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“Even the Rich Suffer”: An Interview with Google’s Jolly Good Fellow Chade-Meng Tan

By Max Zahn

…he source of the teachings. You’re saying that modern mindfulness has lost contact with the source teachings? Absolutely. No doubt about it. Didn’t you help to bring that about? I hope not. The part that doesn’t concern me about the watering down of mindfulness is the intention of the practitioner. You go to Google and more than half the class is practicing mindfulness in order to become more successful. Is that a problem? I would say it’s not. I…

Taqwacore Roundtable: On Punks, the Media, and the Meaning of “Muslim”

By Shahjehan Khan

…jects. Is there something similar with TQ emerging? BU: Not yet, just some contact with British Asian geezers like Asian Dub Foundation, Fun Da Mental and Alien Kulture. There are Taqwacore groups in Scotland and London, but no one has contacted us to do a tour. Most of them discourage us about setting foot in Bradford lest we become the biggest pariahs since Salman fucking Rushdie. SK: See BU. HR: Isn’t every good qalandar a pariah? BU: True. Q:…

Obama Caves on (Another) Contraception Exemption

By Patricia Miller

…nder slightly different names… and I doubt most have a dedicated office to contact when religious conservatives make their own decisions about women’s access to contraception. Plus, it sets the dangerous precedent that religious objections to government mandates are so precious that the objectors can’t even be required to fill out a form stating them. In the short run it’s likely that the number of employers who seek to duck the contraceptive mand…

Is Romney Gaining Ground among White Evangelical Voters?

By Joanna Brooks

…allas on January 17. And the strength of the anti-Mormonism narrative is likely to fade as the race heads out west into regions where more voters are able to moderate their judgments of Mormonism with actual contact with LDS people. In Nevada, it is estimated that 20–25% of GOP voters are LDS. If Romney stays on course, the real loser in this primary contest may be Mormons’ persecution complex….

‘Culting’: From Waco to Fundamentalist Mormons

By Catherine Wessinger

…dicated by a CNN/Gallup poll taken in 1993, which found that 73 percent of Americans thought the decision to gas the Branch Davidians was a “responsible” decision, and 93 percent of Americans believed that David Koresh alone was to blame for the deaths. FLDS at Yearning for Zion Ranch While no one has been killed as a result of law enforcement action against the Yearning for Zion ranch last month, authorities again appear to have taken overreachin…

Killing the Prophet: The Spanish Exception

By Anouar Majid

…thinking of Spain, the Western nation that has had the longest continuous contact with Islam. Last September, when Muslims were celebrating the holy month of Ramadan, I attended a festival of Moors and Christians in the small town of Villena, in the region of Alicante. There, every year from September 5th to the 9th, the town reenacts the medieval clash of Moors and Christians in a never-ending fiesta that combines a tribute to the town’s patron…

Raelians’ “Clitoraid” Met With Suspicion in Burkina Faso

By Joseph Laycock

…was founded in 1974 by Claude Vorilhon (a.k.a. Rael), who claimed to have contact with enlightened extraterrestrials called the Elohim who genetically engineered humanity. Their movement emphasizes technological Utopianism and has advocated genetically modified food (GMO) as well as cloning, which they regard as a step toward immortality. They also support sexual liberation and have organized campaigns for a woman’s right to go topless in public….

Gambian Voters Reject Anti-Gay Strongman Jammeh; Activists Ponder Trump Impact on LGBT Human Rights; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ation] advocates a set of values that are at odds with the majority of the American people.’” United Nations: Independent Expert on SOGI Addresses ILGA World Conference Thai diplomat Vitit Muntarbhorn, who is filling the independent expert position created by the UN Human Rights Council to investigate discrimination and violence against people based on their sexual orientation or gender identity, gave the keynote speech to the opening session at t…

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

By Michael Schulson

…itism often focus on Jews: what about Jewish history has brought them into contact with so much hate? Was it the money-lending? The refusal to convert to Christianity? Published in 2013, Anti-Judaism takes a different tack. The book is concerned less with Jews than with the idea of the Jew—a concept that has been deployed as a foil to Christian love, a symbol of global commerce, and much else. Nirenberg aims to provide an “account of the labor don…

Standing Up for Evolution

By Lauri Lebo

…ty biology professor invites people who know someone who has stood up for evolution and science education to post suggestions on his blog or contact him. His e-mail address is: mzimmerm@butler.edu….