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Ainslie Embree’s Gift to Religious Studies

By Mark Juergensmeyer

…, and member of the US diplomatic service in Delhi. Columbia had created a Western Civilization requirement and Embree, along with the China expert Theodore deBary, were determined to make it a global civilization requirement. Embree created the textbook, Sources of Indian Tradition, that became standard for courses in Hinduism and South Asian Islam. He also helped to establish the South Asian Institute, an early model for the new research field o…

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…

How to Prevent Ethnic Cleansing in Syria

By Haroon Moghul

…inance professionals. And then we have the region from the Sinai to Iran’s western border, including Israel and the Occupied Territories, Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, Iraq, and possibly even largely non-Arab Turkey; this region may well be the Arab world’s Balkans, and its recent conflicts suggest the dark side of democratization: When peoples want sovereignty, they don’t look kindly on other peoples who might physically be in their way. Tellingly, thi…

Martin Luther & the Mass Media

By Svend White

…was long shockingly commonplace in northern European art). Fast forward to today, when we have some modern Western media, in the name of protecting the masses from another enemy within, publishing a similarly bestial image of Muhammad as a man with the body of a dog. The particulars are admittedly to different in some important respects, but the parallels and kindred demonizing animus are unmistakable. Let’s hope history does not repeat itself wit…

Fox News Controversy on Yoga and White Supremacy Reveals Problem of Yoga Discussion

By Andrea R. Jain

…s of India as despotic, unscientific, mystical, effeminate, and in need of Western domination, science, reason, and masculinity. Yoga became a means through which Hindu nationalists could display Indian strength and independence in response to these Orientalist representations, which were used to support the colonial project. Nevertheless, the story of yoga’s popularization doesn’t end there. Yoga didn’t become a part of popular culture until the…

Roll Over Lenin: Russian Church Elects New Patriarch

By Konstantin Petrenko

…of the missionary work done in Russia by the Roman Catholic Church and of Western evangelicals, and he played a role in passing the controversial 1997 Law On Freedom of Conscience and Religious Associations, which restricted the right of “nontraditional” religious groups to spread their faith in Russia. On the day of his election, Kirill gave a speech, once again speaking out against the work of Catholic and evangelical missionaries. “We must att…

Et Tu, Bibi?

By Sarah Posner

…Christians and usher in an Islamic caliphate.” As I’ve said before, Beck’s promotion of the caliphate paranoias is nothing new. Meanwhile, David Horowitz (whose “Islamofascism Awareness Weeks” on college campuses were agitating as early as 2007 about the supposed caliphate’s threats to Western Civilization and “Christendom“) is defending Beck. Just last year, at his Restoration Weekend, Horowitz’s Freedom Center hosted Christians United for Israel…

After Orthodox Priest Suspended for ‘Stop the Steal’ Activity, a Renewed Spotlight on the Orthodox Far-Right

By Sarah Riccardi-Swartz

…verts who are fed up with what they see as progressive secularism invading Western Christianity. Certainly, there are more extreme converts than Hodges. Matthew Heimbach, who’s now been excommunicated from the Antiochian Archdiocese, made the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Hatewatch list for his association with the Traditionalist Youth Network, and has since been involved with the white supremacist and terrorist organization, the Russian Imperial…

International Protest of Anti-Gay Persecution in Chechnya Grows; more in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…e equality campaign launched by NGOs Five NGOs have launched a campaign to promote marriage equality, where same-sex couples have been able to register as partners since 2006. Mexico: Gay soccer team hurt by US visa denials The Set Pieces, a sports site, features the Zorros Club de Futbol, an amateur soccer team from Mexico City whose players are gay; a number of team players have been denied visas to participate in the World Out Games in Miami in…

America, the Mythical: “Mother of Exiles” or Denier of Safe Haven?

By Ed Simon

…England were arguably among the most educated people in the history of the western world. Drawn from an upwardly mobile yeoman class, and populated by ministers, scholars, and merchants, they were some of the most unlikely candidates to forge a new civilization in the frontier wilderness. Yet their propensity to interpretive obsession led them to be their own first chroniclers, none more so than Bradford in his Of Plymouth Plantation. Initially th…