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“Reason to Worry”: An Anti-Semitism Scholar Opens Up on Trump, Misogyny and the Future of Anti-Judaism

By Michael Schulson

…. Those were very basic polarities. They’re very enduring. What are you worried about right now? Well, that’s a tough question. We live in a society in which the power of certain words or ideas or hateful representations to spread is very high. We live in a highly sectarian world, in which affinity groups can form quickly and can bond around these kinds of ideas. I don’t think anyone really knows what the consequences of the social media and socia…

Vatican Instruction on Cremation Rankles Many, But Give it a Second Look

By Karen E. Park

…ing for an angle to get people to pay up for pricey lots in Catholic cemeteries. Irish Independent columnist Liam Collins was apoplectic accusing the Church of having nothing better to do than to dream up new ways to torment the faithful. But the most common objection, the one expressed more than any other, seemed to be about who controls the body. One commenter in the National Catholic Reporter put it this way: “The issue is choice. This choice s…

Religion at Decade’s End

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…nology and the almost instantaneous circulation of striking images of authoritarian crackdown, impossible to contain or control. There is an old philosophical quandary posed as follows: can a fish imagine water? Similarly, Religion Dispatches exists within the very medium that it is simultaneously attempting to theorize. It is as global as the instruments it uses, and as intimately pervasive as the religious and cultural phenomena it attempts to…

Why We Can’t Afford to “Wait And See” How Trump Dismantles LGBT Rights

By Sunnivie Brydum

…ers in your life about why they voted for him, and what they hope will come of his election. Then point out the evidence—that’s piling up already—suggesting they’ve been duped by a con-man who just last week admitted that he didn’t think anyone would take his pledge to “keep jobs in America” seriously. Call 1-844-USA-0234 and enter your zip code to be connected with your representatives in Washington. Tell them why you oppose each nominee, and kee…

Sometimes Salvation Looks Like Rage: An Open Letter to “Non-denominational” Churches

By Yazmine Nichols

…d and take care of the poor, but addressed the growing housing and voting crises right here in our own backyard? What if we began talking about the increasing number of Black and Latino women, men and children that die at the hands of police every year? As much as non-denominational and evangelical churches zero in on so-called “sins of the flesh” (Galatians 5:19-21), hubris is perhaps the most frequently mentioned sin in the entire Bible. This br…

Oprah, Terrorist Cells, and the Meaning of Life: An Interview with Paul Froese

By Andrew Aghapour

…of moral meaning and individual purpose. I found that people in post-industrial countries tend to be less likely to say, “I know what my purpose in life is.” This probably has to do with pluralism. In post-industrial countries you have more religious and philosophical options, and with that comes the possibility that life can be completely meaningless. So then the question is: Who picks that option? Are they free, or forced into it by choice? What…

US Offers Help For Investigation of Bangladesh Killings

By Peter Montgomery

…ich argues that a warrantless April 3 raid by officers from the Federal Territories Islamic Department (Jawi) on a private charitable event, which resulted in the arrest of the event organizer, was “both ludicrous and legally baseless.” The warrantless raid and threatened prosecution are just one example of the ever-expanding reach of Malaysia’s hard-line religious enforcers. In discussions with transgender rights groups in Malaysia, Human Rights…

A Portrait of Islamophobia?

By Mariam Durrani

…merica by comparing his plan as similar to FDR’s internment of Japanese-Americans during World War II. This statement and the crowds of Trump supporters cheering for him have finally struck a chord in the US public sphere. The other candidates have called him out with House Speaker Paul Ryan clarifying how Trump’s ban on Muslims is “not what the [Republican] Party stands for.” While it is the Republican Party’s responsibility to extend this critiq…

The Fragility of Our Reality: A Conversation with the Brain Behind PBS Miniseries on Neuroscience

By Michael Schulson

…gth. In The Brain, you do a good job of depicting the fragility of our experience of reality. Am I right to be a little scared by this instability? [Laughs] Well, you know, it’s one of these things about knowing ourselves, right? We are so utterly dependent on the integrity of this three pounds of tissue in our skulls. When that changes, you change too. When it comes to these questions of who am I?, that’s got to be a part of our understanding. An…

“We Blew it” on Climate Change, But May Survive Anyway: An RD Discussion with the First Transhumanist Candidate

By Andrew Aghapour

…ving a struggle to get women as a part of the movement. One of my highest priorities for the campaign is to try to change that. You recently compared transhumanism to the LGBTQ movement, pointing to the overlapping desire for freedom of bodily expression. Isn’t there a difference, though, between LGBTQ advocates who argue for broadening our vision of embodying gender, and transhumanists who dream of totally escaping the body through virtual avatar…