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Harry Potter Gone Bad: Lev Grossman’s The Magicians

By Donna Freitas

…’s bone dry and brittle to the touch—and doing so with gusto. The difficult-to-codify is the enemy of many an academic, and often considered the enemy of the cold, hard-to-swallow truth, too; the less awe, the less wonder, the less emotion, the closer you get to the essence of what is truly real. Likewise, writers and critics of literary fiction are often wary of too much joy, happy endings, and otherworldliness—particularly when they lead to sent…

Using the “A” Word: Israel and Apartheid

By Shalom Goldman

…e author uncovered is this gem from the files of the LA Times: “A nineteen-year-old Barack Obama gave his first political speech in February 1981, urging the trustees of Occidental College in Los Angeles to divest from South Africa.” The most newsworthy of the book’s findings is the claim that in March of 1975 the “Israeli defense officials offered to sell South Africa some of the nuclear-capable Jericho missiles in its arsenal.” That specific de…

Cloud Atlas: This is Some Mystical S*%t

By S. Brent Rodriguez Plate

…ola Run play with repetition and simultaneity, inserting tags into the mise-en-scene that provide clues to the interconnections. Sometimes it’s for fun or simple coherence, while other times it is making a deeper point, as it does in Cloud Atlas. Critics of the film have noted that the individual narratives are not compelling unto themselves. Perhaps. But the point is that it’s all in the in-between, the movements and connections across people, pl…

How Biblical ‘Chosenness’ Has Justified Violence, Misogyny, and Anti-Immigrant Sentiment

By Peter Laarman

…hout first usurping and liquidating others in line for power. As Saul’s son-in-law David should have been succeeded by his firstborn, Adonijah; in the event, an enterprising young Solomon made sure to have David’s rightful heir executed as a first order of imperial business. But nevermind the Borgia-like murders and intrigues. Coogan views David as a brilliant operator who stakes out a then-tribally unclaimed Jerusalem as his royal capital, parks…

After Michael Jerryson (1974-2021) Nobody Will Ever Look at Buddhism the Same Way

By Mark Juergensmeyer

…nce Today: Faith and Conflict in the Modern World. Jerryson had outlined a new book project that he wanted to write. It would expand on some of the concepts that I’ve developed in Terror in the Mind of God, and try to identify the critical occasions in which religion and violence become fused in a way that results in real attacks, not just symbolic expressions. One of the central ideas in this new book was to be the concept of “sacred emergencies,…

Missouri Pastor Goes Viral on Gawker: ‘Separation of Church and Hate’

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…been picked up by Gawker and gone viral. Like, over-a-million-views, posted-by-George-(Sulu)-Takei viral. So he had quite a weekend, in other words. Here’s what he had to say about the experience. SMB: So did anything interesting happen to you over the weekend? 🙂 Phil Snider: Can’t think of anything. 😉 More seriously, why don’t you give us a little bit of the background on your August speech to the City Council? What was the resolution, and how di…

Devil’s Bookmark: Sex and Drugs and Hating God

By Bernard Schweizer

…ion from the Greeks to the present (chapters 18-21) is an unparalleled tour-de-force of anti-theistic debunking. But I want to leave some fields untilled to reward those curious readers who will want to peruse the oeuvre for themselves. Although—to borrow the lingo of my students—“this book rocks,” it also has its shortcomings. For one thing, it is a curiously unbalanced novel, with creepers of subplots wilting off before they flower, with fizzlin…

The Gospel of (and for) E.W. Jackson

By Peter Montgomery

…lth building is upward giving.” Here’s more: For example, as you read this book, you may feel a deep spiritual affinity for the things I am teaching and therefore a profound spiritual kinship with me. We may never meet in person, but you can draw on the anointing which God has placed on my life by sowing into my ministry. That opens a spiritual door for you to partake at a deeper level and for me to impart to you as one in Covenant with me. That i…

Netanyahu’s (Republican) Esther Moment

By Sarah Posner

…eality,” which pinpoints where the next world “hot spot” will be. That soon-to-be-flaming location is where the Book of Esther was set: namely Persia, or in modern parlance, Iran. Seated beside Lapin in the ornately gilded Trinity Broadcasting Network (TBN) studio was Pastor John Hagee, the author of an incendiary new book purporting to show that the Bible predicts a military confrontation with Iran. By then, Hagee’s book, Jerusalem Countdown, had…

Vainglory Days: A Foremost Expert on Religious Violence Offers Clues to How QAnon Might End

By Mark Juergensmeyer

…ovements around the world, including ISIS, which is the subject of my forthcoming book, When God Stops Fighting: How Religious Violence Ends (University of California Press). Often, I have found, they erode from within. They can vanish as quickly as they emerged. The QAnon conspiracy and the extremist movements related to it are like summer storms. They boil up from the hot air with fierce intensity. Just as quickly, they can disappear, with only…