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Religion Round-Up: What’s Going on in Religion Around the World

By Diane Winston

…ewhat important in their lives. However, given six decades of a repressive policy, those numbers are, according to Pew, surprisingly high. Moreover, they represent a large number of people, “nearly equal the estimated number of religiously affiliated adults in the United States” Accordingly, the 1-plus % of the Chinese population that identifies itself as Muslim equals some 20.3 million people—a population almost as large as Saudi Arabia’s. (More…

Gandhi, his Grandson, Israel, and the Jews

By Shalom Goldman

…ve never practiced nonviolence as an article of faith or even a deliberate policy. Indeed it is a stigma against them that their ancestors crucified Jesus. Are they not supposed to believe in ‘eye for an eye and tooth for tooth?’ Have they no violence in their hearts from their oppressors […] Their nonviolence, if it may be so-called, is of the helpless and the weak. In response to these statements in Harijan, Martin Buber wrote an open letter to…

The Only Common Denominator of American Conservatism is Anti-Blackness

By Yannick Marshall

…p their boots on Black necks on the beaches and landing grounds of law and policy. White nationalists put on a hat reading conservative—or, in contemporary parlance, Make America Great Again—and disappear into the crowd. Liberals wipe their brow, thankful that the pro-enslavement troop has been consigned to a book titled “Unenlightened History.” They then proceed to teach the misinformed millions—materialized apparently out of thin air, weeping at…

John McCain: No God But Country

By Kathryn Lofton

…bordinate to his proudly proclaimed truths. It is merely to say that, like policy positions, religion has an evidence pool. If a man says he supports nuclear power, we can check his voting record and decide for ourselves if the votes support that position. If a man says he believes in God, the evidence is harder to find. Did Jesus die for your salvation? We take it as a matter of faith: McCain says so, then it is so. But for the religionist, this…

RD News Round-Up—Oct.14, 2008

By Bill Berkowitz

…read in part: “As an Internet company, Google is an active participant in policy debates surrounding information access, technology and energy. Because our company has a great diversity of people and opinions—Democrats and Republicans, conservatives and liberals, all religions and no religion, straight and gay—we do not generally take a position on issues outside of our field, especially not social issues. So when Proposition 8 appeared on the Ca…

RD News Round-Up: October 27, 2008

By Bill Berkowitz

…d 4: According to a statewide survey released on October 22 (by the Public Policy Institute of California (PPIC) with funding from The James Irvine Foundation) Proposition 8, which would ban same-sex marriages in California, is losing among likely voters 52 percent to 44 percent. Proposition 4, which would require a parent to be notified before a minor can have an abortion, is leading by a slim margin, although it hasn’t reached the 50% threshold….

Evangelical PR Blitz Before Midterms Won’t Fix the ‘81% Problem’

By Chrissy Stroop

…itical and a failure to include the perspectives of both exvangelicals and policy researchers, both of whom are knowledgeable and have legitimate concerns about widespread evangelical tendencies toward the rejection of pluralism and attempts to impose theocracy. In 2014, according to a Christian Post report, an evangelical Times editor, Michael Luo, “told an audience at The King’s College… that whenever his colleagues at the New York Times do happ…

Busy Days For ‘eBay of Prophecy’

By Bill Berkowitz

…of the so-called Fairness Doctrine,” reported that “Ashley Horne, federal policy analyst for Focus on the Family Action, said the Fairness Doctrine would force stations to stop addressing important policy issues”: “A Christian radio station discussing the issue of abortion would have to give airtime to a pro-abortion voice like Planned Parenthood,” she said. “Rather than present a view that fundamentally opposes the station’s core beliefs, it wou…

RDBook: Is Zionism Anti-Semitic?: Zizek’s Violence

By Joel Schalit

…g declarations: Modern-day Zionism, as manifested by the State of Israel’s policy, is already anti-Semitic; that is, premised on anti-Semitic ideological fundamentals.” Clearly Zizek had touched a nerve. This influential European philosopher was arguing a line that is now an integral feature of his writings on Israel. Oddly enough, he seemed to have assimilated the conservative theological position on Jewish statehood—that Judaism and Zionism are…

Ten of Our Favorite Top Tens

By The Editors

…ary season. Among them: Hillary Clinton said we need to “inject faith into policy” (CNN/Sojourners town hall 6-26-07). Barack Obama asked a congregation to help him “become an instrument of God” and join him in creating “a Kingdom right here on Earth” (10-17-07). Mike Huckabee tells a crowd: “What we need to do is to amend the Constitution so it’s in God’s standards rather than try to change God’s standards” (1-14-08). 6.) TOP TEN COMPARISONS BETW…