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Monks With Guns: Discovering Buddhist Violence

By Michael Jerryson

…uzuki, and Tenzin Gyatso, the Fourteenth Dalai Lama, have labored to raise Western awareness of their cultures and traditions. In doing so, they presented specific aspects of their Buddhist traditions while leaving out others. These Buddhist monks were not alone in this portrayal of Buddhism. As Donald S. Lopez Jr. and others have poignantly shown, academics quickly followed suit, so that by the 1960s U.S popular culture no longer depicted Buddhis…

Heaven: Our Enduring Fascination with the Afterlife

By Lisa Miller

…ea of what it is they believe. I hope my book gives people a sense of what Western religious traditions and regular people say heaven is (and isn’t) and how those ideas have changed through history. I hope that my book will provoke readers to develop for themselves a clearer and more thought-out idea of heaven, whatever that is. Personally, I am in an awkward place. I am a progressive in my heart and I don’t like conservative visions of heaven tha…

Jesus in 3D: The Shroud of Turin Meets the 21st Century

By Peter Manseau

…ourth and ninth centuries. Such relics were prized in both the Eastern and Western branches of Christendom because the moments each became an object of religious significance were recorded so clearly in scripture. As the church expanded far beyond its Mediterranean origins, relics served as a kind of portable sanctity—if you couldn’t go to the Holy Land, the Holy Land could come to you. Most of these objects have their roots in legend, but they al…

The Social Cost of Atheism

By Lauri Lebo

…Australians, 15 percent of residents of United Kingdom, and 12 percent of Western Europeans. More than two-thirds of Americans said they would suffer stigma in their community and 61 percent said they would suffer stigma from their family. When broken down in by region in the U.S., those who live in Southern states of Oklahoma, Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama, South Carolina and Tennessee (and North Dakota) reported the highest fear of social stig…

Breivik’s Manifesto on Islam vs. “Christendom” as “Demographic Warfare”

By Sarah Posner

…te scheme to feminise/pacify” European youth. “Multiculturalism is an anti-Western hate ideology aimed at undermining the indigenous peoples of Europe and destroying European civilisation and culture,” the manifesto reads. As a result of multiculturalism, Europe has few “cultural defenses,” writes Breivik, from “any force which would want to conquer us,” that is, Muslims. Thus, Breivik goes on, “the Islamic Ummah” is “currently colonising us, faci…

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…

Lou Engle Attempts To Backpedal On Uganda Anti-Gay Bill

By Sarah Posner

…bill: “I apologize that this took place and that my stated purpose of not promoting the Bill was compromised. I take responsibility for what was done on the stage of TheCall, even in my absence.” He also claimed that he met with unspecified Christian leaders in Uganda and “that not” one “was carrying even an ounce of hatred for homosexuals.” Not one ounce? James Nsaba Buturo, Uganda’s Minister for Ethics and Integrity, was a speaker at Engle’s ra…

Humanitarian Victims or Christian Martyrs: What’s in a Word?

By Donald Heinz

…n to a pithy saying of Jesus) must be a Bible-smuggler who, in the name of Western hegemony, is determined to smother all exotic cultures, especially Islam, with civilizing Christianity. In fact, Roman Catholic, Lutheran, and most Protestant, including evangelical, mission is defined today by a servant model. Modern Christians express their discipleship through medical, educational, agricultural service to those who need it, because they see the f…

Narco-Violence and the Failure of the Church in Mexico

By Jennifer Scheper Hughes

…surprise. Mexico has long been a place of violence, death and dying in the Western imagination. From Hernan Cortez’s horror at the bodies of sacrificial victims (a horror that blinded the conquistadors to their own acts of violence), to the famed sixteenth-century friar Bartolomé de las Casas’ account of Spanish atrocities worked upon innocent indigenous bodies in the process of conquest, to the accrued corpses of populations laid waste by Europea…

Virtual Book Burning and Its Consequences

By Laurie Patton

…identity. In the twentieth century, Hindu extremists have burned books by Western scholars as a way of protesting Western academic analysis of Hindu symbols. The Mouse that Roared? So Pastor Jones is in excellent historical company. Despite his proudly-displayed ignorance of the contents of the Qur’an (an all-too-frequent trait of book burners), he intuitively knew that book burning could involve all three aspects of this complex symbol. It could…