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Enlightenment’s Islam: A “Necessary Fiction”

By Rob Goodman

…ued to echo throughout Enlightenment culture. When Napoleon’s army invaded Egypt in 1798, the Muslim world’s moment of “first contact” with the modern West, its better-read officers would have known Condorcet’s Progress of the Human Mind. Published just three years earlier, it singled out Islam among the world’s religions as “the simplest in its dogmas, the least absurd in its practices, and the most tolerant in its principles.” Faith in progress…

Which Islamists?: Religion and the Syrian Civil War

By Haroon Moghul

…Middle East, people strongly identify with Islam and in many countries this identification has been suppressed in one way or another by authoritarian regimes. Having secured their freedom, it shouldn’t be surprising that the people, in places like Egypt and Tunisia, are strongly asserting their religious identity….

Global Islam, the Year in Headlines

By Qamar-ul Huda

…cade conflict, which has cost over 150,000 lives. 4. Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt and Al-Nahda in Tunisia Claim Victories in post-Arab Spring elections to establish new governments and constitutions. 5. Bahrain Continues to Crack Down on Dissent and peaceful protests, violate human rights, and issue extreme sentences on detainees. 6. Rise of Militants in Mali and Libya reflects the growing network of radical extremism operating in Africa. 7. The US…

American Buddhism: Beyond the Search for Inner Peace

By Joshua Eaton

…n Washington D.C. announced plans to launch a major movement modeled after Egypt’s Tahrir Square uprising. The movement was scheduled to begin in October with an occupation of Freedom Plaza in central Washington. The organizers included Margaret Flowers, a pediatrician who has led the campaign for single-payer health care, and Kevin Zeese, a social activist. I had signed on to this and went to D.C. for the launch events in early October, along wit…

Why President Obama Should Not Visit the Western Wall

By Melissa Weininger

…even questions of citizenship. The White House may cite security concerns, but a visit to the Western Wall would be a misstep for a president who claims to support freedom and equality while the Women of the Wall still struggle for basic religious freedoms in Israel….

The Convergence of Passover and Easter Can Leaven (or Unleaven) the Interfaith Family’s Holiday

By Samira K. Mehta

…king Easter a holiday that brought real danger to Jewish communities. Even today, in the American context, Protestant and Catholic Easter liturgy can reflect that history, though there are also many moves to address the anti-Semitism inherent in the texts. Similarly, even churches that want to celebrate Jesus’s Judaism and note that the Last Supper was a seder have a complicated relationship to Judaism. Hosting a seder to mark Maundy Thursday is a…

God’s Chosen Tweeters?

By Elizabeth Drescher

…social networking aficionado qualities: * We floss after every meal! * We freed Egypt! * We’re grounded, and well integrated, intuitive, not too full of ourselves, yet fully realized in the fabulous glow of our authenticity. Gosh we’re swell! * We’re God’s chosen Tweeters! Finding God on Facebook Ah, God. Was there any good news for religions in the Pew report? Certainly, the report makes clear that the vast majority of believers and seekers of e…

Wild Goose Festival’s (Mostly) Welcoming Spirit for LGBT Christians

By Kristin Rawls

…fierce beatings at the hands of his brothers, who sold him into slavery in Egypt. That violence, Toscano continued, “is a part of the long history of oppression of gender non-conforming and transgender people by other people of faith.” “Who Drafted Me as a Gay Icon?” There were some jarring exceptions to the generally welcoming atmosphere of the festival. While helping set up his booth, Justin Lee of the Gay Christian Network was confronted by a m…

I’tikaf: Sacred Solitude

By Amina Wadud

…ng what they eat? We deal with food all the time and continue the fast. In Egypt, I noticed this most pointedly. As a visitor to the country I was invited often to break fast with a family. I was also told to arrive in the afternoon. The women of the household would give me a sleeping caftan and put me in the bed. Literally. Meanwhile, they went on with the laundry, the cleaning, the cooking, the children and their after-school work, whatever. I (…

Evil Incarnate: Rumors of Demonic Conspiracy

By David Frankfurter

…t in following up their broader observations with a book devoted to the such. What’s your next book? My next book will return to the subject of my principal expertise, the Christianization of Egypt and the various social worlds in which Egyptian and Christian traditions were combined. I use anthropology and comparative approaches in this book too….