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A Religious History of American Neuroscience

By Leigh Eric Schmidt

…an Christians and turned instead to homegrown practitioners of various mind-over-matter cures. He particularly accented those New Thought metaphysicians who were pushing forward a dialogue with far-flung emissaries of yoga and Buddhist meditation in the wake of the World’s Parliament of Religions, held in Chicago in 1893. Among James’ favored practitioners of these newly improvised regimens of meditation was Ralph Waldo Trine, a Boston-based refor…

Challenging Both Homophobia in Islam and Populist Bogeyman of ‘The Homophobic Muslim’; and More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…fson told O’Malley that he can hear in Abbott’s comments echoes of the anti-equality strategy deployed in the U.S. by anti-equality strategist Frank Schubert. Russia: Journalist wins reprieve from deportation, video message to gay Russians goes viral We noted last week that a gay journalist facing deportation to Uzbekistan, had appealed for refugee status in Russia. ABC News reported that a Moscow appeals court has temporarily blocked his deportat…

A Matter of Life and Debt: The Role of Religion

By Peter Laarman

…and Muslim cultures maintain to this day an alternative system of interest-free banking. Question: But why this religious obsession with debt? Debt is just a tool for doing business, right? And don’t the economists tell us that credit makes the world go round? Answer: Because almost without exception debt reduces both the wealth and the freedom or capacity of the debtor. Debt frequently leads to physical and psychological violence against borrowe…

Rethinking a Classic from the Conservative Contraception Canon

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…biographical excursus; and then, some commentary on Mark Oppenheimer’s much-commented-upon story on the authors of Open Embrace: A Protestant Couple Rethinks Contraception. My oldest son was born ten months and a few days after my husband’s and my wedding. This had not been our plan. Among the things we’d intended to do in July and August of 2003—an ambitious list that included things like getting married, moving to a new state, buying our first h…

RD10Q: Living Without God

By Ronald Aronson

…beautifully tell a long-suppressed story. Also, I wish I had written a 150-year-old book: The Origin of Species. It’s marvelously written as well as being a scientific and philosophical masterpiece. What’s your next book? Living without God in Today’s America: Political Tasks for Secularists. Or The Book of Hope. Or The Book of Gratitude. All three are taking next steps from Living without God. The first idea idea is to take the political step, a…

RD10Q: Believing in the Bible, Not God

By Bruce Ledewitz

…on of an immense cultural change in America. During the period between 2004-2007, a new phenomenon emerged in America, what The Atlantic Monthly would later call “mass-market atheism.” Beginning with (though with many precursors) Sam Harris’ The End of Faith in 2004, to Daniel Dennett’s Breaking the Spell and Richard Dawkins’ The God Delusion, both in 2006, to Victor Stengers’ God: The Failed Hypothesis ?in 2007, and culminating in best-selling bl…

Does the Historical Jesus Matter?

By Peter Laarman

…lds who managed to shoehorn a good bit of Empire-friendly schlock into the New Testament canon. But back to the difference their good theology makes. (Crossan himself uses the term “accurate theology” to describe the research-based work he has been doing for decades.) For myself, I do feel my head beginning to clear just a bit when I learn that what the Bible’s God abhors most is not poverty as such but the inequality created and reinforced by unj…

Black Satanist Candidate Faces LA Sheriff Shakedown

By Joseph Laycock

…ll had been planning to run against him and had already filed the $1740 non-refundable entry fee. But March 7, the day the LASD arrived based on a mysterious tip about his mental health history and guns, just happened to be the deadline to get on the ballot; because Hill spent close to an hour of that day in handcuffs, he says he was unable to deliver all the signatures he needed to have his candidacy in order by the deadline. Hill is not alone. T…

Shari’ah Website a Right Wing Fake

By Hussein Rashid

…alls the website for the Muslim Education and Action Center (MEAC) “a fake website about Muslims created by right-wing bloggers confirming everything right-wing bloggers believe about Muslims.” Basically, it means that the entire shari’ah conspiracy industry is the Islamphobic constituency from beginning to end. It’s so complete that Pam Gellar was taken in by the ruse. Every attack against the shari’ah complex has been against an organization tha…

As Hobby Lobby Heads to SCOTUS, Let’s Ditch Kosher Butcher Analogies

By Sarah Posner

…court has held that either the Free Exercise Clause or RFRA entitled a for-profit commercial enterprise to an exemption from a generally applicable law by virtue of a burden on the religious exercise of the employer or its owners, managers, or directors. And whenever such a case has reached the Supreme Court – including Braunfeld v. Brown (1961), Newman v. Piggie Park Enterprises, Inc. (1968), and United States v. Lee (1982) – the Court has over…