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Pat Robertson Warns Yoga Will Have You Speaking Hindu

By Andrea R. Jain

…s not new to the yogaphobic maelstrom that has been brewing for as long as Western Europeans and North Americans have been familiar with yoga. In the last couple of decades, largely in response to the widespread popularization of yoga, yogaphobia has shot to mainstream attention as socially conservative, high-profile Protestant evangelicals and Catholics have voiced unnerving warnings to Christians about how yoga threatens their religious commitme…

The World is (Always) About to End, No Zombies Required

By Kelly J. Murphy

…(There are no zombies in the Bible; the zombie is a creature that entered Western culture not through the ancient Near East or Europe, but through slavery, colonialism, and a profound Western misunderstanding of the Vodoun religion and Haitian culture.) What I was trying to do was get my students to think. To make connections between our pasts and our present, to wonder why humans are not so different today than the were 2000+ years ago, and—most…

Resurrecting Marley at 70: Rastafari History in 5 Songs

By Darren J. N. Middleton

…the globe, from urban Britain to colonized Africa; Central America to the western Caribbean. When I came to the States in the 1990s—to Memphis, no less—I was surprised that the Americans I encountered understood little about the life and legacy of these other heroes, like Ghana’s Kwame Nkrumah, Tanzania’s Julius Nyerere, and even South Africa’s Steve Biko. Having taught African religions in the States for more than twenty years now, I can say tha…

After Early Christian Opposition, Iceland Gets First Pagan Temple in Nearly 1000 Years

By Joseph Laycock

…ous mainstream. The progress of the Ásatrúarfélag is an index of a move in Western society toward a broader sense of religious pluralism that includes not only Abrahamic religions but also indigenous faiths and new religious movements. During an “Althing” assembly in 1000 CE, Iceland adopted Christianity as its national religion. But the people were still free to worship the old gods such as Odin, Thor, and Freya. Icelandic scholars such as Snorri…

Decoding Scalia’s Secret Hunting Society, From Jägermeister to Medieval Heresy to Buddhist Legend

By Joseph A. P. Wilson

…Christ. Mani’s followers redacted Buddhist narratives under the rubric of Western theology. Saint Augustine was the most famous ex-Manichee, and Manichaeism for Western Christianity is regarded (since Augustine’s time) as a contemptible heresy. Nonetheless, Manichaeism was the most successful Gnostic Church in history, and enjoyed a degree of state support in Central Asia at precisely the right moment to act as a permeable “membrane” between Budd…

An End to the “Gentleman’s Agreement” on Israel?

By Jay Michaelson

…ted territory, only in the parallel universe of the UN is that true of the western part of the city. No peace proposal, including the Arab Peace Initiative, includes a return to the 1947 partition plan. The notion that western Jerusalem is really disputed territory is pure diplomatic fantasy. A few weeks back, the Supreme Court weighed in. In an 8-1 decision, the court said that the law must be enforced, that doing so was not a political decision…

Why Utah Felt the Bern: Mormonism’s Forgotten Progressive Past

By Benjamin E. Park

…d more validity to Sanders’s continued campaign, especially going into the western states’ primaries where he is expected to demonstrate the appeal of his national movement. “Charting the progressive components of the Mormon Church’s founding decades not only displays a road not taken, but also potential tools to construct future roads not yet realized.” It also validates a lingering progressive strain within the Mormon tradition. The Church of Je…

Trump Doesn’t Need to “Pivot” if Evangelicals Do it For Him

By Paul Harvey

…our last shot. It’s time to roll. It’s time to run down the aisle and save western civilization . . . This country is the equivalent of that hijacked plane right now. We’re headed to a disaster, unless we can get control of the cockpit again. Trump made clear what it meant to save Western Civilization. In a nutshell, it is to resurrect and defend “our Christian heritage,” and protect children from a media culture of mockery. Trump will tell the me…

It’s Not Climate Change, It’s Climate Chaos: Lessons from COP22

By Donna Schaper

…92) and the Wallace Global Fund. A third important shift will occur as the Western nations figure out if they can work together, at all, within a Trump presidency. President Sarkozy may indeed put a carbon tariff on American imports. The EU will surely wonder if we are going to play a role either for peace in Syria or for the refugees. There will likely not be a unified Western position. President Angela Merkel’s decision to run for a fourth term…

Conservative French Catholics a ‘Rightwing Patriarchal Bunch’?; Indonesian Prez Decries Anti-LGBT Discrimination; Romanian Prez Warns Against ‘Religious Fanaticism’; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ries were presenting gay rights as a threat to family values. “That’s been promoted by key figures around the globe including the Russian state and the Orthodox church,” he said. As tensions with Brussels spiralled over Ukraine in 2014, some of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s supporters took to calling Europe “Gayropa” and promoting Russia as the antithesis of the West. Singapore: New rules require government permission for foreign involvement…