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Anti-Gay Celebration in Uganda; Weddings in England; ‘Francis Effect’ at the Vatican

By Peter Montgomery

…demographic and moral crisis.” Kosovo and Bosnia-Herzegovina: LGBT Life on Europe’s ‘Frontier’ Liam Hoare at Slate examines the precarious lives of LGBT people on “the European Union’s frontier,” where “people’s identities are defined by their ethnicity or religion, in opposition to other ethnicities and religions.” Because Kosovo and Bosnia-Herzegovina hope to join the European Union, LGBTQ people there are at least afforded some degree of legal…

History Channel’s “Vikings” Subverts and Supports the Violent Heathen Trope

By David Krueger

…e Christian emperor Charlemagne is often portrayed as a founding father of Europe, he was notorious for his use of violence; on just one day in 782, he had 4,500 of his Saxon enemies decapitated. As Anders Winroth notes, the actions of the Vikings pale in comparison. Nonetheless, the victors in any cultural conquest, especially the literate ones, get to control the narrative about who is innocent and who is not. Despite the History channel’s artis…

When Rabbis Seized Control of the Synagogue: The Role of Authority in American Judaism

By Zev Eleff

…Catholicism and Islam) and modern Jewish history (in the United States and Europe). I wrote this book in a way that speaks to all of these fields and made ample use of the primary and secondary sources in all three disciplines. I also did my best to write in an engaging manner that would appeal to practitioners (rabbis, ministers, laypeople), as I think the arguments posed in my monograph have something to offer contemporary folks as well. Are you…

Global LGBT Recap: Francis’s First Year; Homophobia and Development; African Activists Push Back

By Peter Montgomery

…ressing the LGBT community is part of an alarming trend throughout Eastern Europe, where these bills are contributing to a dangerous culture of fear and violence against LGBT people,” said Human Rights First’s Shawn Gaylord. Human Rights First has published a fact sheet on similar anti-gay “propaganda” legislation being introduced throughout Eastern Europe and Central Asia. Nepal: Equality Activist Nominated for Nobel Peace Prize The Hindustan Tim…

Meet the ‘Bronze Age Zionists’ — Far-Right Jews Embracing Fascism in the Wake of October 7

By Ben Lorber

…‘suburban Jewish neoreactionary,’ ‘Israel for Jews, Europe for indigenous Europeans,’ ‘unironically muscular Jew,’ and ‘American Revanchism and Jewish Power.’ uberjew pepe horse kahane Avatars of Bronze Age Zionist social media accounts. To be sure, their themes of chauvinist triumphalism aren’t so different from what we’re hearing from Israeli government ministers or Christian Zionist leaders. But unlike Benjamin Netanyahu or John Hagee, Bronze…

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

By Katherine Kelaidis

…the idea of Moscow as the center of secular and religious power in Eastern Europe was just as controversial in the 16th century as in the 21st. After Jeremias left, nine out of the ten local bishops in the affected regions gathered in the Brest and voted to join with the Roman Catholic Church. The Greek Catholic Church is a product of this event. Patriarch Kirill also mentioned Ivan Mazepa’s “betrayal” to an audience that effectively constitutes t…

If the Media Are Reluctant to Properly Label the GOP’s Racist, Christian Nationalist Ideologies, We’ll Have Trouble Hanging on to Democracy

By Annika Brockschmidt

…like this: “Western” (i.e. white, Christian) society is under siege by non-Europeans (non-whites) who seek to replace white Europeans by procreating at a much higher rate. (In some versions, the “replacement” is part of a larger plan by a shadowy Jewish or Jewish-coded “global elite” trying to rule the world.) The origins of this myth in France have to be seen against the backdrop of French colonial history, especially the fear of white slave owne…

‘How Pentecostal Christianity Is Taking Over the World’: An Interview with Author Elle Hardy

By Katherine Stewart

…life in the South; and that Romani and Gypsy populations across the UK and Europe are rapidly converting to this form of the faith? I’m attracted to big, global stories and wanted to tackle the topic in a way that’s fun and engaging. Tell us a little about the origin story of the Pentecostal movement and William J. Seymour, and the ideas and events that shaped his work. I think it’s instructive that Seymour—the son of emancipated slaves from Louis…

Is Proselytizing Ever Okay? Are We All Proselytizing All The Time?

By Chrissy Stroop

…est concentration outside Israel in the United States. In medieval Western Europe, where the notorious blood libel—the false belief that Jews need the blood of a ritually murdered Christian boy to make Passover matzah—originated, Jewish communities’ positions were always tenuous relative to the Christian rulers in power. The Jewish population was expelled from England in 1290, and Jews and Muslims were expelled from the Iberian Peninsula in 1492,…

With Demons Held Responsible These Days for Everything from Covid to LGBTQ Rights, Take a Visual Tour of the History of Demonization

By Ed Simon

…demonization had profoundly violent effects on marginalized communities as European Christians imagined the Devil as distinctly non-European. *** *** An anonymous fifteenth-century Flemish painting of a young witch having cast a love potion, so as to compel the young man at the door into her bed chamber. The original is held at the Staatliche Museum in Leipzig, Austria. For most of the Middle Ages, to believe in witchcraft wa…