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Are They Jewish Bones? Battle for Separation of Synagogue & State in Israel

By Shalom Goldman

…e graveyard be left intact and the ER built in another place. In any other Western country, such a confrontation between secular and religious authorities would have ended with the government getting its way, and with religious leaders girding their loins for the next church-state confrontation. But the Israeli parliamentary system renders the government vulnerable to pressure from its many coalition partners. These coalition partners are rewarded…

The Sexual Threat to Fundamentalism

By Michelle Goldberg

…omosexuality worldwide. (The United States, predictably, was the one major Western nation that refused to sign). Such pressure from the developed world lets anti-gay leaders cloak themselves in anti-imperialist righteousness, in which gay rights become a decadent Western imposition that poor countries must be protected from. The Vatican justified its opposition to the declaration by saying that it would “pillory” countries that ban homosexuality,…

Elephant Orphans and Ecological Spiritualities: An Earth Day Reflection

By Jacob J. Erickson

…e accents from the U.S. south, Denmark, the UK, Australia. Most are white, Western tourists. Some missionaries. A documentary film crew is here setting up a camera behind me that puts my iPhone to shame. Before us are pools of water, shrubbery, and larger bottles filled with a vegetable milk mixture. Suddenly, ten to fifteen baby elephants—the first group—come running down the hill for their food and bottles. It is seriously cute. And the crowd ga…

Meditation is Not Religion or Spirituality—It’s Technology

By Jay Michaelson

…w. I wanted to tell the story of a phenomenon that is rapidly changing the Western world—the mass adoption of meditation—but I also wanted to tell it from a personal point of view, about my own winding road in practice and how it’s impacted my life. It’s corny but I really do think that contemplative practice may change the world. I don’t know of a better way to help us become better animals than we might otherwise be. What’s the most important ta…

The Anti-Gay Highway

By Kathryn Joyce

…that only an American would be concerned with. But Kulah thought they were promoting his document. The other thing, regarding President Obama: do you remember when Gene Robinson was invited to be part of his [inauguration], there was a lot of outcry from the American conservatives? One thing that was interesting was that [Rev. David Runnion-Bareford] the leader of the Association for Church Renewal, wrote a letter to Obama saying this will be seen…

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…

Rest in Peace, Sam Huntington

By Mark Juergensmeyer

…tes and to a lesser extent in Europe, but also—perhaps surprisingly—in non-Western parts of the world. In China, scores of books were published about what they called “the Huntington thesis,” which impressed the Chinese in part because it gave their own culture a prominent place in world politics. In the Middle East, “the clash of civilization” thesis was regarded as common sense by Islamic radicals whose own outlook on world politics was surprisi…

Do We Owe Human Rights to the Christian Right?

By Austin Dacey

…mbers rejected a reference to the “various forms of the family”—favored by Western European states, the U.S., and South Africa, among others—in favor of the family. The Council also rejected an amendment, introduced by Norway, observing that the primary concern of international law is the rights of individuals, not collectives, and that individuals need protection from violations of their rights perpetrated within families. Resolution A/HRC/29/L.2…

Female Breadwinners=Death of Civilization, Says Fox Panel

By Melissa Weininger

…h society was abnormal and unnatural and needed to be brought in line with Western bourgeois values in which women remained in the household while men earned. Contemporary ultra-Orthodox communities, still vehemently rejecting the bourgeois Western values of enlightenment, continue to insist that the “natural” arrangement of the household is for women to work outside the home to support their scholar husbands. Nature, it seems, takes many forms. T…

Putin Theo-Propaganda Minister Kirill Invokes 600 Years of History to Lay Claim to Ukraine — Here’s What it Means

By Katherine Kelaidis

…common in the Orthodox Christian world, even beyond Russia. Unfortunately, Western media have all but ignored this element of Russian propaganda, in no small part because the history itself is so foreign to its audience. They (understandably) want to report the news, not give a lecture in Eastern European history. At the same time, this oversight speaks to a larger problem in how we report on and discuss the role of history in current events, part…