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Jesus’ Language More Complicated Than Experts Claim

By Seth Sanders

…ns and Midrash offer Aramaic phrases, sentences, and extended passages—but freely mixed with, or embedded in, Hebrew. That such mixture may have been closer to the rule than the exception in religious contexts is suggested by the literary standard itself. Indeed, to this day no one has explained why the book of Daniel switches the way it does between Hebrew and Aramaic. Even apparently monolingual Hebrew or Aramaic texts edited by Palestinian Jews…

It’s Theology, Not Baseball: Misunderstanding Iraq’s Sectarian Conflicts

By Amyn B. Sajoo

…bal behemoth.” The 2003 intervention may have been the “original sin.” But Freedland like Obama is happy to lay the blame squarely on Iraqi and Syrian politicians whose ongoing sins are not having enough Sunnis in government. By this logic, the proper antidote to sectarian conflict is to have the warring sects represented by their own members. Never mind any concept of nationhood, citizenship, national institutions, or a shared historical and cons…

South Asian Religious Leaders Challenged to Take on Stigma and Discrimination: Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…try ratings here. Dominican Republic: Govt Commission Bans Miley Cyrus For Promoting Lesbian Sex We have reported previously on some religious leaders’ resistance to James “Wally” Brewster, the openly gay US ambassador to the Dominican Republic. Last week, Blabbeando reported, “The National Commission for Public Performances in the Dominican Republic announced today that they were banning a September 13th Miley Cyrus concert for, among other thing…

Is ISIS Islamic? Is it a State?

By Mark Juergensmeyer

…principles.” Similar denunciations have come from leading Muslim clergy in Egypt, Turkey, and around the world. Still, the leaders of ISIS claim Muslim authority for their actions, strict Shari’a law as the basis of their jurisprudence, and the promise of salvation for those recruited into its ranks. In a recent essay in The New Republic, Graeme Wood described the core supporters of ISIS as an uneasy coalition of three groups: psychopaths, believe…

‘Open Mosque’ in South Africa Receives Threats; ‘Blood Test’ for ‘Degeneratism’: Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…the nation’s leaders are pulling back support for international efforts to promote the human rights of LGBTI people: “We currently have leadership that fails to represent the ethos of what the constitution says and the equality principles they have to uphold,” said Mmapeseka Steve Letsike, a lesbian activist who chairs the South African National AIDS Council’s Civil Society Forum. “We have leadership going out of this country putting their persona…

International “Religious Freedom” Agenda Will Only Embolden ISIS

By Elizabeth Shakman Hurd

…neral Sisi, shortly after the coup, to discuss the prospects for religious freedom in Egypt. It was only a matter of time until the Baroness and others in the international religious freedom (IRF) lobby sought to capitalize on the moral panic surrounding ISIS to advance their agenda. The call to arms in Oslo is among the first attempts to link ISIS and international religious freedom, but it won’t be the last. As someone who has spent the past few…

Critiques, Questions, and Sauve-qui-Peut: Looking Toward the Future of American Christianit(ies)

By Peter Laarman

…ied religious expression and formalized religious observance: as a kind of freedom fighter against the strictures of dead orthodoxies. Similarly, I expect that what philosopher Daniel Dennett calls “transparency” will lead to more and more people coming out as non-theists within the churches and within their personal circles. But I do not expect that this will lead to less interest or involvement in mystical experience or in religious ritual or in…

God is a Terrifying Monster, and Other Takeaways from the Study of Vampires in Pop Culture

By Jess Peacock

…ts as a powerful representation of death, redemption, and the struggle for freedom against oppressive forces. And while most of the blatant religious themes within the traditional vampire narrative have diminished, I am confident that at some point in the future they will cycle back. As a matter of fact, I think we’re already seeing this as the recent films Dracula Untold and What We Do in the Shadows each reached back into western vampire lore an…

Why Republicans Don’t Think Obama Is Christian

By Sarah Posner

…g religious extremism, Obama noted that that Islamic State’s “slaughter of Egyptian Christians in Libya has shocked the world.” Notice, in Walker’s speech, the juxtaposition of the statement that Obama “seems to scoff at the belief that our country has been uniquely blessed by God” (i.e., he’s not a Christian) with his own remembrance of the murdered Egyptian Christians “who clearly died for their faith and their beliefs.” Some of the floor statem…

Introducing The Cubit, RD’s New Religion & Science Portal

By Andrew Aghapour and Michael Schulson

…between the elbow and the tip of the middle finger. Ancient China, ancient Egypt, the Roman Empire, and other cultures independently made the forearm a standard of measure. And why not? It’s convenient and ubiquitous. When you lift a hammer, it’s already sitting at the end of a cubit. We chose this humble unit for two reasons. First, the cubit is an intersection; it’s where the human body meets the material world. In the Bible, it’s where divine l…