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Delillo and Doctor Strange: Orientalist Fantasy is Alive and Well

By Noah Berlatsky

“Open your mind. Change your reality.” These are the twin phrases that flash across the screen in the trailer for Marvel’s upcoming Doctor Strange: The movie promises to follow its eponymous hero, a super-surgeon played by Benedict Cumberbatch, as he searches for mystical wisdom against a backdrop of martial arts and vaguely Eastern architecture. In the original comics the destination was a fictionalized Tibet. (Marvel claims that the film versio…

Mercy, Justice, and the Telephone Company

By Daniel Schultz

…e that fighting for a nation-state “is like being asked to die for the telephone company.” It’s worth asking the latest wave of Know-Nothings if they’re prepared to do that. Even better, somebody should ask them if just how committed they are to the ideal of the free market. Because the other tension in the nation-state as it has developed is the twin definition of citizenship: on the one hand, citizens are free to participate in the political rea…

Turn Off, Slow Down, Drop In: The Digital Generation Reinvents the Sabbath

By Elizabeth Drescher

…entless deluge of information constantly comes at us every day on our smartphones and computers,” says Schevitz. But this is not always the case. As Schoenfeld notes, “If you live in an isolated, rural area where there is not a Jewish community, not driving a car on Shabbat has a very different effect in terms of your connections to others than it does for someone in a city. That doesn’t mean you don’t observe the law, but that observance will me…

Creationism and Evolution are Competing ‘Myths’

By Kelly E. Hayes

…account (and evangelical Christians in general), and its nearly identical twin inscribed with the word “Darwin” and two tiny legs.2 The latter, of course, is meaningful only in reference to the former. What is being communicated through these symbols is more than just a worldview, but the owner’s public affirmation of membership in a community that sees itself as battling the proverbial barbarians at the gate. In the war between faith and science…

High Schooler says Barbara Ehrenreich’s Book Violates his Civil Rights

By Sarah Posner

…e’ll soon be appearing on Glenn Beck’s chalkboard as the embodiment of the twin evils of Christian social justice teachings and economic socialism. According to Fox News, Dennis Taylor, who is described as a conservative Christian and is calling for school officials to be fired over the curriculum, said, “We had almost PhD people letting this fumble through their fingers, and they all said it was grand.” The Teacher’s Guide for Nickeled and Dime…

On Death and After-Death

By Amina Wadud

…er picture since I have already discussed cosmology, I need to discuss its twin half: eschatology, all the post-life stuff. For one thing, the Qur’an is emphatically gender neutral or inclusive. “Every soul shall have its taste of death.” Now that verse sends up quite an image. I think many people just want to fall asleep and never wake up. But the way I read this it says, well, you might fall asleep on this end, but on the other end, your soul wi…

Book Burning and the Scapegoating of Islam

By Eric Reitan

…systematically marginalized; or the West is dubbed the Great Satan and the Twin Towers (and those inside) are sacrificed in an inferno. Or, in the present case, Muslims are blamed for everything that is wrong with world—and, in lieu of burning alive actual human beings, the Muslim holy book is cast to the flames. So, What About the Crucifixion? Some, such as Christopher Hitchens, would see such sacrificial scapegoating as a natural extension of Ch…

Does Record Number of Religious “Nones” Mean Decline of Religiosity?

By Elizabeth Drescher

…an religiosity—about religion as it is lived in the United States today? A number of what I would see as problems in the Pew report suggest to me that our growing fixation with religion-by-the-numbers may be distracting us from richer, more nuanced understandings of American religious practice. Wanted: A Community that Doesn’t Share My Beliefs and Values Take the demographic category of “Nones” itself. The Pew report notes the difficulty with sur…

Holey Holey Holey: The Problem with a New Study Valuing Religion at $1.2 Trillion Per Year

By Michael Schulson

…f the total revenue of American religious congregations. To get that final number, the Grims took one estimate of the total number of congregations in America (344,894) and multiplied it by another estimate of the average revenue of each ($242,910). Depending on how you look at it, $378 billion is a lot of money, or it’s not very much money at all. It’s more than the net worth of Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, and Warren Buffet, combined…

Growing Up Cult: A Memoir of Life with Sri Chinmoy

By Brittany Shoot

…s, to convincing national monuments like the Statue of Liberty and Niagara Falls to be renamed in honor of the guru—his disciples felt that they were benefiting humanity by making the guru famous. How do you think people generally differentiate between religion and cult, and how do you feel your personal definition compares and contrasts with public perception of the two? I believe that the common assumption is that religions are older, establishe…