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Newt Gingrich’s Hero, a Religion-Crushing Dictator

By Haroon Moghul

…ut of a diverse, multilayered history and into a carefully crafted Central Asian nationalism whose stated goal was, oddly enough, to get Turkey accepted into the same Europe Gingrich so frequently derides. Today, Turkey’s Justice and Development Party represents the return of religious Turks to the country’s power structures; recently, Governor Perry, who called Turkey’s elected leaders — our NATO allies — “Islamic terrorists,” suggesting there is…

What Does Repentance Look Like For the White Church?: A Conversation with Lisa Sharon Harper

By Deborah Jian Lee

…call and capacity to rule. It is looking at the bodies of black and brown, Asian and native people, indigenous people, looking into their eyes and seeing the image of God. Then, it looks like confronting all of the different ways that the white church—its institutions, its theology, its cultural practices—has been telling lies about the supremacy of whiteness and the divine subjugation of people of color in this world. It looks like a process. It’…

Predicting the Future of Religion: A Thought Experiment

By Ed Simon

…nt foreign policy outside of its borders? The Pew Study indicates that the number of Jews in the world will remain constant even as the religion’s adherents grow older. What will Israel look like in the twenty-first century? With Benjamin Netanyahu’s insistence on holding to a hardline definition of Jewish identity in relation to the state will we see an increasingly religious Israeli state moving away from the secular origins of Zionism? Is the w…

Competitive Religious Philanthropy in the Wake of the Nepali Earthquake

By Nalika Gajaweera

…re could easily be chalked up to a diplomatic gesture from one small South Asian nation to another, but the humanitarian gesture is rooted in the long-running transcultural exchange between Sri Lanka and Nepal as major historical sites of Buddhism. “It is indeed our duty to help Nepal in this crisis,” a prominent Buddhist clergyman said. “It is a Hindu state with a considerable number of Buddhists living there. It is the place where the Bodhisattv…

Persecuted and Persecutors

By Kate Childs Graham

…s UK director, Neville Kyrke-Smith stated: People are aware of an enormous number of human rights abuses throughout the globe, but they are not always aware of the denial of human rights to millions of Christians…The situation is worsening because it largely escapes media attention. We are suffering from a sort of ‘religious correctness’ which means that talking about the persecution of Christians is not acceptable to the secular media today, and…

Trump’s Bibles and Sneakers Campaigns Tell an Old Story About the Role of Race in Christian Nationalism

By Dara Delgado

…from the often ambiguous use of “POC,” which includes Hispanic Americans, Asian Americans, and others. A recent report noted Latino evangelicals’ increasing grassroots efforts to support Trump, explicitly in favor of Christian nationalism, suggesting, as NBC News’s Dasha Burns points out, that the GBUSA might actually be a move in their direction. So if the GBUSA is a nod to Latino evangelicals, how is Trump courting Black voters? Despite the fac…

Muslim Women and Family Law

By Fatemeh Fakhraie

…ll of regressive fundamentalists is just as reductive as assuming all West Asian Muslims are itching for progress. When speaking about the reasons that there are an increasing in the amount of households headed by Muslim women, Balchin states several acceptable factors related to socioeconomic issues and globalization. But she also leaves out the fact that many of these factors don’t always reach rural areas: yes, in Iran, the amount of women in t…

Religion Comes to its Senses

By Brook Wilensky-Lanford

…opia. Bread is ritually important in a Judeo-Christian context, but not in Asian religious traditions; and its non-universality, writes Plate, makes bread like religion: “It has some basic ingredients…and serves certain purposes…but when we get down to the nitty-gritty of it, the similarities between traditions can be difficult to sniff out.” Telling the history of religion through objects rather than beliefs offers an interesting corrective to a…

Vivek Ramaswamy Represents the Convergence of White Supremacy and Hindu Supremacy — And He May Well Be Trump’s Running Mate

By Usha Kumar

…progenitors actually live and work, and where Hindus—and indeed all South Asians—remain a minority? Collapse of the ‘Modi Democrat’ For a while, the answer to this question was clear, though it held contradictions within it. Many of those sympathetic to Hindu supremacist politics fit into the category of the “Modi Democrat,” a contradiction characterized by enthusiastic support for a violent, ethno-nationalist regime in India, held alongside a ke…

Mormon-Born Daya Mata Typifies American Yoga

By Andrea R. Jain

…cient and classical systems of raja yoga or hatha yoga that saturate South Asian culture. For Yogananda, yoga was the scientific path to the experience of God, and that path was as much about Christ consciousness as Krishna consciousness. This was a hybrid product of Hindu, Christian, and modern ideas about the nature of God, the nature of the Self, and the nature of the human body. By the 1960s and the influx of gurus to the United States who suc…