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Queer Nuns: Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence Are ‘Serious Parody,’ Forcing us to Redefine Nuns

By Melissa Wilcox

…just whispering at the back of my head. Bonus: Is there anything else you’d like our readers to know about your book? If you’re considering teaching all or part of the book, you might be interested to know that the Sisters have houses (non-residential chapters) in many large cities in the U.S., Canada, Europe, and Australia. They are often happy to visit classrooms, and they will come in habit to discuss their own perspectives on the order. Becau…

Ross Douthat on the Brink

By Haroon Moghul

…no prior experience of religious diversity, all but forced to accept huge numbers of refugees by governments already seen as aloof and unconcerned. No person of color can sit by and watch the circulation of memes like #WhiteGenocide, or the rise of groups like PEGIDA, and remain entirely unmoved. Would the arrival of great numbers of refugees, mostly but not wholly Muslim, without any authority having any reliable indicator of who they are, or ho…

Over Objections of New Arch. of Cant., UK Okays Marriage Equality

By Elizabeth Drescher

…lby will be able to continue to act out of a theological protectionism for conservative Anglicans, resisting what many Anglicans, including the Anglican Church in Canada and the Episcopal Church in the US, see as the prophetic calling of an engaged Christianity….

Saipov Wasn’t a “Member” of ISIS, But That Misses the Point

By Mark Juergensmeyer

…ut in general it is fair to say that ISIS’ days of territorial control are numbered. But ISIS has never been a movement that’s defined solely by territorial control. The enormous cyber network of participants in online chats on Twitter and Telegram, and the global audience for the slick online publications such as Inspire, Dabiq, and Rumiyah have constituted an alternative movement rivaling the size and significance of the Arab Sunni-based Calipha…

10 Noteworthy Yoga Developments to Recall in 2015

By Andrea R. Jain

…Self-Realization Fellowship, a yoga organization that has attracted large numbers of disciples from all over the world to this day. The film serves as a reminder that modern yoga has not always been about the stretching and muscle-building postures meant to function as fitness routines that are so often associated with yoga in the popular imagination. Yogananda introduced Kriya Yoga, believed to be the scientific path to the experience of God, an…

Sydney’s Anglican Diocese Gives $1 Million To ‘No’ Campaign on Marriage; and more in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ready wreaked havoc on other European Union members, the United States and Canada.” The brief cites the widely discredited “New Family Structures Study” by Mark Regnerus. It is critical of the U.S. Supreme Court’s Lawrence decision, which overturned state laws that criminalized consensual gay sex. Australia: Anglican Diocese of Sydney Gives Anti-Marriage-Equality Campaign $1 million The Anglican Diocese of Sydney contributed $1 million to the camp…

You’re Right, Ross Douthat: Donald Trump Is Kind of Like Islam

By Haroon Moghul

…lines, with progressive, multicultural coastal regions confederating with Canada, leaving behind a reddish rump Trump state whose relationship to the United States was rather like that between the Ottoman Empire and the modern Turkish Republic. Editors didn’t bite. Trump as the nominee? Nobody believed it could happen. And neither did I, really. The beleaguered minority hardly wants to imagine his country is so racist as to vote for the authorita…

How America’s Charismatic Christianity Helped Fuel the Fantasyland Presidency of Donald Trump

By Eric C. Miller

…e developed world, are charismatic churches not popping up in Australia or Canada or Denmark at the rate that they do in the United States? It suggests to me that there is something different about the American character or predisposition that wants to believe that we can speak in holy languages or perform faith healing or all the rest. In other words, it’s not just the religious free market that makes Americans so religious, but a combination of…

An Untold Tale: American Fiction vs. The Religious Right

By Christopher Douglas

…U.S. wasn’t following the pattern that might be true in parts of Europe or Canada. I wanted to understand what it looked like as writers tried to register the unforeseen return of politically muscular religion—how they recognized it or misrecognized it, and, as [people who are] generally secular and liberal, tried to criticize its politics. If God Meant to Interfere: American Literature and the Rise of the Christian Right Christopher Douglas Corne…

Russia Expels Gay American Pastor, An Epidemic of Anti-LGBT Violence in Brazil, And More in the Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…irkuk; a crowd was waiting to throw stones at his body. At Huffington Post Canada, MacEwan University assistant professor Junaid Jahangir challenges five “commonly held beliefs” about LGBT people and Islam, suggesting ways that LGBT Muslims can “unpack” these beliefs. He concludes: In conclusion, there is no level playing field between influential Muslim leaders and vulnerable LGBT Muslim youth, who are disowned or threatened with death. Such lead…