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The Good Liberal Fear of a Yoga Planet

By Jay Michaelson

…is fair, and 2) What it says about the mainstream media’s approach to non-Western spirituality. Let’s dispatch with the first as quickly as possible. Fourteen paragraphs are devoted to Glenn Black, a yoga teacher and physical therapist who explains How Yoga Can Wreck Your Body, while zero paragraphs (not one!) are devoted to an opposing voice; someone, anyone from the yoga or medical communities who has a different point of view. Shockingly for a…

Indonesian Clerics Issue Anti-Gay Fatwa; Anti-Civil Union Peruvian Lawmaker Cites Hitler; Is Christianity more ‘un-African’ than Homosexuality?; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…abloid media is growing, his stance enjoys a lot of support. Gabriel fears western influence is fundamentally changing African societies for the worse. “Western society is trying to destroy us,” he says. “Behaviours such as fornication, spirit of independence, gay rights, no respect for elders, abortion and birth control are being imported. African leaders must maintain our culture.” He says the archbishop of the local Episcopal church is currentl…

Is It Immoral to Believe in Miracles?

By Noah Berlatsky

…sm of the tendencies of separation, analysis, self-centredness inherent in Western thought… Yet [these cultures] were never examined with the respect they deserved…they were ridiculed and replaced as a matter of course first by the religion of brotherly love and then by the religion of science… Shapiro sees his book as opposed to Christianity. But for Feyerabend, the evangelical Christian and the evangelical skeptic are united in a quintessentiall…

Persecution of Ugandan Bishop Continues In United States

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…gion and Democracy is crying foul and accusing the Bishop of trying to get Western countries to use their influence in Africa to help accomplish the “acceptance of homosexuality in Africa.” The IRD, bankrolled by conservative funders like the reclusive Howard Ahmanson, has, since the early 1980s, made it its mission to cause splits and dissension in Protestant denominations. According to Jim Naughton of the Episcopal Diocese of Washington, who con…

Decomposing Humanism: Why Replace Religion?

By Austin Dacey

…as something like this phenomenon that characterized the secularization of Western Europe. The dramatic drop in regular church attendance in Europe was not accompanied by a dramatic spike in the membership of organized atheism or humanism, which remains marginal. For post-religious Europeans, the point was to not show up anywhere once a week to seek absolution, but to stay out late on Saturday nights and sleep in late on Sunday mornings. When you…

Conservative Christians v. Avatar

By C. Joshua Villines

…ure religions common to the indigenous peoples who have borne the brunt of Western imperialism over the past few centuries. Part of the genius of Avatar is reframing the conflict of imperialism away from battles among different ethnic groups; instead, all of humanity bears the collective guilt of imposing its selfish whims on an entire planet. Avatar makes the sins of commercialism and Western triumphalism into universal, human sins; and it does s…

Spiritual, But Not Religulous

By Jennifer Hahn

…provocative or as funny as a sweeping condemnation of all of them. (Well, Western ones at least. There’s no mention of Eastern religious traditions in the film). Obviously, a sober PBS-style treatment of the subject would not inspire the kind of widespread discussion of the role of faith in Western culture and politics that “Religuous” will. So, yeah, the film is perhaps unfair in lumping moderate religious folks with extremists (though if Maher…

Meet the ‘Bronze Age Zionists’ — Far-Right Jews Embracing Fascism in the Wake of October 7

By Ben Lorber

…stice movements, and other progressive causes in order to undermine White, Western civilization. In mid-October, The Hebrew Conservative wrote: Jewish organizations, like a faithless and atheistic version of the Maharal of Prague, have contributed to the creation of a golem—the abomination of BLM and mass immigration. And now, through attacks, propaganda, violence, and chaos [referring to the rise in antisemitism since October 7], the golem is ris…

India’s Elections and the “Doniger Affair”

By Murali Balaji

…ly Hindu, that women in Hinduism are subordinate to men, and that Hinduism promoted social inequality and injustice. In the absence of any theological perspectives, Marxist/Ambedkarist interpretations of Hinduism did have an impact on Western understandings, including those of noted religion scholars such as Doniger and Paul Courtright. This isn’t to say that Marxist approaches to religion can’t be useful, but it’s important to understand the cont…

Ainslie Embree’s Gift to Religious Studies

By Mark Juergensmeyer

…, and member of the US diplomatic service in Delhi. Columbia had created a Western Civilization requirement and Embree, along with the China expert Theodore deBary, were determined to make it a global civilization requirement. Embree created the textbook, Sources of Indian Tradition, that became standard for courses in Hinduism and South Asian Islam. He also helped to establish the South Asian Institute, an early model for the new research field o…