30-day visa upon arrival—and so a 30-day visa, a 14-day visa, etc., could be standard, then used according to people’s actual date of arrival. Anyway, I digress. I told them that whenever they began the processing I would FedEx my passport back to them for processing. Travel is my life and I needed my passport back. Just having it sit in their office whe…

Reports of the Death of ISIS Have Been Greatly Exaggerated

By Mark Juergensmeyer

…are actively engaged in violent acts throughout the world, from Nigeria to Indonesia, and from Belgium to Manhattan. The reason why ISIS survives in these different forms is that it was never a single thing in the first place. As I have argued elsewhere, ISIS has been both an organization and a movement, a network of political control as well as a decentralized popularist uprising. The collapse of the political network associated with the geograph…

Anti-LGBT Culture Warriors On The March; More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ntre for Family and Human Rights (CARIFAM), a group that says it works to “promote fundamental human rights” but criticizes “legislation promoting a permissive and indulgent value system that is destroying our societies.” Other speakers include WCF’s Don Feder, Focus on the Family’s Glenn Stanton, Family Watch International’s Sharon Slater, and Pastor Scot Stirm, an anti-gay activist in Belize. A WCF African regional conference will take place in…

Solidarity Through Veiling? Backlash Has Been “Personal, Fierce and Vile…”

By Sarah Eltantawi

…in the 1930s – 1980s in the Arab world, South Asia including Afghanistan, Indonesia, West Africa, and other parts of the Muslim majority world, or anyone who knows the social history of those places during those times, understands that the headscarf was rare, while personal piety was strong if not stronger during this time period (according again to ethnographic research, biographies, etc.) These societies were more just and stable and less gener…

Debunking the Myth That Democracy Is “Incompatible” With Islam

By Asma Afsaruddin

…arily to small elites, in addition to tribal and social organizations that promote a culture of authoritarianism. Outside of the Arab world, there are long-term functional democracies in Turkey, Bangladesh, Indonesia, and Malaysia. More recently installed democratic governments in Pakistan and Palestine further challenge old stereotypes about the links between Islamicate cultures and representative governments. Such facts on the ground clearly est…