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Response to Daniel Philpott: the Politics of Religious Freedom

By Elizabeth Shakman Hurd

…eloping a critique of their consequences. Uncovering and exploring the gap between the religion that is promoted through these efforts and the rest of the world’s religion leads me to challenge the prevailing assumption that the legalization of freedom of religion, engagement with faith communities, and protections for religious minorities are the keys to emancipating society from persecution and discrimination. Instead I argue that these efforts…

Obama’s Bunker-Busters to Israel

By Sarah Posner

…k of Ezekiel, leading to an “inferno [that] will explode across the Middle East, plunging the world toward Armageddon” . . . . In Hagee’s telling, Israel has no choice but to strike at Iran’s nuclear facilities, with or without America’s help. The strike will provoke Russia—which wants Persian Gulf oil—to lead an army of Arab nations against Israel. Then God will wipe out all but one-sixth of the Russian-led army, as the world watches “with shock…

Growing Up Cult: A Memoir of Life with Sri Chinmoy

By Brittany Shoot

…e him extra authority? In the late 1960s, there was a trend to look to the East for alternatives to Western religions and philosophies. Many people felt that the ancient traditions of the East might hold the answers to their modern longings. As a result, there were many gurus, yogis, and spiritual teachers that headed to America eager to establish themselves and build a large following. Since Sri Chinmoy had been raised in an Indian ashram, he bel…

Black Mass Hysteria at Harvard: The Real Story

By Joseph Laycock

…was moved off campus. The Cultural Studies Club offered to rent The Middle East, a nearby nightclub that has featured burlesque acts and heavy metal shows. But only hours before the black mass was to start, the Middle East pulled out. (There were rumors that influential opponents of the black mass had threatened to send fire marshals and health inspectors if the event went forward.) Finally, a rather ad-hoc version of the black mass took place at…

Sunni Leader Breaks Dialogue With the Vatican Over Pope’s Comments

By Amir Hussain

…e Apostolic Nuncio in Egypt, who has done much work on interfaith dialogue between Catholics and Muslims. I do hope that Al-Azhar resumes its dialogue with the Vatican, precisely because difficult times are when dialogue is most needed. As William Blake wrote, “It is an easy thing to rejoice in the tents of prosperity”. It is much more difficult to stay together when things are tough. And the sad truth is that Christians are being persecuted in th…

Beinart’s Indictment And The Evangelical Right

By Sarah Posner

…d add that this attack on democratic values and human rights is aided and abetted by Israel’s (and the American Jewish establishment’s) strong ties with the American evangelical right (which isn’t exactly supportive of democratic values here at home). I have long reported on the close ties between these organizations and the apocalyptic wing of the American evangelical world — and the American Jewish establishment bears blame for glorifying that r…

Why Egypt is America’s Enemy

By Haroon Moghul

…hat we want no more part of their decades of human rights violations, not least because the blowback affects us, too. Whatever severe mistakes the Brotherhood made in power, it was nevertheless meant to be the beginning of a long experiment, and democratic experiments rarely begin brightly. If they are allowed to begin at all. If the Egyptian military can find alternate sources of support, then fine. Let them. Good for them. They had years and yea…

Mitt, Moochers, and Mormonism’s “Other” Legacy

By Mary Barker

…Mormon women of the time who were encouraged to attend universities in the East. Utah Territory extended women the right to vote as early as 1869, earning it a visit by Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton. Martha Hughes Cannon, a physician (University of Michigan, 1881), and polygamist Mormon wife, successfully ran against her own husband to become America’s first female state senator. This should not be surprising coming from a tradition…

Syria and the American Apocalyptic Imagination: Isaiah 17:1 as “Evidence” of the End

By Jason C. Bivins

…his mode of reading sacred texts onto geopolitical conflicts in the Middle East is, of course, extremely commonplace (a long tradition dating back to the Crusades, spiking with the publication of the Scofield Reference Bible, and becoming enormously popular with Hal Lindsey). The text most commonly cited here is Isaiah 17:1: “Behold, Damascus will cease to be a city and will become a heap of ruins.” Apocalyptic scenes (additionally from Jeremiah a…

Explaining Christian Zionism to Israelis

By Sarah Posner

…mary is now available.] Mining public documents, Schlesinger uncovered at least 69 trips Knesset members took around the world—including some to attractive destinations seemingly divorced from the turmoil of the Middle East, like the Caribbean, Barbados, and Rome—paid for by Christian Zionist organizations, and one, even, by the Messianic Jewish Alliance of America. Many of the Christian Zionist organizations are hardly household names, even in th…