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American Prosperity Gospel Makes South Sudan “Ripe for Exploitation”

By Anthea Butler

…y gospel, and American televangelism plant the seeds, as it were, for this new nation to cultivate religious hucksters eager to cash in on souls to be saved? Or will the situation in South Sudan become similar to Brazil, where cultural religious traditions such as Candomble are demonized, and Pentecostalism is lauded as the progressive religion not connected to a difficult history? I predict all of the above. The fears of the Sudan Ecumenical Foru…

Useless and Useful: A True Sage Reviews The Tao of Happiness

By Alan Levinovitz

…on the Chuang Tzu, a 2,200 year-old Taoist text, and he has written about New Age trends for publications like The Millions. Unexpectedly, Alan achieved sagehood (or so he claims) before submitting his first draft. The following review is a specimen of what Alan calls “the Tao of criticism.” We hope you enjoy it. If I weren’t a fully realized Taoist sage, Derek Lin would seriously piss me off. Lin just came out with a book called The Tao of Happi…

What The Church Needs More Than a ‘Good Pope’

By Mary E. Hunt

…by Eucharist—is this interview simply a puff piece, a case of the Jesuits promoting their own and their own promoting Jesuits? Is it meant as a way to attract people back to a church that may have a kinder face but just as steely a heart? Is the good will it has engendered trustworthy? The Roman Catholic Church has been around for several thousand years for a reason. I hope this interview is a beginning not an end of a new moment. These serious…

Can Atheist Billboards Kill Religion?

By Anthony B. Pinn

…oss the country like cranky, God-hating daffodils. They proclaimed the bad news that God does not exist, that belief is bad for your soul, that religion enslaves—and they were met with predictable upset. Here Anthony Pinn reflects on the the state of the (A)theist conversation. –Eds. I am a non-theistic humanist, and I am one who believes theism does more harm than good. It provides cosmic justification for all sorts of trauma and damage; it deval…

Mormonism in 92 languages

By Joanna Brooks

…Lake City will receive hundreds of thousands of visitors this weekend. The new Conference Center, just north of historic Temple Square in downtown Salt Lake, will seat 22,000 conference goers for each of five Conference sessions. And around the world, millions of Mormons will have church on television or internet—watching or listening to the satellite and cable-transmitted voices of Church leaders. During Conference, my thoughts inevitably wande…

The Resurgence of Right-Wing Anti-Semitic Conspiracism Endangers All Justice Movements

By Ben Lorber

…n 1920 Winston Churchill warned that “Bolshevism among the Jews is nothing new…this worldwide conspiracy for the overthrow of civilization…has been steadily growing.” That same year, American industrialist Henry Ford began publishing a series called “The International Jew” in his Michigan newspaper The Dearborn Independent, warning readers that “the powerhouse of Communist influence and propaganda in the United States is in the Jewish trade unions…

Election Update: Oklahoma Bans Shari’ah Law

By Haroon Moghul

…d, winning nearly 70% of the vote. As an American Muslim, and a citizen of New York, I am amused, concerned, fascinated and, oddly, given hope. Let me go in that order. Shari’ah is, for Muslims, the “path to the water”; the texts that normatively define a moral life and the means to God and heaven in the life to come. But Shari’ah is an ideal. Muslims, across countries and centuries, have only ever been able to interpret revelation, producing read…

A Pope, a Poet, and a Drug War

By Stephen Andes

…ida, Brazil. There, he outlined the contours of the Holy See’s mission of “New Evangelization,” poised to bolster an institution losing its grip on the region’s cultural identity. Thus, the pope arrives in Mexico this week to address the Latin American Church at a crossroads. Inroads made by Protestant, especially Pentecostal, proselytism have eroded the once near religious monopoly of the Catholic faith in the region, even while the twin enemies…

Review: Jews in America: Anti-Semitism, Class Struggle, Secularism

By David Biale

…e after taking up residence in the Crown Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York. The Jewish Americansconcludes aptly by examining some of the more recent manifestations of this experimentation, including New Age and Jewish-Buddhist hybrids. As Rabbi Harold Schulweis expresses: “It used to be a Jew went to synagogue because that’s what a Jew did. Today, a Jew goes to synagogue to learn how to be a Jew.” This religiously-oriented narrative under…

The Latest to Botch Mormonism: Garry Wills

By Joanna Brooks

…ere are fact-checkers. And here’s a modest proposal for the editors at the New York Review of Books and the New York Times and every other publication that will be running a lot of Mormon content this campaign season but has no Mormons on its editorial staff: Hire a Mormon fact checker. There are a number of advanced graduate students in Mormon Studies—many studying at very fine secular institutions. They know Mormon history, doctrine, and culture…