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No, Patriarch Kirill of Moscow is Not Calling for Peace — In Fact, He’s Putin’s Accomplice

By Katherine Kelaidis

…hapnin, editor-in-chief of «The Gifts» (Дары),writing at Public Orthodoxy: Today it is abundantly clear: Patriarch Kirill is not ready to defend his flock—neither the people of Ukraine nor the people of Russia—against Putin’s aggressive regime. Human suffering is not one of his priorities. After all, next Sunday Orthodox Christians around the world will observe Forgiveness Sunday, the final day before Lent. On this day, the liturgical practice rem…

Resurrecting Marley at 70: Rastafari History in 5 Songs

By Darren J. N. Middleton

…941, 1954) eventually crushed Pinnacle, forcing many Rastas to resettle in western Kingston, Howell certainly nurtured the sistren and brethren in their infancy. Blender, who hails from Clarendon Jamaica, triumphs Howell’s achievement in this song from 2001’s Visionary album. 3. JohnStone, “Shashamane Land” In 1948, Selassie donated land associated with Shashamane, which is located in central Ethiopia, for African expatriates, and the Jamaican gov…

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…

Darwin in Rome: Burden of Diversity, Mystery of Time

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…ome, Etruscans are associated with the mountainous interior of the storied western coast of Italy, up to what is still called Tuscany today. Some of the earliest Roman kings were Etruscan, and yet later, when Rome undertook her great campaigns that resulted in the peninsula, she singled out the Etruscans for special censure. Threatened by the sheer vitality of Etruscan culture as by no other, the Romans quite literally erased the language and the…

Billy Graham, Most Famous Religious Figure of 20th C, Dies at 99

By Randall Balmer

…eeded still more education, however, he enrolled at Wheaton College in the western suburbs of Chicago. There he met, and eventually married, Ruth McCue Bell, daughter of missionaries to China, who had initially resisted the advances of the young preacher because he did not aspire to be a missionary. By the time he graduated from Wheaton College in 1943, Graham had developed the simple, earnest preaching style for which he would become famous. Earl…

Romania’s “Witch Tax”: Magic Meets Bureaucracy

By Joseph Laycock

…eir country seem superstitious and backwards. In 2003, two witches in northwestern Romania were charged with fraud when their cures failed to work. Police encouraged villagers not to believe the claims of witches. Tensions grew as Romania prepared to enter the EU. British newspapers reported that more witches were learning English and raised concerns that disgruntled witches would flee Romania and set up shop in western EU nations. Andrei Chiliman…

Can Islam Save The Economy?

By Nathan Schneider

…untries remain impoverished is a fundamental incompatibility between these Western economic systems and the values that Muslim cultures hold dear. Now, perhaps, is the time for a third option to have its chance. At the very least, suggests Boston University anthropologist Robert Hefner in a recent essay, these theories “provide a fascinating point of entry into the thoughts of Muslim leaders on global capitalism.” Are the Fundamentals Sound? The m…

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…

COVID-Denying Father Sergei is Just the Latest Example of the Russian Orthodox Church’s ‘Holy Man’ Problem

By Katherine Kelaidis

…ery turned up no violations of the secular law. It’s understandable that a Western audience would find this story thoroughly bizarre. Peak 2020, if you will. But within the Eastern Christian tradition it’s just not that weird. It is, in fact, quite unsurprising as there’s a long history of renegade holy men within the Eastern Christian world. This tradition is largely unknown in the West, but it’s a practice that is very much alive from the halls…

What a Spooky Summer Trend Says About Enchantment in the Late Modern U.S.

By Daniel Wise

…ted nations in the world. If you think this is odd, you’re not alone. Many Western intellectuals and scholars in the middle of the twentieth century expected supernatural belief and religion to decline as modernity rolled on. They were right on one level. Traditional religious affiliation has indeed been declining in the United States over the past couple decades. On the other hand, supernatural beliefs and some forms of spirituality don’t seem to…